WOW! That is a fine-looking tool/application. I never noticed it on FB, probably since FB has so many tools/apps available that I must have stopped clicking "Next". There is one app (Friend Wheel) I did see and use, but it was not as nice-looking as TouchGraph's.
It makes me think of Visual Analytics. I wonder if either of them has filed for and actually received a patent on the visual stuff. I think I might have seen something similar in Simply Accounting or Simply Money, maybe back around 1992 or 91, but can't remember. Maybe not at all. Just "feels" familiar.
Not that I want to run them out of a patent (if they TRULY deserve it), but I think most decent programmers might be able to effect the same results with existing code and some head-banging on the wall.
"What the thing might have or should have -- and this will hurt feelings -- is a measurement to show relationship (whatever kind it is) based on communication instances, volume, and more. Obviously, this means reading email between senders. I would not say go as far as posting the content.
Some, but not all, communicate regularly. Some fewer communicate with a subset via various methods (poking, wall-messages, private messages, etc. maybe even extra-system tracking based on e-mail sensed in routers around the world... hey, the info IS there...), and these instances can be weighted, counted and presented. It would look like nodes with pipes, sort of like HP Openview did years ago, or like any ubiquitous graphical firewall/system monitor tool. Think: Etherape. It could be dynamic, static, or a mixed snapshot.
The upshot of this is that those freaks out there building falsely "deep" infatuous relationships will have their funky little bubbles burst when the the REST of the world can start to see past the misleading "Top # Friends" listing, which is pointless whether that list is static (like most) or "rotates faces" like F/B does.
Markers such as Platonic Friend, Current item, Ex-, Professional, Hobby Group and more could be shaped and colored nodes, with strength modified by fatter tubes. Stagnant relationships could be shown in "broken" or light lines; stronger ones with wavy or fat lines. Active and stronger ones still can be shown with pulsating lines.
Suddenly, it's no longer gospel who your TOP x-number of friends are. The volume, density/depth, duration, constancy, and such of your communications will determine publicly or privately who your REAL best friends are."
The sooner developers (I am NOT one, but I think visually) push these into Google, the sooner Google has SOMEthing the others don't. If these widgets/features have have enough QA and standards demanded upon them, then many F/B users might sachet/sashay/mosey on over to Google's Party Line, even tho they may still keep their other lines open. To borrow the acronym SLOC (Sea Lines of Communcation:
I coin the phrase Social Lines of Communication, or SLOC.)
However, coining it is kind of useless, as SLOC already exists.
I thought of SoLiOCo, but it is sort of taken, and there is a kind of other term in use from some site (translated in Google):
"And it is but they think it is an experiment socialo... solioco... Solioco... UN EXPERIMENTO de joder personas, asi que van diciendo por ahi: o, mirenme, soy un tio que sale en un experimento! AN EXPERIMENT to fuck people, so we are going there by saying: or, mirenme, I am a guy who comes in an experiment! Amigos, si os cruzais con un idiota de esos no dejeis de llamarle rata de laboratorio hasta que se calle."
So, that would not be a good name for a social API program developent or site for COMMERCIAL purposes. I suppose, someone might use it as an internal project name, just for fun.
So, will he return to Earth as V'Ger? Or, will he come back as Nomad, seeking one Jackson Roykirk. In either case, he'll probably return to "eliminate carbon-based infestation"... Yikes... Is this a job for Shatner, or will he just holler "Khhhaaaaannn!"?
I wonder how long before microsoft gets the AARP to en masse subscribe its subscribers to Facebook.
Seriously, tho, it'll make for interesting mentorships, but then it would give ms a chance to pull the wool over the eyes of any companies in position to make Facebook look like it's going to "take off" under ms' "stewardship"...
Once again, pr0n will probably lead the way. Need a prophylactic? DOWNLOAD these specs and BANG! Shazzam! You can have all the private fun you can print.
Well, it could make some sense to use the DDG as a BASE for the jet-skis. Around 2003 I designed a DDG-type ship, with a boat bay in the after deck house to contain several boats, and some of them being jet-ski-sized.
