2004-02-10

O'Reilly Radar
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2004/view/e_sess/4843


the oreilly pitch again, what they're about:
- find interesting people and tech and amplify their effectiveness by speading
the information
- keep finding new, transformative technologies


on the subject of services, not packaged applications. amazon, google are data
aggregators.

[these big, expensive, *admired* services are the monastries of our century:
they hold vast libraries of difficult to reproduce material (the value's in the
links, and we haven't figured out how to address graphs properly yet, because
framing/envelopes/relevance is needed to figure out which bit of the graph to
copy, and that's an AI problem, whereas the framing problem is solved with
books: books have covers. (and thinking of which: what a huge step to decide to
put covers on books! like putting streets in cities.)), and webservices are like
a really simple way of hand-copying books. what's going to be the equivalent of
the printing press? will need to solve the information framing problem first.]

Microsoft research project World-Wide Media Exchange:
http://www.wwmx.org
tie photographs to geographic locations.

Wordspy: http://www.wordspy.com

Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks looks like an interesting book.

second-generation network effects: social software, network enabled market
research/data visibility.

[hey, the same thing cybernetics went through in the 1970s: moving from control
systems to autopoietic systems.]