I finally got around to writing up the talk I’ve been giving for the past year or so, about the way that the commoditization of software is driving value up the stack to web apps, and how these apps leverage network effects (the architecture of participation) as their key tool in gaining competitive advantage.
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Phil Windler has a report from an interesting panel at Supernova….
These are some comments and thoughts from a panel called “The Network is People.” Esther Dyson, Ray Ozzie, Mena Trott, and Christopher Allen were the panelists.
Spreadsheets were amazing because they sit in the middle, between calculators and the corporate accounting system. They let people [...]

A bunch of things will be announced and shown at JavaOne next week - and this sounds like one of them. I predict that one by one, each of the major enterprise development platforms will go open source as everyone is figuring out where the money is.
So now, in addition to Struts, BEA’s Pollinate will [...]

1. I misquoted danah boyd in my post pointing to her pointing to Friendster’s marketing campaign. She DID NOT receive those emails. She just got them “from users who work for Yahoo” that she knows. But they did really exist.
2. The most important correction is totally my fault In [...]

Joel De Gan has an in-depth analysis and review of a Roomba.
Check it out.
Joel’s the programmer I met (after we were Slashdotted) who’s been creating all sorts of great stuff - which you all will hear about -very soon now.
 

[Intercosmos]
I ordered a Roomba on Ebay and got one in good working order for the tidy [...]

A little recap context first…..
Though Ryze can certainly be credited with being the first modern day social network (after the first generation SixDegrees system) - Friendster is the Kleenex (or Tampax) of social networks, the standard of which everyone is compared to.
Friendster attracted the most attention, both for it’s bizarre treatment of it’s early users [...]

The peer-to-peer connections enabled by backchannel communications is the way for conference attendees to get to know each other.
The virtualization of conferences means that we can engage 24/7/365.
Perhaps better speakers, better interaction and less lying would create better experiences.

Doc is rapping out how he sees the future of enterprise IT.
Imagine if the software business was like the construction business and all of the pieces of software were interchangeable and worked together.
Now imagine that there’s no Microsoft in this world - but LOTS of huge companies and LOTS of ways to add value added. [...]

W3C standards and Web applications
A few weeks ago, I attended the W3C Workshop on Web Applications and Compound documents in San Jose. Sarah Allen presented on behalf of Laszlo, with a position paper on Web UI titled The Future of the Web is not the Past of Windows.
This was my first exposure to a standards [...]

Lois Le Meur (zat crazeee Frenchman) has just gone up to the stage to photograph James Seng (zat creazee guy from Singapore) stealth discoing…
The backchannel is happening now that bandwidth is working. Come on in at IRC Freenode #supernova.
Move coverage of this disruptive event.