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NYTimes.com -- Cyberspace When You’re Dead

'I spoke to a couple of Entrustet users, who said they particularly wanted to protect photos stored online, along with hosting and domain-registration information for personal and business sites. Entrustet also offers an “account incinerator,” to obliterate content its users would prefer not to have linger on after them, and one person I spoke to mentioned having tagged a personal Twitter account for deletion — “it’s just inside jokes, personal ranting and raving” — along with a Gmail account. “I don’t need people judging the personal e-mails that I sent to my friends,” he explained. If we try to control the way we are perceived in life, why not in death, too? It’s not wholly unusual to do this with physical artifacts: letters to be opened only after death, or even to be destroyed. If nothing else, those Entrustet users figure they are leaving behind some guidelines about which bits of their online lives matter, and which don’t.' -- Like tears in rain

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january 2011 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Why Aren’t Games About Winning Anymore?

'...Schell predicts a time (in the not-so-distant future) when technology has become cheap and ubiquitous enough that almost everything we do will be a sort of game. Schell ends on an optimistic note about how all of this record-keeping and game-playing might make us better people. But it doesn’t change the fact that the world he envisions is one in which our actions are chosen by the points we get for them. ...if videogame achievements can make us ignore the end goal in favor of a little gold star, is there any doubt that real-life “achievements” can distract us from what’s actually important in life? Certainly, incentives can be used to drive good behavior, but there’s no guarantee that companies or organizations able to provide the most effective incentives will be the ones with the most altruistic motives. (And, of course, if I’m the one unconsciously making up my own achievements, I know they’re not always going to be what’s best for me.)'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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Hipster Runoff Exegesis -- "Should Carles retire?" and "My Name is Carles. I was Born 2 Blog"

'Carles attempts an escape from postmodernity by announcing a retreat from his online persona. As with Carles's earlier attempts at retirement and "digital suicide", Carles expresses an ultimately unfulfilled intention of retiring from blogging to expose how such intentions are in danger of becoming mere fantasies. It is no accident that the intention is presented as a question in the title of the first post linked above. The digital self is no longer autonomous, if it ever was autonomous in the first place. Our intentions are now subject to real-time referenda in the digital agora formed by mandatory social networking. We can now only at best wish to remove ourselves from the digitization and social mediatization of our lives. We can only dream of not broadcasting the quotidian details of our lives...'

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december 2009 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- His Facebook Status Now? ‘Charges Dropped’

'“This is the first case that I’m aware of in which a Facebook update has been used as alibi evidence,” said John Browning, a lawyer and member of the Dallas Bar Association who studies social networking and the law. “We are going to see more of that because of how prevalent social networking has become.” -- Mr. Reuland acknowledges that, in principle, anyone who knew Mr. Bradford’s username and password could have typed the Facebook update, but he regards it as unlikely in this case. “This implies a level of criminal genius that you would not expect from a young boy like this; he is not Dr. Evil,” Mr. Reuland said, adding that the Facebook entry was just “the icing on the cake,” since his client had the other alibis. -- Joseph Pollini said prosecutors should not have been so quick to drop the charges. “...there is a multitude of reasons why someone of that age would have the knowledge to do a crime like that.”' -- Exploitable

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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TechCrunch -- NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth

Rubbernecking 2.0 -- 'Moore’s [tweeted] coverage was quickly picked up by bloggers and mainstream media outlets alike, something that she actively encouraged so she could tell them the truth, rather than the speculative bullshit that was hitting the wires. There was just one problem: Moore’s information was bullshit too. -- ... the ‘real time web’ is turning all of us into inhuman egotists. Her behaviour had nothing to do with getting the word out; it wasn’t about preventing harm to others, but rather a simple case of – “look at me looking at this.” I’m sure she genuinely believed she was helping get the real truth out, and making an actual difference. And that’s precisely the problem: none of us think we’re being selfish or egotistic when we tweet something...' -- On Neda Agha Soltan's death: '...the last thing that terrified girl saw before she closed her eyes for the final time was some guy pointing a cameraphone at her. “Look at me, looking at her, looking back at me.”'

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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Times Online -- Generation reveal: there's nothing they won't post online

'Harry, a diffident 32-year-old charity campaigner, tells me, “The first girl I fell in love with couldn’t keep anything off her profile. It gave me a weird sense of out-of-body experience. Maybe I would have been self-conscious anyway, but I found myself thinking not, ‘What do I want to say to her?’ but ‘How will this play on her page?’ I wasn’t just after her approval, but that of an entire community. -- What we are talking about here is nothing less than a new means of symbolising relationship, and new methods of constructing a romantic identity: the virtual affair, the untagged husband, the status-update-parcelled-out self. As Lucy observes, “I still find myself ‘self-tweeting’. Every little thing that happens has the potential to go public, and it is a game to find a concise, witty way to make it viral." -- "...you realise it’s all just so many pixels on a screen.” Pixels with more permanence than some of the relationships they depict.'

