Woohoo. OS just pushed out a bunch of new features and signals on their site. What a treat for Thanksgiving. Thanks OS team. You guys truly rock. OS has become the most impt site that occupies the coveted space in my group of tabs that are set as my FF hompage.
http://buzz.originalsignal.com
Happy surfing OS addicts. Here are some screenshots.
Ok. After a gruelling 72+ hour marathon web2.0, web3.0, semantic web, w3c, socialsoftware, del.icio.us, flickr, digg.swarm, originalsignal geek out session, I MUST step away from my laptop.
I've been posting and tagging like a crazy person, but it's just too damn exciting. so many ideas spinning in my head. My head is spinning right now.
Now that I've more or less made it through my work week dousing a series of fires and firedrills that kept me up till 3am last night, I'm gearing up for great turkey, stuffing, and insanely good apple and pecan pie [see the real deal here and here] (thanks a lot to Grand Central Bakery).
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WARNING: DEEP POWDER ALERT That's right. It's dumping in the Cascades.
I just hopped over to SkiMart this morning to pick up my new Elan 777 skis and I finally just now took the time to troll my local mountain reports:
Mt. Baker
Crystal
Steven's Pass
Alpental
OMFG. This could be "one of those weekends"!!! Reminds me of the el Nino year we had back in 1997/98 (?) when the following winter in 1998/1999 when Mt. Baker broke all records. I remember staring in awe as I watched ski patrol dig out chair 6. It's looking like this weekend could be one for the record books, so I guess now the question is which mountain do I hit up first?
Crystal?
Baker?
Stevens?
Alpental?
Ahhh. decisions. decisions.
With that, I'm going to sign off and step away from my laptop for a while. Thanks to everyone who is pushing the envelope in the latest web2.0, semantic web, social media / tagging /bookmarking / trends discussions that are funneling so many ideas into my head.
Have Safe & Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
--Brian [bdeseattle]
Seattle, WA USA
While I think that Paul Kedrosky is on to something in his recent post on the release of the new flickr camera ratings page, I disagree with his comment:
"Give the software away, so to speak, and sell the data. Its day is coming."I think privacy concerns over the use of user-generated data in general, and metadata in particular may cause a backlash and user revolt if you simply give away the software and sell the data. Isn't this what all the web2.0 "beta" sites do today? Give away their services for free and sell their usage data to spammers (uhhh I mean ad agencies) and seed their sites with Adsense / Adwords to generate enough revenue to keep them afloat?
Here's a link to a brief commentary on problems with socially driven news sites (ala the digg effect). Hmmm, now we're moving on to the "authoritative sources" debate. Another fundamental concept from the library science field that has yet to be widely embraced by the socially driven sites. That said, sites like eBay and Epinions do offer ways of establishing your 'net cred, but not all sites do. I think that the social news sites need to borrow from the ebay model and build this feature this into their systems.
Countries I've visited:
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I came across an interesting article published in the November issue of D-Lib magazine today [1] that focuses on some philosophical issues with folksonomies and tagging The author brings up some good points about the culture of tagging and folksonomy. This immediately reminded me of a parallel thread that I captured on this topic a while back in a late night blog post. [Scroll down to the Call To Action section after top 10 list]. I vaguely recall commenting on the need for controlled vocabularies for tagging / folksonomies.
After re-reading my post, I think the author of this article does a decent job of articulating the need for (and value of) applying techniques from the world of cataloging, controlled vocabularies, and well defined rules for cataloging works (e.g. Dewey, MARC, Library of Congress), while at the same time understanding that folksonomies and social tagging are driving much of the web2.0 phenom. Anyway, I need to get back to work, so I'm going to cut this short. Maybe I'll try to expand on this post another time.
Here's my original call to action from my January 7, 2006 post:
CALL TO ACTION: taggers
We need a controlled vocabulary and some best practices and/or guidlines for taggers asap. If not, this whole social tagging and bookmarking phenomena is going to implode and get muddied with dirty metadata. I am of the opinion that we should strive to apply the library of congress cataloging rules (or similar methodology) and establish a set of rules for tagging and assigning metadata descriptions to internet works.
It's got to happen before tagging goes mainstream or else we're going to be back in the same place we were with the early search engines in the 1998-2000 era of the interweb.
Who wants to join my mission to bring the concept of a controlled vocabulary and set of guidelines for tagging to sites like del.icio.us, digg, and all the other tagging sites? If you're on board, please leave me a comment or track me down on my blog.
So I recently started tracking the spread of web3.0 hype, buzz, FUD, whatever you want to call it and there's no doubt that it's spreading like wildfire across the inter-blog-web-social-net-icio.us-sphere.
Check out technorati mentions of "web 3.0" and also related tags on del.icio.us.
Reminds me of the hype and buzz that ensued with the evolution of the "next greatest" distributed computing technologies over the past 15 years. Remember how we went from CORBA > DCOM > RMI > XML/SOAP/WS and all the hype around xml and webservices.
Here are some initial thoughts.
web2.0 = XML/SOAP/WS for the masses and the maturation of the NKOTB like eBay, Amazon, Google, and Yahoo. Then came AJAX and the rise of public apis, the concept of the mashup, and the domination of socially-driven sites like myspace, friendster, linkedin, flickr, del.icio.us.
Then just within the past few months, we've had a slew of press releases from enterprise software vendors like IBM, BEA, Oracle, and MSFT trying to bring web2.0 techniques to the enterprise. Something that for a time was being called enterpriseweb2.0 or enterprise2.0. Salesforce.com appears to be the model citizen of an enterprise2.0 company.
