"Interesting site indeed.
Given it's anonymous, wiki design, I'm interested to see if certain personalities get associated with negative search terms, for example "dickhead," "arrogant bastard," "douche," etc. It will also be interesting to see if the community reinforces these terms or keeps the profiles clean.
One could create a sister service for monitoring and cleaning up their crowd-sourced online profile. I wonder if changes to a user's "alias" set will be included in the RSS feed, once it's inevitably added to the profile pages." - Eddie LeBreton
"This is exactly why I use a pin on my iPhone. I originally used it when traveling to Spain & Portugal, worried that if the phone was lost/stolen, I'd be forced to pay some hefty roaming fees.
Once I got back to the States, I decided to keep the pin. I've stored far too many passwords in the browser to feel comfortable leaving it unlocked.
Friends laugh at it, but at least it's secure." - Eddie LeBreton
Left this comment on techcrunch.com, looks like the conversation has left the site, maybe FriendFeeder's have some thoughts:
So, I understand how open-sourcing the next application platform (online and off) will harm MSFT, but I don’t fully understand the upside for GOOG.
Where is the revenue from this? Will these apps rely on Google’s advertising platform? How do you serve ads when the user is offline?
To be clear, I like the move and think open systems are great for developers and users, but I just don’t understand how killing MSFT and ADBE’s platforms will generate cash for GOOG and its shareholders.
Is this just an altruistic move by GOOG for the good of the net? Are they simply trying to harm MSFT as much as possible? Or is there a revenue play that I’m not seeing?
I’m interested to hear thoughts on that - Eddie LeBreton
Me think Google just making some noise to keep itself relevant. They make so many initiatives but unfortunately very few of them work. Maybe we are really fortunate I definitely do not trust Google when it comes to data portability. Have you even tried talking to a Googler? Their are in a class of their own! Talk about Anti-Social. If Google wants the Internet Globle Village to trust them, they need to open themselves up to the community and stop building walls around themselves! - Igor The Troll
"Google does no Evil." What a bunch of Bologna! I hope Google is a big FAIL. - Igor The Troll
J.D. Salinger - "Franny and Zooey", "For Esmé with Love and Squalor", and "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". - Bryan Landers
yellow wallpaper (charlotte perkins gillman), my life and hard times (thurber, hillarious) mark twain and o henry essays/stories - washwords via twhirl
Still life with Woodpecker, Tom Robbins, for me. - Zio Bonino
Hackers by Levy, The Marketplace by Antinou, Atlas Shrugged by Rand, a whole bunch of short Sci-Fi I read for fun... my reading mix is a bout 15% re-reads - Soulhuntre via twhirl
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Oh and Cricket in Times Square! - Chris Ridenour
Robert Jordan's Wheel Of Time series. He wrote 11 books before he died and there's a ghost-writer working on finishing the last book in the series. It's like Tolkien without the provincial thinking or petty chauvinism but with a dash of the Manichean heresy - Adewale Oshineye
Patrick O'Brian's "Master and Commander" series of sailing books... - Glen Campbell
The Deep Space Nine - Millenium trilogy is quite high on my list of books I like to read every couple of years. - Horst Gutmann
if the book is a resident on my shelf there is a strong chance I've read it multiple times and will do so, if I have nothing else to read, I'll simply grab one... the one book that I read the most is probably Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.... - nick carrasco
Many! William Gibson’s “Neuromancer” is a silly book which I keep coming back to. “The Gorilla Game” with Moore, Johnson, and Kippola is another. - ivanandersson via Alert Thingy
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell - always makes me want to go out and change the world. - Peter Dean
The Stand, E. T., Gone With The Wind, I'm With The Band, Helter Skelter, On The Night You Were Born, Thirteen Days. - Michelle Trent
animal farm. Simple and short read but it is such an amazing commentary on life and power that I read it every few years. - Pedram
Hate to do a "me too", but Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Player Piano. Also Fahrenheit 451. - Joanmarie
J.D. Salinger's "Nine Stories" and "Franny and Zooey", Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, and Tad Williams' Otherland series - Michael W. May via twhirl
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin. Beautiful. Inspiring. Makes me miss NYC so much. - Abby Martin
I second the asimov foundation trilogy, never get's old - Chris Jones
Hitchhiker's guide to the gallaxy - Douglas Adams - Siddharth Mitra
"Honestly, Brad, as a long-time reader I enjoyed the post, but when I step back it just looks like a semantic argument to me. As Web 2.0 continues to evolve, so will the lexicon. True, there is ambiguity in the phrasing at the moment, but I imagine it will sort itself out and, even if it doesn't, I doubt anyone is being misled by the disparate use of "alpha,""beta,""limited beta," etc." - Eddie LeBreton
"Agreed that the only way to scale local is with user generated content. There's simply too much data for a central body to produce. Along the same lines, I've always thought that Facebook is really missing the boat here. I use Yelp occasionally and it's great, but Facebook (for now, at least) owns my social graph and those are the users who will generate the most significant local content/reviews/information for me. We all know Beacon flopped because of privacy issues, but I think it also flopped because Facebook went after brands when they should have attacked local, small businesses. I realize that's a much more difficult market to corner, but I'd much rather know that a couple of my buddies love a certain Indian joint in the East Village over the fact that they used Blockbuster Video a few times. I'm not really sure if this addresses your point on aggregation vs. production (perhaps it does in that FB's ownership of the graph could be used to create personalized aggregations of..." - Eddie LeBreton
"All of this sounds great to me, with one exception: point c in the blogger's rights:
"c) The modification of a comment, as long as the original copy is still accessible and the edit is transparent"
As a commenter, I don't like the idea of a blog owner editing my own thoughts, whether those edits are transparent or not. Perhaps I feel this way because I can't think of a good example where this would be needed and I'd welcome some examples.
