Comments on: From misapprehensions to alternatives http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/05/from-misapprehensions-to-alternatives/ helping people break out of pigeonholes since 2003 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:30:53 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: The Mine! project » What Mine! is not http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/05/from-misapprehensions-to-alternatives/comment-page-1/#comment-7683 The Mine! project » What Mine! is not Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:55:30 +0000 http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/05/from-misapprehensions-to-alternatives/#comment-7683 [...] my previous writings about Mine! Store implies passive and static, with some distribution via feeds, whereas one of the major [...] [...] my previous writings about Mine! Store implies passive and static, with some distribution via feeds, whereas one of the major [...]

]]> By: Radovan Semancik http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/05/from-misapprehensions-to-alternatives/comment-page-1/#comment-2068 Radovan Semancik Tue, 20 May 2008 08:45:50 +0000 http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/05/from-misapprehensions-to-alternatives/#comment-2068 What you are describing here is an evolutionary approach to software development. Often represented in a form of agile or extreme programming. The problem of all the evolutionary approaches are local maximums. Evolutionary approaches tend to stagnate in the "equilibrium" of the local maximum - unless a mutation is present. And evolution is often slow at satisfying the real needs of the people. Therefore your design will probably work and maybe it will be commercially successful, but it will be far from perfect. Please have a look what kind of beast OpenID guys created to have an idea what I'm talking about. ... and beware of the disruptive technologies. But to be a bit more specific with your proposal, I think you have swapped primary and secondary goals. Long-term solution should be primary goal and migration path should be secondary. The fact that they needs to be executed in the reverse order is not important here. What you are describing here is an evolutionary approach to software development. Often represented in a form of agile or extreme programming. The problem of all the evolutionary approaches are local maximums. Evolutionary approaches tend to stagnate in the “equilibrium” of the local maximum – unless a mutation is present. And evolution is often slow at satisfying the real needs of the people. Therefore your design will probably work and maybe it will be commercially successful, but it will be far from perfect. Please have a look what kind of beast OpenID guys created to have an idea what I’m talking about.

… and beware of the disruptive technologies.

But to be a bit more specific with your proposal, I think you have swapped primary and secondary goals. Long-term solution should be primary goal and migration path should be secondary. The fact that they needs to be executed in the reverse order is not important here.

]]> By: Trying to get to grips with VRM — 03.01.76 http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/05/from-misapprehensions-to-alternatives/comment-page-1/#comment-2067 Trying to get to grips with VRM — 03.01.76 Tue, 20 May 2008 07:12:23 +0000 http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/05/from-misapprehensions-to-alternatives/#comment-2067 [...] here it gets pretty technical. A lot of ideas are floating around, but thankfully there are good people, who try to help one sorting everything out. So I’m still an optimist as to one day finally getting [...] [...] here it gets pretty technical. A lot of ideas are floating around, but thankfully there are good people, who try to help one sorting everything out. So I’m still an optimist as to one day finally getting [...]

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