Archive for June, 2007

What’s Generative and What’s not?

This is a follow up on my previous post regarding Generativity.
Now, what’s generative and what’s not among the following examples? 
Legos and Dollhouse. Legos are highly adaptable, accesible, and easy to master. They can be built, deconstructed and rebuilt into whatever form the user wishes, and third parties can publish "recipes" for new forms. The less-generative […]

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Four Elements of Generativity

Many people or even bloggers are not yet aware of this term "Generativity" and I’m also not aware of this until I read this from HBR magazine. So I’ll try to share this information as best as I could.
There are four main features that define generativity:

Leverage - How strongly a system or technology leverages a […]

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If you love your information, set it FREE!

I read this article from the Harvard Business Review magazine and I totally agree with David Weinberger. Some organizations fear to share their data with aggregators but they might be surprised to learn that they can benefit from letting other firms disseminate their information online. Just take for example a real state industry website. Buyers […]

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Safari for Windows downloaded 1 million times on the first 48 hours after its release

The folks at Apple announced yesterday that the public beta of Safari 3 has been downloaded 1 million times in the first 48 hours after it was released, woot! I’ve already downloaded it too and so far it’s meeting my expectation.  I’m also having second thoughts if I’ll stick with my old internet browser especially […]

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