Collaboration, Groupware, Communities, Peer-to-Peer, Grids, Clusters, Knowledge Management
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Tuesday, July 16, 2002 Knowledge El Dorado has MOVED. Please update your bookmarks to point to the new address: See you in my new blogspace.
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Wednesday, June 26, 2002 Home PC is down from a week. Veer. Thursday, June 20, 2002 Technology for teamwork
David Weinberger comments on the article
Tuesday, June 18, 2002 Peerarchy
This Boston Globe article nicely explains the paradigm shift in information flow. But digging deeper I find a change in how Information is Viewed.
David Weinberger comments on the article in his blog post
Information was manageable in the past because it was limited in supply. Today not only supply of individual pieces of information has increased exponentially, but also Information has become a commodity by itself. This commoditization as well as abundance has changed the economics of information. What organizations need is value addition to this commodity and filtering and sorting of the abundant.
One of the ways to add value is by creating a greater whole from the individual pieces of information.
Communications between people increases in, what I call, a Peerarchy i.e. flat or absent hierarchy. It can be helpful in aggregating, filtering, sorting and analyzing information collectively or individually. Monday, June 17, 2002 I like to define in carefully chosen words a term which could be seed to other ideas and concepts. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) is such a term. What is Peer-to-Peer? by Clay Shirky
Is P2P Anything? by David Weinberger
Peer-to-Peer: Toward a Definition by Ross Lee Graham
The P2P Report by Emelie Rutherford
What is P2P? by Dave Winer
Power to the people by Karlin Lillington
Sunday, June 16, 2002 Web services specification to target collaboration - InfoWorld
A coalition of Sun, SAP, BEA and Intalio has come up with WSCI (Web Service Choreography Interface).
For example, in an e-commerce transaction, WSCI would enable a buyer or merchant conducting a transaction to query the Web for a set of carriers to deliver the merchandise, she said. WSCI enables collaboration between more than two parties, said Friedman.
Friday, June 14, 2002 Interview with Albert-László Barabási, author of the book Linked.
He talks about Network theory, which says that complex systems like networks, follow simple rules. This is inverse of the Chaos theory which says that simple parts can depict complicated behaviour. The central idea of the book is of Hubs, which is used to understand and make sense of complexity. In fact, reading about the book reminded me of my discussions with Rajesh before, where he used the concept of Hublogs to make sense of the complexity in the Blog world.
Also worth mentioning is his view on Parasitic Computing having the potential to become a mainstream distributed computation tool. New P2P Info Delivery Options Emerge - Peer to Peer Central
Outlines two top peer-to-peer content delivery vendors viz. Uprizer and Bandwiz and tells how focus of these vendors has shifted from the entertainment market to the enterprise. Thursday, June 13, 2002 Government agencies still stumped by info sharing - InfoWorld
Paraphrases "Goals should be defined before searching for Means".
Handheld plans: Danger ahead? - CNet
Interview with CEO and CTO of Danger about their product Hiptop, a converged device - phone with data capabilities.
Its a thought-provoking analogy. But another analogy from chief of Mobile Computing at IBM had a better A-ha! factor.
He said the disappearance of a Telephone's cord (Mobile Phones) made a big difference to the whole world and similarly the disappearance of a Personal Computer's cord (Mobile/Notebook computers) is an equally disruptive development.
One word of caution from Carl Shapiro and Hal R. Varian from their book Information Rules on analogies. They say analogies are an effective way to communicate strategies but can be a dangerous way to analyse strategies. Wednesday, June 12, 2002 The Information Economy - How much will two bits be worth in the digital marketplace?
This is a 1995 article from Scientific American. I know its dated. But what I like about opinion and analysis from early days of something is that they provide an evolutionary picture. Its like Astronomers looking for information from stars billions of light years away as they could provide clues about the state of our universe billions of years ago.
Also, I believe that things are relatively simple during childhood. And all great things are simple. Read the above citation. Cut to the present. Now look at Bloggers. The description of these "information managers" fits very well to that of Bloggers. Monday, June 10, 2002 Was reading Amazon.com reviews of David Weinberger's
Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web when I stumbled upon the book Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge.
It was the first one under Customers who bought this book also bought: section.
Would be interesting to see how these two books are related. First I'll be starting with Small Pieces Loosely Joined.
Sunday, June 02, 2002 Linked: The New Science of Networks - by Albert-László Barabási
From Linked:
Saturday, June 01, 2002 Four Smart Ways To Run Online Communities identifies three activities central to the success of every online community: member development, asset management and community. PermaLinkAndy Chen points to this Fast Company article.
I liked the mantra he mentions, "Many eyes make all bugs shallow" referring to the open source movement. Friday, May 31, 2002 Building harmony through the Internet - by Dan Gillmor
Dan writes about Rocket Network, which makes music-collaboration system creating a virtual recording-studio.
What intrigues me about collaboration tools is that they:
Thursday, May 23, 2002 This InformationWeek article looks at business-intelligence extranets focussed on the business-to-business market.
B2B Extranets are a good idea as it gives the customer better access to information related to it in realtime and When it needs. But without support for open standards in storing and delivering information the same cannot be said about customers getting information How they need it. Wednesday, May 22, 2002 Morgan Stanley's Internet analyst Mary Meeker is quoted in the article Looking For a Dot-Com Winner? Search No Further, saying "Google is the eBay of information". A strange comparison between eBay and Google. Her argument is that people go to eBay for hard to find things and they go to Google for hard to find information.
I don't see much similarity between the two other than both being highly successful and using a Kevin Werbach term - DotCom survivors.
