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The Atlantic -- The Zynga Abyss

'I'll reiterate this in plainer language, just in case the quote wasn't clear: Detsaridis said that one of the most compelling parts of playing Zynga's games is deciding when and how to spam your friends with reminders to play Zynga's games.'

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january 2012 by adamcrowe

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Ribbonfarm -- The World is Small and Life is Long

'The pre-Interent double-take zone was fairly stable. Double-take events were truly serendipitous and generally didn’t go anywhere. Most relationship options expired due to low social and geographic mobility. A random encounter was just a random encounter. Since double-take encounters temporarily dislocate people from the default context through which you know them, and make them temporarily more alive after, you could say the double-take zone is coming alive with nascent relationships: relationships that have been dislodged from a fixed physical or digital context, but haven’t yet been socially situated. There is an additional necessary condition for more to happen: the double-take moment must also destabilize default assumptions about relative status. ...one of the effects of the breakdown of the middle class and trading-up is that status relationships become context-dependent. There is no default context. You never know when you might turn a barista into a new friend after a double-take encounter, or renew a relationship with an old one via a Facebook Like. The sane default attitude today is the world is small and life is long. Reinventing yourself is becoming prohibitively expensive.'

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january 2012 by adamcrowe

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Pinboard Blog -- The Social Graph is Neither

'Imagine the U.S. Census as conducted by direct marketers – that's the social graph. Social networks exist to sell you crap. The icky feeling you get when your friend starts to talk to you about Amway, or when you spot someone passing out business cards at a birthday party, is the entire driving force behind a site like Facebook. Because their collection methods are kind of primitive, these sites have to coax you into doing as much of your social interaction as possible while logged in, so they can see it. It's as if an ad agency built a nationwide chain of pubs and night clubs in the hopes that people would spend all their time there, rigging the place with microphones and cameras to keep abreast of the latest trends (and staffing it, of course, with that Mormon bartender). We're used to talking about how disturbing this in the context of privacy, but it's worth pointing out how weirdly unsocial it is, too. How are you supposed to feel at home when you know a place is full of one-way mirrors? We have a name for the kind of person who collects a detailed, permanent dossier on everyone they interact with, with the intent of using it to manipulate others for personal advantage – we call that person a sociopath. And both Google and Facebook have gone deep into stalker territory with their attempts to track our every action. Even if you have faith in their good intentions, you feel misgivings about stepping into the elaborate shrine they've built to document your entire online life.'

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november 2011 by adamcrowe

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confused of calcutta -- The new new telco

'New new telcos provided multimedia services across multiple types of device using multiple modalities of communication. And they did everything “over the top”. No infrastructure costs. No on-premise software. And to top it all new new telcos had new new assets, information about relationships and flows. What Facebook call the Friend Graph. -- ...businesses used to be hierarchies of business units whose assets were called customers and products; that they are changing into networks of business units whose assets were called relationships and capabilities. New new assets. Relationships and capabilities. Social capital. Human capital. Assets we have carefully avoided learning how to value. Assets we have refused to value, however much we speak of the importance of talent and knowledge and collaboration. That’s where the new new value is. All just in time for a generation who have rediscovered community.'

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- GoogleTechTalks: Fun is the Future: Mastering Gamification Presented by Gabe Zichermann.

"Think of it as non-fiction gaming." -- "If you don't have a good status system to offer to your users in exchange for their behaviour, you need to give them cash." -- "Games are the only force in the known universe that can get people to take actions which are against their self interest, in a predictable way, without the use of force." -- "No matter what game you're playing, the house always wins. There is no way to beat the house long-term. So you have the choice in a more gamified world, of either being the house, or being played."

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november 2010 by adamcrowe

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TechCrunch -- Social Gaming Market Reaches Its Final Stage…and It’s Not Looking Pretty

'Outside of Facebook, Farmville simply can’t hold its own against games like Bejeweled and Scrabble when it comes to monetizing a casual audience... -- In the end, I believe that “social games” as we know them will be a forgotten internet fad, ultimately consumed by the already mature online market for downloadable and multiplayer games. The only NEW discoveries that remain will be the realization that social networking itself is a new kind of game play, social graphs are an extremely efficient way for games to market themselves and that microcurrency business models blended with advertising are a superior way to monetize online games in general. Everything else will be consumed by the highly competitive and established downloadable and multiplayer online game market. If some of the big names in social media gaming survive, it will be because they leveraged their abundant access to capital to transform themselves away from dependence on Facebook.'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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TechCrunch -- The End of Moore’s Law: A Love Story

'Games create shared goals. We are reaching the multitudes of people who want to co-operate and gift, not just compete. They want to live their lives with achievement systems as fine-tuned as World of Warcraft, with power-ups for cooperating in structures like parties and guilds. They want us to help them bring play back into their work and education. ...while we were looking for movies powered by millions of transistors, we ignored the emotions we were creating in games as a new kind of playground. Instead of creating emotion-laden, but passive stories, we elicited emotional moments off the screen, between friends, in the retelling, in the trash-talking. The emotion came from who we played with, not what machine we played on. Games help us create richer photo albums of our lives. ...let’s create play spaces that help us make more and better friends. We are the characters, the heroes, the actors. And we are making stories together. More friends, not Moore’s Law.'