The ship has a Flag/Tactical Operations Center, and its purpose would be many, but controlling and coordinating, deploying, and retrieving such boats or jet skis would be one operation.
Heck, even the REAL DDG's in the USN inventory can't do what I designed into my ships. Of course, mine are for fictional purposes, but any real ship architects can address any oversights or fanciful stuff I probably have introduced. It's a matter of there being a mission, money, relative return on investment, and workforce costs over the vessel lifetime being addressed.
The DDG-65 class would have looked better had they been designed either more like mine, or more like the JMSDF DD-177 Atago class. Even the DD-173 class looks more intimidating than the DDG-51 flights, even with the hangars. But, the DD-177 just looks cooler, is taller, longer, and has better lines. There are claims (probably true) that the JMSDF ships are built to "commercial standards", but hell, even the USN for years has been using ABS standards, tho some ruggedization surely in place. Any missile or torpedo that can crack the ship in two will defeat any dewatering pumps, trim pumps, and more, rendering MOOT and pro-US stance some may have about hull steel specs.
Anyway, if you can, then enjoy the notional (not NATIONAL) drawings. My ships are for THE world, not for A country.
Well, if the Internets are going to replace people in relationships, then those without relationships have to go SOMEwhere. Maybe they will find their wet, queasy feeling moments after DOWNloading the softwear onto their hardware.
Now, what WOULD be scary is if the REALDOLL came, err, umm, ARRived with trojans and malewear, umm, malware. "Excuse, me, butt, I need your assword and for you to turn over for my social reengineering progam to bootstrap you."
And, you can bet that AT&T will dip their grungy fingers into the code and obsequiously supply the alphabet soup names agencies with code to throw off the positioning far worse than GPS. They'll supply them with real-time image detection and distortion capabilities. Maybe even bluescreen/reboot the phone as a mild warning, or outright cripple the service. After all, the government HATES competition...
Well, hell, then. What's next? Open Source and other desktop-based chemistry and periodic table applications? Will the now have to be crippled by a roving worm, and only re-enabled if the developers agree to add in phone-home code so Mommy/Uncle Sam can keep tabs (liberally, tables) of data on inquisitive kids and "potential" ter'rists alike? (That act would just drive the REAL bad guys underground, and it will likely just dumb-down the US education population even more, to the point that the US WILL end up losing even ever more competitiveness.)
Some of the robots will/may be equipped with various types of sensors: low-light, acoustical, shape-recognition, infrared, etc. For any pirates backed by corrupt local governments (or, distant ones with much to lose if piracy is crimped), it'll be inevitable and logical that "seduction mines" (influence/proximity/remote-detonation) will disrupt operations. Either some of these jet-ski-like sentries will be blown up, or they'll be diverted/distracted since the operators won't want to needlessly lose them. Sure, N/V equipment can help detect mines, and some of the newer USN subs have advanced optics capabilities (See:
but things have a potential to get hairy if the pirates get their hands on IR gear so they can "tempt" the operator to drive the sentry along a threat axis (or around a cove/down a strait/a channel/etc) and detonate a string of mines.
Or, they can just dump flammables into the water and when the sentry slows down to do close-up looks, torch the thing. Hurling a flare or going the route of Joan of Arc with bows and arrows can give some stand-off distance between the flame-bath and the bad guys alongside/sidled up along the victim ship.
I'm not so sure about that. At least from my perspective. I am in at least 5 social networking interfaces, and I find Facebook to be the most fun and flexible and more. Maybe because it has more gizmos/widgets. But, I think that I kept adding because either one met social needs and the other met geek needs. Once another combined both, I went to it, and then to the next, without dropping any of them.
I've recently been wondering how useful it might be if Slashdot picked up some of Facebook's portal-like features. I know realize that some geeks and purists will fall back on the UNIX motif (one thing doing its job better than one thing doing many), but wouldn't it be really nice if Slash incorporated stats and links to Linux.org, Linux.com, Kernel.org, OSDL, etc?
People working on many problems or many people with a problem seeking an expert might thrive and achieve things better, or more transparently. Slash could be like an exchange system. It doesn't Have to *replace* those others, but act as a conduit.
