Intention is where the near-term money comes from. But Attention is where the long-term value to the customer resides.

Edge Perspectives with John Hagel: Doc Searls and The Intention Economy

If the users are in charge, they have more choices than before.� What does this mean?�

Ross Mayfield's Weblog: PC Forum: The Paradox of Choice

I want to talk with you today about how teenagers are using a website called MySpace.com. I will briefly describe the site and then discuss how youth use it for identity production and socialization in contemporary American society.

Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace

"A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." (Herb Simon) [searching on that phrase pulls up some interesting sites on attention...]

mamamusings: sxsw 2006 update

Google Reader is an online feed aggregator with heavy use of JavaScript and pretty quick loading of the latest feed data from around the web. Google's AJAX front-end styles back-end data published in the Atom syndication format. The data technologies powering Google Reader can easily be used and extended by third-party feed aggregators for use in their own applications. I will walk you through the (previously) undocumented Google Reader API.

Google Reader API

The world's most advanced economies are losing their scientific edge, some analysts claim. Fearing, that weak research budgets will lead to weak economies, lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic are preparing to pour billions of dollars into research and development (R&D; see pages 633 and 644).

But does the current financial reality reflect the doom-and-gloom predictions?

The scientific balance of power

The White House is releasing its National Security Strategy, a report that reaffirms the strike-first policy that President Bush first laid out in 2002. The release comes "in conjunction with a speech that Bush's national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, is delivering at the U.S. Institute of Peace," the Associated Press reports, but you can read the report now.

You can download the full document from our site in PDF (note the large file size -- 632 KB), or read it in chunks on White House web pages.

Inside the report, the president's introduction is blunt: "America is at war. This is a wartime national security strategy required by the grave challenge we face -- the rise of terrorism fueled by an aggressive ideology of hatred and murder, fully revealed to the American people on September 11, 2001. This strategy reflects our most solemn obligation: to protect the security of the American people."

The National Security Strategy 2006

"If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, the size of the team is too large."
--Jeff Bezos, chairman, CEO, and founder, Amazon.com

Jeff Bezos, on Teams

Levine begins his presentation by sharing what he calls "Yahoo!'s vision for the search space overall". which he believes drives everything Yahoo! is doing in search, local services, and mapping. The vision is straightforward but ambitious: to enable people to find, use, share, and expand all human knowledge.

Taking us through each of the parts of the vision in turn, Levine outlines what Yahoo! is doing to enable particular features and what plans the company has for developing areas of use. The emphasis here is very much on purpose-driven search rather than searching for searching's sake.

Yahoo! calls the successful combination of the parts of their vision 'fuse' and Levine takes his audience through a real-life scenario (Tim O'Reilly looking for a Spanish restaurant) to underline how the disparate parts can work together.

This is a presentation that clearly explains both how Yahoo! views the intersection of search and local and how it intends to enrich the experience for all users, from developers to merchants.

Paul Levine - The Architecture of Participation

Mashups are a good example of what some Internet insiders are calling "Web 2.0," a relatively undefined term that sort of means something like the Web serving as a platform with sites that take advantage of -- among other things -- user supplied content. The best place to find Mashups is at programmableweb.com which currently lists more than 450 mashups, 50 of which are classifies as "popular."

Mashups - Larry's World