“CheapEasyGlobal is the big story. And it’s here now. It has arrived. And it’s permanent. And there’s not a damn thing anyone can do about it, save for a nuclear holocaust.”
“# Think about ubiquitous computing not just as the move from the computer to the cellphone and other mobile devices but the fact that those devices are becoming sensors for cloud applications harnessing collective intelligence # Remember that “data is the Intel Inside” of Web 2.0, and that databases driven by network effects and applications deriving meaning from that data via statistical methods will continue to be the key to competitive advantage in the ongoing network era.”
“Is there group polarization online or not? It depends … on cost of providing your opinion. On Jyte.com it is just a yes or no: costless! –> extremes! group polarization! Amazon reviews are costly (take time to write them!) –> no group polarization.”
“Attention: the economics of attention. Information is now plenty available. Information has now no value. Some time ago “give me information about a hotel in New York”, and you paid for this info. Now go on the web and find lots of info about hotels in New York. You cannot ask to be paid for this information now, but few years ago yes! Instead attention has a lot of value now! Attention is what is scarse (at least online). “Economics is actually the science of distribution of scarse resources.”
“I was blinded by the common belief that somehow a relationship forged on the Internet isn’t real. When I saw that fated text message — “I love you” — I realized the truth. The Internet is not a separate place a person can go to from the real world. The Internet is the real world. Only faster.”
“Mi sto affezionando a facebook.com. Qui se non ce l’hai ti perdi la possibilità di rimanere in contatto con molte persone. Per la comunicazione istantanea è simile a msn ma ci sono più notizie di te come su myspace. Sto cominciando ad avere diversi “amici di facebook”. Di solito si diventa amici per scambiarsi le foto: invece di inviarle per mail (spesso non ci si riesce perchè sono grandi e il formato pesa) o rincorrersi con la pendrive si pubblicano sul sito sotto il proprio profilo e si “taggano” gli amici che sono nella foto con te. Io ho il mio profilo e mi hanno segnalato in foto spaventose.. quasi quasi chiedo i diritti..”
“That hidden norms can organize online behavior should not surprise us. As David points out, “governance” derives from the Greek kubernetes, or steering. The prefix “cyber” shares the same root. Norbert Wiener and his colleagues in the mid-20th century coined the term “cybernetics” to describe the implicit control mechanisms — the tacit governance — that produce order without external direction. In other words, the rule of norms is inherent in the very definition of cyberspace.”
“In a research paper from June 2007, titled “Worldwide Buzz: Planetary-Scale Views on an Instant-Messaging Network (PDF),” Eric Horvitz of Microsoft Research and Jure Leskovec of Carnegie Mellon University analyzed 30 billion conversations among 240 million people using Microsoft Instant Messenger in June 2006. It turned out that the average path length, or degree of separation, among the anonymized users probed was 6.6.”
“When I look at Obama, (people say) his platform is not well fleshed out,” Jenkins said. “I look at it as a stub on Wikipedia. We’re going to flesh it out together…Win, lose, or draw, what Obama’s done is bring together a whole generation of young people.”
