SuperNovaOutline

Supernova

Feel free to add and comment. This is the outline for the thought on what I want to talk about.

• Megatrends

• PC's -> Consumer Electronics

• Cheaper Faster Bandwidth

• demand for symmetric bandwidth goes up over time as people start writing and phoning KevinMarks

• US Software, Japanese Brands, Chinese Manufacturing

• Attributes that interest me of the different types of networking software

• IRC - community, simple state, bots, timing in interaction

• IM - good for one-on-one, granularity of presence information

• Moblogging - portability, location information, PC literacy not necessary, images easy

• (words hard - KevinMarks)

• Real time, location independent. Contractor sites, real estate sales, on-site service applications?--KatherineDerbyshire

• Blogging - Reputation management, searchability

• Public/customer relations -- KD

• Wiki - Collaboration, "write first, structure later"

• FAQ development--KD

• Six-Degrees type networking systems

• Things that excite me

• Moving beyond text to images, audio and video for blog microcontent

• (breaks the asynchrony contract - reading is faster than writing; less true with other media KevinMarks)

• (audio to text would make audio searchable. this way you had both advantages. Kevin, also think about people who don't read and still use cellphones Roger)

• (I also would like to see more interesting interactions between image and audio, image and text etc. Roger)

• (Allowing options for different levels of representation and interpretation of content - esp with regard to accessibility issues - Jon L.)

• Meta data about microcontent and search engines that use the meta data

• How 'bout getting specific? How 'bout some formal Reviews formats? We could start with what Alf Eaton has done - and extend it to..... Meg seemed interested......maybe if we get Anil et al - as well, the NEXT version of TypePad could have 'reviews' ? Marc Canter

• More location information to allows "annotation of the real world" by blogs and moblogs

• Integration of the variety of networking tools

• Personal web services on consumer electronics devices

• (and perhaps dedicated wireless devices? - Jon L.)

• Combinations of location and time. What changes. location as metadata. location searching... Roger

• Revenue streams

• Referrals to commerce sites

• Amazon and other shopping sites linked from metadata

• Creative Commons and photo printing connection

• Linking to music sites from music meta data?

• Incentives for helping people find things they like enough to buy - http://mediagora.com/promoters.html

• API Licenses - free for non-commercial use, pay for commercial or high volume

• Consulting and operations

• (esp Open Source 'services' model - Jon L.)

• How do these tools add value for businesses? -- KatherineDerbyshire

• Identity management and authentication

• Hosting and charging the user (international, secure and simple micropayment on mobile phones Roger)

• Issues to deal with

• Privacy

• (but also security AdriaanTijsseling)

• Standards and interop

• How do we keep it simple and still be inclusive of the expansion

• Language and global issues

• tension between synchrony and asynchrony KevinMarks

• Different phone and infrastructure standards Roger

• Barriers to information flow, including IP/content issues (DMCA) - Jon L.

Antoin sez: i think it is important to say how you imagine people actually using these things. Also, what pricepoints they will be prepared to pay. Importance of adhering to open standards. If everyone goes off brewing 'secret sauce' the whole thing will be very difficult to manage.

Alan Reiter (http://reiter.weblogger.com) suggests: Consider the disruptive effects of the things that "excite you." For many people -- especially for just about every conference organization that doesn't put on high-tech events (which is the vast majority) -- wireless technology, Weblogs, IRC, wikis -- are very scary stuff because they can "disrupt" meetings. There needs to be a lot of education before many organizations are comfortable with even basic wireless, such as WiFi, let alone even knowing what IRC or wikis are.

Clenchy's arse and the fight to make conference organisors rent comfy chairs...

Blogal Villager says: Glad to see that i18n and language makes it onto the list of mildly irksome afterthoughts. But I would say it already represents a hugely significant lost opportunity, given that, for example, Weblogues.com is offering markedly superior, integrated blogging services to Francophone bloggers, including synergies with hosts, and 20six, for example, continues to expand across Europe. Think of what an international advertising market, instead of Anglosphere-only, with language-specific (and even geographically localized and topic-specific) spots, might have meant to a hosting site with social-networking features and a blogging tool committed to rich metadata with zero effort on the user's part. This is the global village, folks: Kids in Latvia might really dig Bronx trip-hop styles. But who's pioneering the channels to connect them up?

Related to "Public/customer relations" and "six-degrees networking": when are you blogopresarios going to move the marketing of the experience off the tired old "push-button personal publishing" spiel? The answer: when you are able to offer people more than that: "Push-button power networking with the world." Web journals inhabited by intelligent agents of the kind that Ray Kurzweil talks about, sorting the chaos, turning the Jehovah's Witnesses away politely for you, haggling for you on e-bay and amazon, and bringing you together with the members of your Bokononian karass.

Blogging should be about connection with other people, and tools that help you accomplish this just by typing and linking. None of the tools we have are anywhere optimized for this (Technorati may be the best of a lackluster lot, but it can't, for example, find me English- and French-language blogs from Finland that regularly link to material on Jurgen Habermas, late-70s L.A. speedcore, and cyberpunk, for example; with some refinements, BlogMatcher might get there someday). Blogdex has not changed in an Internet eon, and still is not able to sort out, for instance, top Sinomemes from Nihongomemes from Euromemes from Franco-vs.Prussomemes from Hindi-vs.-Urdumemes from left- and right-coast memes, or geekmemes vs. artmemes vs. world marketwatch memes vs. teenage fanmemes, or indeed to slice and dice the Heraclitan flux in any dimension other than link-in popularity, which basically condemns you to the Sisyphean task of a lot of manual scanning of lists that lack any significant cues for what lies beyond a link. And merely nowing who links to me is not the same as finding everybody worth it's my while to know. And what on earth is Weblogs.com good for? It tells you who and when, like a giant tagboard on a 14-year-old's manga fansite. It adds no value, and nobody seems to be stepping forward to add much value to it: it's useless for the consumer user, and for the business intelligence user that you're really trying to impress, it's simply a waste of time, might as well keep paying through the nose for that Bloomberg box.

The only really advanced hosting-social software-community synergy on the horizon might be TypePad — at least I am hoping so, because I think those folks are brilliant — but TrackBack, if that is to be the principal tool for weaving the social fabric, is pretty much an unthreaded needle in a haystack, I think a lot of us agree. M&A? Strategic alliances? Consolidation?

I have ranted. — BV :-P