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29 Oct 08

Young Professionals Meet for a Power Breakfast, but They Don’t Call It Networking - NYTimes.com

Nice article on the "new" social networking, with a special look at likemind meet-ups, the un-network.
QUOTE:
"Likemind gatherings have no formal structure, no fees and typically no agenda. But participants exchange ideas, job tips and useful contacts, while also batting around ideas about technology, art, business and culture."

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  • Likemind gatherings have no formal structure, no fees and typically no agenda. But participants exchange ideas, job tips and useful contacts, while also batting around ideas about technology, art, business and culture.
  • Likemind caters to young professionals in advertising, media and design who are products of the age of personal blogs, warts-and-all YouTube videos and viral marketing. For them, the best pitch is the disguised pitch. Nothing, participants said, is more uncool than the hard-sell of traditional networking (which may explain why likemind is not capitalized).
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09 Aug 08

You can’t eat Whuffie (but it’s getting harder to eat without it) | ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon

Tara Hunt wrote an interesting post on "whuffie" and what it means today. She also then broached the minefield of how (if) the whuffie factor gets monetized. The comments board is fascinating, and I also added my 2cents (actually, more like a $1.25 since I inflated those 2 cents into two too-long comments...).

I'm pretty sure my remarks are way too theoretical and esoteric, but they helped me make some connections and sort out a few things, so even if they're useless to others, I benefited. Not sure if that has anything to do with whuffie, but there you go...

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  • I believe Google is probably the closest thing we have today to a Whuffie meter. Whuffie, for those who are new here is (and this is my definition):


    The sum of the reputation, influence, bridging capital and bonding capital, access to ideas and talent, access to resources, potential access to further resources, saved up favors, accomplishments (resumes, awards, articles, etc.) and the Whuffie of those who you have relationships with.

    • Using google as a whuffie meter sets of alarm bells. It restricts whuffie to a reservation of sorts... - on 2008-08-09
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San Francisco & Entrepeneurialism | Marktd

I watched this video a couple of days ago (via PSFK's Twitter feed), and loved the emphases brought to light by the interviews.

- Entrepreneurs liked the density of the city -- the ability to encounter colleagues by chance, run into folks, rub shoulders;
- Some talked about liking the "small" aspects of San Francisco: that there isn't *so* much going on to distract one's attention from the tasks (work) at hand

I thought that latter point was kind of intriguing, something to remember when someone once again goes off on how it's such a bad thing that *this* isn't as happening a place as NYC or <snort> Toronto.

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  • we started wondering what it is exactly that attracts entrepreneurs to San Francisco in the first place. Essentially, we wanted to know how, or why, San Francisco fuels innovation and entrepeneurialism?
14 Jun 08

Geography, social media and breakfast - Feb. 29, 2008

Must-read article on how "combining social networks with geographic information was one of the big ideas at a gathering this week of uber-techies and media digirati in New York." (2/29/08)

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26 Feb 08

Logic+Emotion: Thinking Through The "3 U's"...

The 3 Us -- damn that apostrophe, it's all wrong as used in the article's title. But if you leave it out, it reads as "the 3 us," as in *us* or *them*... Regardless, an interesting summing up of what might make applications interesting for users. See notes.

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20 Dec 07

Technology Review: What Your Phone Knows About You

Sandy Pentland, professor of media arts and sciences at MIT, talks about "reality mining."
- this is page 2 of a 2-page article

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  • You can really see things in a way that you never could before--a God's-eye view. One of the examples I've been stuck on recently relates to how transformative Google Earth has been. Imagine having something where you can see all the people moving around on a map. Think about SARS in Hong Kong. What if in a particular apartment building, nobody left for work that day? You could identify a major health problem in 12 hours instead of two weeks. Another example is the social health of communities. It's known that social integration, or how well people mix, correlates with whether or not a community is thriving. With reality mining, you can actually see social integration, as it happens or doesn't happen. Once everyone can see it, then you can start to have transparent political discussions. Why isn't the mayor putting more sidewalks and crosswalks in this area? Could more community events make the area more livable?
    • - that does presuppose that EVERYONE has a cell phone, though, and I'd bet that there are plenty of instances where populations that are vectors for contagious diseases don't typically carry cell phones, for example. Not to mention that (as the interviewer says in the next question), "this all gets very creepy very fast." - on 2007-12-20
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  • But we definitely need to talk about it and figure out a new deal for privacy--to use this data and not be abused.
    • - d'uh, no kidding, Sherlock! - on 2007-12-20
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Technology Review: What Your Phone Knows About You

Sandy Pentland, professor of media arts and sciences at MIT, talks about "reality mining." Pay attention, interesting stuff!
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  • Based on phone calls and the devices' physical proximity to other people's phones (as measured by Bluetooth), Pentland and researcher Nathan Eagle developed social-network models that were more accurate and more nuanced than those constructed from the subjects' self-reports.
  • Sifting through cell-phone data to get at the truth of people's social interactions falls under the umbrella of an emerging field that Pentland has dubbed "reality mining." And he thinks that social networks are just the beginning. The same techniques can be applied to other sets of cell-phone data to help people communicate more effectively, manage their time better, and even make their neighborhoods more livable. And it's all thanks to the ubiquity of cell phones--the ultimate data-collection machines.
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