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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Raph’s Website -- Facebook rebrands the Internet

'#Step one: Facebook is going to make the whole Internet a community space. #Step two: Facebook is going to be your identity card for the Internet. #Step three: Facebook will aggregate this data into a new type of search. #Step four: Facebook will be your virtual wallet. #Step five: Facebook will push this into the real world, and become your id card for reality. -- But I left out the part where people create Facebook identity skimmers and stand in front of the movie theater; where your history of likes gets analyzed by a third party and turned into direct marketing spam; where there’s a data breach and your credits get taken; where you lose a job because you once liked the wrong kind of site; where companies start paying people to form fake social graphs (“friend me and get free stuff!”) in order to push astroturfing influence into social recommendations; where Facebook bans you because you got rowdy, and now you have no virtual identity. Welcome to a crazy new world.'

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april 2010 by adamcrowe

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Spark -- Full Interview: Jesse Schell on Game Design

Shame in nurturing games within social environments eg. Farmville: "If you know your friends are visiting your farm everyday you'll spend more time and money to keep it tidy." -- Thoughts/gists: Gameification is inevitable in an attention economy. Once offered, people like maximising reward/loyalty points. New real-time tracking/feedback technology will enable more compelling collecting/optimising/completion experiences. Companies are going to be trying to figure out ways to give you points for doing things. They want to own data you care about. "As a game designer you better figure out what side you're on: 4 groups: #persuaders: motivated by money, #fulfillers: create deep experiences, #artists: advance the medium, #humanitarians: motivate 'better' behaviours"

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april 2010 by adamcrowe

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Cultivated Play: Farmville

'Farmville is popular because it entangles users in a web of social obligations. When users log into Facebook, they are reminded that their neighbors have sent them gifts, posted bonuses on their walls, and helped with each others’ farms. In turn, they are obligated to return the courtesies. As the French sociologist Marcel Mauss tells us, gifts are never free: they bind the giver and receiver in a loop of reciprocity. It is rude to refuse a gift, and ruder still to not return the kindness. We play Farmville, then, because we are trying to be good to one another. We play Farmville because we are polite, cultivated people. -- Caillois stated that games must be free from obligation, separate from ‘real life,’ uncertain in outcome, an unproductive activity, governed by rules, and make-believe. -- [W]e must learn to differentiate sociable applications from sociopathic applications: applications that use people’s sociability to control those people, and to satisfy their owners’ needs.'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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afeeld -- Cultivated Play: Farmville

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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Stowe Boyd -- Don't Be Afraid Of Foursquare, But We Need Circles Of Trust

'Consider a young woman, Chloe, who has a close set of confidants – say 15 friends, both male and female – to whom she is extremely close. She also is part of a larger scene of 100 people or people that she sees frequently, but knows less well. And she may part of a even larger sphere ... Imagine if her geolocational information was propagated in correspondingly less detail as her Foursquare posts moved outward through these circles of trust. Her inner circle might see exactly where she is -- a certain corner of a certain bar -- and also might receive that information in real-time. Her 100 or so good friends might learn that she is in the Meatpacking district, or Nolita, but specifics would be blurred. So if one of that 100 had been invited to the same party they might be able to infer that Chloe was there, too. But they would have to directly ask her to get confirmation, and she could simply opt not to respond. And that information might be delayed by 15 minutes or 30 minutes, also.'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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Google Video -- Steve Rambam: Privacy Is Dead, Get Over It

'Emphasis will be placed on discussing the "digital footprints" that we all leave in our daily lives, and how it is now possible for an investigator (or government Agent) to determine a person's likes and dislikes, religion, political beliefs, sexual orientation, habits, hobbies, friends, family, finances, health and even the person's actual physical whereabouts at any given moment, solely by the use of online data and related activity.'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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Raph’s Website -- Gameifying everything

