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...If you were to eavesdrop on our conversations with clients, you will hear us constantly falling back to the underlying Social Architecture model for guidance. Since it’s been some time since we’ve revisited it, here are the core concepts:
Individual - the web of interests and needs held by each person Network - the new value created by shared spaces and experiences Marketplaces - the flow that is facilitated by networks converging..."
Guy Kawasaki on How he built Truemors from the ground up with just 12,107.09 USD. In retrospect, I had more than that on my bank account January 2007 :p
I was looking at some my *very* old posts and I just can't help but notice the huge difference how my blogging has changed since those deadjournal/livejournal/diaryland/blurty days.
when you had livejournal then, you had to post your pictures at ofoto or shutterfly or photobucket (although I never really used that..) and then find a way to link them and align them so that you'll even have a nice blog post.
videos? youtube, king of FLASH-ified, server-side serving videos was a dream then. I can't remember a site that would host your .avi/.mov files back then. maybe you needed to rent or lease your own server
music? Mark Escueta (not of Rivermaya, the other one) had hit on the idea of mp3manila.com but it was more for music and not for sound files and can you imagine streaming/uploading/downloading music at dial-up. yikes.
tagging/folksonomy was in its infancy and probably the very, very prolific bloggers would even have tag cloud
trackbacking was manual back then and technorati spiders probably were very, very new back then.
slides? eyespot? audacity? - so many technologies that we take for granted now were just a dream.
mobile blogging was not not so hot then and the concept of a Twitter.com telling the whole world what you're doing would have been perfect in emergency-filled Afghanistan
last.fm? searching the world for music that's aligned to your taste? how you even do that? maybe go to a livejournal of your favorite artist (if you could find it) and then ask around about music.
photo trackbacks? zooomrtations? even up to now, only www.zooomr.com does that kind of thing.
the concept of a 2 Gigabyte email was something that you dream about after drinking Cipro with Yoghurt when you were experiencing the strange bacterial/viral fauna of Afghanistan.
we rejoiced that we could find 32MB USB drives in dusty Kabul so that we wouldn't ruin our 720K floppy disks.
Back then, it was glam to blog.
Blogging was something new.
Blogging was something cool and something that you can do on the side.
Imagine now.
If someone google's you on the Net and doesn't find you, they probably think that you live in a place where there's no Internet.
I've been pitching Web 2.0 the last few months to those who are willing to listen. It's hard to pitch a concept that's actually an aggregation of different technologies and methodologies so I'm going to explain it through the Miaarose story.
Who's Miaarose? Here's her site but I'm going to show you how collaboration works through a series of Youtube videos.
Miaasose started posting her Youtube videos doing cover songs like Crazy Girls, Kiss Me, I'm Like a Bird, L.O.V.E., and Heaven. It was just a matter of time before she posted a Youtube video of her OWN SONG called Husband to Be. Here it is:
But it doesn't end there, one Youtube subscriber gets the idea to put a drum track to her video and here's the result:
That's pretty awesome! But it doesn't stop there, someone else decides that there's some gaps in the collaboration so they add what they think are missing and here's what happens:
Whoah! These are musicians that have never met face-to-face before and now they have a full-blown video of their collaboration courtesy of Youtube! Now that's Web 2.0 for you!
BONUS:
Here's another of Miaarose's original songs called Never on my own:
The same guy, Tom Engelhardt who put the instruments on Husband to Be then adds extra instruments to this wonderful song and even adds voicing! Nice! Enjoy!
I've been having alot of fun on youtube.com lately. There is this wonderful singer named Mia Rose who posts videos of her singing and sometimes playing the guitar. Well, i took the liberty of adding some more instruments to a couple of her orginal songs. The response to that has been amazing! So many people, including mia herself, love the finished product.
I am also going to begin posting some of my original music on youtube soon, so stay tuned."
I see about 8 that I'm on and about 3-4 that I would love to try ...
"A year ago I wrote a post called “Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without”
and listed thirteen startups whose products made a real impact in my
life. Those were the products that I loved, and used every day. I
enjoyed sorting through the hundreds of startups that we had written about, and picking just a handful that made a real impact on my life. It was so much fun, actually, that I’m updating the list this year.
Seven of the companies are still on the list. Six have dropped off
to make room for new products, and I’ve added two more to round out the
list to fifteen total products. Here’s the current list, in
alphabetical order, of products I use every day and couldn’t live
without:"
More and more, Web 2.0 is becoming increasing intertwined with our lives. If you go through the list and find the companies you definitely CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT, I'd have to go with Skype and Gmail.
"While Flickr has a 20MB monthly upload limit on free accounts, and YouTube has a single video file limit of 100MB, Tremeo’s monthly limit is 200MB and 20MB for a video file. Good for photographers and very short video suitable for mobiles. There’s a 1 GB total storage maximum."
wow. sounds like mobile video upload heaven for now.
Got this from the Adaptive Path newsletter, it's an excerpt of Jesse James Garrett's interview with Steven Johnson, author of the book Everything Good is Bad for You (emphases are mine). If you enjoy watching Lost then this might help explain it ... hehehe:
"JJG: Speaking of hypertext, in Interface Culture you spend some time analyzing the hypertext style of Suck [4], the daily essay site that for many people epitomized the irreverent voice of online writing in the '90s. You credit much of Suck's effectiveness to the site's use of hypertext to suggest hidden connections rather than making those connections explicit. This is almost exactly the same argument you make years later in Everything Bad Is Good For You regarding television narrative in shows like The Sopranos. Do you think the ascending complexity of other media can be attributed to the influence of the Web in our culture, or are both symptoms of some deeper trend?
SJ: I think the ascending complexity that I called the Sleeper Curve is in part attributable to the influence of the Web, or at least to the rise of interactive media in general. All other things being equal, a person who is used to making active choices while consuming media is going to be more receptive to complex media, even if the medium is a passive one, like television. Also, the Web supports complexity because there are so many para-sites (as I called them in IC) annotating and explaining every little detail of The Sopranos or The Simpsons. I think Lost is a show that could only have been made in the Internet age, and from the way the creators have embraced the fan sites, it's pretty clear that they feel the same way.
JJG: What interface approaches are you excited about these days? If you were writing Interface Culture today, what applications would you point to as examples of where the field of interface design could go?
SJ: Like most of the people reading this, I suspect, I've been incredibly energized by all the grassroots Web 2.0 applications that have exploded over the past few years, most of them descendants of Firefly [6] in one way or another. (Someone -- and come to think of it, it's probably me -- should go back and track all the core ingredients of today's Web that were visible at Firefly circa 1996.) So my list is the usual suspects: Blogger, Six Apart, Flickr, Delicious, Technorati, 37signals, Flock, all the GMAP mashups, and so on."
