Thursday, April 5, 2007
The theory of Twitter & of social imbalances
The theory of Twitter & of social imbalances
April 05, 2007 by Dave Winer.
Dave in this post expands on a notion that he had discussed about Twitter's change of subscription policies.
Well, from what I understand, he essentially is trying to analyse whether systems can be entirely democratic in their decision-making processes (in the piece he had written about on Twitter's policies, the system was not fully democratic). Dave feels that social systems could be perceived as being in one of the two sets - balanced and imbalanced systems. Balanced systems are perceived to be democratic and fair, and the imbalanced ones are not, put crudely.
Imbalances continue happening in social systems, and so they will in Twitter, predicts Dave - somewhat on the lines of the evolution of the A-list bloggers...but is this "imbalance" a problem? Quite on the contrary, feels Dave. Such an imbalance could be quite necessary for these systems to function, similar to similar imbalances being necessary for efficient decision making in companies (at least medium and large companies).
One can easily see the relevance of this discussion to many open source projects, and we have already heard of quite a few open source project leaders being called "dictators" at least in a humorous sense (but perhaps not always meant lightly!). But unless there exist such (hopefully) benevolent dictatorships, would the world ever see the likes of more Linuxes and Phps and Apaches? If two's company and three a crowd, just imagine what combined decision-making by dozens of geeky and strong-minded developers would add to :-). A word pops in my mind - pandemonium.
Interesting post, read the full post here @ Scripting blog
April 05, 2007 by Dave Winer.
Dave in this post expands on a notion that he had discussed about Twitter's change of subscription policies.
Well, from what I understand, he essentially is trying to analyse whether systems can be entirely democratic in their decision-making processes (in the piece he had written about on Twitter's policies, the system was not fully democratic). Dave feels that social systems could be perceived as being in one of the two sets - balanced and imbalanced systems. Balanced systems are perceived to be democratic and fair, and the imbalanced ones are not, put crudely.
Imbalances continue happening in social systems, and so they will in Twitter, predicts Dave - somewhat on the lines of the evolution of the A-list bloggers...but is this "imbalance" a problem? Quite on the contrary, feels Dave. Such an imbalance could be quite necessary for these systems to function, similar to similar imbalances being necessary for efficient decision making in companies (at least medium and large companies).
One can easily see the relevance of this discussion to many open source projects, and we have already heard of quite a few open source project leaders being called "dictators" at least in a humorous sense (but perhaps not always meant lightly!). But unless there exist such (hopefully) benevolent dictatorships, would the world ever see the likes of more Linuxes and Phps and Apaches? If two's company and three a crowd, just imagine what combined decision-making by dozens of geeky and strong-minded developers would add to :-). A word pops in my mind - pandemonium.
Interesting post, read the full post here @ Scripting blog
Labels: analysis, perspectives, problems, project-management, social-networking
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Simple Machines' Influence On The Open Source Community Draws Go Daddy's Attention
Simple Machines' Influence On The Open Source Community Draws Go Daddy's Attention
Press release
Domain registrar mega giant Go Daddy (godaddy.com) proudly announced last Thursday its support of Simple Machines LLC (simplemachines.org) with a cash donation of $10,000.
For Immediate Release
FOLSOM, Calif., April 2, 2007 --- The Internet's largest domain registrar, Go Daddy (godaddy.com), proudly announced last Thursday its support of Simple Machines LLC (simplemachines.org) with a cash donation of $10,000.
"The open source community really helped make the Internet what it is today. These projects help millions of Web users everyday and we are grateful to groups like Joomla and Simple Machines for moving open source initiatives forward," says Warren Adelman, president and COO of Go Daddy.
"We've made great strides in our [short] three year existence. A donation of this magnitude from Go Daddy is further validation of just how much our software has impacted the open source community," says Project Manager Amacythe of Simple Machines LLC.
"We would like to thank Go Daddy for their generous contribution and hope that it sets a precedence for other organizations to take notice of Simple Machines LLC," says Rick Caudill, marketing team member of Simple Machines LLC.
Simple Machines LLC develops Simple Machines Forum (SMF) software - a free, professional grade, highly-customizable software package that allows users to set up their own online community within minutes. SMF is written in the popular scripting language PHP and makes use of MySQL for databasing. It is designed to provide users with a fully customizable a feature-rich bulletin board while having an absolute minimal impact on the resources of the server. SMF is the next generation of forum software, and best of all it is and will always remain completely free. Learn more at 'http://www.simplemachines.org'
CONTACT:
Rick Caudill
Simple Machines LLC
1015 Riley Street
Suite 1453
Folsom, Calif. 95763-145
PHONE. 9167431433
http://www.simplemachines.org
SOURCE: Simple Machines LLC
Press release
Domain registrar mega giant Go Daddy (godaddy.com) proudly announced last Thursday its support of Simple Machines LLC (simplemachines.org) with a cash donation of $10,000.
For Immediate Release
FOLSOM, Calif., April 2, 2007 --- The Internet's largest domain registrar, Go Daddy (godaddy.com), proudly announced last Thursday its support of Simple Machines LLC (simplemachines.org) with a cash donation of $10,000.
"The open source community really helped make the Internet what it is today. These projects help millions of Web users everyday and we are grateful to groups like Joomla and Simple Machines for moving open source initiatives forward," says Warren Adelman, president and COO of Go Daddy.
"We've made great strides in our [short] three year existence. A donation of this magnitude from Go Daddy is further validation of just how much our software has impacted the open source community," says Project Manager Amacythe of Simple Machines LLC.
"We would like to thank Go Daddy for their generous contribution and hope that it sets a precedence for other organizations to take notice of Simple Machines LLC," says Rick Caudill, marketing team member of Simple Machines LLC.
Simple Machines LLC develops Simple Machines Forum (SMF) software - a free, professional grade, highly-customizable software package that allows users to set up their own online community within minutes. SMF is written in the popular scripting language PHP and makes use of MySQL for databasing. It is designed to provide users with a fully customizable a feature-rich bulletin board while having an absolute minimal impact on the resources of the server. SMF is the next generation of forum software, and best of all it is and will always remain completely free. Learn more at 'http://www.simplemachines.org'
CONTACT:
Rick Caudill
Simple Machines LLC
1015 Riley Street
Suite 1453
Folsom, Calif. 95763-145
PHONE. 9167431433
http://www.simplemachines.org
SOURCE: Simple Machines LLC
Labels: internet, social-networking, web-2.0
Facebook Releases Open Source Project
Facebook Releases Open Source Project
Facebook has released Thrift, a software package designed to generate code to create programs that communicate easily and efficiently across programming languages, as an open source framework.
Originally developed by Facebook for use on the popular social network site, Thrift is a code generation engine to build services that work “efficiently and seamlessly” between C++, Java, Python, PHP, and Ruby.
Read the full report from here @ Wired
Facebook has released Thrift, a software package designed to generate code to create programs that communicate easily and efficiently across programming languages, as an open source framework.
Originally developed by Facebook for use on the popular social network site, Thrift is a code generation engine to build services that work “efficiently and seamlessly” between C++, Java, Python, PHP, and Ruby.
Read the full report from here @ Wired
Labels: social-networking, web-2.0
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