'Some will find this questionable on the grounds of who sets up the incentive structures... Others will see it as a big invasion of privacy... Yet another group will worry about the fact that the incentive structures here are likely to be based on psychological hacks and reinforcement tricks. -- ...we need to be thinking about what our accommodation is with these technologies and approaches. Almost all of this arises simply out of better knowledge of ourselves and our psychology paired with improvements in communications technology. And that is not a new problem—it’s an old one. Spotting [(manipulation)] has become a cottage industry, from Photoshop fails to political fact-checking. And we shouldn’t by any stretch think that games or game tactics are the only place where this stuff will be used or even most impinge upon our lives. ...the concerns that arise from gameifying the world apply in larger measure to non-games.'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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RWW -- The Man Who Looked Into Facebook's Soul

'...picture our perspective leaving our own experiences, zooming out and up until we can see how all the different groups are interacting on a worldwide social network. That bird's-eye view could be both beautiful and horrible if the resolution was clear enough. ...the next stage of innovation online may be services like recommendations, self and group awareness...' -- Warden: "Nobody thinks about how much valuable information they're generating just by friending people and fanning pages. It's like we're constantly voting in a hundred different ways every day. And I'm a starry-eyed believer that we'll be able to change the world for the better using that neglected information. It's like an x-ray for the whole country - we can see all sorts of hidden details of who we're friends with, where we live, what we like."' -- Here be dragons.

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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RWW -- Want to Know Where Your Neighbors Are Spending Their Money? Bundle Will Tell You

'Thanks to a cooperation with Citi and other third-party data suppliers, Bundle is able to compile detailed statistics about how Americans are spending their money. To get started, you just enter your location, age, income and whether you are married, single or have kids. Bundle will then create an infographic that represents the spending habits of similar households in your neighborhood. From there, you can drill down deeper into the statistics. At its most granular level, Bundle displays where people are spending their money. My neighbors, for example, buy their electronics at Best Buy, Apple and Fry's.' -- Lambs to the slaughter.

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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SFGate.com -- Can your comments affect your credit? Yup.

'In hopes of identifying good credit customers, some financial institutions are tapping into the information you and your friends reveal online. The idea is that the friends you keep and data you disclose may help them make more accurate business decisions. -- ...profiles provide banks with insight into your behavior patterns - what you like and dislike, want and don't want, do well and do poorly. Creditors can see if people in your network have accounts with them, and are free to look at how they are handling those accounts. The presumption is that if those in your network are responsible cardholders, there is a better chance you will be too. So, if a bank is on the fence about whether to extend you credit, you may become eligible if those in your network are good credit customers. -- Having a robust online social network can also expedite loan acceptance. If you're connected to a lot of people who are great credit risks, it can speed you through the process.' -- Brave New World

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Spew: Are you on the trail of the next unexploited market niche - or just on a nookie hunt? by Neal Stephenson

'...although the Demosphere belongs to General Communications Inc., it is the schmos of the world who make it - every time a schmo surfs to a different channel, the Demosphere notes that he is bored with program A and more interested, at the moment, in program B. When a schmo's paycheck is delivered over the I-way, the number on the bottom line is plotted in his Profile, and if that schmo got it by telecommuting we know about that too - the length of his coffee breaks and the size of his bladder are an open book to us. When a schmo buys something on the I-way it goes into his Profile, and if it happens to be something that he recently saw advertised there, we call that interesting, and when he uses the I-way to phone his friends and family, we Profile Auditors can navigate his social web out to a gazillion fractal iterations, the friends of his friends of his friends of his friends, what they buy and what they watch and if there's a correlation.'

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december 2009 by adamcrowe

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O'Reilly Radar -- Three Paradoxes of the Internet Age: Part Three

'#The myth of personal empowerment takes root amidst a massive loss of personal control. -- Social technologies are cloaked in a rhetoric of liberation (customers are in control, the internet fosters democracy, social technologies propagate truth etc.) that tend to obscure the fact that never before have we handed so much personal information over in exchange for so little in return. This loss of control over personal information is on a collision course with the law of unintended consequences... Amidst this barrage of good news for how much power we wield in the transaction of commerce one has to wonder if we are giving away something quite precious in the bargain.' -- Give all your information over to Facebook and they'll rent your identity back to you.

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- Is Happiness Catching?

'By analyzing the Framingham data, Christakis and Fowler say, they have for the first time found some solid basis for a potentially powerful theory in epidemiology: that good behaviors — like quitting smoking or staying slender or being happy — pass from friend to friend almost as if they were contagious viruses. The Framingham participants, the data suggested, influenced one another’s health just by socializing. And the same was true of bad behaviors — clusters of friends appeared to “infect” each other with obesity, unhappiness and smoking. Staying healthy isn’t just a matter of your genes and your diet, it seems. Good health is also a product, in part, of your sheer proximity to other healthy people. By keeping in close, regular contact with other healthy friends for decades, Eileen and Joseph had quite possibly kept themselves alive and thriving. And by doing precisely the opposite, the lone obese man hadn’t.' -- Monkey see, monkey do.

