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  Leveraging Ideas

  http://nymieg.blogspot.com/2008/05/i-came-across-interesting...
  4 days ago in ny:mieg · Authority: 53

  I came across an interesting piece today from Leveraging Ideas all about Memes. What are memes you may ask? According to Wikipedia, a meme consists of any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that gets transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another. Examples include thoughts, ideas, theories, practices, habits, songs, dances and moods and terms such as race, culture, and ethnicity. Memes propagate themselves and can move through a "culture" in a manner similar to the behavior of a virus. As a unit of cultural evolution, a meme in some ways resembles a gene. Richard Dawkins, in his book, The Selfish Gene, recounts how and why he coined the term meme to describe how one might extend Darwinian principles to explain the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena. He gave as examples tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothing-fashions, and the technology of building arches. That said, here is the article...I'd be curious your thoughts. -Bill Social Media 10 Interesting Memes Plucked From The Blogosphere I’ve been noticing a lot of memes floating around the social media/2.0 space over the last two weeks and I decided to pluck 10 of my favorites. If you haven’t been glued to Google Reader or Twitter, here is a run-down of memes worth paying attention to… Socialprise: Social tools + enterprise = “socialprise.” According to RedWriteWeb this meme represents one of the biggest shifts in business today. AVC questions whether it’s an oxymoron. Suckage: Refers to a general feeling among smart technologists such as Umair Haque that entrepreneurs aren’t addressing real problems but instead creating ’me-too’s.’ Umair has even issued a challenge. PaaS: Refers to Platforms as a Service (as opposed to Software as a Service). This meme was coined by Tony Bishop who sees it as the invasion of the consumer web into the enterprise Twitter Liberation Organization (TLO)*: Annoying concept kicked around by Techcrunch, Hank Williams and others suggesting that Twitter is ‘too important to continue with current ownership.’ The idea: open-source it Distributed Polling: Fred Wilson believes we are better solving problems collectively. He posted a poll on YHOO stock price which was picked up and published on a number of leading blogs. Singularity: Peter Thiel has donated to another interesting, albeit obtuse, non-profit complementing his gifts to advance radical life extension. Wouldn’t you love to be a fly on the wall in the next Facebook board meeting? ReadBurner: Adam Ostrow editor of Mashable acquired ReadBurner to help socialize Google Reader. Google itself, can’t seem to do the job. TwitPitch: Stowe Boyd, suggests a new way of ‘pitching’ limited to 140 characters. Stowe calls it the future, even though he is more interested in the present(er) Dimensionalizing: John Bothwick asks: What would the web look like if you picked it up and looked at the bottom? John believes we need new metaphors to understand and place dimensions around what a web experience is. GoogleWhack: A new Greenspan-ism “pale recession” irked Paul Kedrosky and led to his suggestion that Greenspan is a ninja SEO (or personal brander) playing a game called Googlewhack. *TLO is lexicon I’m coining to describe people referring/supporting this annoying idea
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  Ten Interesting Memes Plucked From The Blogosphere

  http://www.leveragingideas.com/2008/05/06/social-media-memes...
  6 days ago in Leveraging Ideas | The Culture and Financing of Early Stage Companies · Authority: 194

  I’ve been noticing a lot of memes floating around the social media/2.0 space over the last two weeks and I decided to pluck 10 of my favorites. If you haven’t been glued to Google Reader or Twitter, here is a run-down of memes worth paying attention to… Socialprise: Social tools + enterprise = “socialprise.” According to RedWriteWeb this meme represents one of the biggest shifts in business today. AVC questions whether it’s an oxymoron. Suckage: Refers to a general feeling among smart technologists such as Umair Haque that entrepreneurs aren’t addressing real problems but instead creating ’me-too’s.’ Umair has even issued a challenge. PaaS: Refers to Platforms as a Service (as opposed to Software as a Service). This meme was coined by Tony Bishop who sees it as the invasion of the consumer web into the enterprise Twitter Liberation Organization (TLO)*: Annoying concept kicked around by Techcrunch, Hank Williams and others suggesting that Twitter is ‘too important to continue with current ownership.’ The idea: open-source it Distributed Polling: Fred Wilson believes we are better solving problems collectively. He posted a poll on YHOO stock price which was picked up and published on a number of leading blogs. Singularity: Peter Thiel has donated to another interesting, albeit obtuse, non-profit complementing his gifts to advance radical life extension. Wouldn’t you love to be a fly on the wall in the next Facebook board meeting? ReadBurner: Adam Ostrow editor of Mashable acquired ReadBurner to help socialize Google Reader. Google itself, can’t seem to do the job. TwitPitch: Stowe Boyd, suggests a new way of ‘pitching’ limited to 140 characters. Stowe calls it the future, even though he is more interested in the present(er) Dimensionalizing: John Bothwick asks: What would the web look like if you picked it up and looked at the bottom? John believes we need new metaphors to understand and place dimensions around what a web experience is. GoogleWhack: A new Greenspan-ism “pale recession” irked Paul Kedrosky and led to his suggestion that Greenspan is a ninja SEO (or personal brander) playing a game called Googlewhack. *TLO is lexicon I’m coining to describe people referring/supporting this annoying idea Subscribe to this blog!
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  Fred Wilson on Distributed Polling

  http://www.sexywidget.com/my_weblog/2008/05/fred-wilson-on.h...
  7 days ago in Sexy Widget · Authority: 57

  This quote caught my eye from A VC on how embedded polls on multiple blogs can act as a single service: I love this concept. We can work together to figure stuff out. Instead of each of us hosting a small poll on our blogs, we can collaborate on one large one. This sounds like another excellent example of cross domain web services to me.
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  Fred Wilson on Distributed Polling

  http://www.sexywidget.com/my_weblog/2008/05/fred-wilson-on.h...
  7 days ago in Sexy Widget · Authority: 69

  This quote caught my eye from A VC on how embedded polls on multiple blogs can act as a single service: I love this concept. We can work together to figure stuff out. Instead of each of us hosting a small poll on our blogs, we can collaborate on one large one. This sounds like another excellent example of cross domain web services to me.
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  Distributed Arbitrage

  http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2008/05/distributed-arbit...
  7 days ago in Marc’s Voice · Authority: 281

  So why did Fred Wilson create that coolio Yahoo poll yesterday? His Quibblo poll (which asked what price would Yahoo’s stock price would close at today) - was picked up by 24 blogs (including his own.) It collected almost 2,200 votes within a day. But did Fred do this out of some interest in Yahoo or because he actually cared about all those poor Yahoo shareholders? No - he did it so he could put in some buy prices at the low price and make some money off of somebody else’s misery. Ah Wall St. Gotta love it - huh? And capitalism - what a great system. This arbitraging behavior has been around for a while. But what does it have to do with making things? Or bettering the world?

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