Now all of a sudden we have folks trying to spin the W3C Semantic Web Activity and the genius behind TBL's vision as the special sauce needed to get us to web3.0? And then today I see people talking about AI being an integral part of web3.0? Come on people. The masses have yet to understand the potential and value of web2.0. Let's not clutter the playing field by spinning up a new version for the web. Let's get web2.0 feature complete before starting another dev cycle ok?
From what I can tell, it looks like most of these web3.0 buzz-mongers are trying to mashup TBL's vision for the semantic web with the interesting trends, techniques, and phenomena driving web2.0.
Is web3.0 nothing more than the realization of TBL's vision of the semantic web with the current trends fueling web2.0? Someone say it ain't so? And I previously blogged about how web2.0 makes my brain hurt. web3.0 might just make it explode. Enough. Stop the madness
Might as well start here. I think that web3.0 hype is about to get insanely out of control OR I think it will wither and die.
Don't believe the Web3.0 hype - check it out technorati style - Here are posts that contain Web3.0 per day for the last 365 days.
Get your own chart!
There seems to be enough buzz to set web3.0 off, but time and users will ultimately tell. Here's my initial list of web3.0 links along with some personal commentary.
UPDATE: So the more I play with this Multiply social networking / blogging site, the more I get frustrated by it. I am going to continue blogging right here on my good 'ole blogger account, so please bare with me as I figure out the best medium to dispense with my nonsensical commentary.
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OK. So I stopped blogging for a long time. Mostly due to the fact that my identity was compromised and my credit info hacked. Not fun at all. That's ancient history, and with the continued wave of innovation sweeping across the internetwebspace, I thought I'd try to pick back up and start blogging on web3.0, web2.0 and related topics. Also will use multiply to post pics. From what I can tell, multiply will act as my uber-blog-aggregator where I can manage all of my web2.0-accounts e.g. flickr, del.icio.us, digg, etc.
My flickr stream is here: http://flickr.com/photos/bdeseattle
Cheers,
--Brian [bdeseattle]
PS - I bookmark on del.icio.us @ http://del.icio.us/bdeseattle
ping. just a quick ping to verify that I"m still alive and kickin. hopefully will be posting pics from my recent trip to belize y guatemala.
adios
--brian
...having your identity and credit history compromised...
painful.
extremely painful.
to the point where I'm pulling my public self off the Internet
not quite sure how yet, but stay tuned.
Completely frustrated,
--bdeseattle
more on this when I'm in a better mood.
time to play around with msft's latest windows media tech. Figured I'd give it a whirl and see how well it works with my setup. Haven't had any time to dial it in yet. Still removing all the crapola that comes pre-installed. likely will reformat in the near future anyway.
I got the inside track to the allpeers private beta!!! woohoo. This is going to be fun. Thanks for the bump Matt!
Go allpeers!
Here's a pic of a recently acquired, but yet to be identified species of sea slug. these things look like aliens and are known to be quite poisonous. they are similar to nudibranchs and change color much like an octopus or cuttlefish [see below]. I'm trying to id this species before I introduce it into one of my reef tanks, so if anyone knows the species, please email me. I've got it in a quarantine tank for now.
pic taken with samsung t-809 cameraphone
If you look closely, you can see the right eyeball and tentacles in the lower right portion of the photo - just below and to the right of the center of the photo. This guy's about 3 inches long and inhales just about anything you put into the tank. He currently lives in my 20 gal hex tank, which has a bunch of Mangroves growing out the top. I brought the mangroves back from Delray Beach, Florida a week before hurricane Wilma hit there. The mangroves are doing quite well. Will post a pic of them soon.
Cuttlefish pic taken with Samsung t-809 cameraphone.
Pic from my 75 gal reef tank (Seaclear system II). This is going to become the sump for my 240 gallon macro-reef tank that I'm still working on setting up. Stay tuned for updates on the 240 reef project. I will be posting a thread on reefcentral.com as I build out the new setup.
Unknown sinularia species? nice yellow sponge, flowerpot leathe in lower left background next to powerhead pump.
Nice pic of my 50 gal reef with my recently divided rose bubble anemones with clarkii clown symbionts. clowns are over 5 years old and the female is the meanest fish in the tank. also visible are my clams - 1 squamosa and 2 gigas in the bottom of the pic. blue menkii starfish slightly visible in upper left portion of photo. Anthelia colony in background (top right above clownfish).
Nice pic of my 60 gal coffee table tank with assorted corals.
crazy. it's been almost a months since my last post. how fitting, as today is the first day I've been able to officially "take off" since I got back from the Super Bowl. Boy am I glad I finally have some time to breathe. There's a lot of catching up to do. If you nod off for a couple weeks in web2.0 time, that's like 5 years in "web1.0" time. hehe. anyway, as a treat to anyone who actually reads this blog, I'm going to start sending photos from my camera phone directly to this blog. hopefully this will give you a sense of what the heck I'm up to these days.
Lots of cool stuff going on at work. new position, new role, I'm writing Java code again, so look out. Definitely need to polish up on my coding skilz, but it's been a blast to get back into the web app / site design side of things. I'm using many of the new web2.0 techniques in my new endeavors. Will keep you posted on how things work out.
That's all for now. Gotta go check on my apt remodel. Also need to attend to the reef tanks. More on the super-reef tank conversion project in the coming weeks.
--brian
