Empowered Digital Disruption is on everyone's mind. Netflix is replacing people's cable subscriptions. Simple apps like OpenTable and LoseIt! are displacing businesses like Zagat's and Weight Watchers. But if you want to understand why, you need to look back at the 80's and 90's and imagine you are an American manufacturer. American manufacturers were successful at making quality products at a good profit, and paying good wages to their workers. The Chinese manufacturers had two things going for them. First, they had cheap labor. Chinese manufacturers also needed access to distribution. So their formula was: cheap workers + infrastructure = disruption. Let's fast foward to today. This innovator has access to lots and lots of free or cheap tools. Sarah is likely to fail. Compared to before, there are at least ten times as many innovators gunning for your business. It's just like Chinese manufacturing. Barriers to entry are now obsolete. Want to know more? Digital disruption is terrifying.
Uncensored: General interest observations and true web-log. A bill proposed this week by Assemblywoman Pamela R. Lampitt (D., Camden) would impose a fine of up to $50 and possibly 15 days in jail for pedestrians caught using their cellphones without hands-free devices while walking on public sidewalks and along roadways.If the bill becomes law, “petextrians” – people who text while walking – would face the same penalties as jaywalkers in New Jersey.“I see it every single day,” Lampitt said Friday. “Maybe they will think twice about it.” Since 2009, pedestrian fatalities have increased by 15 percent to 4,735 in 2013, the report said. In a world populated with idiots, the banning of risky behavior has its downside.
SynapticWeb / FrontPage Exciting Commerce Presentation Zen Jandy's Meanderings Well, I figured out what’s going on with the Blogger commenting issue . It isn’t a bug; it’s intentional. The Blogger team has added OpenID support for commenting in their Beta (or Draft) version of Blogger, to replace the manual name/URL option–hoping to encourage the use of OpenID and maybe reduce comment spam, I think. See their post about it here . I don’t think it’s a good idea, anyway, to get rid of the name/URL field…it took me more than half an hour to get an OpenID account and get it set up with my blog URL so I could comment and air my complaints about the whole thing. In any case, the hassle I just went through doesn’t really do me much good, since the feature isn’t available in the current release yet.
#defrag 2009 Fragment: The Synaptic Web Khris Loux, CEO of of JS-Kit Echo shone today at the Defrag 2009 Conference with his talk “Fragment: The Synaptic Web” which highlighted the connections between neurons in the brain and the web of the future. Emphasizing that intelligence is flexibility and the synaptic web presupposes the connections between objects are more important than the objects themselves, he posed the question: if webpages are equivalent to neurons, how are connections changing to produce new experiences? Result: an enormous increase in density. Whereas webpages used to have content and links, a webpage itself is now hundreds/thousands of links and there are feeds to embedded applications. Mr. In other words, organic connections prune selections via use. If we presuppose a maturing synaptic web, if everything about you/that object is already there: how would this affect search? The Defrag 2009 Conference concludes today in Denver, Colorado. Mimi Dionne is a records and information management project manager.
Startup Life Search Engine Land: Must Read News About Search Marketing & Search Engines Why I have faved 18,456 Tweets (why Twitter is dominant in tech In just the past year I’ve clicked to fave 18,456 Tweets. It’s a stunning number, if you think about it, and I don’t know of any other tech blogger who has done more faves. What am I learning? Well, for one, there’s important stuff that gets written that doesn’t get on Techmeme. Yes, the important stuff does, like when a blogger for Gizmodo gets his house broken into by the cops. That’s big time on Techmeme, but page through my faves and you’ll find lots of other stuff that Techmeme doesn’t touch. Even for things that get on Techmeme, I’ve seen that stories break first on Twitter. But I’ve come to realize that curating great tech tweets is one thing I love to do and one way I can add a lot of value to the tech industry. Tonight my boss, Rob La Gesse, agreed and — in a redesign of my blog that he worked on — we added a widget that displays my latest favorite Tweets on my blog. So, why do I fave tweets? 1. Anyway, I hope you all get some value out of my Twitter favorites. Why is that?
Slides: Real Time Web Is Not Fast Enough– Three Strategies For B I’m about to present at LeWeb, Europe’s largest internet conference with this year’s focus on “Real Time”. With information moving even quicker, there’s a new strategy needed for companies to adopt. Since the accompanying slides are best used with narration, here’s the gist of my presentation: Real time data is exploding at a rapid pace with the influx of status features and mobile devices. This brings new opportunities for people to get information when they need it and opportunities and the companies that want to provide contextual information. Yet, despite the opportunities, most companies are unable to keep up with the “Slow time” web as it is. Looking forward to sharing more on this topic as it develops during 2010, I’ve written more about this topic and the intention web. Also, thanks to Carmen of Rexi Media, who is a great coach on presenting, her resources for presenters, such as the iPhone app are helpful for any speaker.
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