Deviant Abstraction

By dynamic, I mean adapted to each user. The phone WAP site are good at that for various reasons. It is trivial for the Web but we lack some good ideas to execute. This article shows some of them.

The marketing message is good, but I think their approach is only partially correct.

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This interview is quite old but a really interesting read. Reid has understood everything about social networks and entrepreneurship. Since it is his job, it is great for him and for us since he explains most of it in this text.

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This post is an excellent introduction to the Semantic Web Vision and current issues associated.

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A must read. This blog is becoming better and better.

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We all know this chart is already obsolete and somewhat irrelevant. However, reflecting upon it is always useful.

What it really shows is the mainstream view of these technology. You can see VoIP or Web 2.0 but not P2P which is an emerging system trends (in the sense that a lot of its potential is still untapped). Some points are senseless (Grid computing: what does it mean? MPI is already there and battle-tested) and mix commercial application (VoIP), applied research (sensor networks) and fundamental research (quantum computing). In a way, this is good: it lays down some frontiers the academic community has artificially created.

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This is a great interview of Reid Hoffman. A great lesson in entrepreneurship and “enterprise wisdom”.

I do wonder one point. He states: “Smart people tend to think that they can execute on a complex plan. Executing on a complex plan is generally a recipe for failure.” What is a complex plan? How would you define one compared to a simple one?

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MySpace is all the rush now. Everybody thinks social networks those days (therefore graph and OR) . And they are right. This post blogs about vertical social networks. They will be probably be really important. Who would like his LinkedIn and MySpace profile to intersect?

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Here’s another good point:

“Markets are social networks, with some specialized rules, and we will continue to see the enhancement of markets for everything including cars, jobs, and the like.” This is both true and untrue, bue quite well written :p

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