Richard Price wandered about for three years searching for someone who would understand the problems he had… with his research. Then, one fateful day in 2007, he found that special someone—a fellow philosopher working on the same question. Like many good scientific quests, the end of Price’s search for a kindred academic spirit raised another question: "Isn't there a better way to find fellow researchers?"
Bislang wurden populäre Web 2.0-Kommunikationsdienste wie Twitter auf geschlossenen Plattformen betrieben. Seit Juli ist nun erstmals ein Open-Source-Konkurrent verfügbar. Identi.ca genannt, wird er vom kanadischen Unternehmen Control Yourself aus Montreal betrieben und nutzt die freie Softwarelösung Laconica. Chancen werden Identi.ca auch deshalb eingeräumt, weil Twitter seit Monaten mit Ausfällen seiner Technik kämpft.
Gen Y is taking over. The generation of young adults that's composed of the children of Boomers, Generation Jones, and even some Gen X'ers, is the biggest generation since the Baby Boomers and three times the size of Gen X. As the Boomers fade into retirement and Gen Y takes root in the workplace, we're going to see some big changes ahead, not just at work, but on the web as a whole.
There's some contention over where exactly Gen Y starts and stops - some say those born 1983-1997, others think 1982-1997. In this week's Entertainment Weekly, Gen Y is defined as "current 13 to 31 year-olds" and BusinessWeek says they can be as young as five. Regardless, we know who they are - they're the young kids of today, the most digitally active generation yet, having been born plugged in.