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If we need to do value transactions with other people it is essential that we can trust them. Trust though has to be enduring to be useful. It cannot be transferable, and once damaged it must remain damaged until the operation of trust related methods can repair it. If one can hide behind multiple identities, or take on a new one when the old one is damaged, the system breaks down. Privacy and personal surveillance are risks that need to be mitigated. How much is trust worth?
Trust is an essential commodity in the web n.0 world. In order to fully embrace the web, be it of pages, documents, data, people etc, we must be able to trust the entities on it. Verisign and businesses like it have built a business on certificates, identity models are intimately tied up with trust (if you can simply start a new identity if your old one behaves badly the system breaks down).
Trust is an essential commodity in the web n.0 world. In order to fully embrace the web, be it of pages, documents, data, people etc, we must be able to trust the entities on it. Verisign and businesses like it have built a business on certificates, identity models are intimately tied up with trust (if you can simply start a new identity if your old one behaves badly the system breaks down).
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The Art of Community: Building the New Age of ParticipationThis ambitious volume is smoothly written enough that it can be seamlessly read in a long session. The role in question might be likened to Dio's "Rainbow in the Dark". The book is part case study that benefits from hindsight and also a set of templates for strategic plans, teams and values ...
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What Can You Trust? Let Twitter and Twine Help You Decide - Advertising Age - DigitalNextWhat Can You Trust? Let Twitter and Twine Help You Decide In the Next-Gen Web, These Tools Provide Important Human Filters Much digital ink has been spent trying to explain the likes of Twitter and Twine. Often, they are characterized as the poster children of the Web 2.0 trend. Pundits ...
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Technology Review: Adding Trust to Wikipedia, and BeyondAdding Trust to Wikipedia, and Beyond Tracing information back to its source could help prove trustworthiness. The official motto of the Internet could be "don't believe everything you read," but moves are afoot to help users know better what to be skeptical about and what to trust. A ...
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Science in the open » A question of trustA question of trust I have long being sceptical of the costs and value delivered by our traditional methods of peer review. This is really on two fronts, firstly that the costs, where they have been estimated are extremely high, representing a multi-billion dollar subsidy by governments of ...
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Technology Review: A Better Way to Rank Expertise OnlineA Better Way to Rank Expertise Online New software distinguishes between experts and spammers, showing who can be trusted. Websites where users can organize and share information are flourishing, but it can be hard to know which users and information to trust. Now a team of European ...
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100The Business Value of Collaboration Software - CIO.com - Business Technology LeadershipOne article hitting on a good smattering of dimensions of value and reward, note the capitulation "Every one of those has a business value. It may not be easy to calculate, and the effort may not be worth it." So lacking in ambitionKurt Laitner added 9 months ago
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8Online Verification: Who Can You Trust in the Virtual World? - BusinessWeek"Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.". .•∞º˙ added 10 months ago
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100Club of Amsterdam - Shaping Your Future in the Knowledge Societyskip down to 'A Federated Model for a New EconomyKurt Laitner added 10 months ago
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100Seth's Blog: Selling ideas to a big companyIP "Side note: the more complicated your idea is, the better off you are patenting it. Dean Kamen made his fortune patenting wheelchairs and other devices that you and I could never hope to build. On the other hand, if your idea is simple enough to dream up in a week, the only way you're going ...Kurt Laitner added 11 months ago
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Trust and Transparency for Intelligent Agents | The LamisphereI'd say don't worry. Because the web 3.0 would be about transparency and strucuture for these firms too, so they would have more problem hiding their bad activities.Vincent Blouin added 12 months ago
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