But, considering many personality issues some users here have, Slash might not actually be the best "portal". If Facebook could be made into Geekbook, wherein contributor credentials could be reasonably verified, and if (where it's not a problem) project and team contribution by individuals can be shown, then a committee (yech) or a group of people looking for good fits (not panting, but team member or collaborator) can identify them. One way to start might be by taking lists of credits from apps and cross-referencing them to projects, companies, products, solutions, and such, whether frozen or on-going.
It might even turn out to be better than, say, Dice/HotJobs/Monster/et al. Anyone cheating the system could also be digitally BRANDED or sanctioned. Some sort of public key system, picture ID, and periodic face-time might be needed to maintain integrity of the system.
Of course, since there are programmers and contributors lacking formalized education, experience and display of practical or innovative products or ideas might be a good substitute, enabling such people to be made hire-worthy by otherwise more demanding firms or activities.
Ideally, where there is some or a lot of overlap, projects might be folded into one another, IF egoes and formation (for-profit/not-for-profit/non-profit/hobby, etc.) statuses can be properly set up before integration might become an issue.
For the potentially reading-impaired at development sites, I will paste in my contents on yesterday's story about Breaking Open Facebook...
I like Facebook, but since ms' hands are all over them now, I feel strongly that there MUST be a counterweight to that juggernaut. Facebook would have been better off had the kid taken Google's money. Instead, he went with fame or something imagined with ms' name. Too bad. Apparently, Google is locked out of (or not interested in) forcing their way into co-investor status with Facebook to fight ms right INSIDE of Facebook. So, I have some ideas that you developers looking for ideas better act on before mshaft tries to cobble up some back-dated (falsely dated) "inventions". Be SURE to use the timestamps from this post, and from any other prior art you know of to establish that msoft's purported (if they present any to the USPTO) dates are rendered meaningless.
Think HP Openview, Etherape, and graphical node-displaying tools. Think Avatars, data flow, and relationship associations as the ARE, not as F/B and other sites PRESENT them. F/B is nice and all, but, honestly, who the hell has 350 friends, as TOP friends no less. People are self-delusional bullshit artists if they think they have deep, quality relationships with 350 unless they are on a SHIP, or an on-site concentrated population. But, even on ships, in police forces and in prisons, people don't maintain deep, wide quality relationships the way these social networking sites distill subscribers relationships to.
Also, sometimes, people befriend someone out of jealousy that another friend "got to them first", and all the other attendant "me tooism" crap that goes on. Some don't WANT another to be a new, sudden friend, sometimes out of possessiveness. Social networking sites that don't sugar-coat things might be very interesting and useful for "de-densifying" bullshit relationship nodes.
The meaning of Confidante, Friend, Significant other will shake some people's world when they wake up to the fact that as ordinary as most of us are, we aren't going to be as important as we WANT to BELIEVE we are. At least not in MOST circles in which we try to insinuate ourselves.
OK, get CRACKING!
Here we go:
Looks like a lot of nice theory and such, but WHERE is there a working prototype, something we can sink our teeth into, sniff, or hug?
What the thing might have or should have -- and this will hurt feelings -- is a measurement to show relationship (whatever kind it is) based on communication instances, volume, and more. Obviously, this means reading email between senders. I would not say go as far as posting the content.
But, say these "actors":
John Vinh Mary Ving Oster Oscar Susan Kumiko Davinder
KNOW each other and registered as friends. Some, but not all, communicate regularly. Some fewer communicate with a subset via various methods (poking, wall-messages, private messages, etc. maybe even extra-system tracking based on e-mail sensed in routers around the world... hey, the info IS there...), and these instances can be weighted, counted and presented. It would look like nodes with pipes, sort of like HP Openview did years ago, or like any ubiquitous graphical firewall/system monitor tool. Think: Etherape. It could be dynamic, static, or a mixed snapshot.
The upshot of this is that those freaks out there building falsely "deep" infatuous relationships will have their funky little bubbles burst when the the REST of the world can start to see past the misleading "Top # Friends" listing, which is pointless whether that list is static (like most) or "rotates faces" like F/B does.
