Friday, October 18, 2002

Connecting individual people is the killer app. Wetware. Britt Blaser describes the next killer app: I need an index of "amateur" experts with proven track records who are available immediately for high per-minute rates which I only pay when I'm satisfied, which means they have to be confident that I'll be reasonably satisfied. So we also need a reputation engine in addition to an expert index. They need to be "amateurs" for the same reason that the best bloggers are amateurs.... Britt is involved with Xpertweb, which looks quite interesting. [Kumquat's Musings] The picture on the right comes from the Xpertweb site. Simplicity itself speaking. Although I'd have drawn the arrows in the opposite direction. It starts from you. You sense a need, you think about it, you articulate it, then you pretty much know what you need. But you don't know how to do it. You find a trusted expert who'll do it. The result comes back to you. Everyone is happy. I think we need to develop tools both for figuring out needs and for finding experts. Such tools are likely to coevolve. [Seb's Open Research] 7:46:47 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

The Art Of Software Development: "They say that ignorance is bliss. This may be true when you're in love. However, if you're a novice developer who's just been told to implement a complicated Web application, ignorance is most definitely not bliss. Ignorance, in fact, can seem like a particularly long day in hell...with the heat turned up high." [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson] 7:24:51 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

If Architects Had To Work Like Web Designers: "Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be easily added or deleted. When you bring the blueprints to me, I will make the final decision of what I want. Also, bring me the cost breakdown for each configuration so that I can arbitrarily pick one." [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson] 7:23:29 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Sir Richard Steele. "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." [Quotes of the Day]  [[ t e c h n o c u l t u r e ]] 1:21:45 PM    trackback []     Articulate []