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The New Web Imperative: Take Control of Search

March 21, 2006By Rafe Needleman

Frequent readers of this column may know that I have developed an allergy to search startups. There are too many. Yet I think it's time for me to relent and lean into this trend, since there is just so much happening in search that's interesting. And some of it is even good business. One company that really opened my eyes to the potential for new opportunity with search: Eurekster.

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You've Got Goodmail

March 17, 2006By Esther Dyson

A company called Goodmail Systems thinks it has come up with a potential (and partial) solution to the problem of spam and fraud on the Internet. According to Goodmail, market forces are the answer, rather than the kinds of ineffective regulations that have so far failed to solve the problems. What Goodmail is proposing is a sort of FedEx for e-mail. For a penny or less per message, the sender gets guaranteed delivery for mail and the promise that it will stand out in the user's mailbox. The recipient pays nothing. Internet service providers like America Online, which receive and process mail in bulk, can share in Goodmail's revenue if they want as long as they promise to pass the mail to their customers without filtering it for spam. The payment encourages AOL to adopt the service and to display a "certified e-mail" icon to users on each "stamped" message, indicating that the message is wanted and safe.

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Where's Esther?

March 11, 2006By Esther Dyson

Right now I'm in Carlsbad, making the transition from ETech in San Diego to PC Forum some 30 miles north. The theme of ETech was the attention economy; the theme of PC Forum is "Erosion of Power: Users in Charge." There's a lot of overlap, because both events are about the same industry, but there's also lots that's different. For starters, ETech is more techy. It had some wonderful talks, including one by my very own brother George (ostensibly about Turing and von Neumann and the like, but actually about Google if you listened closely) and one by Michael Goldhaber, who wrote "The Attention Society" for Release 1.0 way back in 1992 (!).

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    March Publication

  • monthly report Erosion of Power: Users in Charge

  • by Esther Dyson

    Imagine this: Juan enters a bar in a wheelchair, pushed by Alice. Fred the bartender turns to Alice and asks, "Would he like a drink?" Juan is perfectly capable of speaking for himself, but Fred doesn't get it.

    When 2.0

    Audio excerpts from our recent event

  • Schedules and calendars

    • Things improve over time - even calendar and scheduling tools. A new generation of such tools is emerging; what's different this time?

  • Time and sequence

    • How can we deal with parallel time as people act simultaneously but independently?

  • Events as (social) objects

    • How do users plan their public activities? How can events be traded, shared and enriched, within the context of a community?

  • Time and functionality

    • How can applications use time under the covers to improve their functionality?

  • Time and detection

    • How can time patterns help us detect and predict both opportunities and threats, ranging from potential sales of expensive merchandise on the one hand, to computer security and health threats on the other?

  • Time and simulation

    • Will Wright talks about time in SimCity

    Also in Release 1.0

  • The End of the Page
  • by Rafe Needleman

    Nobody wants to be boxed in. Look at the multi-billion-dollar scrapbook industry: People don't like putting their lives into little pre-set frames.

  • Where's Esther?
  • by Esther Dyson

    Phew! I just finished the new issue of Release 1. 0, which doubles as documentation for PC Forum 2006.

  • A Community of One
  • by Rafe Needleman

    I have been railing against closed online communities for years. Today, we all belong to multiple communities, and they don't connect.

Our Events

March 12-14, 2006
La Costa Resort and Spa
Carlsbad, CA

PC Forum 2006 PC Forum 2006

Thanks to everyone who came together to make PC Forum 2006 such a great success. We hope to keep the overall conversation going on our website, and encourage attendees to continue to make one-on-one connections on the attendee-only website.

Audiocasts and webcasts of selected sessions are now available.

recent events

When 2.0

December 6, 2005
Stanford, CA

Audio files from our most recent event are available for download.

Personal Health Information workshop

September 30, 2005
New York, NY

Thanks to all who came together to make the PHI workshop such a great success.