http://thomaspower.org Internet scout, speaker, IP creation Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:40:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thomaspower.org/2012/02/solomo-the-new-frontier/ http://thomaspower.org/2012/02/solomo-the-new-frontier/#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:40:19 +0000 Thomas Power http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=174434
Using iPad, iTunes, Gmail, BlackBerry and Amazon MP3s on my BlackBerry is a nightmare.
Contact management. Nightmare. Email management. Nightmare. Syncing a nightmare.



So whoever wins SoLoMo wins Cloud. One winner who will it be?]]> http://thomaspower.org/2012/02/solomo-the-new-frontier/feed/ 0 http://thomaspower.org/2012/02/ors-120-complete-80-to-go-updated/ http://thomaspower.org/2012/02/ors-120-complete-80-to-go-updated/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:37:30 +0000 Thomas Power http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=174321 William Buist (ORC) and James Murphy (OSC) now have 120 completed #ORS questionnaires.

We must have 200 to validate all the questions.

If you would like to be one of those 200 please write to william.buist@ecademy.com with subject line ORS.

We got Hannah, Ross, TJ Power to complete it last night over dinner. Weird they said.

Thank for your support. Tx

p.s. Penny came out ORS. Darren came out CSS ]]> http://thomaspower.org/2012/02/ors-120-complete-80-to-go-updated/feed/ 0 http://thomaspower.org/2012/02/el-camino-de-santiago-the-way-of-st-james-or-st-james-way/ http://thomaspower.org/2012/02/el-camino-de-santiago-the-way-of-st-james-or-st-james-way/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:51:31 +0000 Thomas Power http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=174265
1985 690
1986 1,801
1987 2,905
1988 3,501
1989 5,760²
1990 4,918
1991 7,274
1992 9,764
1993 99,436
1994 15,863
1995 19,821
1996 23,218
1997 25,179
1998 30,126
1999 154,613
2000 55,004³
2001 61,418
2002 68,952
2003 74,614
2004 179,944
2005 93,924
2006 100,377
2007 114,026
2008 125,141
2009 145,877
2010 272,703
2011 179,919

who's done it, what year do you plan to do it and can you explain the peak years?]]> http://thomaspower.org/2012/02/el-camino-de-santiago-the-way-of-st-james-or-st-james-way/feed/ 0 http://thomaspower.org/2012/02/ecademy-testimonials/ http://thomaspower.org/2012/02/ecademy-testimonials/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:21:25 +0000 Thomas Power http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=174232 Marcus and Julian are putting together a new Ecademy design and require your help with an Ecademy Testimonial to appear on the new site that best describe the value and experience you receive from Ecademy and/or give to Ecademy as this is a community of reciprocity from which we all benefit.

Please write as clearly and concisely as possible as your testimonial will appear on the site with your name below it.

Thank you in advance for your support and the generosity of your testimonial in explaining this community to others who are not yet members.]]> http://thomaspower.org/2012/02/ecademy-testimonials/feed/ 0 http://thomaspower.org/2012/02/is-there-a-radio-specialist-here/ http://thomaspower.org/2012/02/is-there-a-radio-specialist-here/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:29:48 +0000 Thomas Power http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=173999 http://thomaspower.org/2012/02/is-there-a-radio-specialist-here/feed/ 0 http://thomaspower.org/2012/02/facebook-ipo-summary/ http://thomaspower.org/2012/02/facebook-ipo-summary/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:20:38 +0000 Thomas Power http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=173901 http://www.policymic.com/articles/3816/facebook-ipo-summary-of-s-1/latest_articles

Facebook will trade using the ticker "FB"
2011 revenue was $3.7 billion (88% growth from 2010).
2011 net income was $1.0 billion
Currently, Facebook has 845 million monthly active users with 48% logging-in daily.
Mark Zuckerberg owns 28% of Facebook.

Here are some extra details (updated regularly):

Advertising accounts for 85% of 2011 revenue
Facebook has 425 monthly active users on mobile
James Breyer, the president of Accel Partners, owns 11% of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg controls the majority of the board, making Facebook a "controlled company"
Facebook lists its top three competitors as Google, Microsoft, and Twitter
In 2012, Zynga represented 12% of Facebook revenues
Mark Zuckerberg outlines his philosophy at the end of the S-1:

"At Facebook, we're inspired by technologies that have revolutionized how people spread and consume information. We often talk about inventions like the printing press and the television — by simply making communication more efficient, they led to a complete transformation of many important parts of society. They gave more people a voice. They encouraged progress. They changed the way society was organized. They brought us closer together.

We hope to improve how people connect to businesses and the economy.

We hope to change how people relate to their governments and social institutions.

Simply put: we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services."]]> http://thomaspower.org/2012/02/facebook-ipo-summary/feed/ 0 http://thomaspower.org/2012/01/so-where-is-google-heading-with-plus/ http://thomaspower.org/2012/01/so-where-is-google-heading-with-plus/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:23:15 +0000 Thomas Power http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=173839
A network is open, random, supportive (ORS).
An institution is closed selective controlling (CSC).
Paradoxically networks are the new institutions.

The Google opportunity lies in the combination of their existing assets and the opening of the G+ API (GAPI+).

What is it we seek as users?

We want to know who at the most active users?

