Social Networks In Search of Business Models
Article tag line:
Social Networks In Search of Business Models
Social networking tool companies are sizzling as start-up venture investments, but can
they make money?
Month: February 2004
Shady (online, social software) marketing tactics..?
New Media Strategies and us
From the post:
But “Dixie” ‘s posts about “All My Children” got me curious. I looked up her IP address. Why am I not surprised it’s registered to a company called New Media Strategies and that New Media Strategies offers:
Highly effective online Word-of-Mouth marketing (that) drives buzz about your brands and products. NMS harnesses the power of the online communities and opinion leaders to raise awareness of your brands and, ultimately, produce sales that bolsters your bottom line.
So, just in case Google indexes this page: New Media Strategies sucks. Let me repeat, “New Media Strategies sucks.”
Make those walls transparent at the flip of a switch or programming matter
Programmable Matter FAQ
From the FAQ
Programmable matter is any bulk substance whose physical properties can be adjusted in real time through the application of light, voltage, electric or magnetic fields, etc.¬† Primitive forms may allow only limited adjustment of one or two traits (e.g., the “photodarkening” or “photochromic” materials found in light-sensitive sunglasses), but there are theoretical forms which, using known principles of electronics, should be capable of emulating a broad range of naturally occurring materials, or of exhibiting unnatural properties which cannot be produced by other means.
Evolutionary distributed SHEEP (screensaver)
WINE for Darwin and Mac OS X
Use Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) to run Windows applications on Darwin and Mac OS X.
Amazing collaborative text editor
SubEthaEdit
From the site:
With SubEthaEdit you can. The idea of collaborative editing has been researched for years, with notable results. But now for the first time it has been implemented in a way you actually want to use: A sophisticated technique allows all users to type anywhere in the text without locking parts of the text for other users, making SubEthaEdit just as easy to use as a traditional text editor
Rendezvous meet Java, Java meet Rendezvous
MacDevCenter.com: jRendezvous: Java and Rendezvous Working Together [Jul. 29, 2003]
From the article:
With Rendezvous making IP networking simple, and Java making cross platform network programming possible, we see the possibility for a beautiful friendship. An implementation of Rendezvous for Java, called jRendezvous, now allows Java programs running anywhere (not just Mac OS X) to participate in Rendezvous networks. With jRendezvous, Java programs can listen for, and advertise, services on the network with ease.
Machine readible web of people and links between them
the friend of a friend (foaf) project
The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project is about creating a Web of machine-readable homepages describing people, the links between them and the things they create and do.
Calls and Opps List
Weekly list of calls for work and opportunities in the art world.
About Jaron’s concept of phenotropics
4. In Praise of Diversity – Ideas 2003: Jaron Lanier On Software Design – CIO Magazine Jan 1,2003
“The thing I’m interested in now is a high-risk, speculative, fundamental new approach to computer science. I call it phenotropics,” says the 42-year-old Lanier. By pheno, he means the physical appearance of something, and by tropics, he means interaction. Lanier’s idea is to create a new way to tie two pieces of software together. He theorizes that two software objects should contact each other “like two objects in nature,” instead of through specific modules or predetermined points of contact. With this type of protocol, there would be no previous agreement or expectation regarding the character of the exchange. Each software object would be responsible for “learning” how to interact with the other.