No half measures on my end. over the last few months I’ve gone from the occasional surf on the web, to now having all this integrating components coming out of my *whazoo*
i am fully web 2.0′d
Facebook? – got one
Twitter? – yeah so i’m penning down mental *crap?* stuff
Blog? – …ahem…
SL? – Sagart’s been born
ok, what else do i need?
de.licio.us?
flicker?
myspace? – naaghhh, out of date now
don’t get me wrong, i love this stuff, but are we on the verge of ridiculousness, or on the verge of a new communication paradigm?
does this smell like 1996? or is it natural e-volution?
btw – i’d love to hear ur thoughts on this!
ridiculous? never?
we are experimenting, pushing the boundaries, working out the best way to use this stuff, information is flying around and just when we were trying to manage it, we are now publishing it and splitting the atom.
ok so it is all a bit of a mish-mash right now, but it will somehow aggregate…in the meantime dont try to figure it out too much, enjoy it, hack it, use it and e-volutionise yourself
It’s 1996 all over again .. but this time with real $$$ .. which means it’s here to stay.
Also, the $$$ are now distributed after a VC review committee scrutinises the b’plan, financial model, and 5-year cashflow projections .. so the operators are generally savvy (just check out the serious $$$ LindenLabs are fleecing from the unsuspecting!).
What isn’t here to stay are the faddish interactions (you note the slow death of myspace) .. the technology will evolve .. and fickle users will continue to migrate from one summer to the next. The challenge for the likes of SL, facebook, and youtube is to provide the web surfers’ endless summer (wow – that would be a brilliant blog/concept title).
Can it be done?
maybe not an endless summer – but there will have to be a way to manage information from one app to the next. Avatar and inventory management between virtual worlds, personal information and “friendship” networks between social applications – I say, why not embed a chip in our hands, or our head, we just scan it every time we want to upload the data…
check out these stats on facebook
dear sagart,
there was so much promise in the first post and then nothing! how about posting something today? me and anonymous are waiting! why don’t you start by expanding on your twitter and tell us why “managing ppl sux”? or you could tell us how keeping up a twitter and a second life makes it hard to post in your real life!
pr0b0b0 – thx for ur comments; endless summer? in theory possible, but the way in which interaction has evolved will continue to do so. now the applications of touch screen technology can and will carve yet another way for the seemingly perfect wave…un til that comes crushing down.–wonderwebby, not sure about the chip thing, although it would make a lot easier
–customer royalty -> sorry for the disappointment with my blogging consistency, or lack thereof.as far as *managing ppl sux* is concerned, its the thing i love the most. my social experimenting with twitter is leading me to believe more and more that it’s basically one vast canyon, where i can scream into it, and expect nothing back, except for me to say “now that felt good!”as far as keeping up with blogging ,twitter and sl, its a moot point. i guess the advantage of these tools are to be used when i want, my discretion, my control.i blog when i want, i twitter when i need to scream at a virtual nothing, and i choose a second life to understand potential future progressions of interaction via web, and the possibilities that (not may exist) but will exist.what really intrigues me is what you and anonymous think? i’d love to hear ur thoughts on the whole web2.0 progressing to web3.0 e-volution;
Hey saggy,
What i was referring to with the ‘endless summer’ is that just as real surfers migrate from one country to another around the globe to escape the winter and embrace the summer, so too will online surfers. They’ll continue to migrate from product to product, community to community .. so the key is to invest yourself in the technology and its advancements, rather than the community de jour .. because that is a moving feast (pun intended:).
for him the endless seasons roll, who bears eternal summer in his soul!
i think people will stick to one place… sourceforge is a classic example of that… open to the community and not commercial though. people want to be part of the way forawrd, not just part of the content while the direction of the underlay is controlled by a corporate.
yes, people will move off google, off youtube, off yahoo and on to the next yummy stuff… and good on them, for a corporate can never truly be independent and innovative, people are innovative, and when they leave, they take innovative ideas with them, leaving but an empty shell of a corporate.
“communication paradigm” sounds like a 2.0 version of the seminal LedZep tune “communication breakdown”.
and the paradigm goes beyond the web. Maybe what we’re in is a return to grass roots (ha!) culture that decides what is news and what is hot, and not…
No, really, seeing Sir Tim’s brief comments in hour 4 of the “True History of the Internet” on Science this week encourages me to agree that the Web 2.0 is about 360 communication, and is bringing the net back to the original beautiful design. See http://catahoula.wordpress.com/web20/
“we Control the Horizontal, We control the vertical. Resistance is Futile.” whatever. It has certainly got this old dog back in the game. Barry/Farnham