Web 3.1: Real Time Enterprise Internet Presence
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Mon, 03/12/2007 - 11:18Between Twitter messages about SXSW, video streams and online text chats about Freedom to Connect, Blogging the Libby Trial, and preparing for theNew England News Forum, I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the Internet and I want to share some of these thoughts in terms of the financial services industry as well as a broader context.
Web 2.0 has already gone from the hot new thing to the Web 2.0 bubble and people are now talking about Web 3.0, the semantic web. I had been talking about my visions of Web 3.0, which are a bit different, and since the marketers have taken Web 3.0, I’ll take Web 3.1.
Yes, the tools that are predicted to make up the semantic web, which will mine and connect data sound very cool and I look forward to using them. As Lars noted the other day, Dow Jones is Introducing Elementized News Feeds for Quantitative Algorithms. The ability to take this information, mash it up with a market data feed, data about positions and trading strategies and any other information that can found is a good illustration of the sort of data mining and analysis that will make Web 3.0 very cool.
Yet there is more to this than simply mashing up data. More and more, the data is becoming real-time. The Twitter messages are coming in as instant messages or text messages, as well as updates to webpages and RSS feeds. Chats, like those that took place on the backchannel for the Freedom to Connect conference are content rich real time data, and many people wanted information coming out of the Federal Courthouse in Washington in as near real time as possible.
Miranda's Piano Performance
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 03/10/2007 - 23:10
Fiona's Art Show
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 03/10/2007 - 23:05
Fiona poses next to a cutout tracing of herself that she painted for her first art show in Greenwich Connecticut. Her work was part of an exhibition of nursery school students from the Long Ridge School
View the whole set here.
Fear and Excitement
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 03/10/2007 - 03:06My horoscope for Friday started off, “There is a very fine line between fear and excitement”. Perhaps that summed up the day pretty nicely. At around 12:30, I was riding down High Ridge Road with my eldest daughter, Mairead, at the wheel for the first time. She has just gotten her learner’s permit. There was a bit of fear and excitement as she made her way downtown.
Then, the telephone rang. It was my ex-wife Amy calling to let me know that my middle daughter, Miranda, had been accepted at Mary Baldwin College. I am so excited for her as well, and yet I have my personal fears. I’m having enough difficulties covering the mortgage right now. Having two daughters in college will really stretch things.
Back at home, another possible buyer was looking at the house. We live in an incredibly cool house, if I do say so myself. It is sad to face selling the house, but with the two oldest girls in college, it is probably time.
So, I look off into the abyss. Where will the funds come to cover college for both of them? Which opportunity in front of me will help pay my bills, and where will it lead us to move to?
Fear and excitement
Twidget
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 03/10/2007 - 02:49This morning, Steve Rubel noted that John Edwards was one of his followers on Twitter. Sure enough, Sen. Edwards has over 500 friends and followers on Twitter and he’s also following me. I figured it was time to get a little more involved with Twitter.
