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Re: Liverpool bid for Barcelona's duo amidst threat of losing indispensable player

Sam Sethi — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 16:04:55 -0000

This is the biggest bullshit article I have ever read and Spanish journalist write some utter crap. Try £300m for VVD and you still won’t be close. Barca will be a spent force once Messi and Suarez retire. Real Are already a has been team post Ronaldo.

Re: Apple Watch sleep tracking revealed: sleep quality, battery management, more

Sam Sethi — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 06:29:19 -0000

I was just about to buy an Oura Ring to do sleep tracking but also to measure my circadian rhythm. Now I will wait until 10th September and see if sleep tracking is included but if it won't measure my circadian rhythm then I'll wait for the Watch 5 series.

Re: Chelsea 1-0 Liverpool - There's the Blueprint for how to beat that lot.

Sam Sethi — Tue, 08 May 2018 06:36:30 -0000

Well done Chelski rent boys with your plastic flags for beating a side that had just completed a semi-final in the Champions League only 4 days earlier. But we'll let you have that. A team running on empty versus a team that had a week to rest and prepare. That is your big win this season.

You were the home team but defended most of the game in your own box by parking the bus after your goal. Enjoy the Europa League with your new manager (or will it be Jose again), as we will beat Brighton and its game over for you.

As for Gerrard slipping you conveniently forget Terry slipped to miss the penalty that cost you the Champions League but we can't be bothered to invent a song about a bang average nazi scum who also shags his team mates wife. Enjoy the decline to mid-table mediocrity now that the Russian money has dried up while Hazard leaves for Real. We will happily take Kante once he realises its another season out fo the CL. He'll be off. #YNWA

Re: Inevitable? — euansemple.com

Sam Sethi — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 13:20:03 -0000

Hi Euan

I too recently read Kevin's new book and enjoyed it and like you I feel if you look out far enough into the future then of course all the 12 scenarios remain inevitable. However I have also read many older books that foretold a similar future and I am still waiting for much of this utopian dream of the future to come true.

That said, the day you wrote this post, was the day before the 25th anniversary of the web. And in that short time the pinnacle of technological advance is the mobile phone in our pockets. I remember demoing the dial up web browser at Netscape to companies and seeing the deep disbelief in this being the future. But here we are today with full access to the web, millions of music tracks, pictures and videos in the cloud, ecommerce and mobile payments, real-time maps, video calling etc and of course this week Google launched Duo which is a WebRTC client which might mark the end of the PSTN phone.

In this 25th anniversary of the web, we truly have come along way in a relatively short time - plus ca change plus la meme chose. However much of what we see coming in the future has already been experimented with and tried in the past. For example Virtual Reality (VR) is the new big thing but I remember at Netscape playing with VRML and of course there was Second Life. As for Home Automation or IOT as it is now called, we've had X.10, Zigbee and Z-Wave and today we have Apple HomeKit and Google NEST and still devices in my home remain islands. My man-draw in the loft is a grave yard testimony to the next big device/thing.

That said I still remain excited about the near horizon for new 'game-changing' technologies because they are closer now than at anytime in the past, although sadly I still feel the near-term could be beyond 2020 because this is the earliest 5G will be ratified, released and start to gain mass market adoption. i.e city wide gigabyte mobile broadband with low latency support for IOT devices etc

5G is the ubiquitous communication game-changer that will help enable IOT, AI, VR, AR, driveless cars, ships, trucks and much more.

In the mean-time, I guess much like you, I am watching and learning about many interesting building blocks to the future. For example new OS micro-kernels for IOT devices e.g Google Fushia and Peer-to-Peer mesh networks at low latency. e.g Google Thread and finally Google TensorFlow as an AI platform in the cloud. In fact this week Google (or Alphabet) announced Wireless Fiber that will beam 5G into the home and remove the last mile cost. All the bits are coming together before our very eyes but like a puzzle we can't see the whole picture just yet.

Other technologies I am tracking include blockchain which you probably know is a decentralised P2P Trust protocol which is missing from TCP/IP. Not only will IOT devices need this to ensure Machine to machine trust

Blockchain has the potential to fix the corrupted Commercial interests especially if we can make it work for votes, land registry, sales, money transfers etc. Sadly I remain cautious about blockchain being the panacea for all trust issues because it will probably be stifled by government policy/interference in order to retain centralised control.

The book I am reading now on Blockchain is worth the time to understand this nascent technology's potential. - Blockchain Revolution by Don Tapscott

Of course there are so many other technologies that are simply incremental improvements - Ultra HD (8k TV) and some I am sceptical about even with the billions invested i.e MagicLeap

Bottom-line for me is we are connecting everything IOT, Cars, People (5G, IPv6 plus 802.15.4, 6LoWPAN ), tracking/measuring everything (iCloud Data, UTSPS - Universal Time-Space Positioning System), automating everything (AI) and powering everything (Tesla PowerWall plus solar plus AC invertors)

These are only a few of the exciting building blocks advancing before our eyes which in the next 25 years time will be ubiquitous.

