Dat zou geen nieuws moet zijn, maar de stap die Microsoft vandaag neemt om gebruikers van haar zoekmachine te betalen is een eerste stap waar er meerdere zullen volgen. Gebruikers zullen directer beloond gaan worden in ruil voor informatie over wie ze zijn en wat ze willen. Dat is (nog) niet het model dat Microsoft zal hanteren, maar het wijst wel die kant op. En dat biedt kansen voor partijen die dit kunnen faciliteren...
"That is the idea behind a new Microsoft program that will return money to online users who find and buy selected products through its Live Search engine. It's an unusual move that illustrates the lengths to which the Redmond company is willing to go in its struggle to gain ground on the Internet search king."
woensdag 21 mei 2008
zondag 18 mei 2008
Contact zonder data
Tom beschrijft een nabije toekomst waarin een van de rollen van social networking services, en ook die van diensten als RealMee (zie bijvoorbeeld mijn persoonlijke homepage), duidelijk gemaakt wordt. Tegelijkertijd maakt het een deel van de complexe data-portabilty discussie overbodig aangezien het meenemen en uitwisselen van contactdata (die van jouzelf en die van jouw vrienden) niet meer nodig is. Met een beetje geluk zal het ook de oplossing voor spam zijn;-)
"You maintain one copy of your master contact information in the (un)social directory – all of the possible ways to contact you. Everyone else has a similar master contact page which is visible only to her. When two people meet and exchange (un)social contact info, what they are actually doing is exchanging permissions but NOT contact information. Permissions are always revocable. This needs an example."
"You maintain one copy of your master contact information in the (un)social directory – all of the possible ways to contact you. Everyone else has a similar master contact page which is visible only to her. When two people meet and exchange (un)social contact info, what they are actually doing is exchanging permissions but NOT contact information. Permissions are always revocable. This needs an example."
donderdag 8 mei 2008
Geen uitvinding vernoemd naar de echte uitvinder
Weer wat nieuws geleerd vandaag, 'Stigler's Law'. Ik kan me eindeloos blijven opwinden over de destructiviteit van het merkenrecht, patent en octrooisysteem, maar gelukkig ben ik niet de enige;-)
"Gladwell uses this to talk up what Myhrvold is doing, suggesting that Intellectual Ventures is really about continuing that process, getting those ideas out there -- but he misses the much bigger point: if these ideas are the natural progression, almost guaranteed to be discovered by someone sooner or later, why do we give a monopoly on these ideas to a single discoverer? Myhrvold's whole business model is about monopolizing all of these ideas and charging others (who may have discovered them totally independently) to actually do something with them. Yet, if Gladwell's premise is correct (and there's plenty of evidence included in the article), then Myhrvold's efforts shouldn't be seen as a big deal. After all, if it wasn't Myhrvold and his friends doing it, others would very likely come up with the same thing sooner or later."
"Gladwell uses this to talk up what Myhrvold is doing, suggesting that Intellectual Ventures is really about continuing that process, getting those ideas out there -- but he misses the much bigger point: if these ideas are the natural progression, almost guaranteed to be discovered by someone sooner or later, why do we give a monopoly on these ideas to a single discoverer? Myhrvold's whole business model is about monopolizing all of these ideas and charging others (who may have discovered them totally independently) to actually do something with them. Yet, if Gladwell's premise is correct (and there's plenty of evidence included in the article), then Myhrvold's efforts shouldn't be seen as a big deal. After all, if it wasn't Myhrvold and his friends doing it, others would very likely come up with the same thing sooner or later."
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