In the blog of Pantha Corp, we share with our readers the personal view and insights we have on developments in the technology sector. And as that is nowadays quite a broad sector, we set our eyes on many diferent topics and questions facing society. We also post entries on recent developments of Pantha Corp as a company. For us, it is a part of an ongoing collaboration and communication with colleagues, clients and friends.
Common Craft - Social Design for the Web: Common Craft does Social Design for the Web
That sounds like a great appellation for this fast-growing web consulting market niche! And fitting very well with our own slogan: "consultant of compassion"
PlaceSite - Reinventing Wi-Fi Community
An interesting initiative bridging Wifi cafe and social networking. Would need excellence in usability, strategic initial positioning in crowded high tech cafe where early adopters get their shot and croissant. Also would be nice to try it out of USA... Like in Europe and Asia to see if other internet culture would adopt it and how they would... Please localize it early on... Find out global behavior day one...
Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata
A paper discussing new type of classification, mixing social networking and web services. "Folks made" taxonomy. Concepts used by both del.icio.us and Flickr.
Userplane Video Instant Messenger and Flash Instant Messaging Software - IM
Got to look into that !
Wired News: Punk at a Moment's Notice
I wish I had time to tune my ears on such groups and events...
This wiki entry and related posts let me thoughful ... I wonder... Hyperlink as a currency? Pass the money around ... so after all I might already be a millionaire ;-) in the netEconomy. The question is : can i survive as a still water-blood-flesh being with hyperlinks in my wallet?
An excerpt:
"And the point is, this is TheAttentionEconomy. And it's NetoCracy. Which means we have to do our NetoCracy/Imploitation as well as our NetoCracy/Exploitation. Passing the GoogleJuice on the left-hand side is definitely another part of that. Is it "imploitation"? At a stretch is feels similar. But maybe it's yet a third kind of thing. Need to think about this more."
But the real good stuff turns out to be the Attention Economy. That thoughtstorm about the so-called attention economy definitely resonnates in me. Maybe because of my current professional context. I'm consulting for a big pharma company that is also a player in the game of a news aggregator, namely a 'portal', for a very targeted audience: the physicians ! A great project and lots of potential if *we* play it clever and , for example, use the tools out there... Though I didn't quite convince the deciders with my demo and speech about blogs, RSS, free content aggregation. Too be honest I felt quite awkward on how to present it without sounding too much like a nerd. They sure see the power but are convinced that their audience , those doctors, are far too backward to switch to such geeky ways... How long this statement will stand? I bet not quite long...
The last Wired Magazine has an article on
internal decision markets where you let "the crowd" make up their mind instead of relying on a single person or a small group of people. This is one of those things where you wonder why it hasn't been done yet, the article cites only HP as one that did a test-run of one of those markets.
I call this a smart proposal and one more tool in the area of internal knowledge management.
Some thoughts on a good post titled: Barriers of Content and Context, by Stowe Boyd
Stowe Boyd , strong advocate for social networking technology, is discussing a critical downside: the barriers protecting content and context. Social networking is more than a hyped phenomenon, it actually reached out to the masses in no time, especially with dating application and IM, and suffer this fast growth and a lack of maturity in the approaches and techniques, an extremely large and reactive audience.
Though Stowe believes there is real business to do with it right now, for example to boost the sales process.
Show the Loo was rebuilt from the ground up, offering an overall improved user experience and first and foremost drastically increased speed.!
View screenshots and download the new version here.
The initial version was really a proof of concept for us here at Pantha Corp to see what you could do with the early iPhone SDK. Of course, we would still love to incorporate the excellent data of toiletmap.gov.au
