Comments on: The Internet’s secret sauce: surfacing coincidence http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/12/14/211/the-internets-secret-sauce-surfacing-coincidence/ Inside Online Media Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:34:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Matt McAlister » Local news is going the wrong way http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/12/14/211/the-internets-secret-sauce-surfacing-coincidence/comment-page-1/#comment-94694 Matt McAlister » Local news is going the wrong way Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:07:21 +0000 http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/12/14/211/the-internets-secret-sauce-surfacing-coincidence/#comment-94694 [...] first service that really nails how we identify and surface the things that matter to us when and where we want to know about them is going to break ground in a way we’ve never seen [...] [...] first service that really nails how we identify and surface the things that matter to us when and where we want to know about them is going to break ground in a way we’ve never seen [...]

]]> By: Perry http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/12/14/211/the-internets-secret-sauce-surfacing-coincidence/comment-page-1/#comment-81424 Perry Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:01:13 +0000 http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/12/14/211/the-internets-secret-sauce-surfacing-coincidence/#comment-81424 Great post...I've been using serendipity and discovery for awhile, but your connection to life tools really resonates. Great post…I’ve been using serendipity and discovery for awhile, but your connection to life tools really resonates.

]]> By: Philip Tellis http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/12/14/211/the-internets-secret-sauce-surfacing-coincidence/comment-page-1/#comment-81132 Philip Tellis Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:31:43 +0000 http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/12/14/211/the-internets-secret-sauce-surfacing-coincidence/#comment-81132 Hey, I've done something that sort of surfaces coincidence with flickr photos with my footsteppr hack: http://bluesmoon.info/hacks/footsteppr/ Hey, I’ve done something that sort of surfaces coincidence with flickr photos with my footsteppr hack: http://bluesmoon.info/hacks/footsteppr/

]]> By: Colin http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/12/14/211/the-internets-secret-sauce-surfacing-coincidence/comment-page-1/#comment-81003 Colin Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:10:02 +0000 http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/12/14/211/the-internets-secret-sauce-surfacing-coincidence/#comment-81003 Great post, Matt! I love the idea of surfacing coincidence. It's interesting that the services you highlight (Dopplr, Wesabe, Twitter, Flickr, and del.icio.us) seem to have added this layer of meaning on top of fairly specialized data, at least initially (finance, photos, short text, etc). The larger, catch-all social networks don't seem to have reached this level as clearly - is that a function of the more complex/vague data, the ways that people use those networks, or something else? Can serendipity be achieved by a 'one-stop' or aggregating network? One would think that the extra data can only help, but perhaps this isn't the case. Great post, Matt! I love the idea of surfacing coincidence. It’s interesting that the services you highlight (Dopplr, Wesabe, Twitter, Flickr, and del.icio.us) seem to have added this layer of meaning on top of fairly specialized data, at least initially (finance, photos, short text, etc). The larger, catch-all social networks don’t seem to have reached this level as clearly – is that a function of the more complex/vague data, the ways that people use those networks, or something else? Can serendipity be achieved by a ‘one-stop’ or aggregating network? One would think that the extra data can only help, but perhaps this isn’t the case.

]]> By: Weblog http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/12/14/211/the-internets-secret-sauce-surfacing-coincidence/comment-page-1/#comment-80850 Weblog Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:51:52 +0000 http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/12/14/211/the-internets-secret-sauce-surfacing-coincidence/#comment-80850 [...] interesting speculation, attributed by Matt Mcalister to Matt Jones, on the way that internet applications (not least blogging) can "surface coincidence" [...] [...] interesting speculation, attributed by Matt Mcalister to Matt Jones, on the way that internet applications (not least blogging) can “surface coincidence” [...]

]]> By: Edward Vielmetti http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/12/14/211/the-internets-secret-sauce-surfacing-coincidence/comment-page-1/#comment-80673 Edward Vielmetti Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:49:14 +0000 http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/12/14/211/the-internets-secret-sauce-surfacing-coincidence/#comment-80673 this reminds me of this essay by Lindsay Marshall: http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2007/05/lindsay_marshal.html http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Lindsay/Writing/serendip.html "We are not, I believe, looking for tools to record our thoughts or to provide them with structure. What we seek is something that leads us to the unforeseen collisions, the copulations that lead to new thoughts, new connections and yet more new meetings." this reminds me of this essay by Lindsay Marshall:

http://vielmetti.typepad.com/vacuum/2007/05/lindsay_marshal.html

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Lindsay/Writing/serendip.html

“We are not, I believe, looking for tools to record our thoughts or to provide them with structure. What we seek is something that leads us to the unforeseen collisions, the copulations that lead to new thoughts, new connections and yet more new meetings.”

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