socialmedia
Presentation: Design for an Augment Reality world
For posterity here is the slideshare version of my Augmented Reality talk, which I presented for the first time at Refresh Events in Toronto. As a first cut, this presentation represented more of a shotgun scattershot rather than a linearly coherent narrative of the various thoughts on this topic currently spinning in my head my [...]
Have feeds made the social web too meta?
Meta-social aggregators like friendfeed and facebook are turning the web into a mobius strip with a snake in it that’s eating it’s tail. Wondering what would happen if I fed my twitter to my, friendfeed, to my facebook status and back to twitter again. But I don’t dare, I’m sure I would crash the internet.
Go [...]
Definition: a Wiki (noun)
A wiki is a wonderful shared web-based documentation system that allows absolutely anyone, and everyone, on the network to wish someone else would update it.
In other related phenomina, see also: “I’ve shared a google document with you”
It’s time to take “social” for granted
I would like to declare the social web officially invented already. Hoozah! It was a good, it was fun, like any tech boom, it made it’s share of wiz kids very successful and created a lot of value for the rest of us along the way too. Disastrous timesinks like Icanhascheezburger and Scrabulous not withstanding. [...]
Noise Aggregators
Jevon has a great post up today on how the new trend towards social aggregators is missing the point.
I’ve called these things underpants business models. Collecting a lot of people’s seemingly-useless personal stuff in one place, but then, through some magical step 2, everyone profits. I, like Jevon, and everyone else, are still waiting for [...]
Facebook vs Twitter as latest refuge of the nerds
Mark Evans writes that he’s almost done with facebook. He’s not the first or the last to grumble about the blue book (see my post for example on “attention viruses”: Facebook Fatigue, it’s Spreading?.
As Mark says, is the facebook honeymoon ending? A certain schadenfreude [twopointoh-denfreude?] in me would like to claim it so (damn that [...]
LIFT08 Notes: Genevieve Bell, Intel, do our digital worlds require secrets and (white) lies?
Genevieve is an ethnographer looking at digital culture and the necessity of “lying”
45%5 of mobile users have lied about wherabouts in sms
100% of online daters lie about height or weight
James Katz says entering arms race of digital deception she locked herself out of flickr because she lied about her age and forgot which [...]
Why doesn’t Flickr let you tag your friends in photos?
One of the favourite stories Facebook likes to tell is about their photos application. Facebook doesn’t even have a very good (by which I mean feature-rich) photo application. But what they will tell you is this. In just 6 months, Facebook’s photo application surpassed the usage all other internet photo sharing applications in the US [...]
“…it’s critical to remember that these changes were happening for the first time ever, accelerating human life into the modern age at a pace that barely allowed time to gain vantage on the present before hurtling into the future, all the while changing the expectations of what that future might hold.”
In case you missed it, this is from a great post last week by Michele on the reaction of artists, crafts people and designers to the disoriented changes in, wait for it, Victorian england as spurred by the industrial revolution.
She is pointing out the strong parallels between historical change drivers like the industrial revolution, [...]
Facebook Fatigue, it’s Spreading
Do you feel like the applications are killing Facebook? For all the gold rush and hoopla surrounding the Facebook platformitization, is it living up to expectations?
I don’t think it is. The world could use a great social operating system. But the best applications on facebook are still the original ones: pictures, events, the basic poke.
The [...]
Social Network Optimization is the new SEO/SEM
Or, how to buy friends and influence people:
“need someone with knowledge on how to post and title youtube videos and digg articles in a compelling manner… will be paid bonuses for results (ie getting on the first page of Digg, getting lots of viewers, comments, channel subscribers etc) in Youtube” -NYCraigslist Posting
“We need someone [...]
Brand Awesomeness
Chris Matthews of Specialized has a great idea brewing about why Brand Awesomeness is the new brand awareness.
I’m not a big fan of “branding” in it’s classic sense. It seems to be relied upon too often as a crutch to support marketing efforts that don’t have a clear message, strategy, and direction. “Oh, this [...]
Google, changing of EnterpriseIT and I over at ITWorld
Had an interesting chat with Kathleen Lau at ItWorld Canada on Googles recent moves into the enterprise and the changing roll of IT in general. Here’s what I had to say:
There is an overall trend where employees are starting to either create or bring their own IT into the enterprise, said Tom Purves, co-founder of [...]
The Case for Enterprise 2.0 Made Clear
A great catch by Bryce of a brilliantly deck on slide share hammering home the huge gap between the power of social media in the personal/consumer space vs in the enterprise/business world.
Of course it’s a lot easier to implement social media in the public/personal realm where confidentiality, key controls, petty office politics can be [...]
The Robotification of Usability Design
1998-2000 Human to web interaction, Web Usability, Human factors. The great bubble of Web-enabling networked databases and applications – like Online Banking, Amazon.com, lets sell pet food online etc. (eBay never heard of usability)
2001-2005 Website to robot interaction design, the golden age of Search Engine Optimization
2004-2006 Human to Human and social web interaction, funny how [...]
Has Facebook killed blogging?
Have you noticed the blogosphere growing quiet? The pros and the a-listers and the corporate blogs are still at it as strong as ever. But tumbleweeds blow through the empty feed folders of personal friends. Flickr too is fading away. Maybe it’s just summer and we’re all outdoors, as we should be, instead.
But I [...]
The Flavour of Cities – My deck from OpenCities
UPDATE: oh and my speaker notes are here on the slideshare page which might explain things a *little* more clearly.
A great commentary by Edward on the discussion that followed (thanks!):
“At the final session, insulated by a Creemore, it was interesting to think of as flavour as taste: in the look and feel and design and [...]
Collecting a lot of Underpants and the unbundling of social platforms
Dave Winer and Euan Semple are writing about the eventual unbundling of social platforms.
I like this idea that we could all manage our own bundle of apps both social and professional to track our calendars, “buddy” lists, statuses, media habits and etc. etc. yet somehow all of these would stitch together as well, or nearly [...]
Thomas Purves
is a technology designer, futurist and sometimes entrepreneur living in the great city of Toronto. Thomas not currently available for hire (though you are always welcome to try).