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Not Enough Facebook ‘Friends?’ Buy Them

'An Australian online marketing company is selling friends and fans to Facebook members after offering a similar service to Twitter users.“The simple fact is that with a large following on Facebook, you have an instant and targeted group of people you can contact and promote whatever it is you want to promote,” he added. “The only problem is that it can be extremely difficult to achieve such a following, which is where we come in.” The company offers packages for Facebook, the world’s number one social networking site, that start at 1,000 friends up to 10,000 friends at costs ranging from $177 to $1,167. “All we do is send them a welcome message or friend request from the client. If they decide to go ahead and add that person as a friend or a fan then they will; if not, then they won’t." -- Surely someone can write a friend bot to do that.

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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CNReviews -- China SNS Gaming Applications: What’s Next?

'Gaming provides a different avenue for establishing new “relationships” with their real world friends. Our focus group participants expressed a great desire for role-playing games set in historic periods. In China, the Three Kingdoms period is an enduring favorite as evidenced by recent video games, television shows and blockbuster films, such as John Woo’s Red Cliff, that depict the glory of Chinese military history: "I want more strategy games based on China’s long military history. I want to wage war and form alliances with friends to build a new empire."' -- Hmm... on so many levels.

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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TechCrunch -- Chinese Social Networks ‘Virtually’ Out-Earn Facebook And MySpace: A Market Analysis

'Social networking apps can hit hyper-viral levels in China due to a higher tolerance of intrusive app invitations. It is not uncommon for apps to essentially force new users to invite people and perform tasks before being able to join their friends online. Once friends have joined they are required to interact much more with the apps and advertisements than on Western applications. While this model is not replicable for the US market, certain aspects of this strategy/cultural mindset are necessary if companies like Facebook or Myspace want to compete in China. -- Western companies cannot innovate in the same way due to institutional problems stemming from their own struggle for an identity and revenue. [Facebook] are a self-styled guru of dynamic human interaction. If they opened up their platform to become an apps store, their major revenue streams would put them into a pigeonhole, calling their $15 billion valuation into question.' -- Be specific.

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Big Money -- Huffington Post + Facebook = the Future of Journalism

'Everybody knows what everybody’s reading, but nobody necessarily has to talk about it. A layer of news has been placed on top of the social network. Now not only can you know what your freshman-year roommate did on Friday night, you also can find out what she read right before she left the house. The point of reading news is not just to keep abreast about what’s happening in the world, it’s to keep up with what your friends know is happening in the world. Reading and watching news is an inherently social process; to have a debate, you have to have a shared set of facts. -- Making Facebook the aggregator of the future has all sorts of implications about how news penetrates certain social groups. Will demographics become even more hermetic in their thinking and news-gathering than they already are? How will folks get information from outside their social group if all news becomes social?

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Foreign Policy -- Think Again: Twitter

'#Authoritarian regimes should fear Twitter: Twitter creates an extensive online paper trail that can be easily used against dissidents. So Twitter could help authorities identify dissent at very early stages, tracking not just individual activists, but entire activist networks. An online friend list could enable a serious crack-down. -- #Twitter conversations are shallow and serious people should avoid it: Who cares? Obviously, Twitter is not the letters section of the New York Review of Books. Those looking for deep, long, insightful conversations shouldn't bother. But what attracts so many smart people to Twitter is a chance to follow what other smart people are reading and browsing -- and to do so in real time. What "Twitter virgins" do not understand is that Twitter actually facilitates the discovery of all those long and uber-insightful conversations that are happening elsewhere.' As a discovery tool that works for everyone, it beats everything else out there...'

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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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Mashable -- 10 Impressive New Implementations of Facebook Connect
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august 2009 by adamcrowe

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apophenia -- Would the real social network please stand up?

'#Sociological "personal" networks. #Behavioral social networks. #Publicly articulated social networks. -- These networks are NOT the same. Your mother may play a significant role in your personal network but, behaviorally, your strongest tie might be the person who works in the cube next to you. And neither of these folks might be links on your Facebook for any number of reasons. Those who treat different social networks interchangeably project properties onto the network they're analyzing that don't hold. People aren't inherently cool or connectors because they have a lot of Friends on a social network site. Bus drivers and waitresses are much more likely to encounter more new people on a daily basis than executives, but this doesn't mean that they have more social capital. People who email regularly do not necessarily have strong tie strength.'