What I still don't understand is what will happen to the mass of people/jobs when everything is automated. We are already seeing a backlash to this automation replacing blue collar work through Brexit, Trump, Le Penn, alt-right politics etc who blame the problem on immigration when it's fundamentally a lack of jobs.

Capitalism has no answer to this challenge as automation reduces costs and increases profits to the benefit of shareholders and thus share prices. Where is technologies role in making the world better off for all and not just the 1%.

Re: Chelsea fans prepare hilarious banner mocking ex-Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard

Sam Sethi — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 16:18:56 -0000

Agree never feed the trolls. Terry is a good player but I actually don't like Terry for his off-the-field activities and racist behaviour. I mentioned the Terry slip simply because Chelsea fans mocking Stevie G should look closer to home at Terry and what it cost them.

Re: Chelsea fans prepare hilarious banner mocking ex-Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard

Sam Sethi — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 14:25:24 -0000

Didn't Terry slip and cost Chelsea the Champions League in the penalty shoot out. Gerrard's slip cost a goal, at best the game. The title was lost at other games (Palace) and was more down to a collective failure due to pressure. At least we had a true decent club legend in Gerrard. Terry is just a racist wag shagger. And Terry's dad is a convicted cocaine dealer and racist. The acorn never falls far from the tree.

Re: Duedil raises $5m, helps its clients dig up information about private companies

Sam Sethi — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:55:27 -0000

Congrats Damian - great service

Re: Superfeedr : Introducing the Msgboy

Sam Sethi — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 03:59:32 -0000

Awesome Job Julien can't wait to try it.

Re: The Trends Driving KRL and Kynetx

Sam Sethi — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:31:56 -0000

Thanks for this long thoughtful post. I fully agree on the event driven contextual model and I am working on a project to do just that based on Node.js, activitystreams and NLP.

I describe KRL as server-side greasemonkey to try and anchor it in my mind. But with the growth of Node.js and V8 (serverside javascript) why do I need to learn KRL when I can re-apply my knowledge of javascript. Does KRL give me a rules engine/triggers to events which I would have to write from scratch if I used native JS? Thanks.

Re: Facebook Deals Launches Tonight & Groupon Doesn't Stand a Chance (Updated)

Sam Sethi — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 04:23:10 -0000

@marshallk Facebook deals have lots of potential but the reality is they are charging smaller retailers for deals and also have 30% tax on all credits. So as a retailer I have to pay for deals and then pay Facebook 30% of all credits I accept (as does Zynga today). Not such a good deal after all!

Re: Facebook Notifications from Chrome, Using "What's Up!"

Sam Sethi — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 05:34:15 -0000

Looks like its using the HTML5 notification support in Chrome which Google used for Gmail notifications. Its a cross-platform alternative to Growl and has more server side configuration.

Re: Google Docs Improves Commenting, Adds E-mail Notifications

Sam Sethi — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:13:25 -0000

Google just implemented the OStaus/Salmon Protocol. @name@domain thats the bigger story!

Re: Google to Launch Major New Social Network Called Circles, Possibly Today (Updated)

Sam Sethi — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 11:44:05 -0000

I had heard similar rumours of a new SocNet launching at I/O. I'm hoping that some open standards are included such as ActivityStreams, OStatus, PubSubhubbub, Salmon and WebFinger. It would put pressure on FB/Twitter to support these standards if Circles becomes popular.

Re: The new compensation: going to anti-hoarders?

Sam Sethi — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:28:14 -0000

Robert there is a technical solution to this. ActivityStreams has a "verb" called creator and it has 30+ other verbs. - like, dislike, play etc. It simple enough for a system to record who the creator of the social object was i.e document, presentation, video. Then that objects unique ID can be tracked through the enterprise and voted on or measured by number of reads, plays or another value measurement linked to compensation. It would encourage staff/creators to share their content.

In fact you could even add a gamification layer to the ActivityStream verbs which would then auto-calculate the value of each interaction. 5 points for creation, 2 points for review/comment, 1 pt for reshare or play.

There is a company that has developed this launching in February but I can't say who just yet. They are aiming at the consumer market first but this same AS/gamification model could work really well in a corporate company model you describe.

Re: http://www.tweetdeck.com/twitter/ChristianEReyes/~te6TJ

Sam Sethi — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:47:56 -0000

First time using Deck.ly - Sadly a the complexity of the technology increases the VC's will invest more of the easier to understand stuff.

