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The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
Worth it. Overdue. Helps explain noticeable burn-out type feelings. "There are organizing principles for what is considered a "good" idea. These ideas are supposed to be the right size and shape. There is a default spreadsheet that we expect ideas to fit onto. But maybe it's time that changed."
digital  innovation  social  technology  free  notfree  via:blech 
4 weeks ago by ohskylab
The Death of the Cyberflâneur - NYTimes.com
"Frictionless sharing has the same drawback as “effortless poetry”: its final products are often intolerable. It’s one thing to find an interesting article and choose to share it with friends. It’s quite another to inundate your friends with everything that passes through your browser or your app, hoping that they will pick something interesting along the way."
via:blech  art  social  culture  history  from instapaper
february 2012 by ohskylab
The Social Network That Stole Christmas
"You're not going to find as many people in there. And that's the point. Path isn't cluttered with self-promotional links or YouTube videos of sneezing cats. You're not going to see plug in games. And that's also the point. You're not going to see the glurge and hurge of illiterate rage and hash tag garbage. There's no bitching about not getting an iPad for Christmas. There's no call to re-post this as your status. No obnoxious comments from your hyper-political third-cousin twice removed. There's no tiresome, turgid competition for the best status updates as one-liners, or increasingly drunken series of 25 photos from last night's party.

In its place is private conversation. A few photos. Maybe a video. A location. A very small look at your friends' lives. A glimpse into the things they aren't sharing elsewhere. It is purely personal. And the thing is, I never realized that I needed that. But I do."
path  social  from instapaper
january 2012 by ohskylab
The end of social - O'Reilly Radar
"When you take the friction out of sharing, you also remove the value."
social  sharing  facebook  from instapaper
december 2011 by ohskylab
Open Bookmarks
"Open Bookmarks wants to make sure that this experience belongs to readers: that they can save it for the future in ways that are useful to them, and share their progress and annotations in the way that they want, however and wherever they read."
ebooks  reading  social  standards  from delicious
june 2011 by ohskylab
Open Bookmarks II | booktwo.org
"Open Bookmarks is intended to educate readers as well as developers about what social reading is and why it should be open, in order to create a demand for better services."
ebooks  social  standards  books  reading  from instapaper
june 2011 by ohskylab
wahwah.fm | the music around you
"An upcoming music service, based on your smartphone. With wahwah.fm, you listen to your music and broadcast it at the same time."
via:tomtaylor  music  social  mobile  from delicious
may 2011 by ohskylab
Caterina.net» Blog Archive » FOMO and Social Media
"There is a company that sells radar equipment to the police as well as radar detectors to the public. Clorox is one of the world’s worst polluters of water, and also sells Brita filters to get the bad stuff out of the water again. Lawyers create mazes that you have to hire a lawyer to escape. Similarly social software both creates and cures FOMO. If you didn’t know that party was going on, you’d be home contentedly reading your latest New Yorker. But since you do, you hungrily watch each new tweet."
via:antimega  social  fomo  life  from delicious
march 2011 by ohskylab
Can’t play, won’t play | Hide&Seek - Inventing new kinds of play
"Gamification is the wrong word for the right idea. The word for what’s happening at the moment is pointsification. There are things that should be pointsified. There are things that should be gamified. There are things that should be both. There are many, many things that should be neither."
games  gamification  social  gaming  from delicious
december 2010 by ohskylab
The Real Life Social Network v2
Massive, quite useful presentation from Paul Adams at Google
facebook  identity  ux  social  web  presentations  slideshare  google  privacy  media 
november 2010 by ohskylab
ThinkUp: Social Media Insights Engine
"Captures your posts, replies, retweets, friends, followers, and links on social networks like Twitter and Facebook [...] in a database you control, and makes it easy to search, sort, filter, export, and visualize in useful ways."
social  twitter  thinkup  web  facebook 
september 2010 by ohskylab
Hacker News | Yes, and that's an important observation. I'm not willing to accept that it's im...
"I'm not willing to accept that it's impossible to create a legitimately enjoyable game experience in the confines of the short attention span Facebook model, though. Scrabble, for example, lends itself perfectly to asynchronous, light, casual play (cf Scrabulous, Words with Friends). But it's legitimately fun at the same time. You're rewarded for imaginative approaches to solving problems. You can play with no skill or lots, but either way, you'll always find ways to get better. Most important: You're genuinely spending time with your friends. Sharing an experience that creates a memory. This is a big deal. This is missing from almost every other pseudo-social game."
social  games  gaming  facebook  zynga  wordswithfriends  scrabble  play 
september 2010 by ohskylab
Analysis: What are the Web's Top Sources of Referral Traffic?