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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downloadsquad -- Facebook sez, "Don't mind us, we're just whoring out your photos"

'All you have to do to prevent this is sign in to Facebook and click through to (get ready) -> Settings -> Privacy -> News Feed and Wall -> Facebook Ads -> Appearance in Facebook Ads and click "no one." Unless, of course, you want to be semifamous and have your picture used to push some garbage product or website without your knowledge.' -- Something tells me FB users are going to have to do a lot unpublishing.

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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Marginal Utility -- The end of autonomous curiosity

'On Facebook, users have every interest in lying or exaggerating about their preferences to signal various commitments and so on. They are hardly sharing their “real thoughts and tastes” in every instance. But when they do Google searches, they actually are interested in getting the information; there is not point of pretense. So having that record of what actually gets searched allows Google to spy much further into the individual user’s psyche. That seems for more “real,” for marketers’ purposes... Facebook is a performative space; the Google search window is not. -- Built into this social-search idea as well is this annoying presumption that no one can generate an interest in something without a friend already being interested in it. Whatever happened to autonomous curiosity? The “social graph” is more a primary source for what is being gossiped about; it would be terrible if that constituted the horizons of what I learned about the world.' -- Facebook, The Ministry of Friendship

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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New Scientist -- Email patterns can predict impending doom

'EMAIL logs can provide advance warning of an organisation reaching crisis point. That's the tantalising suggestion to emerge from the pattern of messages exchanged by Enron employees. Menezes says he expected communication networks to change during moments of crisis. Yet the researchers found that the biggest changes actually happened around a month before. For example, the number of active email cliques, defined as groups in which every member has had direct email contact with every other member, jumped from 100 to almost 800 around a month before the December 2001 collapse. Messages were also increasingly exchanged within these groups and not shared with other employees. Menezes thinks he and Collingsworth may have identified a characteristic change that occurs as stress builds within a company: employees start talking directly to people they feel comfortable with, and stop sharing information more widely.'

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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First Monday -- Storytelling in new media: The case of alternative reality games 2001–2009

'This paper presents five Alternate Reality Game (ARG) case studies which reveal common features and mechanisms used to attract and retain diverse players, to create task–focused communities and to solve problems collectively. Voluntary, collective problem solving is an intriguing phenomenon wherein disparate individuals work together asynchronously to solve problems together. ARGs also take advantage of the unique features of new media to craft stories that could not be told using other media. -- We suggest that the collective story that emerges during an ARG normally supplants the grand or master narrative (Lyotard, 1984) and allows players to become actors and heroes. ...the goal of these games is not to create an alternate reality, but to create a storyline that infiltrates real life. If the drive to solve collective problems could be yoked to a significant social goal, ARGs could result in collective behavior that does more than market media products.'

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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BusinessWeek -- Learning, and Profiting, from Online Friendships

'Marlow's team recently carried out a study to determine how close we are to our friends online. They looked at how often people clicked on their friends' news or photos, how often they communicated, and if the communications traveled in both directions. Studying this data, they determined that an average Facebook user with 500 friends actively follows the news on only 40 of them, communicates with 20, and keeps in close touch with about 10. Those with smaller networks follow even fewer. What can this teach advertisers? People don't pay much attention to most of their online friends. By focusing campaigns on people who interact with each other, they'll likely get better results.' -- All this 'research', just to sell some tat. Futile and pointless. Though kinda interesting as applied to the workplace via: the megacoup. Intimates/Inmates via: the stockholm syndrome.

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may 2009 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009

"Google Wave Developer Preview presentation" -- Applications built around the address book.

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may 2009 by adamcrowe

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THINK / Musings -- Distribution … now

'A stream. A real time, flowing, dynamic stream of information—that we as users and participants can dip in and out of and whether we participate in them or simply observe we are are a part of this flow. Overload isnt a problem anymore since we have no choice but to acknowledge that we cant wade through all this information. This isnt an inbox we have to empty, or a page we have to get to the bottom of—its a flow of data that we can dip into at will but we cant attempt to gain an all encompassing view of it. ...today history is disappearing given a deluge of flow, a lack of tools to navigate and provide context about the past. The cacophony of the crowd erases the past and affirms the present. It started with search and now its accelerated with the now web. I dont know where it leads but I almost want a remember button—like the like or favorite. Something that registers something as a memory—as an salient fact that I for one can draw out of the stream at a later time'

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may 2009 by adamcrowe

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ReadWriteWeb -- Twitter Crowns Bit.ly As The King of Short Links; Here's What It Means

"Once Bit.ly has been put to enough use, and today's news will likely be a big part of that happening, you'll be able to ask it questions like: within the last hour, what are the five hottest web pages about President Obama's budget? What social networks are sharing links to my web page the most today? What are ornithologists on Twitter most interested in this week? The columns and rows here are semantic key terms on pages shared, method of sharing used (Facebook, Twitter, email, etc.), number of click-throughs, time and person who created the original shortcut. There's a whole lot you can do when you have that kind of information about a link.'

