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:: 2003/07/09 ::
:: 2003/07/08 ::Swarm Intelligence and Bonabeau
Reading an interview of Eric Bonabeau (Icosystems founder and CTO) by Derrick Story regarding Bonabeau research into social insects, and the applicability of swarm intelligence to human concerns. (Pointer from Dan Williams).
A great comment from Bonabeau regarding the reluctance of business management to accept the notion of bottom-up, emergent solutions to thorny problems:"Managers would rather live with a problem they can't solve than with a solution they don't fully understand or control."
:: Stowe Boyd 7/9/2003 05:09:54 PM [link] ::
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InfiniteAgent
In a recent post, I mentioned that the WSJ released a bot that operates within AIM. I thought it looked like ActiveBuddy (for no real solid reason, know that I reflect on it) but my friend Todd Tweedy informed me that it was developed using technology from InfiniteAgent.
Seems like a direct competitor to ActiveBuddy and Natural Messaging. I intend to do some research in this area, so more to follow.
:: Stowe Boyd 7/8/2003 11:56:26 AM [link] ::
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New "Message is the Medium" Column on P2P Collaboration
My new column is up at Knowledge Management magazine. I blather about recent experiences with Groove 2.5 and Kubi Software's innovative integration of peer to peer collaboration integrated in Outlook.
:: Stowe Boyd 7/8/2003 11:47:18 AM [link] ::
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Digital Camera Mobile Phones: Why Buy The Magazine?
Joi Ito points out a new trend in Japan (see BBC article), where folks are avoiding the cost the buying magazines by taking pictures of them with their digital cameras built in to their phones. Shopkeepers are putting up signs telling people not to do use their cameras in this way.
I guess they would get pissed off if I brought in a handheld scanner, too?
:: Stowe Boyd 7/8/2003 11:09:29 AM [link] ::
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Pulver Supernova: Opening Session Comments
I find that I am unmoved by the pronostications and pronouncements by Reed Hundt, former Chairman of FCC, arguing the benefits of the government underwriting fiber to every home as a means to stimulate the telecom industry, and indirectly, innovation. Only $40B, and think of the fun that we'll have, he seems to be saying.
Clay Shirky adroitly ripostes with the reasons why propping up the status quo -- the folks in the telecom space that own the 'last mile' of twisted pair wiring to the house -- is a bad idea and suggests that three must be a better solution. His discussion of the "dumb bell" internet -- where the fast IP network and the fast networks that businesses and homes support are divided by the slow twisted pair network. He argues that stagnation is a real possibility -- there is no reason to imagine a wave of innovation is about to emerge. I concur with his analogy between America tied up by the twisted pair network and France blocked from quickly adopting the Internet because of its reliance and investment in Minitel.
:: Stowe Boyd 7/8/2003 10:20:55 AM [link] ::
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