It also would be interesting for husband/wife/other relationships when new tags have to be made to reduce relationship destruction. Wife has 52x more communication density markers with friends than she does with husband? Oh, how to assuage his fears, curtail his growing jealousies.
Markers such as Platonic Friend, Current item, Ex-, Professional
Looks like a lot of nice theory and such, but WHERE is there a working prototype, something we can sink our teeth into, sniff, or hug?
What the thing might have or should have -- and this will hurt feelings -- is a measurement to show relationship (whatever kind it is) based on communication instances, volume, and more. Obviously, this means reading email between senders. I would not say go as far as posting the content.
But, say these "actors":
John Vinh Mary Ving Oster Oscar Susan Kumiko Davinder
KNOW each other and registered as friends. Some, but not all, communicate regularly. Some fewer communicate with a subset via various methods (poking, wall-messages, private messages, etc. maybe even extra-system tracking based on e-mail sensed in routers around the world... hey, the info IS there...), and these instances can be weighted, counted and presented. It would look like nodes with pipes, sort of like HP Openview did years ago, or like any ubiquitous graphical firewall/system monitor tool. Think: Etherape. It could be dynamic, static, or a mixed snapshot.
The upshot of this is that those freaks out there building falsely "deep" infatuous relationships will have their funky little bubbles burst when the the REST of the world can start to see past the misleading "Top # Friends" listing, which is pointless whether that list is static (like most) or "rotates faces" like F/B does.
It also would be interesting for husband/wife/other relationships when new tags have to be made to reduce relationship destruction. Wife has 52x more communication density markers with friends than she does with husband? Oh, how to assuage his fears, curtail his growing jealousies.
Markers such as Platonic Friend, Current item, Ex-, Professional, Hobby Group and more could be shaped and colored nodes, with strength modified by fatter tubes. Stagnant relationships could be shown in "broken" or light lines; stronger ones with wavy or fat lines. Active and stronger ones still can be shown with pulsating lines.
Suddenly, it's no longer gospel who your TOP x-number of friends are. The volume, density/depth, duration, constancy, and such of your communications will determine publicly or privately who your REAL best friends are.
I am sure Visual Analytics has something like this for their data mining for showing the IRS, FBI, and others the banking, cell phone, and other relationships between people, business or personal, for crime monitoring, marketing, and other purposes. But for social networking, I imagine something non-patented is common-sense or obvious, given the tools that exist to make this trivial.
However, I declare this text of mine to be freely available in Creative Commons and GPL-like terms that allow Open Source to implement this. I don't give a damn about any patent trolls so if Myspace or Friendster want to take this idea, GO FOR IT. Anything to diminish the inroads microshaft will try to make by/from hijacking Facebook.
I reserve the right to personally or in team implement my ideas written above into any projects I so desire, patents be damned.
I wouldn't be surprised if the connection resets are just "periodic refreshing" part on the part of comcast and their controllers "other intelligence-gathering black holes" to periodically ensure the mapping of machines to demarcs/premises and CO.
Heuristic or visual analytic mapping of unencrypted (and broken encrypted) transmission linked to users, cookies, sites, and threat color of the day make for juicy work thrills for some.
Slashdot Mirror
THANKS!
WOW! That is a fine-looking tool/application. I never noticed it on FB, probably since FB has so many tools/apps available that I must have stopped clicking "Next". There is one app (Friend Wheel) I did see and use, but it was not as nice-looking as TouchGraph's.
It makes me think of Visual Analytics. I wonder if either of them has filed for and actually received a patent on the visual stuff. I think I might have seen something similar in Simply Accounting or Simply Money, maybe back around 1992 or 91, but can't remember. Maybe not at all. Just "feels" familiar.
Not that I want to run them out of a patent (if they TRULY deserve it), but I think most decent programmers might be able to effect the same results with existing code and some head-banging on the wall.
Still, this tool is awesome,
It is NOT unpossible, becuase it is not irreleaseble...
