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Sunday, March 26, 2006
Picture the Living Web 
| | It's a nice contrast to the popularity-über-alles slant of Clive Thompson's Blogs to Riches story in New York a couple months back. |
| | I like this (beside a pic of Mary Hodder crawling out of a little door): |
| | The generic term for this movement, especially among the hundreds of new companies jamming the waiting rooms of venture-capital offices, is Web 2.0, but that's misleading — some supposedly Web 1.0 companies like eBay and Google have been clueful about this all along. A more fitting description comes from Mary Hodder, the CEO of a social-video-sharing start-up called Dabble. (Since Dabble has not yet launched, I can't explain exactly what that means.) "This is the live Web," she says. |
| | Let the record (such as it is) show that "the World Live Web" was coined by Allen Searls back in 2001. And I've been making the case, since late last year, that the Live Web is a branch off the Static Web — rather than the Web's latest version (which is the "2.0" implication). |
| | I do think that the difference between the web of 5 years ago, and the web now, is very much the liveness of it. The static web is email and static webpages.. and the live web is all about change, time and people conversing across time and place online. |
| | So, maybe there's a versioning aspect to it as well. Gotta think about that. |
| | The Newsweek piece is (in the custom of publications looking for as many ways as possible to keep you surfing inside the site while subjecting yourself to maximal advertising) spread across five pages. On the third page there's this line: It's not an audience, it's a community. Hmm. Shades of what Tara Hunt and friends say here, no? |
| | The term "Living Web" also appears many times. Such as here, on page 5: |
| | "We were very small and very poor," says Fake, "so we built a lot of features that were deliberately viral." A big boost came from bloggers, who appreciated that Flickr had a one-button command to "blog this," and a photo would instantly appear on their site, hot-linked to the shot's real home on Flickr. They also made sure that their site worked well with other Living Web applications — Flickr photos are one of the prime ingredients in Web mash-ups. |
| | Less than a decade ago, when we were first getting used to the idea of an Internet, people described the act of going online as venturing into some foreign realm called cyberspace. But that metaphor no longer applies. MySpace, Flickr and all the other newcomers aren't places to go, but things to do, ways to express yourself, means to connect with others and extend your own horizons. Cyberspace was somewhere else. The Web is where we live. |
| | Note the metaphor. It's a place. Not just a shipping system for "content". The difference is non-trivial. To see why, head to Scenario III in Saving the Net. |
Wow
| | About half an hour ago, when George Mason was leading Connecticut by four points with about a minute left, I told the kid to come down and watch history being made. Then Uconn fought back, GMU's Skinn missed the front of a 1-and-1 with seconds left and a two-piont lead. Uconn scored on a shot that went in with 0:0 seconds left, and the game went into overtime. |
| | Incredibly, George Mason put together a five piont lead in overtime. But Uconn came back, cut it to two with 7.3 seconds left, then had a chance when GMU's Jai Lewis was fouled and missed two free throws with six seconds left. Uconn had a chance to win on a 3-pointer by Denham Brown with 1 second left; but the ball bounced off the rim. GMU's Lamar Butler grabbed the rebound and it was over. We were on the edge of the couch all the way. |
| | I don't think a seed this low has ever made it into the Final Four, least of all beating a team as deep and talented and well-coached as Uconn. |
| | Hope they go all the way. If they do, I'll be in GMU's home territory, attending Freedom 2 Connect when it happens. That would be wild. (Though I think LSU's gonna win the thing.) |
| | Thus ends (probably) my last sports report for the next few months. |
| | [Later...] Woops! Nope. We also watched Florida upset Villanova. So there isn't a single #1 seed in the Final Four. (Is that a first? I think so.) |
'rise up
| | By the way, you may notice that the Sun no longer comes up over the ocean, or the Santa Monica Mountains across the ocean, as it did here, here, here and here. That's because the sun rises farther and farther to the north through Winter and Spring. By now already it's rising well inland. So we see sunrises partially obscured by the south-facing hill on which we live. Still, not bad. |
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