Nova Spivack – Minding the Planet

Here’s an idea I’ve had recently that is related to the Meme Propagation experiment (see posts below on this blog for more about that ongoing experiment). The concept is for a new, meme-based, way to syndicate content across blogs. Here’s how it might work: 1. You join a “meme syndication network” by joining at a [...]

Draft 1.1 for Review (integrates some fixes from readers) Nova Spivack (www.mindingtheplanet.net) INTRODUCTION This article presents some thoughts about the future of intelligence on Earth. In particular, I discuss the similarities between the Internet and the brain, and how I believe the emerging Semantic Web will make this similarity even greater. DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENCE The Semantic [...]

The Memecodes Project starts with randomly generated Web pages and evolves them to get more search results from Google. Brilliant idea. The only problem is that Google indexing isn’t frequent enough, making this process take a bit of time. Still, I think this is a very interesting new approach that could even be a useful [...]

Notes: Many people have requested this graph and so I am posting my latest version of it. The Metaweb is the coming “intelligent Web” that is evolving from the convergence of the Web, Social Software and the Semantic Web. The Metaweb is starting to emerge as we shift from a Web focused on information to [...]

Dave reports that Technorati broke the “2 million weblogs tracked milestone” today. He states that there are about 12,000 new weblogs created per day now, and about 150,000 weblog updates per day and growing.

This is a very well thought-out critical review of the pros and cons of various social networking sites. Full of insights for those of us in the biz.

This is a really good article with a cool illustration of how news moves across the Metaweb. Definitely take a look at it.

I call it a Lifelog — Nokia calls it a “Lifeblog” (my terminology is better) — but it’s the same idea — a log of all the stuff you experience — your whole life, blogged and online. OK but the key is to make sure I can keep my lifeblog private — or at least [...]

Tristan posted a nice article about better ways to manage RSS today (reproduced here with his exact wording, typos and all, since my policy is not to edit other people’s words)… 2004 is obviously the year of RSS, with article popping up left and right in mainstream publications. However, RSS can also be a source [...]

It would be cool if there was a way to automatically make and serve an RSS feed from my daily IE history — this feed would be a running stream of every URL I look at every day. It would be generated by a little floating utility on my desktop. The utility would allow me [...]

Here are some good stats on the size of the blogosphere.

One of the big changes that will be enabled by the coming Metaweb is the shift from application-centric computing to data-centric computing. As the Metaweb evolves, information will be imbued with increasingly sophisticated metadata. HTML provides metadata about formatting and links. XML provides metadata about structure and behavior. RDF, RDFS and OWL provide metadata about [...]

This diagram (click to see larger version) illustrates why I believe technology evolution is moving towards what I call the Metaweb. The Metaweb is emerging from the convergence of the Web, Social Software and the Semantic Web.

The Internet and American Life Project found that between 2 and 7 percent of Americans have weblogs, and about 10 percent of them update their blogs regularly. 11 Percent of surfers reported visiting blogs. The study was a random telephone survey of 1,555 Internet users with a 3 percent margin of error.

Here is my strategic outlook on the evolution of online technologies: past, present and future. Please see the table below. Commentary follows the table…   Content Communication Collaboration Community Commerce 1980’s   The Net   Desktop Publishing   Phone, Fax, Email Database Applications BBS’s & On-line Services Phone, Fax, Early EDI 1990’s   The Web [...]

Huge news for the Semantic Web — the W3C has officially approved the RDF and OWL specs.

Jerry Michalski has just submitted a link to FABL, a new programming language for the Semantic Web, that is entirely written in native RDF… very interesting… What do you think of this?

Ran across this paper on some ideas for distributed, peer-to-peer social software. It’s a very nice overview of some of the main ideas and benefits of a decentralized model for social networking, and also touches on Semantic Web topics. Interestingly the author has hit upon many of the major themes in Radar Networks’ platform — [...]