*I* have some ideas that might put pressure on Phonebook... Umm, Facebook:
... solioco... Solioco ... UN EXPERIMENTO de joder personas, asi que van diciendo por ahi: o, mirenme, soy un tio que sale en un experimento! AN EXPERIMENT to fuck people, so we are going there by saying: or, mirenme, I am a guy who comes in an experiment! Amigos, si os cruzais con un idiota de esos no dejeis de llamarle rata de laboratorio hasta que se calle."
See my:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=345637&cid=21185939
But, the gist is:
"What the thing might have or should have -- and this will hurt feelings -- is a measurement to show relationship (whatever kind it is) based on communication instances, volume, and more. Obviously, this means reading email between senders. I would not say go as far as posting the content.
Some, but not all, communicate regularly. Some fewer communicate with a subset via various methods (poking, wall-messages, private messages, etc. maybe even extra-system tracking based on e-mail sensed in routers around the world... hey, the info IS there...), and these instances can be weighted, counted and presented. It would look like nodes with pipes, sort of like HP Openview did years ago, or like any ubiquitous graphical firewall/system monitor tool. Think: Etherape. It could be dynamic, static, or a mixed snapshot.
The upshot of this is that those freaks out there building falsely "deep" infatuous relationships will have their funky little bubbles burst when the the REST of the world can start to see past the misleading "Top # Friends" listing, which is pointless whether that list is static (like most) or "rotates faces" like F/B does.
Markers such as Platonic Friend, Current item, Ex-, Professional, Hobby Group and more could be shaped and colored nodes, with strength modified by fatter tubes. Stagnant relationships could be shown in "broken" or light lines; stronger ones with wavy or fat lines. Active and stronger ones still can be shown with pulsating lines.
Suddenly, it's no longer gospel who your TOP x-number of friends are. The volume, density/depth, duration, constancy, and such of your communications will determine publicly or privately who your REAL best friends are."
The sooner developers (I am NOT one, but I think visually) push these into Google, the sooner Google has SOMEthing the others don't. If these widgets/features have have enough QA and standards demanded upon them, then many F/B users might sachet/sashay/mosey on over to Google's Party Line, even tho they may still keep their other lines open. To borrow the acronym SLOC (Sea Lines of Communcation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_lines_of_communication
I coin the phrase Social Lines of Communication, or SLOC.)
However, coining it is kind of useless, as SLOC already exists.
I thought of SoLiOCo, but it is sort of taken, and there is a kind of other term in use from some site (translated in Google):
"And it is but they think it is an experiment socialo
So, that would not be a good name for a social API program developent or site for COMMERCIAL purposes. I suppose, someone might use it as an internal project name, just for fun.
Massive-ass Earth Farts, and Ka-Phooey! That's all it took?
Etch-A-Wretch...
So, will he return to Earth as V'Ger? Or, will he come back as Nomad, seeking one Jackson Roykirk. In either case, he'll probably return to "eliminate carbon-based infestation"... Yikes... Is this a job for Shatner, or will he just holler "Khhhaaaaannn!"?
So, then they get to travel the world in 279 minutes... assuming a 3-hour space walk...
Because NASA Needs A Solar Array... and they are afraid of 30-Days-of-Night.... (Didn't want Halloween to become Hell-O-Ween?)
I wonder how long before microsoft gets the AARP to en masse subscribe its subscribers to Facebook.
Seriously, tho, it'll make for interesting mentorships, but then it would give ms a chance to pull the wool over the eyes of any companies in position to make Facebook look like it's going to "take off" under ms' "stewardship"...
See this:
3D printer to churn out copies of itself
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7165
Once again, pr0n will probably lead the way. Need a prophylactic? DOWNLOAD these specs and BANG! Shazzam! You can have all the private fun you can print.
Not, that'll lead to INcursion protection.
"This printer prints like... SHIT."
Well, it could make some sense to use the DDG as a BASE for the jet-skis. Around 2003 I designed a DDG-type ship, with a boat bay in the after deck house to contain several boats, and some of them being jet-ski-sized.
The ship has a Flag/Tactical Operations Center, and its purpose would be many, but controlling and coordinating, deploying, and retrieving such boats or jet skis would be one operation.
