Comments on: Four Pillars: Thinking about Generation M info consumption models http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/05/21/four-pillars-thinking-about-generation-m-info-consumption-models/ a blog about information Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: zz http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/05/21/four-pillars-thinking-about-generation-m-info-consumption-models/comment-page-1/#comment-509 zz Thu, 08 Jun 2006 19:18:08 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/?p=12#comment-509 Right. I missed the "All later." We're in alignment; there's much more that we can do and the ipod's not a bad starting point. As for the enterprise, the truly revolutionary will find a way to explore co-creation, mashups, et al in a business intelligence construct. Right. I missed the “All later.” We’re in alignment; there’s much more that we can do and the ipod’s not a bad starting point. As for the enterprise, the truly revolutionary will find a way to explore co-creation, mashups, et al in a business intelligence construct.

]]> By: JP http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/05/21/four-pillars-thinking-about-generation-m-info-consumption-models/comment-page-1/#comment-489 JP Wed, 07 Jun 2006 22:02:49 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/?p=12#comment-489 I didn't suggest it as a gold standard, more as a snowball. At the end of the post I make the point there is a lot more to come: that collaborative filtering a la Firefly and then Amazon, voting systems like with StumbleUpon, heuristics as suggested by Autonomy et al, Boolean operations and search-results-level manipulation a la Copernic, taste-sharing as in last.fm or pandora, tag-based grouping as in flickr and technorati, there's a whole plethora of stuff to bring in. And then we have co-creation and mashups. iTunes is definitely not the gold standard. But if we've lived with 80% market dominators defining the desktop and single-user productivity tools for two decades, we could do worse than look at the 80% market dominator for entertainment today. So you're on the right track. I didn’t suggest it as a gold standard, more as a snowball. At the end of the post I make the point there is a lot more to come: that collaborative filtering a la Firefly and then Amazon, voting systems like with StumbleUpon, heuristics as suggested by Autonomy et al, Boolean operations and search-results-level manipulation a la Copernic, taste-sharing as in last.fm or pandora, tag-based grouping as in flickr and technorati, there’s a whole plethora of stuff to bring in. And then we have co-creation and mashups.

iTunes is definitely not the gold standard. But if we’ve lived with 80% market dominators defining the desktop and single-user productivity tools for two decades, we could do worse than look at the 80% market dominator for entertainment today.

So you’re on the right track.

]]> By: Zia Zaman http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/05/21/four-pillars-thinking-about-generation-m-info-consumption-models/comment-page-1/#comment-487 Zia Zaman Wed, 07 Jun 2006 21:52:00 +0000 http://confusedofcalcutta.com/?p=12#comment-487 Is iTunes truly the gold standard as an access paradigm? What I really want to train graduates and new hires in is not the playlist but the idea of unbounded association. iTunes hasn’t got it down…yet. We’re still limited by the traditional metadata about the song. It doesn’t get at semantic information. When you build an unbounded association tool, it allows the user to pursue intuition. If you can uncover associations between things that aren’t necessarily obvious, and then pursue that metadata to guide you, that’s when you really get ideas to collide. Frequently-played or Amazon’s “people who liked this also liked…” starts to hint at the power of this concept. Apply this to Enterprise 2.0 and you can start to see how free association could possibly engender collaboration and value-creation on a completely different scale. Is iTunes truly the gold standard as an access paradigm? What I really want to train graduates and new hires in is not the playlist but the idea of unbounded association. iTunes hasn’t got it down…yet. We’re still limited by the traditional metadata about the song. It doesn’t get at semantic information. When you build an unbounded association tool, it allows the user to pursue intuition. If you can uncover associations between things that aren’t necessarily obvious, and then pursue that metadata to guide you, that’s when you really get ideas to collide. Frequently-played or Amazon’s “people who liked this also liked…” starts to hint at the power of this concept. Apply this to Enterprise 2.0 and you can start to see how free association could possibly engender collaboration and value-creation on a completely different scale.

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