Social Networking service designed around Warrens instead of Plazas (Warrens vs Plaza) to try and counter BigWorld Pathological patterns. (more)

Tech Startup Founder: Xianhang Zhang is a software developer and product designer who co-founded a company called Bumblebee Labs (which operated from roughly 2008 to 2010). [4, 5] (more)

Hang Zhang argument about designing Social Network as single big public space (e.g. Plaza) vs cluster or semi-private spaces (warren): see 2010-11-08-SocialSoftwareCoolingLegibilityAndWarrensVsPlazas (more)

Time Management method to keep from getting drowned in your To-Do List, works with Getting Things Done (Next Action) and other bigger-picture models (Worldview Based Living, etc.). Prioritize to 1 bottleneck! (more)

Back in 2007 Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote a post about groups becoming more fanatical over time via Evaporative Cooling - where some event triggers the more reasonable/skeptical people into leaving a group, so that those left behind have discussions that have less skepticism to drawn on. My own theory of Internet moderation is that you have to be willing to exclude trolls and spam to get a conversation going. You must even be willing to exclude kindly but technically uninformed folks from technical mailing lists if you want to get any work done. A genuinely open conversation on the Internet degenerates fast. It's the articulate trolls that you should be wary of ejecting, on this theory - they serve the hidden function of legitimizing less extreme disagreements. But you should not have so many articulate trolls that they begin arguing with each other, or begin to dominate conversations. If you have one person around who is the famous Guy Who Disagrees With Everything, anyone with a more reasonable, more moderate disagreement won't look like the sole nail sticking out. This theory of Internet moderation may not have served me too well in practice, so take it with a grain of salt. (more)

info-top analog to the Social Graph? (more)

2011-06-30-GooglePlusLaunches: Google Plus is launching, their new Social Networking product line. Google Circles (Universal Canvas), Google Sparks, Google Hangouts (Video Chart), Instant Upload, Google Messenger (Group Messaging). (more)

GoogleCircles was a GooglePlus feature. It enabled users to organize people into groups or lists for sharing[61] across various Google products and services. Organization of circles was done through a drag-and-drop interface[62] until a site redesign in 2015 reduced it to a simple checkbox interface. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B#Circles (more)

MicroBlog tool http://twitter.com/ (more)

Evan Williams bought back Odeo from its investors (MBO) to create Obvious Corp. He says it's not going to be a Vanity Incubator, but I'm not sure I believe it. (more)

Dan Hon suggests a Firebreak Protocol: A Long-Winded Set Of Meandering Thoughts Regarding Social Media (Social Graph, Social Warrens): (more)

Everything is Deeply Intertwingled. See Intertwingularity

Ash Maurya: My New Project — Unpacking the Innovator’s Gift – Love the Problem. Problem Discovery (Problem Interview) Before Solution Validation (Solution Interview) (more)

AI coding/vibe prototyping tool. https://lovable.dev/

Albert Wenger had an interesting post on the idea of "Content Capital" (kinda like Venture Capital) for Book Publishing. My believe is that agents have to start providing content capital. The idea behind content capital is pretty much the same as that behind venture capital. Content capital puts up the money, the author creates the work(s) and all proceeds are shared. These would be what the music world has started calling “360 deals,” where many different revenue streams are generated. Probably based around a tiny corporation (Virtual Company) whose main assets are some amount of Intellectual Property by an author, and the author's time. A way of (possibly) providing a Living Wage advance to the writer, and Marketing for the property, then sharing revenue. Bringing together multiple revenue streams is important. But would an author most-often end up with a single relationship/SmallCo to cover his whole output/life, or a series of single-work-specific ventures? If the former case, and the 1st work doesn't do super-well, is there going to really be any money to continue to pay the creator to work on object2? Conversely, if each work has its own fund, then do 2 funds end up competing for the same creator's time (for different purposes supporting different stages of the respective objects Life Cycle)? Seems like almost a form of Patronage with a possible payback (like a Broadway play - so the creator really wants to sell 200%). (more)

reframe of Intellectual Property

Jason Cohen says (Selling to Carol): Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected) you should Focus your product messaging on your "perfect customer" (Ideal Customer, User Scenarios). You have to communicate in a picture and a few words. The good news is you have to please only Carol, and you know Carol. You even know she’ll honestly be thrilled to find you. If your ad can’t grab Carol’s attention — your perfect customer — why do you think it will grab anyone else’s attention? If you still say it’s impossible to communicate your message in 5-10 seconds, no one in the world will get your message. (more)

Jason Cohen: The Iterative-Hypothesis customer development method. The goal is to uncover the truth, not to sell (more)

Book by Philip Tetlock on making good forecasts/predictions; cf thinking in bets

see prediction