Monthly Archives: March 2009

McLuhan Thinks Webcams Are Stealing Our Souls. Seriously.

Posted on March 18, 2009 by supnah

This is part two of a two-part post; a brain dump of potentially lilliputian proportions. The first part was about the idea of Transactive Memory and outsourcing certain types of brain function to the web. This post is about what … Continue reading →

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Luck, Charms, Irish – Venn Diagram

Posted on March 17, 2009 by supnah

Global Strategies white boards the relationship between Lucky, Charms, and Irish:

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Transactive Web Memory: Outsourcing Our Brains to the Interwebs

Posted on March 14, 2009 by supnah

Wikipedia defines Transactive Memory as: …the process whereby people remember things in relationships and groups. Each person does not need to remember everything the group needs to know, after all, if each person merely stores in memory information about who … Continue reading →

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Twitter’s (almost) Business Model

Posted on March 12, 2009 by supnah

There has been much debate about Twitter revolving around opinions that it lacks a reason for being, revenue, business model, and ultimate fiscal viability. And yet some really really smart, really really rich VC investors not only dumped an additional … Continue reading →

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Twitter is a Search Engine

Posted on March 12, 2009 by supnah

Twitter is a Real Time Capable Social Search Engine. Here’s a little piece that was part of another Twitter related blog post of mine, but it’s important, and I think it was getting lost behind the rest of the post.

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Wolfram Alpha: The next Google killer (that also won’t work)

Posted on March 12, 2009 by supnah

Wolfram Alpha. The next Google killer. The guest blogger at TechCrunch says, and I quote verbatim, “OMG!! PONIES!!1!!” So, y’know… Ponies it must be. OK. Computational knowledge. Cool. Cellular Automata. Cool. But we’re missing a couple of major points that … Continue reading →

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Facebook Can’t Buy Twitter, Becomes Twitter Instead

Posted on March 4, 2009 by supnah

Guess what? Facebook is the new Twitter (kind of). And I don’t mean in the “French 60′s musicals is the new black” sort of way (though it’s totally true). Earlier today Facebook had a little anouncement get together to call … Continue reading →

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