brianfrank

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by brianfrank 19y ago
Never mind my last comment. I should've just said "Second Life." Those users -- at least the ones who stick around -- invest alot of capital (cultural, emotional, financial, etc). I don't know if Second Life will be the company that get
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by brianfrank 19y ago
What do you think might happen if the federal government tried to implement a centralized innovation initiative?: Would it be a joke? a moderate success? a non-entitiy? or could it even be counter-productive?
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by brianfrank 19y ago
Beauty. Thanks pg for finding a "concrete example" that iamwil wanted to support my post yesterday on 'web3.0' (or whatever it should be called). If wikipedia is really serious about growing, they might do well to start figuring out how to
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Ask YC: Different cultures in The Valley?
1 points by brianfrank 19y ago|1 comments
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by brianfrank 19y ago
Sorry, I know it's pretty fuzzy. I don't know if there are any examples until something starts going wrong (IF something starts going wrong). You make a good point about the average user needing to know less and less. Which is great, I hope
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by brianfrank 19y ago
Nice. I like those suggestions... But wouldn't it be more fun just to steal movie titles. How about The Web Identity > The Web Supremecy > The Web Ultimatum... did I get the order right? Anyone remeber the 'Ernest' films?
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by brianfrank 19y ago
I agree that the terms are silly and abused, but unfortunately we seem to be getting stuck with them. I'd love to have better ones (know any?), but for now, you have to admit that people at least know what they refer to: things that'd other
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by brianfrank 19y ago
Granted. My case isn't very concrete. I'm going by the very general principle that if something isn't growing -- making new connections, adapting, and creating -- then entropy starts to happen. I don't think the web can grow much more comp
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Preparing for Web 3.0(blog.openconceptual.com)
2 points by brianfrank 19y ago|12 comments
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by brianfrank 19y ago
This is great! I just wrote a similar essay on http://blog.openconceptual.com/ proposing a 'philosophy of enterprise,' which also served as an introduction to the work of Alfred North Whitehead -- a philosopher with a mathematical backgro