See:
http://news.webshots.com/photo/2293082040099955914ERcKQp
http://news.webshots.com/photo/2703573670099955914AKoVzu
http://news.webshots.com/photo/2426317540099955914AzRiEa
http://news.webshots.com/photo/2750131350099955914pevxij
Heck, even the REAL DDG's in the USN inventory can't do what I designed into my ships. Of course, mine are for fictional purposes, but any real ship architects can address any oversights or fanciful stuff I probably have introduced. It's a matter of there being a mission, money, relative return on investment, and workforce costs over the vessel lifetime being addressed.
The DDG-65 class would have looked better had they been designed either more like mine, or more like the JMSDF DD-177 Atago class. Even the DD-173 class looks more intimidating than the DDG-51 flights, even with the hangars. But, the DD-177 just looks cooler, is taller, longer, and has better lines. There are claims (probably true) that the JMSDF ships are built to "commercial standards", but hell, even the USN for years has been using ABS standards, tho some ruggedization surely in place. Any missile or torpedo that can crack the ship in two will defeat any dewatering pumps, trim pumps, and more, rendering MOOT and pro-US stance some may have about hull steel specs.
Anyway, if you can, then enjoy the notional (not NATIONAL) drawings. My ships are for THE world, not for A country.
Well, if the Internets are going to replace people in relationships, then those without relationships have to go SOMEwhere. Maybe they will find their wet, queasy feeling moments after DOWNloading the softwear onto their hardware.
Now, what WOULD be scary is if the REALDOLL came, err, umm, ARRived with trojans and malewear, umm, malware. "Excuse, me, butt, I need your assword and for you to turn over for my social reengineering progam to bootstrap you."
And, you can bet that AT&T will dip their grungy fingers into the code and obsequiously supply the alphabet soup names agencies with code to throw off the positioning far worse than GPS. They'll supply them with real-time image detection and distortion capabilities. Maybe even bluescreen/reboot the phone as a mild warning, or outright cripple the service. After all, the government HATES competition...
As in "Little Sister"?
Well, hell, then. What's next? Open Source and other desktop-based chemistry and periodic table applications? Will the now have to be crippled by a roving worm, and only re-enabled if the developers agree to add in phone-home code so Mommy/Uncle Sam can keep tabs (liberally, tables) of data on inquisitive kids and "potential" ter'rists alike? (That act would just drive the REAL bad guys underground, and it will likely just dumb-down the US education population even more, to the point that the US WILL end up losing even ever more competitiveness.)
You'll have to have special security clearance and ask Dr. Rudy Wells about these new Fembots...
Some of the robots will/may be equipped with various types of sensors: low-light, acoustical, shape-recognition, infrared, etc. For any pirates backed by corrupt local governments (or, distant ones with much to lose if piracy is crimped), it'll be inevitable and logical that "seduction mines" (influence/proximity/remote-detonation) will disrupt operations. Either some of these jet-ski-like sentries will be blown up, or they'll be diverted/distracted since the operators won't want to needlessly lose them. Sure, N/V equipment can help detect mines, and some of the newer USN subs have advanced optics capabilities (See:
http://www.navy.mil/navydata/cno/n87/usw/issue_33/virginia_2.html
for more information)
but things have a potential to get hairy if the pirates get their hands on IR gear so they can "tempt" the operator to drive the sentry along a threat axis (or around a cove/down a strait/a channel/etc) and detonate a string of mines.
Or, they can just dump flammables into the water and when the sentry slows down to do close-up looks, torch the thing. Hurling a flare or going the route of Joan of Arc with bows and arrows can give some stand-off distance between the flame-bath and the bad guys alongside/sidled up along the victim ship.
I'm not so sure about that. At least from my perspective. I am in at least 5 social networking interfaces, and I find Facebook to be the most fun and flexible and more. Maybe because it has more gizmos/widgets. But, I think that I kept adding because either one met social needs and the other met geek needs. Once another combined both, I went to it, and then to the next, without dropping any of them.
