Posts Tagged ‘SocialWeb’
How Many Streams Can You Kayak At Once?
Wednesday, March 30th, 2011About a year ago I started to feel the peer pressure of the Stream universe. I wrote about the issue of yet-another-stream phenomenon (YASP), stating that:
YASP…is that somewhat exciting but ultimately frustrating realization that there is yet another social networking, microblogging, curated, real-time, threaded-conversation service that you might have to join so that you don’t get left behind.
In essence, every week we are bombarded with the newest, hottest, social networking startup that is touted as being the next big thing. A number of us rush to sign up, hoping to get in on the closed beta. Read more »
Tags: data silos, SocialWeb
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | No Comments »
It’s Time for Blogging to Evolve
Saturday, March 5th, 2011The concept of blogging needs to evolve. Whereas Twitter and Facebook seem to have stolen some of the wind from blogging, I believe that netizens in general still desire to control their webspace and their webpresence. That is one reason that Diaspora–the upstart distributed social networking project–found initial funding success on Kickstarter. People want to have control over their content and privacy. They want to use their personal website as the anchor, as the foundation for their online communications. Read more »
Tags: data silos, Facebook, microblogging, SocialWeb, Twitter, Web of Data
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 10 Comments »
The HyperWeb: it’s All About Connections
Friday, January 7th, 2011I recently came across this interesting graphic entitled Hierarchy of Visual Information. The author clearly states that it is a work in progress, just the genesis of an idea, a not-fully-formed thought. In fact, he rightly points out that this–in general–is not a new concept at all and provides a link to a Google image search result showing many incarnations of the data-information-knowledge-wisdom concept.
As I looked at his graphic, a different idea came to mind, a different interpretation of the concept in the context of the Web’s evolution. The hierarchical nature of the illustration made me think of the increasing complexity that comes with increasing connectivity. Read more »
Tags: Singularity, SocialWeb, Synaptic Web, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web of Data
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Nanotechnology, Social Media & Semantic Web | 9 Comments »
The Web is Not (yet) Social
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011There is a common misunderstanding about the meaning of the phrase Social Web. I believe that most of the Web’s netizens think that the Web is social. But in fact the Web is not currently social.
Whereas Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, and other ventures are social platforms, they are not the Web. These entities are only part of the Web—although it’s looking more and more “like” Facebook wants you to think that the Web equals Facebook. Read more »
Tags: data silos, Facebook, freedoms, identity 2.0, Linked Data, privacy 2.0, SocialWeb, Twitter, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web of Data
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 1 Comment »
I’ve Got a Clot in My Klout: Influence Across a Distributed Social Web.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010I’ve been a fan of Klout since its inception. I was a relatively early adopter of its services and believer in its ideal to become the standard for influence measurement. I still use Klout and believe in their vision. Why else would I place a Klout widget on my About Me page?
But there are two issues that I wish to address. Read more »
Tags: API, data silos, identity 2.0, Klout, SocialWeb, Twitter, Web of Data
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 8 Comments »
Flowing Your Identity Through the Social Web
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010Some social networking platforms are beginning to buy into data portability. Whereas any step toward opening up the closed data-silo islands is a positive step, the real question is what does data portability actually mean?
Data portability is defined as the ability to “bring your identity, friends, conversations, files and histories with you, without having to manually add them to each new service.”
Does this really solve the most important issue that users face when spelunking the depths of the social networking space? Read more »
Tags: data silos, identity 2.0, privacy, SocialWeb, WebID
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 6 Comments »
BuddyPress Privacy Component About to Launch
Saturday, October 23rd, 2010Here’s a brief update on my efforts to provide a suite of privacy filtering services to BuddyPress’ core components. With the release of BP v1.2.6, the last of the essential ingredients are now in place to allow my Privacy Component to function. On November 8, 2010, I plan to make the component available to all via the WordPress Plugin Repository. You can learn more on BP-Privacy.com.
To celebrate this occasion, I am offering two specials: 40% off of the standard BuddyPress Privacy Component Support Plan (BPCSP) and the other 25% discount on advertising rates. All but two of the first month’s ad spots are sold. So, if you want to get in early and lock in these prerelease rates, act now.
Tags: BuddyPress, privacy, SocialWeb, WordPress Plugins
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Web 3.0 Smartups: the New Web Business Space
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010<Smartups Series Part 4 of 5>
This is the fourth article in my five-part series about Powering Startups to Become Smartups. In part 1, we discussed why Web-2.0 startups were stuck in the box and how in-the-box thinking leads to missed opportunities. In part 2, we discussed the most salient aspect of Web 3.0, the Web of Data and the emergence of the Social Web. Read more »
Tags: angel funding, exit strategy, investing, leadership, MicroAngels, smartups, SocialWeb, startups, venture capital, Web 3.0, Web of Data
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 4 Comments »
Web 3.0 Smartups: Moving Beyond the Relational Database
Friday, September 17th, 2010<Smartups Series Part 3 of 5>
Today’s Web-based services are dealing with substantially higher volumes of data. But the challenges of data storage and management in the Social Web go beyond the issue of increasing data volume. In Web 3.0, data are significantly more complex and difficult to define ahead of time.
Unfortunately, many existing Web-2.0 startups continue to use only a RDBMS (relational database management system) model for meeting all their data storage and management needs—and some of these startups are starting to see the problems with that decision. Read more »
Tags: smartups, SocialWeb, startups, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web of Data
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 2 Comments »
Web 3.0 Smartups: the Social Web and the Web of Data
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010<Smartups Series Part 2 of 5>
In the first installment of my Web 3.0 series, Powering Startups to Become Smartups, I presented a general overview of the Web’s evolving paradigm. I made the argument that today’s Web-based startups needed to step outside the current Web-2.0 box and think like a Web-3.0 company. By leveraging the power of Web 3.0, a common-place startup could transform itself into a smartup.
In this second installment, I’m going to talk about what most people think of when they hear the term Web 3.0—the Semantic Web or Web of data. In the process, I hope to correct some common misconceptions about what the Semantic Web is and what it is not. Read more »
Tags: identity 2.0, Linked Data, smartups, SocialWeb, startups, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web of Data
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 10 Comments »