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october 2009 by adamcrowe

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Are tweens too socially immature for twitter and/or fame and/or the internet?

'“I stopped living for moments and started living for people.” — Miley Cyrus, 2009 -- I was reading that popular tween sensation Miley Cyrus deactivated her twitter account. It will go down in history as the ‘most tragic’ internet suicide of all time, since she had over 2 million followers. I have read ‘doomsday articles’ that say this is ‘the end of twitter’, since tweeple now have role models who were ’strong enough’ to quit twitter. Instead of mimicking role models who are ‘twitter addicts’, tweens will now be more independent and mimmick role models who are ‘twitter quitters. A lifestream of text filled with 140 character statements just doesn’t give U enough room to BE U. It seems like maybe she turned to ’social media’ to try to replicate human relationships+interactions+socialspheres, but it was just this weird experience of ‘people looking at her.’ -- Just want my life 2 belong 2 me, but also want my life to make other people feel jealous/bored with their own existences.'

* HipsterRunoff identity authenticity privacy socialmedia behaviours celebrity fame ambientintimacy ambientexposure lifecasting twitter statusupdates sousveillance backlash teens internet amputation
october 2009 by adamcrowe

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Psychology Today -- Understanding the Psychology of Twitter

'I twitter, therefore I am. I matter. -- Dr David Lewis, a cognitive neuropsychologist: "Using Twitter suggests a level of insecurity whereby, unless people recognize you, you cease to exist. It may stave off insecurity in the short term, but it won't cure it." -- Twitter's software designers were clever enough to program in tenacious intermittent reward systems, so you end up like a loser in Vegas, behaviorally trapped at the slot machines of life. -- Perhaps a more enlightened way to look at it is that you're really just enjoying a cyber-zen moment of mindfulness to be present and tweet thyself. We're all interconnected now - each of us acting like a single neuron in humanity's brain, firing bits of electricity at one another, slowly coadunating and collectively struggling toward a great awakening. That awakening could turn out to be the next stage in our evolution, and a single tweet the butterfly's wings that eventually leads to a big bang of global meta-consciousness.' -- OM...

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october 2009 by adamcrowe

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Salon Life -- Why we can't stop looking

'Peep culture involves watching and being watched, snooping and spying, gawking and gossiping; it means exposing our intimacies with an eye toward bonding with others and growing comfortable with the increasingly common slippage between public and private. Peep culture, like pop culture, informs the atmosphere — it is the atmosphere — in which we live. Writes Niedzviecki, “It’s like that famous line about pornography: you know it when you see it. And you do see it. All the time, everyday, everywhere. -- ...people like Twitter because it's connection with low expectations. And that's a phrase that has stuck with me and has become almost an overarching explanation for the whole peep culture phenomenon. ...we want the feeling of connection without the weight of being expected to do something.”

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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Mashable -- Trapped Girls Updated Facebook Status Instead of Calling For Help

'The 10- and 12-year-old girls updated a Facebook status to say they were lost in a drain on Honeypot Road at Hackham in Adelaide’s southern suburbs on Sunday night. Glenn Benham from the MFS says it was fortunate a young friend was online at the time and was able to call for help for them. “It is a worry for us because it causes a delay on us being able to rescue the girls,” he said. “If they were able to access Facebook from their mobile phones, they could have called 000, so the point being they could have called us directly and we could have got there quicker than relying on someone being online and replying to them and eventually having to call us via 000 anyway.”' -- IM. TAKING. MY. LAST. BREATH. LOL

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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Telegraph -- 50 things that are being killed by the internet

'#5) Punctuality: Before mobile phones, people actually had to keep their appointments and turn up to the pub on time. Texting friends to warn them of your tardiness five minutes before you are due to meet has become one of throwaway rudenesses of the connected age. -- #30) Geographical knowledge: With GPS systems spreading from cars to smartphones, knowing the way from A to B is a less prized skill. Just ask the London taxi drivers who spent years learning The Knowledge but are now undercut by minicabs. -- #31) Privacy: We may attack governments for the spread of surveillance culture, but users of social media websites make more information about themselves available than Big Brother could ever hoped to obtain by covert means. -- #37) Personal reinvention: How can you forge a new identity at university when your Facebook is plastered with photos of the "old" you?'

