July 22, 2005

thanks, doc!

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Doc Searls gives Thin­gamy a men­tion:

What mat­ters most is who is coming up with it. As usual with cool things that hap­pen natu­rally on the Web, it’s not the big ven­dors or other usual sus­pects. It’s indi­vi­duals, trying to make sense of the world.
Dollars, of course, will come later.

If you want to know more about Thin­gamy, Sig’s the guy to talk to etc.
[NOTE TO SELF:] How does this affect “The Porous Membrane”?

2 Responses to “thanks, doc!”

  1. think again - Ideascape is advanture says:
    July 22, 2005 at 12:29 pm

    Mic­ro­For­mats — Tags

    Doc Searls, “Making More Sense of the Web” — I think one rea­son the Net and the Web are so suc­cess­ful is they came without much of an orga­ni­zing fra­me­work. The only direc­tory was the domain name sys­tem (DNS), and it spe­ci­fied nothing that com

  2. Alex says:
    July 22, 2005 at 10:18 pm

    I find it inte­res­ting Hugh that you have star­ted to think about how things like ‘Thin­gamy’ affects the porous mem­brane. I was thin­king the same a while back in a docu­ment desc­ri­bing my vision for a next gene­ra­tion file sys­tem I said this:
    With Base4 you can expose your infor­ma­tion and pro­ces­ses to clients, sup­pliers and part­ners secu­rely and safely. This will create good­will, syner­gies and enhance trust.
    Tech­ni­cally this is achie­ved using a com­bi­na­tion of Con­tex­tual Secu­rity and Con­tex­tual Search Fol­ders. External