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Month: May 2005

  • Meshforum – John Kennedy and Buzz Bruggeman

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    The next panel is Buzz with John. Buzz tells the story about how he created Activewords. Discusses his trip to Russia, sending dispatches back to the US, and becoming ‘a rock star’ – ie. everyone knew who he was because people forwarded his emails. Buzz mentions Anagram – a great plug-in for outlook! He also…

  • Jamais Cascio – Participatory Panopticon

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    Jamis discusses The concept that a constant stream of images, videos, etc will contribute to not the big-brother society but a society of millions of little brothers. Camera phones, small video cameras, etc. Irony break – Picture of Jamais taken as he was saying this at Flickr. One implication – telemedicine – dermatologists could tell…

  • Noshir Contractor’s talk

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    Noshir starts by referencing the LoveGety from Japan – technology and motivation for networking with others. LoveGety lets you put in a profile and when you’re near someone with similar profile, your lovegety beeps and you find your e-soulmate. Four types of knowledge networks who knows who who knows who knows who who knows what Cognitive…

  • Ed Vielmetti and Esther Dyson

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    Ed and Esther are up on stage talking about social networks. I honestly have been watching more than typing during this panel. Check meshforum.org to find a good link for their talk. Buzz is blogging the conference, for example. Picture set at Flickr.

  • Ross Dawson – The Weightless Economy

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    The weightless economy – goods and economic value when up, but weight of goods shipped stayed almost constant. So much of what is made weighs nothing, including information. Cuneiform documents from Sumaria still exist thousands of years later – agreed upon standard of communication with an interface – ie carvings in stone. The Internet is…