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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Marginal Utility -- Nanostories, etc.

'Online, the action is the tracing of trends and our own statistically determined significance. Twittering, and then seeing what sort of response it provokes, etc. We are never at a loss for an opportunity to try to garner attention, and these efforts are archived, deepening our potential self, even if it is all noise. The internet has given us means to sell ourselves the way products have long been sold to us, and we’ve embraced them, adopting advertising measuring tools as markers of moral value. ...we manage our public meaning like a brand manager, and perfect the art of culture monitoring—meta consumption of media. We begin to consume the buzz about buzz, or pure buzz, with no concern with what it’s about, only whether we can exploit it for self-promotion. ...nanostories, not suprisingly, preserve the status quo, reinforcing our own vanity and self-centeredness along with the market as timeless, unquestionable norm.'

* psychology socialmedia lifecasting statusupdates behaviours attention addiction intermittentvariablerewards popularity status advertising marketing simulacra popculture meta sentiment self narcissism hype quantifiedself analytics boredom ideology reflexivity circumscription theadvertisedlife culture
september 2009 by adamcrowe

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PopMatters -- Your Brain is the New Factory Floor

'Let them eat Facebook profiles. -- We won’t put a price tag on ourselves or our friends or our pleasures, but Facebook will happily do that behind our backs, in economic exchanges that don’t include us. ...we have become the stuff being exchanged, both in what we are and what we do online. ...no matter how much we might love attention, we can’t use it to meet our basic needs. Ultimately, we all have to participate in the cash economy. -- In order to reclaim the fruits of our labor and stop working on the digital plantation, we may be forced to become self-consciously mercenary about what heretofore we have been content to share out of a spirit of convivial sociality. We will need to start viewing our social behavior as our intellectual property, our various selves as proprietary content to which we retain the broadcasting rights and which we have no intention of licensing for reuse without our express written consent.' -- Awesome reveal of 'free'

* economics digital free abundance technoutopianism feudalism socialmedia sousveillance lifecasting numbers quantifiedself reputation identity self attention ideology sharecropping exploitation surplusvalue theadvertisedlife
august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Epeus' epigone -- How Twitter works in theory

#Flow #Faces: Indeed, what you see are the faces of people you know with the notes they wrote next to them. This taps into deep mental structures that we all have to looks for faces and associate the information we receive with people we decide to trust, through what we feel about them. This is also why automated tweets not by them are so obtrusive, as they break the trust. Using friends' faces in ads is even more pernicious, as ads are by definition recommendations from people we don't trust. #Phatic #Following #Publics #Mutual media: Mutual media: The alternative model is one that is less familiar, yet is all around us - the spontaneous order that emerges from people communicating in parallel. ...we are each others media, we are the synapses in the global brain of the web of thought and conversation. #Small world networks'

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- No Twittering Allowed

'THE invitation, by e-mail, was clear. “You are cordially invited to Protocols NYC, an off the record, no tweeting, no blogging, no photos, salon.” The idea, according to a host, Michael Malice, an author and blogger, is to let invitees talk fearlessly in the present. “We are fighting against this whole idea that everything people do has to be constantly chronicled,” Mr. Malice said. “People think that every thought they have, every experience — if it is not captured it is lost.” ...the quintet has found that there’s something magical about a life less posted. “When it’s off the record, you actually listen to the conversation, not just wait for your turn to speak,” Mr. Malice said. When he wanted to take a photo with one guest, a well-known talk show host, he did it outside the venue. “I wanted to keep the space pure, a little bubble of decency,” he said.' -- Meatspace Darknets

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Advertising Age -- Building an Army of Hyper-Local, Mobile-Connected Advocates

'... the next-generation platform for proximity marketing... social incentives could be the new discounts. Foursquare bills itself as 50% friend finder, 30% social city guide, 20% nightlife game. Co-founder Dennis Crowley puts it this way: "I think Foursquare found some kind of sweet spot between the intersection of social utility (Hey, I know where my friends are), sharing/oversharing (I log everywhere I go/everything I do) and gaming/rewards (every check-in gives you a little piece of candy)." Foursquare is designed with these game dynamics in mind, and it's the absurd appeal of its reward that makes the service so "sticky." "The product is really complex—score, leaderboards, friends, tips, to-dos, etc—and I think different parts of the product speak to different people. If you get on Twitter and search for Foursquare, you find people who think it's 'Delicious for places!' or 'Twitter with location!' or 'Loopt, but with points!'"' -- Capture the flag. Become the flag. Sell the flag.

