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Tuesday, April 15, 2003
 

BuddyZoo
BuddyZoo. AIM Meets Social Network Theory [Slashdot]

   

BuddyZoo just got Slashdotted.  Another form of identity browsing - AIM buddy lists are by far, the largest collection of identities out there today. Unfortunately it's controlled by the mother of all closed shops - AOL.

BuddyZoo takes your buddy list and compares it to everyone elses - and draws connections between them.  Totally right on.  Ross Mayfield will love this!  So will Danah Boyd.  [Marc's Voice]

Marc's right.  I do love this.  But what interests me is how IM as a mode of communication should display a different network pattern than email.  With IM, each connection is a confirmed tie that is based on a committment to allow one another the luxury of interrupt.  That's a committment.  My guess is the requirements for these connections would mean that this is not a scale-free network (power-law).  Its more of a social network.

So the mass graphing of all of AOL AIM doesn't really show that much. Its just a Zoo.


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Honesty in Action

Honesty In Action. A young systems administrator at IBM in Cambridge, Massachusetts took a taxi cab ride home to his apartment on a recent Friday night. Seconds after getting out of the cab, he realized that he had forgotten his backpack. He turned to see the cab disappear into the night. The backpack contained an IBM ThinkPad storing billions of bytes of pictures, music, email, financial data, and important business information. In addition were his digital camera, stereo headset, and various other computer and electronic devices. Calls to both the taxi company and the police department yielded recorded messages that were less than helpful. Ten days later came a telephone call from Issam. (read more) [John Patrick's weblog]

I recently had a similar experience.  And when good experiences happen you should share them.

When I took a cab to the airport in DC the other week, my Treo fell out of my bag into the cab.  Luckily my colleague Ed called the number shortly after.  The cabbie went out of his way to drop it off at my hotel (Georgetown Inn, has broadband, reccomended) and the hotel FedEx'ed it to me free of charge.  Cabbies have it tough these days.  The price of fuel and decrease in volume barely make it worthwhile to roll.  I wish I had a way to thank him.


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Wifi with Discovery

Sputnik has come out with its first hardware product: The AP 120 wireless access point. It's an enterprise thingie with auto-configuration (plug one into your LAN, it figures out where to get control commands, puts up a dynamic firewall, and immediately becomes a smart but unobtrusive member of the corporate hive — all while putting out a nice little wi-fi signal). Dave Sifry (Sputnik co-founder and main tech guy) tells me the $185 price gets you the equivalent of a Cisco number selling for $800 or so. Sputnik is selling it even more cheaply to OEMs and giving away the firmware for free. I'm sure a market will follow. [The Doc Searls Weblog]

Way to go Dave!


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