• the value you are able to add from the users perspective,
• and the number of users there are.

The “no go” zone is where you are unable to add much value and there are not very many users. I felt presence or absence of competition was a third dimension of interest.

An interesting point was made about attempting to create a compelling user experience when passionate about technology. I do tend to appreciate the wonders of tech more than most, though FIL, for example, adds value entirely because of UI features (though not aesthetic UI features right at the moment).

Siri virtual assistant is a compelling product. Core innovation is taking a declarative library of process flows and turning that into a progressive conversational series of questions with process and context aware auto-completion. The auto completion was based on the model of possible intents relative to the supported process models.

Should be simple enough to add intent into many auto-completion features without needing to enumerate or model intents or processes very thoroughly, but doing so isapparently very powerful.

For years, bands would embark on loss-making tours around the world in an attempt to drum up sales for their latest album, but now the practice has been turned on its head, with groups more likely to give their records away in order to sell tickets to their shows.

The data, compiled by PRS for Music, the official body that collects and distributes royalties for British songwriters and music publishers, shows that live music generated £1.28 billion in 2008, compared with £1.24 billion yielded by the recorded music business.

It had to happen eventually… disintermediation, online sales, and a general distaste of fakeness meant record company power was fading. It’s the fakeness aspect that I hope to tap into at FeelItLive.com, by offering media and news from a wide range of sources.

Stripping her down to her triples we find out how we can add her to our network, find photos, that her and I are already in the same extended network  (well maybe in my dreams) and that she’s feeling productive right now (is that the same as being hot?).

More usefully, her friend count (203,412) and last login date (Tuesday) are both published in the only de jure machine readable meta-data format that we know – for sure – can publish just about any fact.