* smartmobs behaviours socialmedia foursquare mobile location place space navigation discovery scentmarking pheromones city psychogeography lifestreaming lifecasting statusupdates status gamemechanics capturetheflag localism loyalty thegamingofeverydaylife retribalization
august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Marginal Utility -- Consumption display; or, against sharing

'Perhaps I’m too old to appreciate how “showing off” has now become “sharing.” If I made an effort to let people know what I was listening to, I would only be able to see what I was doing as trying to score points, trying to beat out whoever was paying attention by one-upping them with something cooler than what they were listening to. Maybe that kind of competition is a contemporary potlatch, but to me it just seems weird. It seems to supplant the pleasures of me in my apartment listening to the music, which should theoretically be enough, with a different and more uncertain pleasure of showing others up—I mean, sharing with them my superlative tastes. But pop culture consumption ultimately has little to do with sensual qualities and more to do with signaling, with participating in a zeitgeist, with nailing down one’s social identity for a particular moment in time. -- Poseurdom is too seductive and useful an opportunity; it lets us deploy cultural capital without risk.'

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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Vodafone Receiver -- Ambient Intimacy

"Ambient intimacy is about being able to keep in touch with people with a level of regularity and intimacy that you wouldn't usually have access to, because time and space conspire to make it impossible. Ambient is for the lightness, the atmospheric, non-directional and distributed nature of the communication. These are communications that are one to many; they're not quite broadcast and yet not exactly conversational; they flood over a somewhat defined space. Within that space is intimacy: the closeness, familiarity and warmth that this kind of communication can create and the ever-present network of friends available wherever you can access the internet, or even just send a text message." -- Four reasons why people bother with social networking: #1. anticipated reciprocity #2. reputation #3. sense of efficacy #4. identification with a group

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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Say Everything -- Chapter One: Putting Everything Out There [Justin Hall]

"I published my life on the fucking internet. And it doesn’t make people wanna be with me. It makes people not trust me. And I don’t know what the fuck to do about it." -- “It was like Justin was maintaining a celebrity gossip blog about himself. Who needs that kind of cruelty in their lives?” -- 'In 1994, Justin Hall invented oversharing ...no one knew that the self-revelation he found so addictive would one day become a temptation for millions. -- the transition we’re living through today.. The struggle to draw a line between the self and the world isn’t some novelty imposed on us by technology; it’s part of human development—an effort we all face from the moment our infant selves begin to notice there’s a world out there, beyond our bodies. The Web has just made the process of drawing this line more nettlesome. In the end we’re each going to find the compromise between sharing and discretion that’s right for ourselves. If we’re lucky, it will take less than the decade it took Hall.'

* internet web history bbs linklogging blogging oversharing lifecasting behaviours selfservers celebrity identity narcissism solipsism intimacy ambientintimacy ambientexposure relationships transparency authenticity missing psychology JustinHall books fame
may 2009 by adamcrowe

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This is going to be BIG! -- She dreams in digital: Dating on and off the grid

' ...sometimes I wonder how anyone ever gets to know anyone who is basically off the grid. It feels so forced and unnatural. You have to ask someone about their day and what was on their mind--manually! Ever think about introducing yourself on the subway? Ask them to unplug from their iPod to talk to a stranger in mid-sardine can transport with no ability to Ignore or Block? Yeah, right. How would they know who I was if they couldn't Google me? BTW, exactly what day was it that it became creepier *not* to have a web presence? -- "How did you meet?" Nowadays, it goes something like this, "Well, I found her after searching a keyword that I'm interested on Twitter..."

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may 2009 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- One Tweet Over the Line

Not Meant for Public Consumption by Clay Shirky: "Society has always carved out space for young people to misbehave. We used to do this by making a distinction between behavior we couldn’t see, because it was hidden, and behavior we could see, because it was public. That bargain is now broken, because social life increasingly includes a gray area that is publicly available, but not for public consumption. Given this change, we need to find new ways to cut young people some slack. Privacy used to be enforced by inconvenience; you couldn’t just spy on anyone you wanted. Increasingly, though, privacy will have to be enforced by us grownups simply choosing not to look, since it’s none of our business."

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may 2009 by adamcrowe

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Marginal Utility -- Alone in the woods

"I have this sense that experiences need to be shared in a much more mediated way to register to myself as having happened. ...since online sharing has become a way of translating my own experiences to myself, without that process readily available to me, I felt dulled at times, alienated from myself to a degree. All of this is to say that I think that the internet has suddenly brought us a much denser experience of interpersonal relationships and sociality that forces us to reshape the way we think of ourselves, as being potentially social at basically all times. We are perpetually present everywhere, with a ubiquity wireless connectivity supplies. The result of this thick intimacy, this perpetual sociality, is that we may have much more difficulty achieving harmony with the natural world, where presence is momentary and fragile, and sociality is limited to the distance our voices can travel." -- Data or it didn't happen.

