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May 16, 2005
Social networking software...
I am always interested to see how an hour conversation with a reporter gets parsed in a story. Recently, I spoke to Josh Jaffe at The Deal about social networking software. My comments got wrapped up into a wide ranging story from Blogs to social networking to collaborative software to wikis here: Blogs and social networks and wikis, oh my! | Josh Jaffe The Deal. If I knew that I would have had more to say. The thrust of my conversations with the reporter were around how collaborative architectures are uniquely able to solve many of the emergind distributed problems on the internet. Like SPAM, viruses and fraud. Having over a million people "sensors" voting on what SPAM is gives Cloudmark a level of intelligence and responsiveness that simply is not possible with any other single CPU based algorithm. I believe this is a fundamental, powerful and underappreciated aspect of distributed network collaboration architectures.
Josh got my comments right, but hid them in a long article. Nice to see my friends Sifry and Ross in there though!
Posted by Martin at May 16, 2005 10:14 PM
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I wrote a book review on the "Wisdom of Crowds" at http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/4497.asp that in many ways mirrows what's going on with social networks, wikis, search engines, spam filters, etc. even though the book predates the popularization of those tools. The book is instructive if you are building a business around leveraging the power of a large group of people.
Posted by: Dave 
at May 17, 2005 12:53 PM
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