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may 2009 by adamcrowe

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Vodafone receiver -- Riding the timeline with widgets by Paul Golding

"The essence of Twitter is all about how it redefines our relationship with time. We experience time as a series of moments measured out by events. Our personal timeline is a series of events that happen moment by moment and are dominated by the events that happen in our brains – thoughts, contemplations, urges and emotions bubbling up from our sub-concious stream, some of them converted by the conscious into intentions and sometimes into actions. It is communication and self-expression at the speed of thought. And, it is no coincidence that the length of a tweet fits nicely into the size of a text message, for what better way to seize the moment than to do so using a mobile – the only device that is with us moment by moment. It is a seizing the moment machine. The medium is the moment. The tools invented to seize the moment have began to define the moment." -- Use cases inside.

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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Troys Twitter Script for Greasemonkey

"Nested Replies, Custom Search Tabs, Autocomplete, Pagination, RT button, Media Embed [and inline display], URL Expansion, Hash Tag Search Links, Social Links" -- Blimey!

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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Madgex Lab -- Identify Firefox entension

'Identify is a Firefox extension that combines identities across various social network/media sites and provides you with a profile about an individual. Simply navigate to the profile page or a blog of an individual you are interested in and on Windows press Alt i or on the Mac press Ctrl i. -- It makes extensive use of Google’s Social Graph API to find out about which sites an individual has profiles on and then uses YQL API to collect the information.' -- Web of people

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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Marginal Utility -- Necessary awkwardness

On Facebook: "It’s a bit like being trapped at an elementary school talent show. People seem to be trying to hard, or are entirely unaware that they should be trying, or—like me—they have just frozen up there on the stage. -- Facebook seems to exist precisely to obviate awkward discourse. But awkwardness is inescapably necessary. It’s an almost physiological signal that something emotionally significant is taking place. If Facebook eradicates such feelings by giving us such granular privacy controls that we prevent the possibility of embarrassment, then our lives become poorer, emotionally. The people we connect with through the site seem less than real people; they seem like shadows of the real people we thought we knew—the reality of these “friends” remains offline and even more inaccessible. In the place of intimacy, we have the more convenient alternative of user friendliness, the triumph of a new, corporate-mediated politesse.'

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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ReadWriteWeb -- Status.net Could Point to the Future of Business Intelligence

'In private networks, a company will be able to receive automatic notification when one of its employees has begun conversing with another particular employee more than they had before. Perhaps they'll consider putting them in the same work group. If one sales person doesn't converse with the technical team as often as other sales people do, a company might wonder whether that salesperson is less comfortable explaining technical matters to customers. It will be trivial to determine which technical staff are friendliest and most appropriate to introduce a sales person to, because those kinds of connections will be fully graphable. In public business networks, community managers will be able to identify the customers most engaged in conversation with diverse groups of other customers with the snap of the fingers. Those are the kinds of community members that companies hire. -- Is this creepy?' -- *notes hesitance for later 'treatment'*

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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Marginal Utility -- Failures of social media

'Users have tended to migrate from site to site as new services become more fashionable and old services become overpopulated with lame late adopters or worse, too many of those people who cause “contexts to collide”: As Boyd explains, “In choosing what to say when, we account for both the audience and the context more generally. Some behaviors are appropriate in one context but not another, in front of one audience but not others. Social media brings all of these contexts crashing into one another and it’s often difficult to figure out what’s appropriate, let alone what can be understood.” When your current friends get to see how you interact with people who knew you decades ago, or when parents can scrutinize profile pages looking for insight into their children’s social life apart from them, it can be problematic.' -- (That 'contexts collide' observation is worth repeating)

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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Danah Boyd -- "Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What?"

Three dynamics 'that have been reconfigured as a result of social media. #1. Invisible Audiences. Social media introduces all sorts of invisible audiences. As a result, we are having to present ourselves and communicate without fully understanding the potential or actual audience. The potential invisible audiences can be stifling. #2. Collapsed Contexts. In choosing what to say when, we account for both the audience and the context more generally. Some behaviors are appropriate in one context but not another, in front of one audience but not others. Social media brings all of these contexts crashing into one another and it's often difficult to figure out what's appropriate, let alone what can be understood. #3. Blurring of Public and Private. These distinctions are normally structured around audience and context with certain places or conversations being "public" or "private" [and] are much harder to manage when you have to contend with the shifts in how the environment is organized.'