Not totally convinced by the results shown here but potentially a useful starting point.
metrics  statistics  traffic  web  social  sharing  readwriteweb 
july 2010 by ohskylab
Why Your Customers Don't Want to Talk to You - Matt Dixon and Lara Ponomareff - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review
"Most customers these days demonstrate a huge — and increasing — appetite for self-service, yet most companies run their operations as if customers prefer to interact with them live."
customerservice  marketing  conversation  service  social 
july 2010 by ohskylab
Marketing: Study Says Most Brands Still Irrelevant on Twitter - Advertising Age - Digital
"Despite marketers' embrace of the medium, brands are finding themselves on the outside of the conversation. Of the 90% of Twitter messages sent by real people -- the other 10% come from businesses -- only 12% ever mention a brand, and most of those mentions are of Twitter itself. Further, only 1% of consumer tweets that mention a brand are part of an active conversation with that brand, meaning marketers are, for the most part, conducting one-way conversations -- the opposite of the way consumers often use Twitter."
via:askush  adage  twitter  marketing  statistics  social 
july 2010 by ohskylab
Poyozo | Make Life Make Sense
"An automatic, personal diary system to help reclaim and consolidate your ever-expanding digital life with simple visualizations that you can use every day."
analytics  web  visualization  plugin  social  tools  poyozo  via:antimega 
july 2010 by ohskylab
Foursquare Badges
Reference. Refusal to actively compete/collect.
via:momorgan  foursquare  achievements  social  gaming  badges  branding 
july 2010 by ohskylab
Eddy
"A media aggregation platform built for the public display of up-to-the-minute activity on realtime services like Twitter."
api  applications  social  web  visualisation  interaction  data  twitter  eddy  via:chrisdodo 
june 2010 by ohskylab
Facebook Allowed Automatic Data Sharing Last November | Social Hacking
"The current Facebook privacy policy already allows your “publicly available information,” which includes your name, gender, geographic region, friends list, fan pages, and your content marked “everyone,” to be automatically shared with external web sites when you visit them. The only thing apparently preventing this from happening right now is technology – Facebook has not yet rolled out an official means for Facebook Connect sites to automatically access such data. Apparently they soon plan on adding that technology for certain “pre-approved” sites, an update which the newer governing documents make more explicit."
facebook  privacy  social  web  facebookconnect  data 
april 2010 by ohskylab
afeeld » Cultivated Play: Farmville
This is brilliant. But argh, Farmville. "The secret to Farmville’s popularity is neither gameplay nor aesthetics. Farmville is popular because in 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."
culture  democracy  economics  facebook  farmville  gaming  games  politics  social  ethics 
march 2010 by ohskylab
Flightless Travel - Overland Travel, Real Travel, Alternative Travel, Slow Travel, Fear of Flying, Grounded Travel
"A unique social networking website dedicated to travel overland and water by any means possible."
travel  eco  green  social  slowtravel 
february 2010 by ohskylab
Rands In Repose: A Story Culture
"Those frustrated with Twitter are frustrated because they have a belief that a story needs a beginning, middle, and end. And that it should have all of those parts before it’s presented to them. What the hell am I supposed to learn from a tweet? The point of Twitter isn’t knowledge or understanding, it’s merely connective information tissue. It’s small bits of information carefully selected by those you’ve chosen to follow and its value isn’t in what they send, it’s how it fits into the story in your head."
web  social  twitter  culture  trends  creativity  writing  information  stories  rands 
february 2010 by ohskylab
Static FBML: Not Every Facebook Fan Page Needs An Application | Snipe.Net
"The general rule of thumb is – if you don’t actually need to use any scripted languages like PHP or ASP, and you don’t need to access the API to get the user’s information for any reason, you probably don’t actually need an application."
facebook  design  tools  pages  fbml  social 
january 2010 by ohskylab
Fan Box - Facebook Developer Wiki
Info on the new(ish) embeddable Fan Box for Facebook Pages.
facebook  web  marketing  social  api  widgets 
november 2009 by ohskylab
Why social matters – Blog – BERG
"Social capital is an abstract measure that wraps up how many people you know, the information flow in your network, how many people owe you favours, that kind of thing."
social  web  berg  mattwebb  socialcapital  health 
october 2009 by ohskylab
UK Freecycle moderators break away from US network | Environment | guardian.co.uk
"The acrimonious split follows unsatisfactory negotiations which could have given Freecycle's UK moderators the ability to localise their web pages and allow them to serve the community better [...] The UK is probably the most enthusiastic Freecycling country in the world, hosting just 10% of all the branches but handling 27% of all Freecycling activities."
