DISQUS

alan patrick · 2 years ago

Nic

A parallel thought: the structure of the Internet and human society are similar - both are types of scale free networks - so it is probably no coincidence.

And re Internet Peeps - where is the Internet going then?
mspoke · 2 years ago

The internet is defnitely moving to the centre of the social fabric. I often use iChat video to talk to my 6 year old nephew, he can work a Mac better than me. I was sitting quietly thinking about this recently, he doesn't know any different than this, me and him chatting on the net is just what people do to him, how families who are not located near to each other communicate with each other, it's all so normal to him.
nic · 2 years ago

Hi Alan - re internet peeps - there were thirteen speakers and thirteen different ideas!

You might say the internet is going up its own wazoo!
alan patrick · 2 years ago

Nic...re the 'Net going up its own wazoo....have you been following the hooha about Flickr and Technorati - they have essentially both changed the rules for their own user communities, and are drawing great ire.

I have of course added soothing oil to the flames here and here - those posts were fun to write :)

What it means is that I think there is a flipside to your post, i.e. that the internet re-organising around people makes companies running these services far more beholden to those people. This is clearly having some unforseen impacts on their ability to act commercially.