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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ThinkSketch -- From microblog to Network Protocol: How Twitter will redefine the Internet

"What I see, is that twitter could become a trellis for the web - a opt-in backbone that holds an open invitation for the entire internet and grows without bounds, but (unlike the web at large) wonderfully imposes those liberating constraints of time-location and brevity. It is this constraining format - the timestamp, tag, and shortform, that enables unprecedented collaboration... This opens up a whole new way of creating databases... Increasingly people are going to use Twitter in new unintended ways simply for the data-structure of it- because this structure enables them to create these kind of powerful new social databases that we can only begin to imagine." -- Rhizome

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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Bitcurrent -- Twitter’s not a site, it’s a protocol

"Twitter is a human API. It’s being defined in real time in front of our eyes, through an amazing example of Internet Darwinism." -- "People want to seem smart. They want the affirmation of retweeting. They want to be noticed. Like it or not, the fluid social graph brings about yearbook psychology way down in our high school psyches, and has more of an impact on our behavior than we think." -- Famo

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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Raph’s Website -- The EVE upset

"... what is fun about EVE is the struggle, not the victory condition. The victory condition is boring. Lots of folks lose their livelihoods when an empire falls, and players invested in BoB are likely upset that years of work were lost. But EVE is not a game about the height of the Roman Empire. It’s a game about the sacking of Rome by barbarians, so that they can become the next short-lived top dog. BoB existed to be torn down, and anyone who dreams of permanent glory in a game like that should understand that their destiny is to be taken down by the next upstart, in a dog-eat-dog world."

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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TwitterSheep

"This is a word cloud generated from the bios of @adamcrowe's followers."

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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Dolores Labs Blog -- Judging a stranger by their tweets

"If you’re feeling brave and you want to be included in the next batch send a message to @doloreslabs on twitter…"

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january 2009 by adamcrowe

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Danah Boyd — None of this is real: identity and participation in Friendster (PDF)

'Fakesters were a way of “hacking” the system to introduce missing social texture. Although Fakesters had taken on a collective impression of resistance, their primary political stance concerned authenticity. In discussing Fakesters, Batty was quick to point out that there’s no such thing as an authentic performance on Friendster—“None of this is real.” Through the act of articulation and writing oneself into being, all participants are engaged in performance intended to be interpreted and convey particular impressions. While some people believed that “truth” could be perceived through photorealistic imagery and a list of tastes that reflected one’s collections, the Fakesters were invested in using more impressionistic strokes to paint their portraits. If we acknowledge that all profiles are performative, permitting users to give off a particular view of themselves, why should we judge Fakesters as more or less authentic than awkwardly performed profiles?'

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december 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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/Message -- The Social Revolution: Why The New Web Matters

"We are searching for a reason to be, to be linked into relationships where it would matter if we stopped coming back, where we can become ourselves through others." -- "The long tail is not just about availability of obscure books at Amazon. It is about the spectrum of relationships that we can afford, and the depth of our awareness and involvement."

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Ping.fm: Update all of your social networks at once!

"Ping.fm is a simple service that makes updating your social networks a snap."

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Clive Thompson -- Real-World Social Networks vs. Facebook 'Friends'

'Reality mining can also spot when a group is in a groove. Sandy Pentland, the MIT professor who heads up the lab where Waber works, has discovered that highly creative teams socialize in a "pulsing star" pattern: They fan out to gather information, then regroup. "People explore during the day," Pentland says, "and then later get very tight and inbred, with everybody talking to everybody."'

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Vimeo -- Nova Spivack: Semantic Web Talk

Don't be too proud of this ontological terror you've constructed...

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Virtual Worlds News: Feature -- Lively: Google's Contribution to the 3D Social Web?

"the standard use case we’re looking for is someone who’s going to embed this in their Facebook page."

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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A VC -- It's Not The Data, It's The Flow

Quote: Umair: "I don't think it's the data that's so valuable, it's the flow of the data through the service." -- Comment: Gregory: "data is a shadow cast by desire ... new generation business have to be built around the desire..."

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may 2008 by adamcrowe

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Umair Haque -- The Microsoft vs Google Endgame

"Google's shift to openness - can you see how it unlocks value for everyone? Google is in a class of its own - across the economy - when it comes to next-generation strategy. Google opening up its ad networks is strategic greatness at work."

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may 2008 by adamcrowe

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BuzzMachine -- @Facebook @Shark: jump?

"The internet doesn’t need more social networks. The internet *is* the social network."

