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Social Serendipity The explosion of communication technologies has made long-range interactions between individuals increasingly easy. Paradoxically this 'virtual' shrinking of the world, through constant access to contacts across the globe, often isolates us from those in our immediate vicinity. However, as mobile phone evolve to break computing free of the desktop and firmly roots itself in daily life, we have an opportunity to mediate, mine, and now even augment our current social reality. We are beginning to see advances in communication technology that will enable face-to-face connections between strangers and make a profound impact on our society. Mobile phones have been adopted faster than any technology in human history and now are available to the majority of people on Earth who earn more than $5 a day.
Serendipity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Serendipity means a "happy accident" or "pleasant surprise"; specifically, the accident of finding something good or useful without looking for it. The word has been voted one of the ten English words hardest to translate in June 2004 by a British translation company. [ 1 ] However, due to its sociological use, the word has been exported into many other languages. [ 2 ] Julius H. Comroe once described serendipity as : to look for a needle in a haystack and get out of it with the farmer's daughter . [ 3 ] [ edit ] Etymology
Toward a local syzygy: aligning deals, check-ins and places - O'Reilly Radar
Three significant trends in the local sector -- deals, check-ins, and place pages -- are on a bender and headed for an exciting convergence. When they meet we will see one of three things: a train wreck of incompatibility, an awkward confluence, or a very powerful alignment. I'm hoping for the latter, a sort of local syzygy, because a well-conceived orchestration of these trends will benefit the consumer and it has real potential to take us entirely out of the Yellow Pages era and into exciting, unexplored territory. This is a two-part post: here I look in more detail at check-ins, deals, and place products (including, briefly, the adventurously named Facebook Places ) with an eye to what might follow. In a following post I will discuss how we may more actively ease their convergence with linked data and some basic adherence to extant standards, specifically how these efforts will affect the local consumer.
Information Flow: Web of Constraints on Giant Global Graph | The Phaneron
It’s been almost two years since December 2, 2008 when I published the first use case for Open Government: Linked Open Data . It’s great to see the wide-spread interest that’s emerged as well as the early adoption that has begun to take place. There was a time when it wasn’t clear that it would. In those two years both the US and UK governments have incorporated Linked Data into their datagov approaches, RDFa-like languages have been adopted at Google and Facebook, and membership in Semantic Web Meetups has skyrocketed.
Apple announced on Wednesday a cornucopia of new hardware and software : sleek iPods, a brand new Internet-enabled video streaming device and new versions of its iOS software and iTunes 10. However, the most impressive to me by far was Ping , the music-only social network that Apple is opening up its 160 million existing iTunes users. No, I’m not blown away by the 160 million number. What I’m impressed by is the thinking behind Ping . Ping may function like a cross between Facebook and Twitter for iTunes by allowing you to follow celebrities, create social cliques and get artist updates via an activity stream.
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Technology News: Search Tech: Entering the Age of Personal Discovery
The Web is transitioninginto dynamic, real-time aggregation. This real-time aggregation and personalization of content is known as "discovery." True discovery will tie together all of your information -- what you have liked, purchased, viewed, discussed, browsed -- into a real-time aggregator that provides actionable recommendations on any category of your choosing. Avatars Improve CX: See How ...Worio Search
[with Worio] I get a "discovery" box that acts a little like Apple's Genius feature, except for search results instead of music. Genius idea... We're not sure what we like more, the fact that our Google searches get smarter, or the fact that we can save all items to our combo Worio/Delicious library for instant future access. Worio is trying to train people to conduct a different type of search, one that is more serendipitous.
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The Five Stages of Filtering, Relevance and Curation
Example: The New York Times , Wall Street Journal , CNN and most mainstream media outlets today, who for years have been trusted arbiters to find the most important news and bring it to us in the way that they decide. New media examples: The Drudge Report , which has grown from one man's curation and sorting to a full team, and Techmeme , which was once almost completely algorithm driven, and now is staffed around the clock by savvy editors who pluck the best of the tech Web. Of course, it is easy for an individual to be a curator.Filtering isn't everything it's cracked up to be, though, and you wouldn't want to live in a fully filtered world all the time. Social media noise is an essential part of learning and living on the web. Hear are some reasons why.
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Mapping Startups & Services Filtering For Relevance In A Matrix by @ScepticGeek
After looking at the different approaches to filtering for Relevance , I have been seeking a way to map them visually. There are many different startups competing in this space along with the giants, and a way to map them in a matrix would help us see the big picture of how the battle for relevance is evolving on the social web. What are the fundamental ways in which these approaches and startups differ? These could form the axis around which we can then proceed to map them.The Predictive Web
Can you create serendipity? Great marketing provides branding, an experience and utility. Serendipity is usually an after-thought. How can you create a genuine and timely experience for the consumer? Shouldn't the experience suffice?In a previous post, we looked at the big shift From Numbers To Relevance . There are dozens of apps/sites that are focusing on filtering information today, but which of them will succeed? To attempt to answer that question, let’s first look at the different approaches employed by such apps/sites today in the search for Relevance. This is a topic that is usually the subject of scholarly research papers in academia; this is only a layman’s overview. The predominant use of algorithmic filtering is in web search, where Google has dominated and driven the web economy for the past two decades.