November 2008
7 posts
Ignition-Austin Photos →
Great photos (as usual) by Brian Solis from last night’s Bizspark, Startup District and Techset event.
New Austin incubator seeks to help young... →
Congrats to Kevin and Jonas over at Tech Ranch — they’re already doing great work with the likes of Piryx and OneSpot, and this kind of incubator/accelerator is exactly what we need more of in Austin.
Secret Societies →
I have been thinking a lot about secret societies of late. Yalie jokes notwithstanding, they’re nothing new, really, but this is nonetheless a trend to watch for 2009 for reasons I explain below. As Seth Godin would argue, we human have operated in smaller groups since the very beginning, with shared objectives in mind: “Tribes are groups of people aligned around an idea, connected to...
Congrats to Michelle Greer + Austin vs. Portland...
Michelle Greer, one of Austin’s top technology bloggers and a marketing bad-ass, will now be writing about our fair city for the Discovery Channel’s forthcoming Nerdabout property. Hells yeah! Michelle is incredible and I’m excited about the increased level of visibility for all of the cool stuff going on here in town.
This gives Austin two bloggers with national clout, counting...
Web 3.0 and Knowability -- Diagram
Juan Sequeda gave a lighting talk at last week’s ISWC, and used this slide that we brainstormed together at a recent Semantic Web Austin meetup.
This diagram will be further developed, but it’s a nice articulation IMHO of the value proposition of Web 3.0 (as opposed to other, similar efforts, which instead focus on technical concerns and definition wars).
Feedback appreciated....
How To Build The Global Mind →
Update: Kevin Kelly responded here;)
I wanted to point you towards a most excellent piece/counterpoint to Kevin Kelly and Ray Kurzweil, whose own projections on this topic were top of mind at the Singularity Summit last weekend.
Nova’s take on the future of collective inteligence and the global brain posits that the meaningful and mutually beneficial cooperation between humans and machines...