Pinboard: bookmarks for technogoggles tagged 'social'

"studies have shown that an individual at a bus stop is more likely to ask for the time from a total stranger than one of their Familiar Strangers – respecting the social norms of their delicate relationship"

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july 2008 by technogoggles

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4IP

aha. I like the "rule breaking" bit...

social technology web2.0 commission money C4
july 2008 by technogoggles

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Social Gaming Interactions, Part One: A History of Form

shannon on social gaming...

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july 2008 by technogoggles

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First look: MessengerTV

Social TV on MSNmessenger. I wonder to what extent having to decide upon a programme, a time and a 30mins+ time frame fits in with peoples (esp. young person's) existing internet habits. Im a sceptic and wonder if youtube doesn't already do a good job...

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may 2008 by technogoggles

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Wonderland: SXSW: Will Wright Keynote 2007

An old keynote by Will Wright talking about Spore. Talks about game narratives, how people share content, tell stories through games and shared experieces.

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may 2008 by technogoggles

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BBC NEWS | Magazine | In defence of computer games

"Research carried out a few years ago found that moderate game players have a bigger circle of friends than non-game players," Interesting stat. How close are these 'friends' though? Important to define the strength of connection here. Cause and effect?

gaming research news social relationships
may 2008 by technogoggles

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Futuresonic08: playing games with urban & social media - Guardian Unlimited

Aleks Krotski blogs about another inpromptu talk she did at Futuresonic08 about games involving urban and social media. Some useful links here.

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may 2008 by technogoggles

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Kongregate: social gaming

"By wrapping user-submitted Flash games with various community features, Kongregate’s site serves as a unique way for users to play great web-based games alongside friends”

gaming resources research blog social flash kongregate
may 2008 by technogoggles

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plundr

Location based 'social' game played out using real world data. Going to check it out....now!

plundr gaming resources social mobile geography
may 2008 by technogoggles

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Forming community in online games - Guardian Unlimited

Aleks Krotoski "To suggests that interaction in virtual worlds is somehow inferior to physically proximate interaction is to take a very backwards point of view." Interesting debate.

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april 2008 by technogoggles

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Bryman, A (2004) Social Research Methods

Bryman's Bible. Very practical and extremely comprehensive text by Bryman on how to conduct social research. Relevant for both qual and quant and is very up to date.

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april 2008 by technogoggles

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Pulse Laser: 3C products

revisiting some of matt's work. "The internet sensibility is infecting the world of physical stuff." could also be said that the reverse is happening with some UI and interaction models.

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april 2008 by technogoggles

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Applying game mechanics to social software

This piece explains how the mechanics of gaming apply to social technologies. The background to PMOG.

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april 2008 by technogoggles

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BBC - Sound Index

New BBC app that trawls the web to find relevant 'buzz' around an artist and then pulls them back into a neat looking chart.

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april 2008 by technogoggles

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As Gaming Turns Social, Industry Shifts Strategies - New York Times

Success of Nintendo Wii paving way for other "social" games. reinforcing existing household relationships.

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march 2008 by technogoggles

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Frag with friends for fun | Games | Guardian Unlimited

"social" gaming is on the rise? clive thompson thinks so.

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march 2008 by technogoggles

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Derren Brown - Trick of the mind - The abandoned wallet

Full wallet left on the ground in a busy street all day with a ring drawn around it. Remained untouched all day. "The context and appearance of the wallet are too odd for people to be able to process the information that they have about it."

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march 2008 by technogoggles

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disambiguity - » Ambient Intimacy

Leisa Reichelt on Ambient Intimacy - it allows us to transcend space and time without much fuss. The result of emergent social technologies such as Twitter and Flickr. The lower the administrative overheads, the more appealing the technology.

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march 2008 by technogoggles

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A romp through Paris

Latour dis-assembles the social in a visual travel through Paris. Great stuff.

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march 2008 by technogoggles

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The Social Cloud

Kevin goes round the houses a bit to describe the usp of Google's social cloud. As rel= becomes standard will it become harder to churn friends and contacts you no longer want?

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february 2008 by technogoggles

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Social Software Building Blocks

Merging together a list of the 7 elements of social software (eg. identity, presence etc) [as assembled by Matt Webb] to create a visual representation of the most important elements in the form of a honeycomb!