O'Reilly Radar

I've heard this talk a couple of times, so Im just listening for something new and cool Timisms. One bit of commentary, its great that wikis are on the O'Reilly Radar, but there is an even better reason for it to be than people simply using and talking about them. Wikis are the one tool that will bring the hacking culture to the masses.

Innovative hacks eventually become parts of platforms, even Windows.

Still thinking of the new killer apps of the Internet. Amazon, Google, etc. New world where software is somewhere else. Internet is the platform, built on on open source, services, exploring platform moves with APIs, aggregators not just software, user contributions key to market dominance.

Fabl.net/WWMX vs. Mapquest -- making applications social..."the mapping service that gets user participation right is going to win in a big way"

New activity in using the Net to mobilize people.

Orkut..I actually want friendship to meen something.

What's particular about wikis are that they are easy. A world writable website. People actually use them responsibly.

Wordspy -- the neologism tracker. MobileWhack. iTunes is the most developed in pulling together many themes: concieved as a multi device application, database back end, web services, rich client, mobile devices, rendezvous...but not yet collaborative or "architecture of participation":

• No user provided content
  
• iPoto now supports rendezous, but GarageBand doesn't
  
• Data sharing protocols woefully limited - every app ought to be a source of web services
  
• Doesn't allow group formation: e.g. Orkut, managing relationships -- id isn't about me, its about me and you -- isn't P2P the right answer for this kind of data? Some real advances could address and namespace data area...Microsoft, Nokia or somebody should be thinking.

Network-enabled Market Research by NetCraft, Map of the Market, Netscan, Technorati. Alexa View of Orkut.

Valdis's Clustering of Book Purchase Patterns research wins the Most Mentioned Award so far with the conference, especially yesterday.

Strong correlation of Adword Pricing vs. Book Sales. Book market: 51% Windows, 23% Mac, 18% Linux, 3% Handhelds -- very different from market share of operating systems. All developer book sales are trending down, mostly because of outsourcing.

The current radar is about hackable architectures that realize network effects.