DeepDarkSee

This links to the speech Courtney Love gave at a Digital Hollywood conference.  She lays out the systempic corruption of the recording industry, and shares some artist perspective on new paradigms for music distribution… while tearing a new orfice for just about everyone from the RIAA, to record companies, to VCs, to dot-commers.  An excellent read!

DamnInteresting: a way to achieve the same “high” sensation as one can get from illegal
drugs, anytime, anywhere, and without the chemical side effects and
criminal motivation? Such a technology does exist, and has seen
limited use in humans for several decades. The practice is known as
evoking pleasure by Electrical Stimulation of the Brain (ESB), and
despite its invention in 1954, few people have ever heard of it, and
much fewer have ever experienced it. It sounds like the stuff of
science-fiction, but it’s real technology.

Sign me up, but can you say addiction?  No, “we” can’t really handle it, but how interesting!

If Social Networking 1.0 is eGroups, Evite, Yahoo Groups and such, and Social Network 2.0 is Friendster, Linked In and such, then what is Social Networking 3.0? David Hornik defines it in a post as enablers of other compelling consumer experiences. He writes that “dozens of new social networks are emerging to enable specific, valuable consumer experiences that are enhanced by the underpinnings of the network.”

We’ve been thinking of the social networking integration into the BiM Active web service since the earliest days of development. We started with the assumption that communicating and sharing is an integral part of the use of the web service. It’s not an add-on, but is part of the normal use. Ironically, doing this well - so that it is just ‘there’ - is not a simple task, and we’ve left parts of that implementation incomplete. It’s our next big functional push. It’s become obvoius that we really have designed it in as an integral part, because the absence of more than the hooks is so obvious in our current state of implementation.

So it’s great to see some more validation for this model. We considered tie-ins to Tribe and the like, but couldn’t figire out to how to really integrate them into the fabric of what we’re doing. OK, so now all we have to do is do it well (yikes!).

PS: BiM Active will be publicly available (out of restricted beta) in January! February!

So why is Santa always so jolly?
   Because he knows where all the bad girls live!

…and have you heard the one about Santa and the dyslexic satan worshiper?

Read at TechCrunch … this is great! In a move similar to the release of the GMaps API, Google is now messing with the VoIP world. Think how easy this is going to make it to integrate chat with all kinds of web and non-web apps (text and voice calls). Think of the hybrids - click on the icon on the map to call the marked location is obvious, then think social networking sites, then games and community. We’re going to see tons of creative applications of this API.

Important to note is that this release includes a peer-to-peer technology layer as well. Another big door opener. That, and the fact that the API is under a Berkeley style license - it can be used for commercial as well as free apps - and woo hoo!

Google has also just changed the rules for Skype and other VoIP providers, much like they did in the mapping world not so long ago.

OK, based on inspiration from Mike Rowehl (now customize it, Mike!) and so many others, I’ve finally made the move to WordPress from Blogger. I’ve imported my blog entries from Blogger using the utility Wordpress provides. The only glitch was my confusion…none of the image references are present in the archives. Found the answer here. A simple change, but I’m amazed that showing ‘excerpts’ rather than ‘content’ is the default for archives!

Very fun, very different, and much richer than the ones used by Westerners!

     niko niko (smile)

     naki warai (tears of happiness)

     wa–i! (wow)

     …. (speechless)

     tabako (cigarette break)

     John Lennon

This is from Hiroette. Many more interesting emoticons there too.