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Wednesday, August 27

Massively Connected

Today's Australia photo is of a 'spider tower-block', where every spider is connected to every other spider. My recent talks have been on the subject of being 'massively connected', and I have been using this photograph as an illustration (taken on the splendid mangrove boardwalk on the approach to Cairns airport, a must-visit for any airport user in my opinion) - the massively-connected web.

I use the term 'massively connected' to label any large group of people who can all be assumed to have always-on program-level access to the internet. Any massively-connected demographic becomes a microcosm of the net effect (Metcalfe's law unlocked by open standards) and the rules change about how interactions take place. It's not ready to release yet, but I'm planning a web site on this topic as it seems so important. It explains the rise of service-oriented architectures and web services, of weblogs, of open source as a development methodology, of experiements in standardisation, and so much more.

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