Comments on: The InterDependent Web

By: Internet Marketing Firm

Internet Marketing Firm — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:51:00 +0000

Google has also entered its new social media website Google+ in this battle on web, Google is also trying to decrease the reliance of social signals for it search result from Facebook. It is very much interesting situation on the web, two big giants Google and Facebook are trying to down each other. Let see what happens in future, this is very informative and resourceful post thank your for sharing.

By: Central Job Vacancy

Central Job Vacancy — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:33:27 +0000

Search is not Google’s territory (nor alone Facebook’s). Google’s and Facebook’s competitors are perhaps wikipedia

By: Tom O'Brien

Tom O'Brien — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:27:37 +0000

Nice post John. My summary? We CHOOSE to associate with the Independent web. The Dependent web is trying to associate with us.

This is like the difference between hanging out with someone you know/want to know vs. fending off someone trying to sell you something.

As noted, the problem is one of scale. The independent web does not scale well for brand marketers.

@tomob

By: anas

anas — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:50:43 +0000

Google’s and Facebook’s competitors are perhaps wikipedia or wikileaks, but baby.com and pregnancy.com are unaffected by such branded sites which purport to be one-size fits-all oracles

By: keysha

keysha — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:26:50 +0000

I think they have some aspects of language will change more rapidly than others. Apparently, “facebook” was college jargon for something like “a book with faces in it”… but it was probably a meaningless concept 100 years ago.

By: Sirani

Sirani — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:38:42 +0000

I’m guessing that when you think through this dependent/independent/interdepedent story some more, you may profit from considering the ideas of Piaget and also Wittgenstein (regarding how the limits of our language are the limits of our thinking).

By: John

John — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:48:33 +0000

Charlie, thanks for reminding me of that post, a classic example of “Thinking Out Loud” which ended up in my book. I am looking forward to doing a lot more of that very thing this year. What was your question?

By: Charlie Crystle

Charlie Crystle — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:15:16 +0000

John--can you contact me about this?

http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/08/the_memex_the_story_and_searchstreams

Something I'm working on, and a lot of what my comments were about.

By: Charlie Crystle

Charlie Crystle — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:54:17 +0000

I know--my post was lame because I couldn't quite put my finger on why it seemed disconnected. I think having other examples along with FM would have helped; I've been enjoying the commercial-free thoughts.

Deleted most of my post--more undeveloped reactions. Monday, monday.

By: Charlie Crystle

Charlie Crystle — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:16:51 +0000

You had me, mostly, until the FM reference.