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may 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- The Onion: Police Slog Through 40,000 Insipid Party Pics To Find Cause Of Dorm Fire

"The fire was ruled an accident after a tedious review of thousands of digital photos documenting every second of the five hour party."

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may 2009 by adamcrowe

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Marginal Utility -- Foucault’s Facebook

On Twitterification: 'We are expected to be, or become, “omnivorous consumers of momentary trivia.” Not only that, but we are expected to produce that trivia ceaselessly and eagerly. This calls to mind Foucault’s ideas about power exercising itself not as repression—that is, as forbidding us to speak or to act in certain ways—but as permission, as a kind of broad encouragement to speak (albeit through discourses that constitute our identities along certain prescribed lines). Our participation lets power work through us, which we can experience as being exciting—as being part of the action; we are all under surveillance, but we understand that emotionally as “Hey, we’re all celebrities!” Foucault calls it “control by stimulation.” This is why people seem to feel compelled to use Twitter. We want to participate, want to be counted, want to count. -- We are spying on each other and confessing ourselves to everybody else, and mistaking it all for entertainment consumption...'

* behaviours socialmedia socialnetworking statusupdates twitter lifecasting participation confession sousveillance surveillance panopticon power selfservers self availability identity theory MichelFoucault #ubiquity #socialization
march 2009 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- The Way We Live Now: Growing Up on Facebook

'... college was my big chance to [...] reinvent myself, to get busy with the embarrassing, exciting, muddy, wonderful work of creating an adult identity. Can you really do that with your 450 closest friends watching, all tweeting to affirm ad nauseam your present self? Perhaps my nieces will find a new way to establish distance from their former selves, to clear space for introspection and transformation. Perhaps they will evolve through judicious deleting and updating of profile information, through the constant awareness of their public face. It could be that [...] Facebook marks a return to the time when people remained embedded in their communities for life, with connections that ran deep, peers who reined them in if they strayed too far from the norm... Kids [...] will inevitably want to drive a stake into the heart of former lives, may simply abandon [Facebook] and find something new: something still unformed, yet to be invented — much like themselves.'

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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Sasha Cagen -- This Is Your Brain on Twitter

"That night, a disturbing thing happened. At 3 am, I semi-woke, finding my brain was restructured into a stream where I was waiting for the latest 140 character outburst from the random collection of people I follow--colleagues, old lovers, the guy I know who is building a space elevator. I was dreaming in Twitter. The static electricity of all these quick, fragmentary thoughts made me feel more jittery and caffeinated than if I had drunk three lattes before bed. I spent between the next four hours waiting for something, but I couldn't figure out what. All I knew was that I wasn't satisfied. I thought of cradling my cuddly iPhone with me in bed. I could read tweets in the middle of the night. That thought terrified me. I felt like I was being watched, if not by others, than by myself, scanning through my existence for the next Twitterable moment. I couldn't sleep for longer than two hours at a time."

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Quantified Self -- Measuring Mood: Current Research and New Ideas

'You don't have to quietly mutter "anger" in order to feel anger. But it does suggest that anger is a concept that you begin learning in infancy and may continue to extend and revise throughout life. The repeated experience of labeling a combination of core affect and the context in which it occurs as "anger" trains you in how to be angry and how to recognize anger. Barrett describes emotions as simulations, in the sense that they take an experience of core affect, plus the situation in which it occurs, and compute an appropriate result. This suggests that we can revise our emotional architecture through experiments in description. [Lisa Feldman Barrett's] paper suggests that we can improve our emotional structure, increasing the granularity of emotional experiences by enriching our vocabulary and learning to apply it to previously unnoticed patterns in affect and context.'

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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New Scientist -- Living Online: I'll Have to Ask My Friends (PDF)

"Our society tends toward a breathless techno-enthusiasm: "We are more connected; we are global; we are more informed." But just as not all information put on the web is true, not all aspects of the new sociality should be celebrated. We communicate with quick instant messages, "check-in" cell calls and emoticon graphics. All of these are meant to quickly communicate a state. They are not meant to open a dialogue about complexity of feeling. Although the culture that grows up around the cellphone is a "talk culture", it is not necessarily a culture that contributes to self-reflection. Self-reflection depends on having an emotion, experiencing it, taking one's time to think it through and understand it, but only sometimes electing to share it."

