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Re: A Conversation About Context

Fraser — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:50:30 -0000

Bits are to be used, not owned. Increasingly the flow of bits is where the value will be found.

Re: A Conversation About Context

Jon Knight — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:09:25 -0000

which is strange, when you consider exactly what that does to (not for) their future business. The bits are like air: if you lock them up in your own little room they become stale and in the end, worthless.
Conversely, and also like air, if you allow them to circulate freely they are always refreshing and self-replacing.
Bits are to be used, not owned. N'est-ce pas?

Re: A Conversation About Context

Alex Iskold — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:24:42 -0000

Good thoughts, as always, Fraser :)

I have two distinct points about this

1) Its not really about what is the right way. Increasingly it is more about what makes people happy. People are going to consume information in heterogenous, odd ways that make them happy.

2) The idea of pulling different conversations into 1 place is a solid one. In programming there is a concept of Model-View pattern, where a model is an underlying data set and the view is one way for looking at the data. We have evolved to the point where distributed conversation on the web is the model, and each of us is looking for an individual view - a lens, or perspective through which to view it.

We need aggregators that aggregate and let us seamlessly emit thoughts back that end up at the right places across the web. The problem? Its hard to do technically and there is little incentive because fundamentally every business wants to be the owner of the bits.