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April 17, 2003
collaborative_networks_1 @05:17 PM
I've been getting really excited about the mobile web as a collaborative space.
The entire concept of social interaction is based on the idea of cooperation, and how individuals learn- or gravitate towards- publically beneficial cooperative actions in spite of their own private interests. In other words, in order to for cooperation to occur, there must be some resolution between the public good and the private good. The prisioner's dilemma is a good example of such a concept.
In Smart Mobs Howard Rheingold makes the argument that the internet created an even higher cooperative potential because it allowed for what Dan Bricklin calls the "cornucopia of the commons," the ability for a network to allow people to contribute to the public good (the commons) without sacrificing their own private interests. Many p2p systems operate in such a manner - think of napster, for example - as someone uses a system for their own benefit, they are also contributing to the commons. So Rheingold has written about all this stuff, so for more info read the book.
What really is cool to me, is the collaborative potential that is built into (eventually all) mobile devices - gps, infrared, high-speed, text, multimedia potential. But most of all, these devices are all connected to a profoundly large network, which can be leveraged to develop engaging collaborative applications. How can we use WiFi to create situations where people need to collaborate in order to accompish tasks? One interesting idea would be to have specialized services that would send out messages to subscribers based on their locations, having them perform simple individual functions, that on a larger scale, creates something bigger - i.e. the sum is bigger than the whole of it's parts. This concept can be applied to global art projects, television, gaming in both virtual and physical space, etc. The possibilties are really limitless, and I'm itching to see how these ideas grow- and even more so - be a contributor to this development.
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I am very excited by the mobile web as a collaborative space as well. Please see
my next post about the mobile blogging
site I want to create about ghosts.
Posted by: Mike at April 18, 2003 11:17 PM