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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ValleyWag -- Privacy: Photo-Humiliation Site Brings Paparazzi Headaches to Masses

"The site, as described by BusinessWeek, appears to operate as a defacto blackmail racket: Your "friends" submit "hilarious" pictures of you, often filched from Facebook. If you are in a picture and want it removed, you have to become a member of the site, which costs $20 per month or $50 per year. Best part: Your "friend" earns a kickback of $10 or $20 if his picture causes you to pay the membership fee. Better to accept the inevitable: Celebrity has been so devalued and democratized that we all have to learn to play the PR games of famous people. That means flooding the market with flattering pictures and blog posts (the equivalent of magazine puff pieces); bullying hostile bloggers and scandal websites (as celebrity flacks do with tabloids and other disfavored publications); and paying the occasional bribe, in the form of anything from flirting to a free lunch to cold, hard cash..." -- Real sick.

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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Marginal Utility -- Twitter and Newspeak

"Twitter, which emulates some of the salient features of Newspeak, is of course perfect for advertising—if you have to stop to think about what’s being said, the persuasion has probably failed. But the most insidious aspect of it is how it encourages us to speak in slogans and catchphrases, to eschew logical exposition of our thoughts for a quick, allusive declaration. Twitter is supposed to facilitate our relationships by providing “ambient awareness” of the lives of others, but it seems more a way of persuading us to provide a constant stream of information about ourselves to those sureveilling us. In a sense, it ceases to be communication in any conventional sense; instead it reduces communication to the bleeps of a homing beacon. Twitter is a way to become one’s own voluntary RFID tag." -- Information vs Communication. Message vs Massage.

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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Twitter Spy

"You are spying on Twitter public timeline in real time."

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january 2009 by adamcrowe

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FriendFeed Spy beta - Spying on FriendFeed public timeline and some more...

Leaky

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january 2009 by adamcrowe

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Marginal Utility -- Twitter: the ultimate advertising medium

"Though it didn’t start as an explicit marketing tool, Twitter drew on the ubiquity of advertising discourse, offering us a way to participate in it and seem to master it, harness it for our own ends. It seems to have risen to prominence by allowing its users to craft and broadcast up-to-the-minute advertisements for themselves. The posts bear with them no expectation of literary skill or substance, so no barriers of procrastination prevent us from writing them. By broadcasting your doings in real time, in clipped, urgent language, you can feel like a celebrity and live as though someone is always watching you. This provides the useful illusion of social recognition, an illusion that reciprocal following of other feeds serves to enhance."

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january 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Eye Spy: Filmmaker Plans to Install Camera in His Eye Socket

'"If you lose your eye and have a hole in your head, then why not stick a camera in there?"'

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december 2008 by adamcrowe

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PeopleBrowsr

"PeopleBrowsr is a simple visual dashboard that adds more power to Twitter, your other online identities and those of your friends." -- Video demo: http://scobleizer.com/2008/12/05/twitter-and-all-social-networks-will-never-be-the-same-thanks-to-peoplebrowsr -- Pretty damn good.

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december 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- Sousveillance

"Sousveillance as well as inverse surveillance are terms coined by Steve Mann to describe the recording of an activity from the perspective of a participant in the activity, typically by way of small portable or wearable recording devices that often stream continuous live video to the Internet."

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october 2008 by adamcrowe

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Techcrunch -- Why Twitter Hasn’t Failed: The Power Of Audience

'Profile Pages on Facebook can have audiences of course, but this requires that users continually roam Facebook to look for news in their network. Facebook realized this limitation and introduced the News Feed. Its intent was to move a user’s “acts and performances” from the stage of the profile page to a single and central stage, a single place for Audience.'

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september 2008 by adamcrowe

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Clive Thompson -- I’m So Totally, Digitally Close to You

'It is easy to become unsettled by privacy-eroding aspects of awareness tools. But there is another — quite different — result of all this incessant updating: a culture of people who know much more about themselves. Many of the avid Twitterers, Flickrers and Facebook users I interviewed described an unexpected side-effect of constant self-disclosure. The act of stopping several times a day to observe what you’re feeling or thinking can become, after weeks and weeks, a sort of philosophical act. It’s like the Greek dictum to “know thyself,” or the therapeutic concept of mindfulness.'

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september 2008 by adamcrowe

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mon.thly.info

"Mon.thly.Info is a simple tool to help you keep track of your menstrual cycles." -- Monthly flow. Not sure I'm allowed to comment on this.

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september 2008 by adamcrowe

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Laconica -- Trac

Dev. Yay, open source Twitter!

