A new video platform has just launched, it’s called Zudeo. I’m very happy with that overflow of content !!!
You should try it, they use Bittorrent & have video in really good quality compare to Youtube … but you have to install a soft (ah painfull !!)
And trying also this Additious button that link your post to a bunch of Digg-like services.
Dear Santa … for christmas I would like a Leafar T-shirt !!
Check the old video ad from Wanadoo.
I’ve made a nice discovery today … a snark kind of discovery! You travel in london you should love that one.
And thanks to hanukkah I’m going there in a few weeks (February?). It’s called animalsontheunderground
Thanks Serial mapper (a brilliant blog that has nothing to do inside my RSS feed … but i love it … this guy is bringing new idea for puzzling -I discovered him just after) Oh it’s in french.
PS: and for some more fun on Venture take alook at Flyintiger post. It’s priceless !
We have in France a TV show about TV. It’s one of my sunday pleasure because I think you should learn how to watch TV exactly as you learn to read. The show is called Arret sur Images (stop on images). I mention the today’s emission because they’ve reported that France3 has used images from Youtube to illustrate their says on Afghanistan …. Sniper killing talibans. You have the video from youtube below. The problem is that the journalist did not check that the sniper was actually a hunter … Afghanistan was the US Rocky Mountain … and the talibans a rabbit or something a bit bigger. PS: I hope you will enjoy the name of the video…
Blogger are not always good journalist … but journalist are very bad bloggers (in the way that they don’t know how to use our stuff… for them Youtube seems truthworthy ::).
I found this "Do it and send it to five friends" on stowe’s blog.
So here are my "Five Things People Don’t Know About Me game"
I’ll had "Five Things I fall in Love @ first sight"
I’ll pass it to olivier2point0, PRland, Flyintiger, jluster (sounds fun), chouingmedia
Feld points to an interesting article in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Fiske, a professor of anthropology at UCLA who previously taught at Penn and Bryn Mawr, has devoted decades of research to disentangling human relationships. He’s studied communities all over the world, comparing cultures in West Africa with those in Europe and America. His conclusion: Just as every human language is composed of the same grammatical elements (subjects, verbs, etc.), all relationships are built from exactly four kinds of interactions. Fiske labels these communal sharing, equality matching, authority ranking and market pricing. Here’s what he means:
- Communal sharing is how you treat your immediate family: All for one and one for all. Or as Marx put it: From each according to ability, to each according to need.
- Equality matching, by contrast, means we all take turns. From kindergarten to the town meeting, it’s all about fair shares, reciprocity, doing your part.
- Authority ranking is how tribes function, not to mention armies, corporations and governments. Know your place, obey orders, and hail to the chief.
- Market pricing, of course, is the basis of economics. It’s what we do whenever we weigh costs and benefits, trade up (or down), save or invest.
Don’t get Fiske wrong: He’s not saying that each relationship in your life fits into one of these four slots. Rather, these are paradigms - mental models - that we use to help make sense of our interactions. When there are conflicts, moreover, Fiske maintains it’s often because we aren’t all using the same model.
–> very interesting for social web!
Feld will dig the subject because he is not sure if it’s fully relevant. I have a good intuition that it is !
raising money with Vc is a combination of Authority & Market. raising money with Angels is a combination of Communal & Market. Fun? I will read Fiske’s full article and try to bring some inputs.
But I see a smart use of Marx which I think get the economics pretty straight…. These ideas can be integrated in environement (in need to think about terms …. but Infra/Super structures are a good start ;-)). We see a number of new way to ease understandings of economics …. and they’re all about micro-economy, i.e how the homo economicus is walking under the invisble hand.
I came accros 3 good articles this week-end.
First one called "De-Portalization" and coming from Avc. For a full explaination of the term see the edegio post. To make it quick it’s about the changes of Internet landscape with a total amount of traffic shifting from main domain to a larger bunch of small spaces…. in a way it’s about the Long Tail of traffic (no real news, but a new term /still not coined/ and a nice illustration).
