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Last Entries on Jul 14, 2006
Having looked at the pitfalls and advantages of social networks, I now try to establish a list of opportunities for leveraging them in core areas.
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Ideas
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Society
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After exploring why social networks fail, I also have to consider why people are still joining them, in spite of their failures. So, going along the same approach, here I am with 5 reasons why social networks can succeed:
5. Viral Nature
They key to social networks quickly moving up in size is their viral nature. Because […]
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Society
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After being invited to a new social networking site, I look into why social networking sites are failing and what could be done to help them become more successful. I focus on 5 areas: privacy concerns, reward and penalty systems, granularity, integration with other apps, and the problem with creating walled gardens.
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Society
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The Internet and other technologies introduced placeshifting and timeshifting so what’s a TV network to do in order to survive. Looking at the current trends, I try to come up with some prescriptions.
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Convergence
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News
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Business
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Net neutrality seems headed for the dumpsters of history. What is Net Neutrality? And what happens now? In this entry, I attempt to provide some answers.
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News
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Looking at Dave Winer’s efforts in evangelizing OPML, I try to draw some rough lines into what makes a de-facto standard. De Facto standards are made and seldom happen on their own. In this entry, I look back at the history of HTML, RSS, the open source movement and try to draw some lines as to what makes a standard.
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Programming
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After many years of using my own blog software, something I had written myself and tended to over the years, I finally threw the towel in and decided to upgrade. Here are a few things that I learned in the process.
Making the Decision
The first, and probably toughest, part of this migration was to actually make […]
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Personal
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Programming
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TNL.net blog moves to WordPress, hopefully without breaking too many things.
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Personal
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Having established some ground in the previous set of entries in the Future Tense series, I now try to draw some conclusions as to where we might be going next.
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Convergence
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As Web 2.0 takes hold, the real value of it is in a new phenomenon called social software: What it means is that people are now an integral part of the application. In this entry, I examine how, as this phenomenon takes hold, such approach is going to reshape how we think of software.
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Convergence
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