I've recently been wondering how useful it might be if Slashdot picked up some of Facebook's portal-like features. I know realize that some geeks and purists will fall back on the UNIX motif (one thing doing its job better than one thing doing many), but wouldn't it be really nice if Slash incorporated stats and links to Linux.org, Linux.com, Kernel.org, OSDL, etc?
People working on many problems or many people with a problem seeking an expert might thrive and achieve things better, or more transparently. Slash could be like an exchange system. It doesn't Have to *replace* those others, but act as a conduit.
But, considering many personality issues some users here have, Slash might not actually be the best "portal". If Facebook could be made into Geekbook, wherein contributor credentials could be reasonably verified, and if (where it's not a problem) project and team contribution by individuals can be shown, then a committee (yech) or a group of people looking for good fits (not panting, but team member or collaborator) can identify them. One way to start might be by taking lists of credits from apps and cross-referencing them to projects, companies, products, solutions, and such, whether frozen or on-going.
It might even turn out to be better than, say, Dice/HotJobs/Monster/et al. Anyone cheating the system could also be digitally BRANDED or sanctioned. Some sort of public key system, picture ID, and periodic face-time might be needed to maintain integrity of the system.
Of course, since there are programmers and contributors lacking formalized education, experience and display of practical or innovative products or ideas might be a good substitute, enabling such people to be made hire-worthy by otherwise more demanding firms or activities.
Ideally, where there is some or a lot of overlap, projects might be folded into one another, IF egoes and formation (for-profit/not-for-profit/non-profit/hobby, etc.) statuses can be properly set up before integration might become an issue.
These are only suggestions.
For the potentially reading-impaired at development sites, I will paste in my contents on yesterday's story about Breaking Open Facebook...
I like Facebook, but since ms' hands are all over them now, I feel strongly that there MUST be a counterweight to that juggernaut. Facebook would have been better off had the kid taken Google's money. Instead, he went with fame or something imagined with ms' name. Too bad. Apparently, Google is locked out of (or not interested in) forcing their way into co-investor status with Facebook to fight ms right INSIDE of Facebook. So, I have some ideas that you developers looking for ideas better act on before mshaft tries to cobble up some back-dated (falsely dated) "inventions". Be SURE to use the timestamps from this post, and from any other prior art you know of to establish that msoft's purported (if they present any to the USPTO) dates are rendered meaningless.
Think HP Openview, Etherape, and graphical node-displaying tools. Think Avatars, data flow, and relationship associations as the ARE, not as F/B and other sites PRESENT them. F/B is nice and all, but, honestly, who the hell has 350 friends, as TOP friends no less. People are self-delusional bullshit artists if they think they have deep, quality relationships with 350 unless they are on a SHIP, or an on-site concentrated population. But, even on ships, in police forces and in prisons, people don't maintain deep, wide quality relationships the way these social networking sites distill subscribers relationships to.
Also, sometimes, people befriend someone out of jealousy that another friend "got to them first", and all the other attendant "me tooism" crap that goes on. Some don't WANT another to be a new, sudden friend, sometimes out of possessiveness. Social networking sites that don't sugar-coat things might be very interesting and useful for "de-densifying" bullshit relationship nodes.
The meaning of Confidante, Friend, Significant other will shake some people's world when they wake up to the fact that as ordinary as most of us are, we aren't going to be as important as we WANT to BELIEVE we are. At least not in MOST circles in which we try to insinuate ourselves.
OK, get CRACKING!
Here we go:
Looks like a lot of nice theory and such, but WHERE is there a working prototype, something we can sink our teeth into, sniff, or hug?
What the thing might have or should have -- and this will hurt feelings -- is a measurement to show relationship (whatever kind it is) based on communication instances, volume, and more. Obviously, this means reading email between senders. I would not say go as far as posting the content.
But, say these "actors":
John
Vinh
Mary
Ving
Oster
Oscar
Susan
Kumiko
Davinder
KNOW each other and registered as friends. Some, but not all, communicate regularly. Some fewer communicate with a subset via various methods (poking, wall-messages, private messages, etc. maybe even extra-system tracking based on e-mail sensed in routers around the world... hey, the info IS there...), and these instances can be weighted, counted and presented. It would look like nodes with pipes, sort of like HP Openview did years ago, or like any ubiquitous graphical firewall/system monitor tool. Think: Etherape. It could be dynamic, static, or a mixed snapshot.
