Sunday, November 27, 2005

It seems like "bubble" is getting thrown around way too frequently these days, when a more appropriate word is "revolution." That's what we called it in the early 1980s and late 1990s. There were economic bubbles surrounding both periods, but there is no doubt the personal computer and the Internet caused massive change globally.

I asked Google about this and was told that there are 1.7 million documents for the query web 2.0 bubble and 6.7 million for web 2.0 revolution, so perhaps there is a belief in another revolution?

I then asked Blogpulse and was shown a burst of attention surrounding both bubble and revolution starting at the end of September, the week before the Web 2.0 conference.Unfortunately, it looks like the fear of a bubble has drowned out the hope and perhaps greed for a revolution.

Tags: blogpulse bubble revolution web2

Sometimes it gets a little scary

Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2005 at 10:06 AM

I may have felt amused and a little titlated by the possibilities of the Amazon A9 street cams, but then I realized that Amazon also has Turkers working for them. Now I feel a little creeped out. So there is an autonomous economic model in place that says if enough people ask Big Search to see something, eventually people will be paid microcents somewhere in the world to take a picture of it and feed it back to Big Search. ... So what happens if Big Search starts asking people to "do things" to retrieve this information? Talk about a global Heisenberg principle. We will be changing the world just by looking at it.

Tags: amazon bigsearch map turk workcamera

Big Search needs to be fed

Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2005 at 9:31 AM

Orwell was about 20 years too late and too focused on politics instead of economics. The drive of Big Search is to "always be growing content," so we can expect more complete coverage and more closer-to-realtime coverage in the future. Amazon's maps now have street by street photographic coverage of many cities. Will I use it? Hell, yeah, it is damn useful. I can point you to Border Cafe in Harvard Square, which just happens to be one of the best college student dives in the country. Unfortunately, the image defaults to the side of the street with Starbucks. You'll have to click the film strip for the opposite side of Church Street. (via Robert Scoble)

Sunday, November 27, 2005

A closer look at SSE

Is Web 2.0 a bubble or a revolution?

Sometimes it gets a little scary

Big Search needs to be fed