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DIY 2D Pen lets you spend time just building the damn thing!
Check out this compeltely useless 2D pen that lets you spend a lot of time just making the thing. Of course, if you never succeed in making the 2D pen into a 3D one, you might have to take more time to re-assemble it until you get it right.
Our verdict?
Just go buy a regular pen but this DIY 2D pen is a cool concept. For traveling, you might be able to stick a piece of this 2-D pen for slimmer travel.
Innovative and unique, the Falter 2D pen makes you work for your ink. The “assembly kit” comes with a flat piece of iron that you fold into a 3-dimensional pen holder. The assembly kit includes a key to help you bend the metal, a ruler and instructions. Handmade in Italy.
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DIY 2D Pen lets you spend time just building the damn thing!
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Web 3.0 Will Be About Reducing the Noise—And Twhirl Isn’t Helping
It’s my own damn fault. I should have never listened to Mike. This morning I installed Twhirl on my desktop in a failed attempt to keep up better with Twitter and Friendfeed. I was hoping it would help me manage the never-ending flow of information from those two services—which, I admit, I’ve been increasingly ignoring. Instead, it took over my desktop and I couldn’t make it stop (see image above).
Twhirl solves one problem (the need to constantly visit the Twitter and Friendfeed Websites), only to create another one (information overload that clutters your desktop). I’m sure there is some setting I could change to fix the issue, but this highlights a bigger problem with the Web today. There is too much to pay attention to and not enough ways to reduce the noise. Even Robert Scoble, the biggest Twitter whore on the planet who follows 21,000 people and receives one Tweet per second, can’t deal with it anymore.
And it is not just Twitter. Lifestream aggregators like Friendfeed are supposed to make things simpler by consolidating the activities of everyone you know across the Web into one single view. But every day a new lifestream aggregator pops up to the point that it’s gotten to be ridiculous. Now, desktop utilities like Twhirl and Alerty Thing are taking these services out of the browser so that they are always on your desktop.
But if you think it is hard enough to keep up with e-mails and instant messages, keeping up with the Web (even your little slice of it) is much worse. Putting Twhirl on your desktop and hearing the constant “ding” of new messages coming in will make you realize that this is IM on steroids. (You will quickly turned off the sound).
Bringing all of this Web messaging and activity together in one place doesn’t really help. It reminds me of a comment ThisNext CEO Gordon Gould made to me earlier this week when he predicted that Web 3.0 will be about reducing the noise. (Some say it will be about the semantic Web, but those two ideas are not mutually exclusive). I hope Gould is right, because what we really need are better filters.
I need less data, not more data. I need to know what is important, and I don’t have time to sift through thousands of Tweets and Friendfeed messages and blog posts and emails and IMs a day to find the five things that I really need to know. People like Mike and Robert can do that, but they are weird, and even they have their limits.
So where is the startup that is going to be my information filter? I am aware of a few companies working on this problem, but I have yet to see one that has solved it in a compelling way. Can someone please do this for me? Please? I need help. We all do.
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Five billion social network sites, each about one person
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brad's post and daveman692's post, about Thoughts on the Social Graph.I have posted the following:
I came home from FOOcamp with my mind buzzing with something similar. It was in the zeitgeist, I guess.
Between being annoyed at some of 6As recent actions, and annoyed that if I left LJ, I would lose a lot of valuable social network information. And then the sessions on distributed social networks, openid, oauth. And playing with the CrowdVine social network software that had been set up for FOO.
And then I added in my own current hot interest, massive utility grid computing, and the attendant fall in price and ease of access for users to buy really cheap really transient processing.
And I had a vision.
- The "next gen FOAF format/protocol", distributed federated social graph data, like you have just excellently described.
- And social attribute claim data (X's name is, X's birthday is, X's interests are, etc)
- And the concept of the small start-your-own social network app, like CrowdVine. Only cranked even farther up/down. Instead of for a small cluster of people, its just for one person.
- And run it on the coming tide of uber-cheap, transient processing, with persistent storage.
Everyone could run their very own "social networking site", that would be all about just them. Sort of a "blog, squared". And that it could interop with the other "sites of one", and also interop with all/most/some/any of the current and future Big Systems.
A person could have something that will work and look and feel almost just like their current LJ / MySpace / Facebook / Vox / Friendster / Tribe / etc accounts. But it would be theirs, no longer subject to threat of deletion/distruction at corporate whim.
It could be easily hosted, either with the current model of renting a cheap hosting provider, like Linode or something. Or via the next generation of transient computing, like the successor or evolution of EC2. So if it's not doing much, it doesnt do much, and if it's suddenly called on to do a lot, it can burst up as needed.
Probably a good design for a "system of one" would have the basic core to handle the netgen-distributed-FOAF stuff, and the core of publish/subscribe (I'm thinking something like gdata, Atom over HTTP with TLS).
And then common modules for skins, blogging, images, presence, instant messaging, additional access (email from phones, SMS), "hot what" (Twitter / Dodgeball / etc).
And then a whole pile of more modules, which can barely be conceived of yet. Shopping agents. Wallets and value stores (maybe with a live network connection to a cryptoprocessor in the user's physical possession). Financial tracking/alerting/autotrade. Clipping service. Automatic secretary / personal assistant. etc etc etc.
There doesn't and wont be only one implementation, either. Many many can be written and deployed. As long as they mostly possess as sufficiently overlapping set of mutually understood protocols...
I think that this is more or less the way things are going to go.
The current silos are going to be as snowballs in boiling water. Their users are going to jump ship as fast as low-pain migration tools can be written.
There is going to be no more huge money in running a "basic" social network site at all. About the only good feature such will be able to offer will be hand holding, attempts at uptime guarantees, and resistance to DDOS / slashdot effect / instalanch.
The social graph will stop being something that people make money with, and become something that people make money because of. There will surely be lots of money to be made, via applications that haven't been realized yet and are not possible yet.
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