In my opinion the blogger should have a boolean decision to include the comment or not, but not to edit it. Further expanding, maybe disqus could make this a setting in the user's profile, something like 'allow editing of my comments by blog owner y/n.'
Keep up the good work." - Eddie LeBreton
"All of this sounds great to me, with one exception: point c in the blogger's rights:
"c) The modification of a comment, as long as the original copy is still accessible and the edit is transparent"
As a commenter, I don't like the idea of a blog owner editing my own thoughts, whether those edits are transparent or not. Perhaps I feel this way because I can't think of a good example where this would be needed and I'd welcome some examples.
In my opinion the blogger should have a boolean decision to include the comment or not, but not to edit it. Further expanding, maybe disqus could make this a setting in the user's profile, something like 'allow editing of my comments by blog owner y/n.'
Keep up the good work." - Eddie LeBreton
Nice. I will add the room to my list. I created one for the New Orleans Jazz Festival as well. - Mathew A. Koeneker
That's a feature I would like to have too. - Morton Fox
I think they should also give the room Administrator options on how the room uses feeds, i.e. let them choose to allow feed additions by anyone, approve suggested feed additions from the room members manually, open feed additions up to a vote by the room members, or only allow them by the Administrator. - Eddie LeBreton
"This fits nicely with the way I've always thought about Facebook. It's not so much a technology but a willingness, a willingness of it's users to fork over their social network to a third party. However, once people are wiling to give up their info to one site, they won't think so long when forking it over to the next. Whether the user re-enters the data or the new service scrapes it from FB doesn't really matter. It's what you do with the data that matters. I think Facebook broke that mental hurdle for most people and is riding the wave but, like globalization, once the cat's out of the bag you can't put it back in. Also like cats, the willingness of people can be difficult to herd. (One might argue that friendster or MySpace broke the barrier first. To that I say, whatever happened to the former and that the latter groups people around common interests and personal, fantasy posturing, while Facebook has gathered a more accurate picture of the graph, i.e. people's real world..." - Eddie LeBreton
"Interesting, but it would be cool to see this by city, rather than state. For example, Austin, TX has a ton of entrepreneurs but given the population of Texas, it doesn't stand out." - Eddie LeBreton
"If accurate (and I've been following your line of thought on the matter), reason #1 strikes me as a terribly reckless political strategy that, essentially, endangers the chances of the entire Democratic party for the benefit of one possible candidate.
As an aside, I don't understand how McCain has any appeal to Democrats. As an independent, I would have considered McCain if he hadn't moved so far right in the past few years. That makes me question who he really is, a right-leaning Bush 2.0 or one of the left-most leaning Republicans? To me, his credibility is gone." - Eddie LeBreton
"Thanks Fred,
I've been meaning to catch up on this topic and the post was a great introduction. It also prompted this question:
Ignoring enterprise applications and assuming semantic search techniques are not enough to make a significant dent in Google's monopoly, do you see any other *consumer-related* opportunities in the semantic web, apart from the "contextual technologies" mentioned in the post?
-Eddie" - Eddie LeBreton
"A thought that might have already crossed your mind...
Since Twitter already has a convention for directing messages (the @ sybmol), why don't we use that to direct messages to our blogs? Perhaps we could use @[our own username], or maybe ALL users could use @blog to designate tweets intended for their respective blogs. For example,
@blog This tweet should be reproduced on my blog.
Right now tweeting with @blog creates a hyperlink to Twitter's blog (twitter.com/blog) and not a users profile, so it looks like that is a viable option. Of course, we would need to petition Twitter to change the @blog hyperlink to point to the website listed in the submitting user's profile. This also uses 4 to 5 more characters than the "!" implementation, but I think it conforms to current twitter standards a little more closely. IMHO, of course.
-Eddie" - Eddie LeBreton
"I see your point Fred but, as a long time reader of A VC and GigaOm (starting before he incorporated the site), I feel the need to come to Om's defense. I don't recall Om ever posting with the same personal tone that you employ and I have always valued the relative objectivity of his viewpoint, just as I value the "personalized" tone of A VC. Likewise, I don't think the comparison between A VC and GigaOm is valid, given that I never consiered the tones similar. Perhaps this is just my own personal interpretation, but I doubt I'm alone. However, WRT Techmeme, your previous comments are spot on. It has become increasingly repetitious. Perhaps, this opens the door for a new service that attempts to find the stories just below the "techmeme fold." Maybe it would give greater weight to individual bloggers. In time, that too would be gamed but it appears there is a void in the market for now. Maybe the NYTimes' Blogrunner can get past this with the use of human editors? But that just gets..." - Eddie LeBreton
