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"maff" |
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31 Mar 2005 10:34:42 AM |
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Organised gossip |
Organised gossip
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1448106,00.html
Jack Schofield
Thursday March 31, 2005
The Guardian
"Amazon wants to be the dominant e-commerce system on an interplanetary
scale," said Werner Vogels, Amazon's chief technology officer, at
O'Reilly's recent Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego,
California. To make that happen, its computer systems will probably
work like an epidemic. Or, he said, like women talking on the
telephone.
Although "epidemic techniques" and "viral data dissemination" sound
pretty far out, they are commonplace in both biology and in real life.
Another name for "viral data dissemination" is, of course, "gossip".
Jack Schofield
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/6ad8c045e36a92ab
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| Title: Re: Organised gossip |
31 Mar 2005 10:38:10 PM |
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maff wrote:
Organised gossip
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1448106,00.html
Jack Schofield
Thursday March 31, 2005
The Guardian
"Amazon wants to be the dominant e-commerce system on an
interplanetary
scale," said Werner Vogels, Amazon's chief technology officer, at
O'Reilly's recent Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego,
California. To make that happen, its computer systems will probably
work like an epidemic. Or, he said, like women talking on the
telephone.
Although "epidemic techniques" and "viral data dissemination" sound
pretty far out, they are commonplace in both biology and in real
life.
Another name for "viral data dissemination" is, of course, "gossip".
Jack Schofield
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/6ad8c045e36a92ab
Interesting that e-commerce systems are now big enough to drive forward
distributed computing design. Kind of like in "The Hitch Hiker's Guide
to the Galaxy", the plutonium rock band "Disaster Area" makes so much
money, its business accounts "push back the frontiers of pure
hypermathematics".
Regarding Amazon specifically, we already know they gossip about how
"Customers who bought this book also bought that book, and that book,
and that book." Which I presume is a pleasant little game to play with
creationist texts. "Customers who bought 'Darwin: A Scientific
Criticism' also bought 'Left Behind: ***** of Babylon'."
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