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may 2008 by adamcrowe

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blog.pmarca.com -- Friend Connect, Open Social, Ning, and the web

"... you are compromising your own product to your self-inflicted detriment if you're not making it as easy as possible for activity to flow out as well as in."

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may 2008 by adamcrowe

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ReadWriteWeb -- Tom Coates: Web of Data

"#1) A physical object responds to or visualizes data from the network. #2) Interacting with a physical object allows people to change data stored in the network.

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may 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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Times Online - Google could be superseded, says web inventor

TBL: "... people are very excited about all these connections being made between people - for obvious reasons, because people are important - but I think after a while people will realise that there are many other things you can connect to via the web."

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march 2008 by adamcrowe

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Charlene Li's Blog - The future of social networks: Social networks will be like air

'... each person will have their own “personal CPM” ... every person has their own network of influence, and hence, their own personal CPM or value that they contribute to a social network.' -- (The memes are strong with this one.)

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march 2008 by adamcrowe

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Guardian - The Sims Online becomes EA-Land

EA: "We are providing you with privacy settings so you can decide if or which of your avatar will broadcast what information to the internet." -- This is where it gets messy.

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march 2008 by adamcrowe

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Unit Structures - The subjective computer has found us

"Now computers master us, leveraging our data to fit us into modeled interactions, exercising tremendous power through selective disclosure, and offering us freedom through a participation process that is essentially repressive."

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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Kzero - Augmentalists vs Immersionalists. Which one are you?

"A majority of 44.2% of the research participants opted for ‘Keep me just about the same as I am’, whilst the opposite, ‘I would dramatically alter my physical appearance’ represented 14.7%."

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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/swords - “Funware is the future of our virtual world”

"Why is FaceBook doing well? -- Socially-propagating story. The story that is being told in the game is literally being told by the players. As more players come into the story, it gets bigger, fatter, deeper." -- "70% of tween girls prefer 2D over 3D"

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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/swords - “Entertainment Content Convergence in Virtual Worlds”

"2. Virtual worlds will become more like social networks. What we’re doing today are very small projects. In the future we will see major projects that drive entire shows."

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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Vodafone receiver magazine » #18 - The new television

"... the social component of talking about shows will remain a big factor in television. What is important will not be the channel that broadcasts the specific content, but instead the theme of the content and how the users acquire television and games."

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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Ginger - the new Netvibes

"Ginger is the next release of Netvibes, your super-personalized startpage, that introduces loads of cool and essential new features." -- Looks good. If only they could fix the RSS feeds.

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february 2008 by adamcrowe

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The HBR List - Breakthrough Ideas for 2008: Happy Metadata Trails

"The ability to tap vast amounts of aggregated “people data” will have serious implications for behavior, ranging from the way individuals control their personal interactions and information to possible manipulation—for good or ill."

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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The Long Tail - The fat tail will be human, the medium tail social, the long tail algorithmic

Calacanis: "the fat tail will be human, the medium tail social, the long tail algorithmic... the advertising interest is in the fat tail." - Comment: "I prefer the terms "Short Head", "Fat Middle" and "Long Tail"...the Short Head [is] actually Corporate"'

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Business Technology Radio - Mahalo's Jason Calacanis on Human Search, Google and Web 3.0

MP3 interview: "Jason also talks about why his definition of Web 3.0 has stirred up controversy, and also shares his thoughts on why the economy may be on the downturn."

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Scobleizer - Why Mahalo, TechMeme, and Facebook are going to kick Google’s butt in four years

Videos: "I explain how SEO-resistant technologies like Mahalo, TechMeme, and Facebook are about to upend the search industry." (Lots of comments.)

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Twine: The First Mainstream Semantic Web App? - ReadWriteWeb

'Spivack is calling Twine a "Semantic Graph", which he says will map relationships to both people and topics. So Twine's Semantic Graph actually integrates the Social Graph.'

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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 GraphSync Project - A Community Challenge

"Your challenge, should you choose to accept it... #1. Pick a proprietary silo of user's personal social data #2. Write some open source code to extract their data #3. Place their data into the open formats listed below ..."

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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DataPortability.org - Share and remix data using open standards

"Standardized Data Portability is the next great frontier for the web. As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen tools or vendors."

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january 2008 by adamcrowe

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Identitude

"Identitude is an OpenID Provider (OP) backed by your Facebook Profile instead of maintaining its own user account store."

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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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Guardian - Andrew Brown: Facebook is like Hotel California

"... you can't actually leave Facebook once you have joined. Like the Hotel California, it is a place that you check out of but you can never leave. Sure, you can "deactivate" your account, but you can't scrub it out." Didn't know that!

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december 2007 by adamcrowe

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