freecycle  social  uk  environment  green  guardian  recycling  freegle  local 
september 2009 by ohskylab
Image Spark
"Discover, share, tag and converge images that inspire you and your work".
web  design  tools  social  art  community  images  sharing  moodboards 
august 2009 by ohskylab
feedly: a magazine-like start page
"feedly weaves your favorite content into a fun, magazine-like start page.
based on Google Reader and Twitter."
via:twoplusfour  web  tools  social  twitter  extensions  plugins  aggregator 
july 2009 by ohskylab
Share Spotify Playlists at ShareMyPlaylists.com
"Share your Spotify playlists with the world and discover new music"
music  social  audio  playlists  spotify 
july 2009 by ohskylab
Tools of Engagement: The New Practice of User-Centered Design, by Robert Fabricant - Core77
"We have been operating under the assumption that the primary challenge is to convince businesses to focus on fulfilling user needs with higher quality products, with more meaningful experiences. But what if the 'users' themselves are the problem? What if users represent not a coherent set of needs but a messy mix of desires and influences? What, ultimately, is the role of the designer in sorting through these desires to determine which should drive our design decisions? And what frameworks, other than intuition, should we use to make these judgments?"
design  usability  social  ux  community  core77  ucd  ethics  innovation  research 
july 2009 by ohskylab
Social Media Icons — Paul Robert Lloyd
"A set of standardised icons for popular social networking services and tools."
web  social  tools  icons  badges  graphics  images 
july 2009 by ohskylab
Twitter Promotion Done Right: #moonfruit
That's a matter of opinion. Horrible, horrible, horrible.
spam  social  marketing  twitter  hashtags 
july 2009 by ohskylab
Shownar
"Tracks the online buzz around BBC shows. It's an experimental prototype."
social  bbc  prototype  schulzeandwebb  tv  shownar 
june 2009 by ohskylab
ShiftSpace | An open source layer above any webpage
"An open source browser plugin for collaboratively annotating, editing and shifting the web."
web  tools  social  collaboration  community  activism  annotation  semanticweb  greasemonkey 
june 2009 by ohskylab
TwitterSnooze! v0.2
"Hit the snooze button on your "verbose" Twitter friends." Worth reading the details before use.
web  tools  twitter  social  spam  api 
june 2009 by ohskylab
Report Paints a Painful View of Ad Agencies « FUEL LINES Fueling Ad Agency New Business Through Social Media
"Forrester Research believes today’s ad agencies are not well-structured to take on tomorrow’s marketing challenges, needing to move from making messages to establishing community connections." What, really?
advertising  strategy  agencies  business  social  community  via:eldret_99 
june 2009 by ohskylab
GigPark
"Discover the trusted service people your friends use "
web  business  social  community  recommendations 
may 2009 by ohskylab
MusicTwitters
"DrownedinSound.com explored Twitter and compiled this site to help you to see at a glance music on the Twittersphere."
music  social  audio  community  aggregator  directory  drownedinsound 
may 2009 by ohskylab
Follow live conversations from Twitter and Facebook on Tinker.com
"A simple way to discover events people are chattering about on Twitter."
tools  social  twitter  trends  search  analytics  conversation 
may 2009 by ohskylab
Find movies, TV shows matching your taste and watch online - Jinni
"Our recommendations aren't based on statistics, but on aspects of content you enjoy. We create a complex profile of your unique taste, to connect you with movies and shows we think you'll like, where you like to watch them"
web  tools  social  video  movies  cinema  ux 
may 2009 by ohskylab
Kickstarter
"A funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, bloggers, explorers..."
design  music  business  social  work  creativity  startup  ideas  entrepreneurship  fundraising  funding  art 
may 2009 by ohskylab
ThreadedTweets
"Turns every tweet into it's own real-time thread. It brings Friendfeed-like real-time replying to Twitter."
twitter  web  conversation  social 
may 2009 by ohskylab
Who to send promos to | New Music Strategies
Answer: people who you know who will probably like it who don't work in the biz. Because not only is it effective, it's also a nice thing to do. Thank you, Dubber, for expressing so clearly something I've spent ages trying to explain to label people.
music  promotion  social 
may 2009 by ohskylab
Using social media for SEO | Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing
"The shift is from one of web page optimization and link hounding to content and engagement optimization. In short, search engine optimization and social media are now undeniably intertwined."
social  seo  optimization  search  via:stevenparker 
may 2009 by ohskylab
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