In the previous two weeks I’ve been reading multiple posts and tweets that show the vague contours of a trend towards a new kind of web, the web of (real-time) activity streams. This new web will effectively implement the synaptic web paradigm. In this post I give a rough overview of some of my current [...]
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Towards a web of activity streams realizing the synaptic web paradigm
Monday, December 21st, 2009
Is the web establishment overlooking the opportunities of the open social web?
Friday, December 4th, 2009
Already for a long time questions about the future structures of the web unconsciously flow through my mind. Now, in this post I will not give definite answers to those questions (sorry! :-)). But in this context I noticed the news that Yahoo! will allow you to login with your Facebook identity on Yahoo! properties [...]
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Chad Scira’s tweet cloud project et al.
Sunday, November 29th, 2009
Oke, this is fun. Just found this nice project by Chad Scira, tweet cloud. It looks like many of the people I know on Twitter have also found it today. The service Chad developed allows you to create a tag cloud of your twitter messages, showing the words you used most. It is interesting to [...]
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Beyond the Twitter horizon
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Twitter represents an important step in the evolution of the real-time web, but what’s next? There are a lot of opportunities to create new real-time web innovations allowing you to manage, aggregate, engage in, and extract value from the real-time web. Such innovations can enable the adoption of the real-time web on a larger scale, allowing anyone to engage in real-time discussions, break news and create context around stories that are happening at any time. Twitter itself can play an important role in this future but I argue that they need to at least add capabilities to augment tweets with metadata enabling developers better opportunities to innovate on top of it.
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