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Minding the Planet

January 09, 2010
11:53
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If you see this post in your RSS feed, that's because you are still subscribed to an old archived version of my blog. Please go to novaspivack.com and subscribe to the new feed address there to keep...
December 15, 2009
21:44
Please update your RSS subscription for this blog
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My blog has moved to a new URL: NovaSpivack.com Please update your RSS subscription (RSS is now working properly on the new blog site). The new RSS address is http://novaspivack.com/feed/rss
December 04, 2009
0:38
This Blog has Moved to NovaSpivack.com
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I have moved my blog to http://novaspivack.com (also http://www.mindingtheplanet.net) All my new articles and content will be posted there. This site (here) is maintained at typepad for archival...
November 04, 2009
21:33
The Web Wide World -- The Web Spreads Into the Physical World
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I have noticed an interesting and important trend of late. The Web is starting to spread outside of what we think of as "the Web" and into "the World." This trend is exemplified by many data points....
21:01
A New Economic Framework for Content in Web 3.0
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(FIRST DRAFT -- A Work in Progress. Comments Welcome) ------ Print media publications of all kinds -- newspapers and magazines -- are dying out, as the Web and online advertising take their place....
21:00
How to Build a Global Mind
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Kevin Kelly recently wrote another fascinating article about evidence of a global superorganism. It's another useful contribution to the ongoing evolution of this meme. I tend to agree that we are at...
October 28, 2009
4:08
What's After the Real Time Web?
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In typical Web-industry style we're all focused minutely on the leading trend-of-the-year, the real-time Web. But in this obsession we have become a bit myopic. The real-time Web, or what some of us...
October 13, 2009
21:31
Check out Factual
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My friend Gil Elbaz is launching Factual today. It's a new service that aims to aggregate spreadsheet style data from around the Web to create a vast open database of facts. Interesting stuff. Check...
August 17, 2009
20:55
Vote for My Panels & Twine at SXSWi 2010
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The panel picker for SXSWi went live this morning, and Twine has propsed several submissions. Browsing through the huge list of proposals (over 2200), it’s clear that the Semantic Web will be popular...
May 23, 2009
8:31
The Future of the Web: BBC Interview
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The BBC World Service's Business Daily show interviewed the CTO of Xerox and me, about the future of the Web, printing, newspapers, search, personalization, the real-time Web. Listen to the audio...
7:26
The Next Generation of Web Search -- Search 3.0
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The next generation of Web search is coming sooner than expected. And with it we will see several shifts in the way people search, and the way major search engines provide search functionality to...
6:52
Nowism -- A Theme for the New Era?
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DRAFT 1 -- A Work in Progress Introduction Here's an idea I've been thinking about: it's a concept for a new philosophy, or perhaps just a name for a grassroots philosophy that seems to be emerging...
May 16, 2009
6:11
Twine.com is "Red Hot" According to Fast Company
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Sneak Preview of Siri – The Virtual Assistant that will Make Everyone Love the iPhone, Part 2: The Technical Stuff In Part-One of this article on TechCrunch, I covered the emerging paradigm of...
May 08, 2009
12:01
Is The Stream the Next New Metaphor?
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May 8, 2009 Welcome to The Stream The Internet began evolving many decades before the Web emerged. And while today many people think of the Internet and the Web as one and the same, in fact they are...
April 19, 2009
1:17
Can We Design Better Communities?
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(DRAFT 2. A Work-In-Progress) The Problem: Our Communities are Failing I've been thinking about community lately. There is a great need for a new and better model for communities in the world today....
April 16, 2009
0:51
Metascience: Does God Exist? Does the Universe Exist?
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(DRAFT 7. Work-In-Progress) What is the universe and where does it come from? There are two major schools of thought on this question: Science: One is modern-day science, which takes the position...
March 27, 2009
21:04
Twine is Now Integrated with Twitter
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We've integrated Twine and Twitter so you can "tweet what you twine" -- it's surprisingly easy and cool. Try it!
March 15, 2009
18:33
Can Twitter Survive What is About to Happen to It?
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I am worried about Twitter. I love it the way it is today. But it's about to change big time, and I wonder whether it can survive the transition. Twitter is still relatively small in terms of users,...
March 14, 2009
1:35
Web is 20 Years Old - Web 3.0 - Third Decade of Web, Officially Begins
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The Web is 20 years old this month. The third decade of the Web has started. This means we are officially in Web 3.0 now. Web 2.0 is finished. Read more about this definition of Web 3.0 as the...
March 11, 2009
21:14
How Social Media Changes Content Distribution from Web Sites to People to Software
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I've written a new article about how content distribution has evolved, and where it is heading. It's published here: http://www.siliconangle.com/social-media/content-distribution-is-changing-again/.
March 08, 2009
7:21
Wolfram Alpha is Coming -- And It Could be as Important as Google
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Notes: - This article last updated on March 11, 2009. - For follow-up, connect with me about this on Twitter here. - See also: for more details, be sure to read the new review by Doug Lenat, creator...
February 18, 2009
23:09
What is Twine For?
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Please read this article which explains what Twine is, what makes it unique, and what it is for.
February 17, 2009
19:19
Twitter Changes Everything. The World Just Got Faster -- A Case Study (Full Version)
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Intro Because we think Twitter is important, my company has been working on integrating Twine with Twitter. Last week we soft-launched the first features in this direction. It turns out there is...
19:18
Challenges Twitter, and the Twitter Community, Will Soon Face
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Challenges Twitter Will Face As I think about Twitter more deeply, one thing that jumps out to me is that in each wave of messaging technology, the old way is supplanted by a new way that is faster,...
19:16
How Twitter Makes Things Faster: A Timeline
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The World is Getting Faster In the world of Twitter things happen in real-time, not Internet-time. It's even faster than the world of the 1990's and the early 2000's. Here's an interesting timeline:...
19:15
Why Your Brand or Company Must be On Twitter
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Why Your Brand or Company Should be Watching Twitter Messages spread so virally and quickly in Twitter when they are "hot" that there is almost no time to react. It's at once fascinating to watch,...
19:06
Why Twitter is Actually Something New and Different
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Why is Twitter Different From What's Come Before? I pride myself on being on top of the latest technologies but I think I unfairly judged Twitter a while back. I decided it wasn't really useful or...
February 16, 2009
18:23
Brilliant Article on Twitter vs. Google
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Erick Shonfeld at TechCrunch has written an article that totally blew my mind about how Twitter and "real-time search" could challenge Google, and just might be the new frontier in the search war.
February 14, 2009
8:42
Video: My Talk on The Future of Libraries -- "Library 3.0"
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If you are interested in semantics, taxonomies, education, information overload and how libraries are evolving, you may enjoy this video of my talk on the Semantic Web and the Future of Libraries at...
8:33
Video: My Talk on the Evolution of the Global Brain at the Singularity Summit
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If you are interested in collective intelligence, consciousness, the global brain and the evolution of artificial intelligence and superhuman intelligence, you may want to see my talk at the 2008...
February 06, 2009
20:05
Twine's Explosive Growth
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Twine has been growing at 50% per month since launch in October. We've been keeping that quiet while we wait to see if it holds. VentureBeat just noticed and did an article about it. It turns out our...
January 31, 2009
5:20
Kevin Kelly's View of Collective Intelligence
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Kevin Kelly wrote an interesting post today, which cites one of my earlier diagrams on the future of the Web. His diagram is a map of two types of collective intelligence -- collective human...

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