Re: Facebook Suspends Controversial Data Sharing Feature

Sam Sethi — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 03:16:16 -0000

Facebook "temporarily" suspends controversial privacy breach only until consumers get used to the idea. Facebook will continue to push the privacy boundary until there is nothing left to protect. We are all just data crops for Facebook to grow and harvest.

Eventually we the consumers will realise that our data has value and that companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google will have to give us more than just "freemium" to keep us as customers.

Re: Superfeedr : Fragment Subscription

Sam Sethi — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:43:29 -0000

Very cool will try it shortly. Thanks.

Re: Superfeedr : Fragment Subscription

Sam Sethi — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:21:30 -0000

Nice work Julien what I would really like to do is to be able to track objects on the web and have a realtime update if that object changes.

So for example on this page http://www.paulsmith.co.uk/... from PaulSmith I would like to track the page but also track the price to see if the price changes.

Would that price be the fragment? Sadly looking at the url there is no # fragment in this example. On site like BestBuy that support RDFa from GoodRelations I can track the price as it has a semantic markup.

Re: Blogging Forefather Seeks to Re-Invent Blogging, Again

Sam Sethi — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:16:13 -0000

Steve we are finishing a site builtin MongoDB (server) and HTML5 (client) that uses ActivityStreams underneath and exposes AS Verbs for user actions on objects. We are also using Salmon (comments), OStatus (updates), Pubsubhubbub (realtime), OExchange (data capture) and OEmbed (link preview) but the one thing is the users will not know or need to know anything about this tech to make it work.

Re: Blogging Forefather Seeks to Re-Invent Blogging, Again

Sam Sethi — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:37:23 -0000

Wow some people really don't get. Our data has value and BigCo's like Google, Twitter and Facebook know this and are making money from out "Digital Sweat Equity". For example YouTube was sold to Google for $1bn but the value was created by the users. The recent $50bn Facebook valuation is the sum of the 600m users content. I know some people argue that using the free service is sufficient reward for the data exchange between the user and service. I however don't think that is enough and what if the free service closes down i.e delicicious

Projects like VRM and startups like Diaspora and MyDex are trying to build personal data lockers that store your content and then allow you to push the content out to third party sites. I am sure Dave will try and build on his legacy of RSS/OPML to push feeds of content that third party sites will consume maybe even updating the metaweblog API and ping service.

However much of this work has already be done using Atom 1.0 and ActivityStreams plus Pubsubhubub, OStatus and the (incomplete) ActivityWorkflow API. In fact Status.Net are working on implementing much of this technology as is a new startup called Skadoosh.

In the near future brand will reward users for their time and attention and users will push data to those brands with permission and revoking options. Privacy, control, ownership and rewards will become more important to users despite what Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook say.

P.S on that note please twitter can you remove the false statement in your T&C's (privacy) which states that I own all of my tweets. How can I access them without using the API or paying GNIP for them? Dave is right, I would prefer to update my content in place I own and manage and then push that out third parties under my control not have the BigCo silo control and lock in my data for their value.

Re: The graph raid

Sam Sethi — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:43:21 -0000

We have all worked hard to build our social graph layer on Facebook/Twitter but now comes the interest graph layer. Vertical niche networks that build on top of our social graph by quickly replicating the work we did over the lat few years. Quora is an good example of a new socnet based on an interest graph in this case the Q&A niche.

Re: What AOL Got When it Bought About.me

Sam Sethi — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 06:58:01 -0000

Hi Edwin

Google already have an about.me page which they choose to not promote. Google Profile. http://www.google.com/profi...

If had hoped that when you searched for my name the top listing result was my Google Profile - but it isn't. I spent a lot of time curating this page with rel=me statements and links to flickr etc. But I have now abandoned it like Buzz and several other Google projects that start of well and fade fast.

About Me is a smart name and good simple tool.

Re: Social networks drive traffic to retailers and news sites

Sam Sethi — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:23:52 -0000

On the hitwise chart where would you place new services like Groupon/Keynoir and Foursquare (location check) both of which are driving sales to retail?

Re: What is WOM?

Sam Sethi — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:03:23 -0000

Would also like this poster when available. Good work Mr Whately.

Re: Laurent Eschenauer | Choice ahead: red pill or blue pill ?

Sam Sethi — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:28:36 -0000

Laurent we have not met yet but hope we will do soon. I have followed your career from afar starting with Storytlr and more recently with OneSocialWeb. Equally I really enjoyed your video with Scoble. I have no idea of your private life but moving to another country is not as big a deal as it used to be.

I think the bigger question is even if you take the blue pill will you have the autonomy to develop OSW in the direction you want with the broader financial backing of Vodafone. If the answer is no, then I would take the red pill and take the skills and knowledge in your head and look to do something exciting for yourself which might result in a brighter future for your family.