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The "social" bit of the argument is particularly interesting:
"You might almost think that the whole scheme had been cooked up by a bunch of hyperintelligent but hopelessly socially naive people, and you would not be wrong. Asking computer nerds to design social software is a little bit like hiring a Mormon bartender. Our industry abounds in people for whom social interaction has always been more of a puzzle to be reverse-engineered than a good time to be had, and the result is these vaguely Martian protocols."
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You might almost think that the whole scheme had been cooked up by a bunch of hyperintelligent but hopelessly socially naive people, and you would not be wrong. Asking computer nerds to design social software is a little bit like hiring a Mormon bartender. Our industry abounds in people for whom social interaction has always been more of a puzzle to be reverse-engineered than a good time to be had, and the result is these vaguely Martian protocols.
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It is admittedly annoying to have to re-follow people every time you sign up for something, but it also forces the authors to make the site appealing enough to get us over that hurdle.
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OpenBuildings is a new community-driven website that lists architecture from across the globe; be it historic, contemporary or conceptual, enabling a more open way to share architectural knowledge. Includes an iPhone app as well.
or as Stephen Covey says, think win-win.
Key point: "Social media is not an end in itself"
Interesting guide with brief descriptions for different personality parameters. Not so much a how-to though.
Interesting classifications & stats.
Interesting points by Craig Newmark
Algorithms to predict consumer behaviour & risk. Wonder what's left for them to predict.
Burglary 2.0? The site uses location information from twitter & the like to list "special" opportunities. Another nail in the privacy coffin?
Aim of the site: 'The goal of this website is to raise some awareness on this issue and have people think about h
IBM does have a rich internal ecosystem that promotes social interaction through various online platforms, and many of them are being converted into enterprise products.
Starfish vs spider analogy
It's not so bad. I'm actually trying to get my grandfather on facebook :-)
Corporates & mobile access feature big time in the prediction
Publications by Danah Boyd, a social researcher. Papers are mostly on social networks & trends among the youth.
'More access to information doesn't bring people together, often it isolates us.'
To scam & make money or not to scam & fall back... That is the question. A must read for all fans of Mafia wars & Farmville on facebook:
'In short, these games try to get people to pay cash for in game currency so they can level up faster and have a bette
A commentary on the social experiment conducted by Washington Post.
"...the young man finally started playing his violin. He was quite good ... He played continuously for 45 minutes and during that time few, pitifully few people actually stopped and payed
Crowdsourcing at its best! What happens when you let loose crazy Star Wars fans on a remake project of the movie? You get a ton of 15 second clips that get put together to recreate the original. It's a work in progress though.
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