Julian Bleecker paper A Manifesto for Networked Objects - Cohabiting with Pigeons, Arphids and Aibos in the Internet of Things ( aka Why Things Matter) presents well known indicators that force us to  reconsider social interaction.  Once more we realize that the very moment we augment objects that surround us with the capability to interconnect via web protocols we also enhance them in many other ways.  As a result they start to autonomously communicate and articulate. Therefore as emerging agents within a new socio-technological field it seems that they start somehow to "coevolute" together with humans in an IT-driven world.  The downloadable PDF file is worth to be read, without any doubt. Although the most important question stays unanswered: is it possible that code becomes langauge ?

Contemporary lingustics consider this an impossibilty. But on the other side I've never met a linguist who would have done research on topics like RSS, RDF, OSC-Commands, scheduled agent code etc.  .

 It's undeniable that autonomous machines exchanging language like code are capable to show complex behavior. So, continue reading "Letting Objects Tell Their Stories" ....

We are moving closer to the point where we've to organize and structure terabytes of data as a daily routine. But this will only be possible if we have the "right metadata" at hand.

"While it's possible to add tags and metadata by hand, nobody would want to take that kind of time - the system itself needs to handle it! (Jamais, Cascio; 2000)". As would it be that easy !

What it really means to handle such an amount of data will become visible the same moment we start to use hard disk systems with 120 terabytes storage capacity; something we can expect within the next four years. ... read full article.

Generally the web knows just two answers to complexity. On the one side simplification and on the other side information filtering. Both strategies are valid and useful but are they really appropriate to the emergent phenomena and challenges of today's global internet? ... read full article.

If you combine perception-stretching science and technology with practical futurism, you start to get real-world applications.( Jon Lebkowsky)

Therefore it's pure fun to consider wikis and weblogs as aleatoric devices, as far as one can use them to rearrange every single encoded knowledge snippet in any way possible . This mind shifting technology leads to completely different workflows concerning the acquisition and distribution of knowledge within any company setting because knowledge working becomes composing.
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It's not possible to compare "open world" wikis and weblogs to their corporate counterparts, directly . They deliver different services. While the average wikilog serves as a generalized web publishing tool, a corporate wikilog means a strategy to overcome the problem of cognitive overload.

One of the recurrent questions concerning System One is how, we as a company, define our product. Is it the proclaimed evolutionary step into the future of a next generation enterprise content and knowledge management software ? Or represents System One the adoption of wikis and weblogs to the necesseties of todays enterprises ? Although the named aspects are valid ones to describe functionalities of our software suite, they are not the right ones to define it as a innovative product.

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