Internet tends to be an open system where consumers are in the same way important as the product makers and sellers. Success is measured by community support and it is assured by complete transparency, trust.
Marketing your online products cannot be done well without strong community support. A future webshop must be completely user and community driven, your duty as a webshop owner is to build trust and make your existing customer base to connect you to the next customers.
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Today industrial society is replaced by information society and the knowledge economy. From instant consumption as a passive player there is a shift for instant production and knowledge creation with active involvement.
Singularity as the next metasystem transition is about the Control of Culture. Spreading memes makes the most important question today.
The 21th century is driven by revolutions opening — napstering — all closed systems. Old media will be opened based on asymmetry as the new world order: small is taking over the huge.
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Ruby is one of the latest programming languages becoming mainstream in our days.
Being so human-friendly:
- fully readable source code;
# Output "I love Ruby"
say = "I love Ruby"
puts say
# Output "I *LOVE* RUBY"
say['love'] = "*love*"
puts say.upcase
# Output "I *love* Ruby"
# five times
5.times { puts say }
- plain English used to describe complex domains (Domain Specific Languages);
Feature: Search courses
In order to ensure better utilization of courses
Potential students should be able to search for courses
Scenario: Search by topic
Given there are 240 courses which do not have the topic "biology"
And there are 3 courses A,B,C that each have "biology" as one of the topics
When I search for "biology"
Then I should see the following courses:
| title |
| A |
| B |
| C |
one might think it was designed to fill the gap between human and computer languages.
Raised as a programmer I had to move towards management and business jobs because of the complexity of past programming languages. Before Ruby when programming one had to focus on form instead of function, on technical artifacts instead of business logic,
on abstract code constructs instead of creativity. There were no flow.
Computer culture had to advance to a level where a programming language was designed for fun and wide-spread usage instead of focusing on some abstract technical merits.
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Napstering: Hack the system, free yourself and free everything. Read more.
The brave new world is built on sacrifices. The brave old world is dead. Read more.
Visionaries of our time are phropheting the Singularity is near. They are waiting for a superintelligence, something transhuman and something wrong:
Superhuman intelligences may have goals inconsistent with human survival and prosperity
Digging deeper and thinking fresher the Singularity might be already arrived and might not looking so bad.
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In a real time information world bubbles are coming. Nobody can hide, only transparent power structures will stand. Read more.
The first resilt of the Daily Zeitgeist project is out! After collecting all these inputs a set of predictions about technology, business, world and lifehacking were compiled… Please feel free to comment them!
Keeping yourself udpated with the news, getting on the flow is not easy today. Finding a healthy balance between your input — acquiring knowledge — and output — creating knowledge — is the key to your success.
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The current crisis is more about the state than about the financial system and the web has the potential to became the infrastructure, the foundation for the upcoming systems replacing state and capitalism.
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Current software development trends are showing a near future when complete applications can be generated immediately based on business requirements.
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I might not use the correct term for public software, maybe somebody already coined a proper term for it. Just want to differentiate between two major types of software, the public software which is highly visible for the audience, and the back-end software, invisible, used to build infrastructures and platforms on which (not just) public software runs.
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In the era of dynamic content creation and search engine optimization a simple, static webshop is not a solution. You always have to add publishing and marketing platforms to your shop and later a social network will be very necessary to build a community around your products and services.
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