The upshot of this is that those freaks out there building falsely "deep" infatuous relationships will have their funky little bubbles burst when the the REST of the world can start to see past the misleading "Top # Friends" listing, which is pointless whether that list is static (like most) or "rotates faces" like F/B does.
It also would be interesting for husband/wife/other relationships when new tags have to be made to reduce relationship destruction. Wife has 52x more communication density markers with friends than she does with husband? Oh, how to assuage his fears, curtail his growing jealousies.
Markers such as Platonic Friend, Current item, Ex-, Professional
Looks like a lot of nice theory and such, but WHERE is there a working prototype, something we can sink our teeth into, sniff, or hug?
What the thing might have or should have -- and this will hurt feelings -- is a measurement to show relationship (whatever kind it is) based on communication instances, volume, and more. Obviously, this means reading email between senders. I would not say go as far as posting the content.
But, say these "actors":
John
Vinh
Mary
Ving
Oster
Oscar
Susan
Kumiko
Davinder
KNOW each other and registered as friends. Some, but not all, communicate regularly. Some fewer communicate with a subset via various methods (poking, wall-messages, private messages, etc. maybe even extra-system tracking based on e-mail sensed in routers around the world... hey, the info IS there...), and these instances can be weighted, counted and presented. It would look like nodes with pipes, sort of like HP Openview did years ago, or like any ubiquitous graphical firewall/system monitor tool. Think: Etherape. It could be dynamic, static, or a mixed snapshot.
The upshot of this is that those freaks out there building falsely "deep" infatuous relationships will have their funky little bubbles burst when the the REST of the world can start to see past the misleading "Top # Friends" listing, which is pointless whether that list is static (like most) or "rotates faces" like F/B does.
It also would be interesting for husband/wife/other relationships when new tags have to be made to reduce relationship destruction. Wife has 52x more communication density markers with friends than she does with husband? Oh, how to assuage his fears, curtail his growing jealousies.
Markers such as Platonic Friend, Current item, Ex-, Professional, Hobby Group and more could be shaped and colored nodes, with strength modified by fatter tubes. Stagnant relationships could be shown in "broken" or light lines; stronger ones with wavy or fat lines. Active and stronger ones still can be shown with pulsating lines.
Suddenly, it's no longer gospel who your TOP x-number of friends are. The volume, density/depth, duration, constancy, and such of your communications will determine publicly or privately who your REAL best friends are.
I am sure Visual Analytics has something like this for their data mining for showing the IRS, FBI, and others the banking, cell phone, and other relationships between people, business or personal, for crime monitoring, marketing, and other purposes. But for social networking, I imagine something non-patented is common-sense or obvious, given the tools that exist to make this trivial.
However, I declare this text of mine to be freely available in Creative Commons and GPL-like terms that allow Open Source to implement this. I don't give a damn about any patent trolls so if Myspace or Friendster want to take this idea, GO FOR IT. Anything to diminish the inroads microshaft will try to make by/from hijacking Facebook.
I reserve the right to personally or in team implement my ideas written above into any projects I so desire, patents be damned.
Copyright 2007-10-29-1710 PST David Syes
Please pass this idea around.
S
Because we'll NEED one. Especially since over 800 FaceBook users do NOT want microsoft's paws all over facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3261815073
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And that's not the ONLY group in Facebook now wanting ms owning or having control in some way over user information, f/b direction, etc.
"Dear God, hope you got the letter and
I pray you can make it better down here
I don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer"
Sorry, I just had to...
http://www.positiveatheism.org/mail/eml9624.htm
I wouldn't be surprised if the connection resets are just "periodic refreshing" part on the part of comcast and their controllers "other intelligence-gathering black holes" to periodically ensure the mapping of machines to demarcs/premises and CO.
Heuristic or visual analytic mapping of unencrypted (and broken encrypted) transmission linked to users, cookies, sites, and threat color of the day make for juicy work thrills for some.
Just an idea...