Well, this week we have finally added OpenGroups.com to our portfolio of Open online properties! We are really excited about the name and the project(s) that may be launch under it in the near future. As we re-strategies OpenNetwork.com and it’s 80 plus associated Open domain names, we saw a great opportunity to add OpenGroups.com to the mix and took it! Open Network and Open Groups hmmmm!
Stay tuned!
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– August 30, 2010
OpenNetwork.com and 80+ complementary web properties is now for sale as individual identities or as a package (network). Given the current climate in the tech, telcom, and social networking arena including the highly competitive Open Source and Open Network sphere- we felt it best that OpenNetwork.com et al be placed in the hands of a corporation, organization, or institutional investor that can truly utilize and expand on such a generic domain brand that naturally reaps in ~40,000 hits per month. OpenNetwork.com is a rare and extremely versatile domain that few names on the market can compete with in terms of prestige and potential application. Hesitation will mean a win for the competition.
Own OpenNetwork.com and make a name for yourself!
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Sample of Names (in Package): (Full list upon request)
Please send all inquiries to: sales@OpenNetwork.com or use the “Contact Us” form.
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– January 22, 2010
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– January 13, 2010
The AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe select the top 100 private companies. This year’s winners include:
Advertising Networks and Exchanges:
•Adchemy
•Admeld
•AdSide
•AppNexus
•AudienceScience
•BlueKai
•BrightRoll
•Collective
•Invite Media
•JiWire
•MediaMath
•Mpire
•PaperG
•PerformLine
•Pontiflex
•Reply!
•Rocket Fuel
•Simulmedia
•Yieldex
•Yodle
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– January 12, 2010
It is well known to the public domain that since early 2005 Google has been on the war path conquering and assimilating companies and infrastructures that extends on an apparent desire to streamline a true Open Network. These purchases have included the procurement of thousands of miles of dark fiber- remnants of the decadent net-boom. In 2007 Google dropped a nice shiny and tempting lure before the the FCC of roughly $4,700,000,000 for open access on the 700MHz band; a pretty sum exceeding the FCC’s annual budget by more then 10 times over. As of today, in a post by Richard Whitt (Washington Telecom and Media Counsel) the FCC is seeking a one-month extension to deliver its National Broadband Plan, explaining that more time is needed to review the public record and brief key officials.
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– January 11, 2010
Social Networking sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn are closed networks simply because they require confirmation of “friend” status. Basically, it really is just too much manual clicking to accept a lot of friends. Twitter has distinguished itself as a true open network that can amass networks of millions of followers, and is the application at the moment) closest to a personal broadcast media. Facebook certainly sees the power of massive networks (being the biggest one itself), and in order to compete with Twitter’s broadcast power, will unveil similar broadcast functionality. Simply put, in 2010 Facebook will create an opt-in setting that allows users to open their status updates to anybody who wants to follow them. Becoming a Facebook Fan today is similar but statuses can not be filtered within the main feed. Once 350+million Facebook broadcast systems are potentially unleashed, they can be curated categorically like Twitter Lists and conversations more conveniently filtered. Yes, Facebook already has Friendfeed as the model, but it needs to be simpler to use, and will likely cede to a new Facebook open network product.
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– January 4, 2010
The Open Network of Collective Intelligence
The intelligence we are interested in emerges while information is being exchanged amongst a group of individuals.
A large number of individuals gathering in persons, at the same time and in the same place, rarely leads to collective intelligence, because the information exchange fluidity is met with obstacles that are often insurmountable.
Thanks to modern communication systems, the obstacle to exchange fluidity seems to be overcome. However, if message exchange between two persons seems greatly facilitated, these exchanges quickly become difficult to manage as soon as the number of exchanged messages, as well as the number of persons involved, grows.
Today, one realizes that potential access to a large volume of information, or to a large number of individuals, is not sufficient to access to more intelligence.
Access to large volumes of information requires interfaces able to organize, structure and hierarchically set, into elementary pieces of information, those that are too complex, too large, or just too numerous, and that, as a result, cannot be assimilated by one person in a given time.
Descending communication from mass media
In order to communicate to the most important number of individuals, the information society, has made every effort to produce messages that are simplified, normalized and smooth, and that are destined to satisfy a population of individuals but no individual in particular.
Mass information is, most often, delivered as “take it or leave it”. This is the only alternative left to the addressee.
Mass communication, or descending communication, is the media application of the communication system established by Claude Shannon with the mathematical theory of information. We owe to Warren Weaver the fundamental diagram of communication systems shown below.
Communication, as it is described in the theory, is not concerned with the semantic aspect of the message being sent. Information is described, in the message, as an increasing function of the uncertainty reduction that it brings; this makes this theory essentially a static one.
From information flow to intelligence flow
In order to set networks able to support flow of intelligent pieces of information, it is necessary to redefine the theory of information.
The theory, which in reality is only concerned with signals, does not take into account the meaning of the information being moved. This is the reason why we propose the design of a less restrictive theory, yet more ambitious: a general theory of intelligence flows.
By integrating in this new theory the sciences of signs, that is semiology, one can see that a fundamental notion, retroaction, was not part of the previous theory.
Roland Barthes gives the following definition of semiology: “a science that studies the life of signs within the social life”.
The semiotic triade is a schematic representation of the sign interpretation proposed by the American logician Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914). It makes it possible to understand the place of the interpreter in relation to the object, and the sign that represents it.
The necessity to develop new languages, particularly for robotic applications, made it possible to improve our understanding of the mechanisms involved. The semiotic cycle demonstrates that a representation cannot exist without the sharing of a common space between the one who issues and the one who interprets. (From the kind contribution of Luc Steels, VUB AI Lab, Brussels and Sony Computer Science Lab, Paris)
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– January 3, 2010
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