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By: SXSW 2010 Panel Idea: Personal APIs: Better Living Through Collaboration | Taylor Davidson

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:04:11 +0000

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Collaboration matters for differentiation | AccMan — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:10:58 +0000

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By: A “Personal API” could be a modularized, standardized interface for collaboration. | Unstructured Thoughts by Taylor Davidson

Thu, 07 May 2009 14:58:23 +0000

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By: Taylor Davidson

Taylor Davidson — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:33:23 +0000

Actually, you are contributing to it: deciphering the cacophony of the realtime web is a big challenge and a key component towards developing ways to scale interactions.

By: Taylor Davidson

Taylor Davidson — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:31:17 +0000

Big opportunity: moving from broadcasting information (one-way, talking past each other) to "scaling listening" (still one-way, but catching signals from the noise and analyzing) towards value-creating interactions (two-way interactions based on listening and analysis).

It will have to happen because the current state of communications is unsustainable; the real question is how we'll change.

By: Will Dearman Lifestream » Daily Digest for April 17th, 2009

Will Dearman Lifestream » Daily Digest for April 17th, 2009 — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:17:00 +0000

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By: Fred H Schlegel

Fred H Schlegel — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:04:15 +0000

'Personal API' and 'Scaling listening” are really cool concepts. Establishing trust and value quickly in a workably sized group is very difficult. As is filtering out the noise that is attracted by a successful grouping. So in my mind part of the question of scale is how do you create communities to draw from that are subsets of the universe – I don't have time to go through a thousand responses to an RFP let alone verify them. So when we go beyond the publishing model and into real work with economic exchange having too much access may be as problematic as too little.

As an aside – when I saw the photo I first thought it was one of those 'dial-your-feelings' research groups, but the reality seems even better – personal pendulums?

By: Igniter

Igniter — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:59:33 +0000

I'm glad you are thinking about this and wish I had more time to contribute to it. I seem stuck in do-verload which is partly a result of not having found the answers about how to scale doing.