Blogging Study Stats Released
The Internet and American Life Project found that between 2 and 7 percent of Americans have weblogs, and about 10 percent of them update their blogs regularly. 11 Percent of surfers reported visiting...
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The Metaweb is Coming… See this Diagram…
This diagram (click to see larger version) illustrates why I believe technology evolution is moving towards what I call the Metaweb. The Metaweb is emerging from the convergence of the Web, Social...
View ArticleFrom Application-Centric to Data-Centric Computing: The Metaweb
One of the big changes that will be enabled by the coming Metaweb is the shift from application-centric computing to data-centric computing. As the Metaweb evolves, information will be imbued with...
View ArticleAs I predicted .. Lifelogs are coming…
I call it a Lifelog — Nokia calls it a “Lifeblog” (my terminology is better) — but it’s the same idea — a log of all the stuff you experience — your whole life, blogged and online. OK but the key is to...
View ArticleAds Moving to Weblogs… Ad Space on My Site for Sale
Advertising moves to Weblogs. It had to happen eventually. Now that we’re on the subject, let me know if you want to advertise on this site.
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New Version of My "Metaweb" Graph — The Future of the Net
Notes: Many people have requested this graph and so I am posting my latest version of it. The Metaweb is the coming “intelligent Web” that is evolving from the convergence of the Web, Social Software...
View ArticleGoMeme 1.0 — Testing Meme Propagation In Blogspace: Add Your Blog!
NOTE: This experiment is now finished. This is an experiment in spreading ideas across weblogs using the principles of viral marketing and social networks using a new method for making content more...
View ArticleA New Blogging Feature: Automated "Social Syndication" Networks
Here’s an idea I’ve had recently that is related to the Meme Propagation experiment (see posts below on this blog for more about that ongoing experiment). The concept is for a new, meme-based, way to...
View ArticleRFC for a New Distributed Data Exchange System
Matt Poepping has come up with an interesting idea for how to create a fully distributed searchable database on the Net. It’s a cool enough idea and approach that people should see his RFC and comment...
View ArticleFAQ for GoMeme 2.0
This posting is the FAQ and introduction for a new, improved, second-generation meme experiment that is designed to spread faster and more broadly than the first meme experiment. We call this kind of...
View ArticleCan You Imagine What Would Happen if MoveOn.Org Used the GoMeme Concept?
I wonder if anyone from MoveOn.Org or the Republicans will notice our GoMeme experiments? (Not that I’m taking sides — I’ll simply be happy if somebody wins the election!) Grassroots political...
View ArticleGoMeme 2.0 – Help Test This Meme
Note: This experiment is now finished. GoMeme 2.0 — Copy This GoMeme From This Line to The End of this article, and paste into your blog. Then follow the instructions below to fill it out for your...
View ArticleCurrent State of the Weblog Tools Market
This article provides a good overview of the Weblog tools market, products, and market share.
View ArticleDetailed Analysis of GoMeme 1.0 Results
Greg Tyrell, a PhD student with a strong interest in bioinformatics, has put together a detailed analysis and report on the GoMeme 1.0 experiment, containing several visualizations and results of the...
View ArticleA Blog Novel
Rohit Gupta, a Bombay-based writer, who also reads this blog, is writing a blog-novel. He has come up with an innovative way to promote it — by letting readers choose quotes from his text to “own” — by...
View ArticleMy "A Physics of Ideas" Manifesto has been Published!
Change This, a project that helps to promote interesting new ideas so that they get noticed above the noise level of our culture has published my article on “A Physics of Ideas” as one of their...
View ArticleFolktologies — Beyond the Folksonomy vs. Ontology Distinction
First of all I know Clay Shirky, and he’s a good fellow. But he’s simply wrong about his claim that "tagging" (of the flavor that is appearing on del.icio.us — what I call "social tagging") is...
View ArticleRadar Networks News…
Great news! Radar Networks, the venture I’ve been building, has received its first round of outside funding from Vulcan Capital. We are heavily in stealth mode.
View ArticleA Cool Thingy…
This is cool Click to see why. I think this idea has great value for viral, meme-based Web advertising. Just imagine: Advertisers could release really cool animations to add to sites, and site owners...
View ArticleThe Future of the Web is Semantic
Here is a good article from IBM that provides decent, not-overly-technical, overview of the technologies that make up the Semantic Web, and the value they offer.
View ArticleRadar Networks is Seeking Search Engineers for Large-Scale Web Mining Initiative
My company, Radar Networks, is building a very large dataset by crawling and mining the Web. We then apply a range of new algorithms to the data (part of our secret sauce) to generate some very...
View ArticleExcellent Feedback from Om Malik
Today A-List blogger and emerging "media 2.0" mogul, Om Malik, dropped by our offices to get a confidential demo of what we are building. We’ve asked Om to keep a tight lid on what we showed him, but...
View ArticleWhat is the Semantic Web, Actually?
I’ve read several blog posts reacting to John Markoff’s article today. There seem to be some misconceptions in those posts about what the Semantic Web is and is not. Here I will try to succinctly...
View ArticleVenice Project Making Heavy Use of RDF
I just found out from Pete, that the Venice Project is making really heavy use of RDF. Very interesting. Another major proof point. It’s looking like 2007 is going to be the year of mainstream RDF...
View Article'Bemes' are Defining the Blogosphere
Tom Hayes has an interesting post in which he coins the word ‘beme" to mean a meme that spreads in the blogosphere. Michael Malone’s ABC News column on Thursday mentioning "bemes" has certainly...
View ArticleEnvisioning the Whole Digital Person
Another article of note on the subject of our evolving digital lives and what user-experience designers should be thinking about: Our lives are becoming increasingly digitized—from the ways we...
View ArticleBurma Update: Protestors Cremated Alive; Monks Massacred in Jungle
The situation in Burma is far worse than the mainstream media has reported so far. Watch this video that was just smuggled out showing soldiers beating unarmed protesters. There are now reports coming...
View ArticleInterest Networks are at a Tipping Point
UPDATE: There’s already a lot of good discussion going on around this post in my public twine. I’ve been writing about a new trend that I call “interest networking” for a while now. But I wanted to...
View ArticleIt’s Time for an Open Standard for Cards
Cards are fast becoming the hot new design paradigm for mobile apps, but their importance goes far beyond mobile. Cards are modular, bite-sized content containers designed for easy consumption and...
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