Second a post by Nicholas Carr (dam this man is so good!) titled "Lost in the shitstream". the post is very interesting especially if you take time reading the comments. Nicholas is just worried with the popularity ranking of things… he worries that shitty UGC will take the bulk of attention. It’s a sequel of his post about packaging (see my previous post Intermediation is king)
Last: Faster Horses and the Fog of 2.0 from Scott Karp [personal note should digg hsi blog// 3 reco from my A-list thks snark] and i will keep the famous quote found at the end of the post from H.Ford :
“If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.”
Creating passionate users is a funny blog about Internet usage …. and various strange behaviours.
It’s not in my feed reader, but I checked them from time to time. And i’ve just found a brilliant post about the attention problem and the addiction of connection. They’ve drawn a curve after using Twitter (twitter is a service that enable you to tell all you’re friend what you’re actually doing !!).
–> One conclusion : when you twiter you can only be twittering !
Please, I’m beging you, click on the image to get the full Short Tail of attention.
Then they came with a brilliant explanation of why we can manage to get things done (which is a great news for a country such as France with a lot of unemployed and a lot of blogger, blogging may solve our unemployment problem ;-)).
I’ve managed to get my email straight using Einsenhower filter (open my mail box 2 or 3 times a day and class every mail that needs work in 4 categories UI, uI, Iu, ui where U,u=urgent, I,i= important + a follow-on group that I review every two months). But have not found a technique for blogging and reading RSS properly. On the stat part I must confess that you like and my blog are couting a lot ! (I need to install the auto trackback from technorati). Ok, let’s get back to work.
This post is a tribute to my dear Social / Collaborative / Identity brains .. namely Apophenia (aka Danah Boyd) / Geeking Greg (aka Greg Linden) / chimprawk (aka Fred Stutzman) … and my dad.
I’ve paid tribute several times and will continue.
So danah has a brilliant article in First Monday called : "Friend, Friendster, Top8, writing community into being on social network sites" Here is some quotes"
While Collectors could be anyone interested in amassing many
Friends, fake Profiles were developed to aid in this process. These
Fakesters included characters, celebrities, objects, icons,
institutions, and ideas. For example, Homer Simpson had a Profile
alongside Jesus and Brown University. By connecting people with shared
interests or affiliations, Fakesters supported networking between
like-minded individuals. Because play and connecting were primary
incentives for many Fakesters, they welcomed any and all Friends.
Likewise, people who wanted access to more people connected to
Fakesters. Fakesters helped centralize the network and two Fakesters —
Burning Man and Ali G — reached mass popularity with over 10,000
Friends each before the Web site’s creators put an end to their
collecting and deleted both accounts. This began the deletion of all
Fakesters in what was eventually termed the Fakester Genocide [8].
While Friendster was irritated by fake Profiles, MySpace embraced
this practice. One of MySpace’s early strategies was to provide a place
for everyone who was rejected from Friendster or who didn’t want to be
on a dating site [9].
Bands who had been kicked off of Friendster were some of the earliest
MySpace users. Over time, movie stars, politicians, porn divas,
comedians, and other celebrities joined the fray. Often, the person
behind these Profiles was not the celebrity but a manager. Corporations
began creating Profiles for their products and brands. While Friendster
eventually began allowing such fake Profiles for a fee, MySpace never
charged people for their commercial uses.People connect to Fakesters, celebrities, and commercial Profiles
for a variety of reasons. Some are simply entertained by the Profiles
themselves. Others feel as though these Profiles say something about
who they are.
greg is on fire and manage to relate nearly any good and bad news to personnalization. And I will not be the one who does not agree ! Yahoo is in the Game ….
Fred is vibrant about the adoption of OpenID and carefull for what happens with SN.
Last, thanks dad (as good as Feld’s Mentor) for your present : the sens of Calvin & Hobbes : "There’s treasure everywhere" explaining the title and why I’m digging!
Ok, it’s late so I will make it quick.
US SWAT killed a young because they’ve "facebooked" him before serving a warrant. All story here.
The facebook picture of the young guy showed him armed with a shotgun … so they came in with the Swat and the worst happened !
We had social networks for the dead, we know have the first dead by social network.
Second is the fact that an average Second life avatar is consumming more electricity than a Brazilian.
Note that Nicholas also has doubt about the SL model.
So all in one, we are on the verge of so many new problems that we will need real life improvement!
A reboot or an upgrage is quickly needed !
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