We want to know activity by:

time on site
posts
comments
shares
re-shares
+1s
number of hangouts
number of unique participants in hangouts
ripples
most popular circles
all the above by circles
broken down by village, town, city (that's a lot of data to share but want it we do)

We then want these people ranked. As Paul Adams says in Grouped these are not necessarily the most powerful or influential people but what they are is the people we can all learn from the most or the fastest (or at least should be logically). I dislike the way knowledge is still not freely shared online. The whole planet must walk forward as a union not in informed and ill-informed groups.

Social Statistics is helpful but not that useful until the API releases. I think they've made a good start.

http://www.socialstatistics.com
http://socialstatistics.com/dashboard
http://socialstatistics.com/dashboard/recent/114149296801704936672
http://socialstatistics.com/dashboard/history/114149296801704936672

Having all these stats will start the process of allowing us to conduct network thinking. Stats help you think because they challenge your mind to ask all the questions you don't know the answer to and think you should know before reaching a conclusion.

All of us must learn to think like a network. In other words think Open, Random, Supportive in everything we do.

The next thing we need Google to do is start mixing our G+ activity with our searches (now appearing in search plus) and our email (now appearing with circles in our gmail).

The key thing we are all looking for is close matches:
People who behave like us.
People who are like us.
People who are close by and like the above.
Not because we are perfect, on the contrary, but because our behaviors match.

When behaviors match with people like us it is likely we have a great deal in common. It is likely we have complementary skills. It is likely we have complementary networks of people. It is likely we can work together, support one another, connect one another. However unique we think we are there are many people like us, the problem is we can't find them and they can't find us. We must solve this. Right now we have to do this pattern matching in our heads despite having a billion servers available to do it for us.

We need more matches faster.

Why is people matching so important to the planet?

There are many resources (people) in the world not finding their rightful home. In other words being where their skills are most desired and in demand. Millions of skilled people worldwide are not in work or not being fully utilized in the work they are doing. This is such a waste of resource, of talent.

Last night on President Obama's hangout we learned of a semi-conductor engineer who could not find work for three years.



Personally I don't believe that. I believe those who need his skills cannot find him and he cannot find them. To me the internet's holy grail is matching people to demand and demand to people. It is a weakness of data sharing by both matchseekers individual and organization.

Google+ is the first system I have seen that can deal with this so I want to help make it happen by pushing this debate inside Google and inside this place with all you folks.

Of course it is a failing on the part of the user who fails to describe their skills, availability and price correctly. The machines need to take over this work if people haven't got the time or skills to do it. Using your searches, your gmail, your G+ there is enough data there for matches to be made by a machine. By G+ or is that G++?

Next organizations need to be comfortable publishing to the cloud. Right now being CSC organizations are uncomfortable fearing the worst. Only data in the cloud can be matched with data in cloud. If we don't trust the cloud we cannot start. Matches cannot begin and my goal is futile. We must trust the cloud and deal with the errors and exceptions when they arise for they surely will.

The challenge for families worldwide in a matching based world is going where the work is, where your skills are required. This has been an issue for families for time immemorial. It's going to get worse, or harder or better depending on your point of view. Mobile working populations are critical to wealth creation. People in the USA move house on average every three years. In Europe it's more like seven years. Look at the difference in performance.

For now it's my belief that G+ could be the perfect matchmaking system and I want to support, coach, nudge, cajole, nag, guide, steer point Google in making it happen for the benefit of all those under utilized skills we have worldwide and for all the new valued added we can bring to organizations once those matches have been made.

What matches are you seeking from G+ perhaps I can connect you using my good old-fashioned memory?]]> http://thomaspower.org/2012/01/so-where-is-google-heading-with-plus/feed/ 0 http://thomaspower.org/2012/01/what-does-controlling-mean-to-you-ors/ http://thomaspower.org/2012/01/what-does-controlling-mean-to-you-ors/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:04:30 +0000 Thomas Power http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=173824
6 people came out as ORS - Open Random Supportive.

4 people came out as OSS - Open Selective Supportive.

2 people came out as ORC - Open Random Controlling.

1 person came out as OSC - Open Selective Controlling.

2 people came out as CSS - Closed Selective Supportive.

So my question to you all is what does Controlling mean to you?]]> http://thomaspower.org/2012/01/what-does-controlling-mean-to-you-ors/feed/ 0 http://thomaspower.org/2012/01/what-does-selective-mean-to-you-ors/ http://thomaspower.org/2012/01/what-does-selective-mean-to-you-ors/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:03:13 +0000 Thomas Power http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=173823
6 people came out as ORS - Open Random Supportive.

4 people came out as OSS - Open Selective Supportive.

2 people came out as ORC - Open Random Controlling.

1 person came out as OSC - Open Selective Controlling.

2 people came out as CSS - Closed Selective Supportive.

So my question to you all is what does Selective mean to you?]]> http://thomaspower.org/2012/01/what-does-selective-mean-to-you-ors/feed/ 0 http://thomaspower.org/2012/01/what-does-closed-mean-to-you-ors/ http://thomaspower.org/2012/01/what-does-closed-mean-to-you-ors/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:02:04 +0000 Thomas Power http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=173822
6 people came out as ORS - Open Random Supportive.

4 people came out as OSS - Open Selective Supportive.

2 people came out as ORC - Open Random Controlling.

1 person came out as OSC - Open Selective Controlling.

2 people came out as CSS - Closed Selective Supportive.

So my question to you all is what does Closed mean to you?]]> http://thomaspower.org/2012/01/what-does-closed-mean-to-you-ors/feed/ 0