Let’s stop complaining about the very US-centric tech coverage. Let’s make sure that Europe gets its coverage —and gets constantly at the top of TechMeme— by pushing ourselves like that kid.
My own rant about Europe’s fragmentation in languages —a natural given— and the need to adopt the de facto lingua franca, English, as the common denominator.
Inspired by Mike Butcher.
Mark Zuckerberg:
I think that humans have a capacity for different amounts of social relationships. And I think it varies from person to person but it’s also not about what you should do. You should use the product to keep in touch with whatever set of people you want to. And we try to build all kinds of products that make it so you can stay in touch with small groups.
This is the big challenge for all social network. The fabric of human relationships is vastly more complex than any algorithm can currently handle. Relationships vary over time, context, subtext. They are nonlinear, variable, uncertain.
Existing and not existing at the exact same time.
Will Facebook be the first to grasp the quantum superposition of the human ethos?
Google Plus Circles Katango
As I hinted at recently, I don’t think algorithms can yet achieve the true fabric of human relationships.
Now, Facebook Smart Lists make a decent job of breaking it down for me, but only in the most obvious ways: location, occupation, school. The suggestions given to me are usually odd, but I’m also odd, having lived in so many cities, having no particular place I stayed too long in, having no family linked, being my lone wolf-self or something.
Google+ has nothing like that. Katango is thus a natural fit, but I don’t see yet making it a better experience than on Facebook.
Cross-contextual data is where those algorithms should look next.