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How People Share Content On The Web
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Clay Shirky speaking at Google on “The Role of Inconvenience in Designing Social Systems” (Video)
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Coordinate Smaller Webs
e fastest way to amp up the worth of your own network is to bring smaller networks together with it so they can act as one larger network and gain the total n2 value. The internet won this way. It was the network of networks, the stuff in between that glued highly diverse existing networks together. Can you take the auto parts supply network and coordinate it with the insurance adjusters network plus the garage repair network? Can you coordinate…
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Dave Weinberger on the importance of metadata in socialmedia (Video)
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MIT Media Lab Wearable Computing/Internet goes beyond “Minority Report”
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Televisions Now Dominant Life Form In United States
televisions are plotting to overthrow their human masters and take their rightful place as rulers of the United States, it's time. A Nielsen study shows that there are now more TVs than people in America. In 2009, there were nearly 115 million TV homes in the US, each averaging 2.86 TV sets, according to a new Nielsen study. That computes to nearly 329 million TV sets — more than the entire US population, estimated at 307 million by the…
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The True Price of SMS Messages
STS OF TRANSFERING 2,560 MP3s: TCP/IP: $1 TCP/SMS: $61,356,851.20 TCP/USPS: $307,072.00 (Bits written out on paper) So getting a SMS delivered is bit for bit 200x more expensive than getting a message hand delivered to your doorstep anywhere in the United States. What exactly justifies making SMS messages sixty one million times more expensive than ISP data and 200x more expensive than TCP/USPS? How come technology, communication, and infrastructure is getting cheaper while the costs of SMS messages are increasing…
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Clay Shirky describes why iTunes is not a workable model for the newspaper business
ether you like or loathe the major music labels, they are in a situation where they can sharply restrict distribution models they don’t like. Whatever you think of that in normative terms, it doesn’t describe any strategy available to newspapers, because, unlike iTunes, news can’t escape competition for alternate models of distribution. Newspapers, even if every single one of them acted in collusion, cannot establish a monopoly on news. The main source of value for newspapers is reporting on events…
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