Posts Tagged: computing


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Feb 10

Steve Jobs saw his shadow.

To be fair, I think that the iPad will be a success for Apple, but will not reverse Apples sliding mobile market share.  Job’s made some statements in a private forum that have since leaked out which address some of the criticisms.

Jobs on Google:

When it comes to Google , Jobs is mad at them for trying to “kill the iPhone.” “We did not enter the search business,” he said. “They entered the phone business. Make no mistake: they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them.” [you mean like they are doing to say, Amazon? -rzklkng]


6
Feb 09

Daily Links for February 5th

  • The Semeiotics of Facebook : The Semeiotics of Facebook – Facebook represents a new development in the history of human social interaction. It enables connected individuals to increase familiarity at a pace that was previously impossible without physical proximity. And it is the most effectivenote:1 Note §2 As measured by its growth and commercial success. representative of a new breed of Internet application in which familiarity is the new currency. §3

    In this paper I propose a model for reasoning about behavior on Facebook. In general, I am interested in systematic reasoning about the behavior of organisms. Here, specifically, I am interested in reasoning about the nature of interaction with Facebook and the effects that the marks signifying that interaction have upon behavior.


6
Feb 08

Trust, Collaboration, and the Internet

I’ve been reflecting how trust works on the internet, and specifically the blogosphere.When people discuss ‘trusted computing’ online, it’s usually in terms of ‘being ‘an authenticated user, meaning that they are who they say they are.  Since much of the activity online is either anonymously (although no one is ever truly anonymous) or pseudonomous, then  reputation is based on what you do (or don’t do) and what you contribute to your given group.

To quickly sum up what this means, here are some of the reputation metrics that I scribbled down:


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Apr 07

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