Comments on: Context is the new king

By: Joko Susilo

Joko Susilo — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:14:12 +0000

I agree with you. Context is the new king in the internet. Content without the right context will be useless. And now in the internet’s world, context moves rapidly. So, we need to adapt the content with the newest context.

By: Bonifer

Bonifer — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:38:02 +0000

oops, i followed Justin’s thread from Taylor Davidson’s site (and the palette stayed the same!)…apologies Justin! You are the thought-starter here!

By: Bonifer

Bonifer — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:35:50 +0000

‘Games’ — used in the improvisational sense of the word — can be a powerful engine for creating context across networks. See Facebook’s ‘Mass Animation’ app for an example of a game that generates the kind of context you describe in the post, Taylor. The context that gives meaning to data.

When we communicate with other human beings, we do so on what I call the Cosmetic, Emotional and Meta levels. (The Greeks called them Logos, Pathos and Ethos). The opportunity resides in elevating the two levels, Emotional and Meta, that get scarcer as networks expand.

Information flowing across networks is mostly what I call ‘cosmetic.’ That is, all about surfaces. Raw data. Connecting dots. The ability to contextualize this data is, as you and most of the commentors agree, where the moola is. More important than context related to space and time (’Can I get data I want where and when I want it?’) is context related to emotion and metaphor. (What does the data mean to me personally? What does it represent in the larger world of my belief system?)

Games are the engine that can unlock these two levels in highly productive and profitable ways.

By: Justin Kistner

Justin Kistner — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:34:30 +0000

Thanks, Gil. I’ll see if Voce has a copy of that report.

nformation management traditionally focused on the information itself, employees will seek to connect with the people who created and care about the information they care about too.

I just started a draft post about this. I’m going to finish it and post the link in the comments here.

By: Gil Yehuda

Gil Yehuda — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:18:06 +0000

Hey, I just came across this and wanted to thank you for quoting my blog. BTW I just published a report http://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/0,7211,46894,00.html One of my conclusions: Social networks will become the focal point for Web 2.0 in the enterprise. Why? Because social networks provide context to content. Whereas information management traditionally focused on the information itself, employees will seek to connect with the people who created and care about the information they care about too.

By: Justin Kistner

Justin Kistner — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:24:31 +0000

Ethan, an etiquette engine would be a library of rules designed to process standardized and passively generated status updates. It would be based on expediting polite interaction between people.

By: Justin Kistner

Justin Kistner — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:18:21 +0000

It’s true man. Playtime is giving way to money at the moment. I have another draft post started about just this subject! Basically it’s exploring if our current need for radical transparency and open source is because we’re naive about this brave new world. I wonder if we’ll look just as innocent in our beliefs as the hippes did with their peace movement.

I don’t think the future is bleak though. People didn’t think we’d see another boom after the first dot com bust, but we did. I think they’ll be another phase of innovation that is funded by VCs. It just might be a few years out. Feels like this will be the cyclical growth of the Internet for decades to come.

By: mr. diggles

mr. diggles — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:57:12 +0000

great post justin! seriously, this is wonderful and it truly shows that you are on the cutting edge of this shit.

the only thing that makes me sad is that web 3.0 is being driven by the ability to generate dollars where as 1.0 + 2.0 seemed much more about the human discovery of info and each other.

i miss the excitement of sites like stickdeath.com + mulletsgalore.com. now it all has to do with productivity and $$$$$$$4

By: ethan bauley

ethan bauley — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:06:19 +0000

I looked at social mention again today, and it occurred to me that the “data portability” thing really is job 1. i used to think of it from the consumer perspective (”can i move my friend list out of xyz?”) but now it’s really about the perspective of other services (”can i have access to the data in xyz so that my service is much better?”)

not that the consumer perspective isn’t important, but youknowwhati’msayin?

Also: I’d love to know wtf an “etiquette engine” is and an example use