Grammatica dei network.
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La battaglia esemplare di Vittorio contro Facebook ha avuto un grande risalto in rete tra ieri e oggi. Molti hanno sottolineato, giustamente, l'esigenza di tutela.
A livello di scenario, sebbene in alcuni casi il modello di gestione autonoma della tecnologia possa ancora funzionare (ad esempio con i blog), andremo fisiologicamente verso un utilizzo sempre più massiccio di piattaforme proprietarie. Dico fisiologicamente perchè (anche nel classico modello dell'innovazione di Schumpeter) l'aumento di scala che sta vivendo oggi internet non si può più gestire "in piccolo". Per sostenere i numeri con affidabilità, sicurezza e sviluppo servono i capitali. I grandi ambienti della Rete, quelli dove staranno le persone, saranno sempre proprietari. A novembre scrivevo sull'Espresso (non online, purtroppo):
Il punto è semplice: man mano che milioni di persone investono parti crescenti del loro tempo vitale «dentro» gli ambienti di rete, producono valore. Il valore può essere fatto di contenuti, di puro capitale sociale o può essere valore in senso più stretto (in ambienti come Second Life, ad esempio, si investe denaro vero). Ma in generale vale il principio per cui ad un investimento si collega la necessità di tutelarlo e quindi diventa sempre più interessante l'osservazione di come si vadano costruendo appartenenze «politiche» online.
Non è difficile immaginare che (aumentando il numero di persone connesse e la quantità di tempo vitale "investito" in rete) così come siamo interessati alle scelte del nostro governo cittadino o nazionale, inizieremo a manifestare sempre maggior interesse anche per le scelte di chi governa le piattaforme tecnologiche che utilizziamo in maniera importante. Con o senza consapevolezza lo facciamo già: pensiamo alle reazioni quando Friendfeed o Facebook hanno cambiato l'interfaccia (con "risposte" che sembrano costruite sulla percezione della piattaforma come "bene comune" e non come proprietaria). Ma ci sono tantissimi altri esempi possibili.
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Input dalla Rete
“A couple of papers by Jennifer Trant on tagging and folksonomy are available.”
- Tagging, Folksonomy
- Tagging, Folksonomy
“The web moves fast enough that we may as well start looking at what comes next.”
- The Future of Social Media Monitoring - ReadWriteWeb
- The Future of Social Media Monitoring - ReadWriteWeb
“The variety of channels bloggers use to engage with each other creates the need to choose which of them to use.”
- Blog networking study: choosing channels
- Blog networking study: choosing channels
“In the Web 2.0 era, real-time data has mostly been used to power fancy visualizations. It hasn’t been used extensively yet to change peoples behavior or their environment.”
- When Sensors and Social Networks Mix
- When Sensors and Social Networks Mix
“it would be very interesting to see the distribution of people and network size in Twitter for both confirmed ties and unconfirmed ties by reciprocal (@replies), one-way and maintained (RT). The networks and modalities within them are different — but the difference of public-by-default should be significant.”
- Active Networks on Facebook
- Active Networks on Facebook
“A MATHEMATICAL technique for studying disorder in quantum systems could improve internet keyword searches. It is able to spot significant patterns in large data sets such as web pages and text documents, and may even be adaptable to genome analysis.”
- Could quantum mathematics shake up Google?
- Could quantum mathematics shake up Google?
“In Search 3.0, relevance is determined not just by what’s on a page and what surrounds that page but how that data relate to your personal network. As more and more people connect to each other through social networks, the resulting social graph is proving extremely powerful in helping users filter the data coming at them.”
- What Social Media Means for Search
- What Social Media Means for Search
“In general, there are two ways to model human relationships in software. An “asymmetric” model is how Twitter currently works. You can “follow” someone else without them following you back. It’s a one-way relationship that may or may not be mutual. Relationship Symmetry in the Facebook model Facebook, on the other hand, has always used a “symmetric” model, where each time you add someone as a friend they have to add you as a friend as well. This is a two-way relationship, and it is required to have any relationship at all. So as a Facebook user there is always a 1-1 relationship among your friends. Everyone who you have claimed as a friend has also claimed you as a friend.”
- Relationship Symmetry in Social Networks
- Relationship Symmetry in Social Networks
“Depending on your personal and professional interests, you can choose from the variety of social media the ones that fit for you. If the productivity best practice is to target your social media very precisely to attain your goals, then the productivity worst practice would be to indiscriminately hook into multiple sources of poorly defined static. To use social media effectively, just be sure that you aren’t putting more effort in than the result you’re getting.”
- Time Management in the Age of Social Media
- Time Management in the Age of Social Media
“Ping.fm is a simple service that makes updating your social networks a snap.”
- Ping.fm / Update all of your social networks at once!
- Ping.fm / Update all of your social networks at once!
“The reality is that many Twitters engage in the “I will follow you, if you follow me” game in an attempt to amass more followers. The result is that no one really listens (follows) anyone. Twitter Litter.”
- Twitter Litter most followers dont really follow you
- Twitter Litter most followers dont really follow you
“With Facebook’s new redesign now fully in place and focusing on real-time updates in your feed, the concept of social activity streams is moving into the mainstream”
- Is the social stream the new email?
- Is the social stream the new email?
“There are plenty of ways to create groups for Twitter, but Tweetizen fills a slightly different need than most of the other tools we’ve seen so far, in that it lets you create a group and embed it on your own website.”
- Create Instant Twitter Community on Your Website
- Create Instant Twitter Community on Your Website
“Online games, be they MMOGs like World of Warcraft or co-op/multiplayers like Team Fortress 2, are driving internet growth and the attitudes of internet service providors (ISPs) are changing toward online gamers”
- Online gaming is driving internet growth
- Online gaming is driving internet growth
“Social search has been predicted (and funded) for years. It’s finally happening. The conversation is evolving, from short bursts of declared intent inside a query bar, to ongoing, ambient declaration of social actions.”
- The Conversation Is Shifting
- The Conversation Is Shifting
“E noi che pensavamo che Facebook fosse solo un giochino online per inviare poke e test astrusi ai nostri amici di vecchia data. Invece, no.”
- Facebook e il database delle emozioni
- Facebook e il database delle emozioni
“the more information you contribute to your community, the more you will be able to develop those relationships”
- A list of counterintuitive behaviour that will improve your use of the web
- A list of counterintuitive behaviour that will improve your use of the web
“the model was pretty simple. 1. Have a great idea. 2. Raise money to bring it to market, ideally free to reach the largest possible market. 3. If it proves popular, raise more money to scale it up. 4. Repeat until you’re bought by a bigger company. Now steps 2 through 4 are no longer available.”
- The Economics of Giving It Away
- The Economics of Giving It Away