For eBay the content is user-generated or to be more accurate community generated. But for Google there is no community of its users. eBay's skill is how best it handles communities while that of Google is finding information. Friday, May 17, 2002 Customer Communities: Its a Win-Win-Win proposition.
The purpose of a business is to create value for its shareholders by providing value to its customers.
Lets look at three main entities whose interests a business has to mind:
Customer Communities (CC) are a source of value for all the three. Thursday, May 16, 2002 Customer.Community: Unleashing the Power of Your Customer Base
On how businesses could use Online Communities as a source of value for both, the customer and themselves.
From the Inside Flap of the Book:
Online "Customer Community" gives customers a reason to stay loyal.
Most importantly it helps in
Wednesday, May 15, 2002 According to a survey by NerveWire, companies had the least success in overcoming distrust in sharing information with business partners.
Writes Louise Kehoe, in Trust a barrier to new e-business applications
IBM, startup launch massive 'grid' for online gaming
Network Gaming is also a form of collaboration.
Tuesday, March 05, 2002 Paul Saffo from What Business Would You Start on Inc
But more important, here's why wireless matters: the Internet was a revolution, but it was a revolution that came only to our desktops. And even before the Internet arrived, business was something that was happening less and less at our desks and more and more everywhere else. Well, what wireless does is it delivers connectivity to where we actually live and work and play. Tuesday, February 26, 2002 Excerpt from Linux Journal The behavior of an object in Zope thus depends not only on its definition, but also on its location in object hierarchy. For this reason, acquisition is sometimes explained as analogous to the "nurture vs. nature" debate in biology: an object's definition can be seen as "nature", while its location in the object hierarchy can be seen as "nurture".
Friday, February 15, 2002 Torvalds unplugged
They say that for adoption of Linux in the Enterprise, they need to have some standardization.
There are actually a lot of these things going on. The LSB [Linux Standards Base] is the most well known. At the same time I kind of disagree because I think that one of the strengths of Linux is that there has been more than one Linux. If you look at Linux 6-7 years ago, the main distribution was Slackware and Ygdrasil. You may have heard of Slackware but you may not have heard of Ygdrasil. The upside of many distributions is that there's competition and the best one wins. Downside is the fragmentation. You have to balance the upside and downside of competition and so far it's been fairly successful. There haven't been that many problems. Part of it is the license. It's very hard to fragment something that is GPL. It doesn't really fragment. Sure it fragments all the time but in the end the strongest one wins. And the strongest might not be one, but it may be multiple distributions for multiple markets. Anyone who
thinks that it should solidify is kind of short-sighted. Sure solidifying is good in the short term but in the end it only hurts. I think that's the problem with Microsoft. They haven't very much competition and they haven't had any reason to be aggressive in any sense other than economic.
Tuesday, February 12, 2002 Talking about Slashdot, Steven Johnson from his book Emergence:
"He had created a kind of currency, a pricing system for online civics. By ensuring that the points would translate into special privileges, he gave them value. By making one's moderation powers expendable, he created the crucial property of scarcity. With only one or the other, the currency is valueless; combine the two, and you have a standard for pricing community participation that actually works.
Tuesday, February 05, 2002 Free software and its social implications
"GPL Society" is based on the principles of production of Free Software.
Wednesday, January 09, 2002 "The cost in conventional media of informing people at a cerebral level about a product or service is simply too high. It is more cost- effective to grab them by the subliminal subconscious gut reaction. There is neither time nor space to genuinely inform." The Internet is the first communications medium that is unlimited by space or time: the message is available seven days a week, 24 hours a day; and there is endless ability to supply information. Which means we now have the opportunity to appeal to the buyers' intelligence, in addition to appealing to their emotions. PermaLinkMonday, November 05, 2001 Servicification = Commoditization.
When software becomes a service it becomes commodity.
Saturday, September 01, 2001 ODP - Open Directory Project
The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive
human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained
by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. Thursday, August 30, 2001 This is very important - Knowing what you know best.
There has to be a single expertise which builds your credibility.
Brand names are built by Ad agencies but Credibility is business's franchise.
Credibility has roots in actual work, work that makes a difference in people's
life and which adds value. Tuesday, July 24, 2001 And God created Google
By early 2000 Google had already become widely popular.
It's high relevance and reach (in terms of web-pages indexed) generated the
best form of publicity i.e. Word-of-Mouth. And the internet junta tired of finding
640,845 irrelevant search results lapped up Google.
Google concentrated on just doing one thing best - Searching.
Knew that it was a search engine and it's business was of indexing and searching.
Looks like a very simple strategic direction.
But yet so powerful cause it helped them to focus. Friday, July 13, 2001 There was a time when searching had become a painful task.
Out of the available options - Yahoo / Altavista / Lycos / Excite,
Yahoo's human-compiled directory and it's search results (powered by the
Inktomi database) were the best.
The other three majors were aspiring to gain Portal status and level with Yahoo.
In this endeavour they, especially Altavista, neglected their core competence -
the Search Engine.
A good SE could have helped them in realising their Portal aspirations by being
the USP, traffic generator, loyalty factor and the competitive advantage in a highly
undifferentiated space.
Tuesday, July 10, 2001 New World Order
Sometimes I just wonder whether the "servicification" of software implies that software becomes a utility like electricity.
Saturday, July 07, 2001 El Do·ra·do2 (d-räd, -r-)
n.
A place of fabulous wealth or inordinately great opportunity.
Twenty first century puts us on the threshold of the Knowledge Age.
Information is imperative for knowledge age.
I would be keeping track of the developments in the Collaboration space through this blog.
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