写之前特地注意了一下上一篇的日期:2月23日,到现在刚好两个月。两个月前,还在联络家,正运筹着年前规划的工作计划的执行;两个月后,确是已经在谋划自己接下来要做的事情,在筹备个方面的资源。
这个世界上,变是常理,所以,对于变的应对,也须是常态,只有这样,才会让自己无论做什么事,都能够从容,都能够自信:驾驭它,而不是顺从它。
以上是偶感,记录下,也算是另一个开始的起点。
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早上,收到来自">Socialmedian 的邮件,说是回答了问题就有机会得到T恤。呵呵,因为对SocialMedian的兴趣,所以特地回答了他们的问题。
之所以对于SocialMedian关注,也是因为和自己最近在考虑的一个问题有关。
对信息的需求,一直是人们的基本社会性需要之一,互联网和万维网的出现,让这种需求的满足出现了无限的可能,也是对于这种需求的解决,推动了Web的一些进化。
早先,人们所浏览的信息来自“公共”的、“权威”的、“商业”的媒体,以一对多的方式发布到需要消费的人们那里;其后,搜索引擎的引入带来了另一种形态,通过机器的索引和权值判断,让人们主动的去获取自己所需要的资讯。
Web2.0之后,大量的人们产生了大量的信息,并通过各个不同的社会性网络,形成了一个立体的、多维度/层次的信息生产/消费场景。他们让信息的传播回到了最本初的样子:人际网络的传播。
Web之上人们对于信息的社会行为,构建出了超越线下时间与地域限制的SocialNetwork/SocialNetworking,让信息的流动变得几乎没有成本的约束。但是,这也带来了一个问题,如何在海量的信息中及时获得自己所需、所想知道、所兴趣的话题?
刚才提到的SocialMedian,正是对这一问题解决得尝试,他们专注在所谓的News上,希望透过人们的群体智慧(SocialComputing),在贡献的同时,获取到来自整个人际网络/社区的“推荐”出的内容。
social|median is a social news service that connects people with personalized news and information. social|median enables you to easily keep up-to-date on the news that matters to you and to people who share your interests.
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Our site basically asks (and is attempting to answer) a big question: What if, instead of just the media companies filtering the news, we could collectively filter the news for each other? Imagine, for instance, if you could know on any given day what articles just your most trusted friends or colleagues are finding important. Or, if you were able to know what every person who has your job title is finding interesting. Or, if you could know what thousands of people from all around the world are finding important on a very specific topic (like say, “twitter”). That’s what we’re after here at social|median.
Our thesis is:
a. Yes, there is a lot of great content out there and the Internet is making content creation and distribution easier and easier.
b. But people need help wading through all that great content and discovering just the news and information that is most relevant to them.
c. A potentially powerful way to help people get a personalized view of news and information would be through collaborative filtering by people with like interests.
That’s what we’re working on.
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创始人Jason Goldberg,jobster.com的前CEO,总是一直强调他们的服务还处在很早很早的阶段。
这个服务得到了来自Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive 的投资。
与SocialMedian一样也处在很早很早阶段的,还有FriendFeed.com ,这个由几位Google出来的员工创立的服务,已经把目标对准了Google,相信在他们的心里面,FriendFeed是他们的下一个Google.com 。
“The important thing for Google is we want to make the Web better by making it more social,” says Kevin Marks, developer advocate at Google. “But the social pieces should be part of the Web, not part of separate sites.”
They hope to create a new kind of Google for the next stage of the Internet. “There hasn’t been a scalable way of finding the interesting stuff,” says Taylor. “There are lots of tools to help me publish that content, but few to help me find the relevant information.”
其中的关键就在与通过Web/Internet构建起来的社会性网络本身,这里的SNS,除了指人之外,也包括了各类不同SNS服务之间的串联,这也正是FriendFeed目前留言回馈正在尝试的。
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(中间事情太多,被打断了,待续吧。。。)