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- September 01, 2009
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– “This facet of the real-time stream is having a profound impact on the infrastructure of the Web. New storage and retrieval methods are being developed to overcome the time lags of writing not just to disks but to traditional databases. Adaptations to traditional structured query languages are being made to index items directly from the stream. Search engines and search capabilities are being modified to make use of real-time inputs to influence the search results. This isn’t just a Twitter effect. This is an effect across all uses of the Web, because the expectation of access to real-time information is now permeating all websites and the infrastructure of the Web itself.”
– “You can’t do much with the content on it. It’s delivered to you in that old “we’re the content creators, you’re the content recipient” method. You can annotate it for yourself, but it’s not social at all.” Guter Punkt.
– “”if we just get x% of this market, we’ll be huge!” But that’s top-down thinking, and markets don’t work that way. You need to be bottom up and explain not why x% will buy, but why the first person will buy, and the second person will buy and so on. “
– “Das Nachspiel im Netz dokumentiert vieles: Nicht nur die Lautstärke der vielen Sympathisanten von Trainer Baade, einem Autor, der die besten Fußball-Glossen in Deutschland schreibt. Da wurde auch die berechtigte Sorge laut, dass die neuen Meinungsmedien mit der Keule der Abmahnung mundtot gemacht werden könnten. Es dokumentiert aber ebenso die hinreichend bekannte Einäuigigkeit in der Politik. Dort wird gerne und viel vom angeblich rechtsfreien Raum Internet gefaselt. Tatsächlich wird im Internet zunehmend mit dem Alibi formaljuristischer Legitimität durchaus Recht praktiziert. Meistens ist es das Recht des Stärkeren.”