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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This Blog Sits at the -- Me feeds (and the law of return)

"To do lists and agendas are always forward looking. Inevitably, there are traces of the past, but this software is never designed to serve this up to us. It's as if we see the past as completely past, what's done is done... I am not arguing that me feeds are intrinsically interesting, merely that they are useful. All this networking, all this communication node to node, the one party we sometimes neglect is our selves."

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Fire Eagle

"Fire Eagle is a site that stores information about your location. With your permission, other services and devices can either update that information or access it. By helping applications respond to your location, Fire Eagle is designed to make the world around you more interesting!" -- "Let us know if you think an application is being creepy" -- Hehe

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Chi.mp -- Content Hub and Identity Management Platform

"Chi.mp is building a flexible, permanent home for your online identity on your own domain. You own and are in control of the facets of your digital life, not any one service provider. One place for your profile, your contacts & content, where you have control over who gets to see what."

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Technology Review -- What Your Phone Knows About You

"All this sort-of Web 2.0 stuff is nice, but you have to type stuff in. Things are never up to date, and unless you consciously know about something, you can't put it in. Reality mining is all about paying attention to patterns in life and using that information to help you do things like set privacy policies, share things with people, notify people when you're near them, and just to help you live your life." -- !!! Everyware must default to plausible deniability.

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Rick’s HideOut -- RSS Stream

"RSS Stream displays your social feeds in a lifestream way."

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Matt Jones and Tom Coates -- Polite, Pertinent, and... Pretty: Designing for the New-wave of Personal Informatics

Adam Greenfield: "Everyware must be deniable." -- Linky, laggy, leaky.

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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kierandelaney -- SimpleLife

Lifestreaming plugin for wordpress

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may 2008 by adamcrowe

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Webware - Twinkle for iPhone lets you surf Twitter by location

"... if you're in a Twitter-rich city, drilling down to 1- to 5-mile radius around you will let you know all sorts of things going on in your area as they're happening."

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april 2008 by adamcrowe

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Alert Thingy - A desktop app for FriendFeed.com

All your friends on your desk.

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april 2008 by adamcrowe

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Soup

"The easiest way to publish, collect, and share what you're creating, thinking about, or discovering online."

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april 2008 by adamcrowe

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Streem

"A streem is an easy, fluid, social way to share your life with the people around you."

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april 2008 by adamcrowe

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Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab - Edge Principles, FriendFeed Edition

Comment: Gregory: "twitter, friendfeed... i think of them as technology that enables esp and intuition, (yes to your 'complements' observation) which is a more subtle activity than plotting, planning, manipulating, managing, confronting, etc."

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march 2008 by adamcrowe

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SportsDo

" SportsDo is a GPS sports tracking system for your mobile phone which enables you to record your sporting activities while broadcasting live tracking stats to friends and family via the SportsDo web portal." -- No SDK or API except for map data export :(

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Nokia - Eco Sensor Concept

"The concept consists of two parts – a wearable sensor unit which can sense and analyze your environment, health, and local weather conditions, and a dedicated mobile phone." BioOS is here. (Just f'ing make it and stop asking for permission first!)

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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BusinessWeek - Innovation Predictions for 2008: It's All About Me

'"Identity" replaces "experience" as the next big concept in design and media thinking. People create their own identities interacting with products and services. The notion of a consumer experience is a more passive way of thinking. It's so 20th century'

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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The Facebook Blog - Friend Lists

Nah! Needs to be dynamic/programmatic. Granted, you need some hard filters. Tags would have been more appropriate, but people 'get' categories, so...

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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Clive Thompson on the Age of Microcelebrity - Why Everyone's a Little Brad Pitt

"the Brand Called You meme brought to its grim apotheosis. But haven't our lives always been a little bit public and stage-managed? Microcelebrity simply makes the social engineering we've always done a little more overt - and maybe a little more honest."

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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Sync - Sync My Ride

Ford, fully-integrated, voice activated in-car communication and entertainment system for your mobile and digital music player. (Can do so much more with this.)

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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Inside Facebook - Beacon concerns, like News Feed concerns of a year ago, will fade

"The bottom line is most people want to be in their friends’ attention stream. Whether that is offline or on Facebook or off Facebook, people want their real friends to know what is going on in their lives." True.

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november 2007 by adamcrowe

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Nokia Sports Tracker Beta

"Nokia Sports Tracker is a GPS based activity tracker that runs on Nokia smartphones. Information such as speed, distance and time are automatically stored to your training diary, and on this site you can store and share your workouts and routes."

