Sam Ruby: “just like the web encompasses both the human web and programmable...
This is exactly what we were getting at with Social Software for Robots http://intertwingly.net/blog/2007/08/14/Long-Bets-Apologia
View ArticlePulse Laser: BBC Olinda digital radio — Social hardware
WANT. http://schulzeandwebb.com/blog/2007/08/20/bbc-olinda-digital-radio-social-hardware/
View ArticleAidan: “the increases in human intelligence that have evolved since our split...
Also points to how complicated and difficult the social is, something we encounter everyday trying to replicate social patterns into software. http://sedesdraconis.livejournal.com/154433.html
View ArticleLink Tipping: interesting Amazon FPS backed micropayment tool
For promoting/sharing links. (via rafe) http://linktipping.com/
View ArticlePersonal Data Stores and the Network
Thinking about what “personal data stores” are going to look like, how this interacts with decentralized models for community services, (I swear I’ve written something more recent then 2005 on that...
View ArticleSharing from within Google Reader
Collapsing the GTalk buddy list, and Reader sharing list was a serious blunder, and one that could use a bit more ink spilled about it. But one click sharing is one of my favorite Reader features....
View ArticleNotes from Social Graph Foo
Here is my quick dump of the notebook, probably useful to no one but me. Names mostly removed to protect the guilty. I think “Social Graph” is kind of a dumb phrase to apply to the back question of...
View Article#hashbot
Learned a new word tonight from MattB, SimonB, and Yoz. A hashbot is a robot that hangs out on an IRC channel (hence the #) and provides a conversational interface to a resource. hashbots are the...
View Article2007 Was Not the Year of the Addressbook
from __future__ import the_cloud the_cloud.twitter.me.unfollow.everybody the_cloud.me.addressbook.known_twitterers.each |identity| the_cloud.twitter.follow.(identity) if...
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Fire Eagle: Interesting Choices
Other folks are talking about and writing about the long germinating, launched in beta, location broker from Yahoo’s Brickhouse, Fire Eagle. I wanted to call out just a couple of the cool, and...
View ArticleClay Shirky talks about “Here Comes Everybody”
“a society which has an Internet is a different kind of society then a society that doesn’t. In the same way that society that has a printing press is a different kind of society then a that doesn’t.”...
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FriendFeed is too much info
One of the key topics (I think) in my Casual Privacy talk last week was the importance of “context” in privacy and sharing. That some people have trouble understanding how fundamental context is to...
View ArticleYuiblog: Patterns for Designing a Reputation System
Excellent, pragmatic, Christopher Alexander style patterns for building online community. With really cute graphic. http://yuiblog.com/blog/2008/06/10/patterns-for-designing-a-reputation-system/
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3rd Party Comment Systems
Talk about from the everything-old-is-new-again dept. Fred’s got a post up talking about the “mainstreaming” of 3rd party comment system. His graph compares their portfolio company disqus, with a bunch...
View ArticleSci-Fi Hi-Fi: If it looks like a leaderboard, and quacks…
“…social software is a medium turns all communication into a self-representation game…” http://log.scifihifi.com/post/66130113/via-bradleyallen-if-it-looks-like-a
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Twitter lists, creators vs curators, and who owns the meta-data?
Flickr is a creators’ community. This informs a number of the decisions we make. Including the question of “who owns the meta-data?” (where own is defined as who can operate on it). On Flickr a photo...
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When I say “FUD”…
… I mean Flickr/Upcoming/Delicious. In particular, I mean that brief moment of optimism in the Spring of ’06, on the roof of the Iron Cactus, at the Spread the FUD party, when it looked like Yahoo!...
View ArticleRaindrop, this mornings coffee shop conversation with my imaginary friend
I’m not really qualified to write or say anything about Raindrop, Aaron pointed it out to me yesterday, and I immediately got bogged in the marketing speak on the page. Still, I was sitting at El Beit...
View ArticleDens: First thoughts on Google Buzz for mobile (Alex is telling me the web...
“#3. Is Google Buzz the Facebook / Twitter / foursquare killer? No. Using Buzz requires more thought / more work than Facebook or Twitter and comes with less reward … For social apps the feature...
View ArticleKrazyDad: Mayor of the North Pole
I’ve been blatantly cheating at foursquare for the past week … At some point last week, I devolved into a 12 year old hacker, and I spent many spare hours (and my computer’s spare cycles) abusing the...
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