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november 2007 by adamcrowe

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Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab - Research Note: Facebooked, or How to Fix SocialAds

"I buy shoes; if I want, my friends get a short, simple message saying I did so; if they want, they can click to see the shoes. The problem with Beacon/SocialAds is that there shouldn't be any any "ads" there at all - the original interaction is the ad."

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november 2007 by adamcrowe

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Ambient Devices

and send data the other way?

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november 2007 by adamcrowe

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Aram Bartholl = Net Data Space vs. Every Day Life - "Are you social?"

Web services T-shirt [via: chroma] Needs to be rfid'd

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november 2007 by adamcrowe

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ear-fung.us - Nike+ iPod Stats Wordpress Plugin

"The Nike+ iPod Stats plugin display[s] how you’re doing at your workouts. It uses Nike’s public API (the same one used for the official Nike widgets) to retrieve your personal data and formats it to display correctly on your Wordpress blog."

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november 2007 by adamcrowe

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Runometer

"Wish you could relate the workout data you collect to the routes you run? We provide a free, for-fun service that lets you combine maps of runs with the information you've recorded.

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november 2007 by adamcrowe

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Flixwagon – your life...live!

Mobile lifecasters: "Want to broadcast your life from wherever you are, to whomever you wish, whenever? With FlixWagon, you can Broadcast live or keep videos for later, upload to your blog, and much more."

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november 2007 by adamcrowe

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This Blog Sits at the - Nike + and the creation of private and public consumer value

"The private value is that I exercise more. The public value is that I now "belong" to and participate with collectivities that would otherwise not much interest me. This is a kind of mechanized networking of the kind we see more and more of."

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november 2007 by adamcrowe

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New York Times - The Global Sympathetic Audience

'Shelley Powers, a computer programmer who writes a blog, Burningbird, about social networking... calls the entire [twitter suicide] experience “artificial intimacy” and wonders if people were “concerned about it, or were they titillated.'

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november 2007 by adamcrowe

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8hands - Brings all your favorite social networks to your Desktop

Desktop aggregator: "Because constantly visiting all your social sites is SO 2006."

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november 2007 by adamcrowe

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Mugshot

"Show updates from all your sites on one page. Get live updates from friends. Mugshot makes it fun, free and easy!"

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november 2007 by adamcrowe

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Readr - 20 profiles in 1 - Stay in touch with your friends.

"20 profiles in 1. Put your blog, photos, and more together in one place."

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november 2007 by adamcrowe

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Adactio - stream

An older lifestreaming thing, but only for your own services not your friends. Could be adapted. PHP source for download.

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november 2007 by adamcrowe

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ProfileBuilder - Online Identity Platform

"Your profile is your online place, it's the place to put anything you want — such as your interests, activities and contacts. From now on, wherever you sign your name, you sign your icon with it."

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october 2007 by adamcrowe

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FriendFeed

"FriendFeed is a simple tool that scratches the surface of that goal by making it easier to keep track of the web pages, videos, music, and photos your friends and family interact with around the Internet."

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october 2007 by adamcrowe

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Bokardo - The Social Graph and Objects of Sociality

"[Facebook] want to know if you worked with them, if you went to school with them, or if you met them through an acquaintance. These items, the job, the school, and the other friend, are the very objects of sociality that make the relationship work."

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september 2007 by adamcrowe

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Digital Rain - What are you doing? Going to the dentist?

'Twitter could then perhaps just as easily be called Flutter because it is in some respects a response to a chaotic, folk view of history; an attempt to somehow weave this web of human chaos that we all feel inextricably part of.'

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september 2007 by adamcrowe

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Wired - Slap in the Facebook: It's Time for Social Networks to Open Up

'"The web still lacks a generalized way to convey relationships between people's identities on the internet... an underlying framework that connects "friends" and establishes trust relationships between peers'

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september 2007 by adamcrowe

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Unit Structures - On Social Graphs

"... each reduction or level of abstraction we add to friendship changes the nature of friendship - and jumping from thinking of our relationships as "networks" to our relationships as "graphs" seems a pretty big leap for me."

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september 2007 by adamcrowe

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Wired - How Mark Zuckerberg Turned Facebook Into the Web's Hottest Platform

"Dustin Moskovitz (Facebook): "What people really want is one online identity to do all these different things. What users wanted was the long tail of applications."

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september 2007 by adamcrowe

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Logic+Emotion - Lifestreams

"The premise of Lifestreaming interests me primarily because it speaks to a basic human need. The need to make sense of our lives. The need to simplify the complex—and make it meaningful."

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august 2007 by adamcrowe

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