Category Archives: human behavior

Why Google will win: entrapment in the iPhone is a failing long-term strategy

Posted on October 20, 2009 by vanelsas

Entrapment can be an effective strategy when you are building up a business. Marketers tend to call that customer lock-in. From the perspective of the business this sounds like a great thing to do. Hook the customer to your business … Continue reading →

Posted in Android Mobile OS, Apple, human behavior, iPhone | Tagged , , , , , | 16 Comments

The magic is gone

Posted on July 28, 2009 by vanelsas

I’ve been on a 2 week summer vacation and hardly spend any time on “Social Media” services. On return I found myself not getting back into old habits as easily. I haven’t spend a lot of time on Twitter or … Continue reading →

Posted in human behavior, social interaction, social media | Tagged , , | 18 Comments

Social Media is bound by our human limitations

Posted on June 8, 2009 by vanelsas

The definition of Social Media according to Wikipedia is: Social media is content created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies. At its most basic sense, social media is a shift in how people discover, read and share … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, Friendfeed, Google, human behavior, social media, social networks, web 2.0 | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 13 Comments

Questions

Posted on April 3, 2009 by vanelsas

Networks and destinations 1. If everything becomes open and connected, what will happen to the big destinations? 2. Why is the web rapidly evolving into uncountable databases with connections, instead of one database where everything connects? 3. If all services … Continue reading →

Posted in business model, human behavior, interaction, privacy, social media, social networks | Tagged , , , , , , | 11 Comments

Are you enslaved by your mobile device? Take this test!

Posted on February 13, 2009 by vanelsas

We are all becoming slaves of our communication habits. With our mobile devices as the new high priests, we hail the prayer of information and we are bonded by blackberry and iPhone. You do not recognize yourself in this description? … Continue reading →

Posted in addiction, Blackberry, human behavior, iPhone, Mobile, social interaction | Tagged , , , , , | 5 Comments

It is naive to think our online lives are not connected to real-life

Posted on January 26, 2009 by vanelsas

There seems to be a strange disconnect between our online and offline lives. Different rules, norms and values seem to apply. It is as if our online personality is not connected to our real life. We act differently and feel … Continue reading →

Posted in human behavior, on-line advertisement, privacy, social media, social networks | Tagged , , , , , | 9 Comments

On diminishing network effects in web 2.0, social media and human limitations

Posted on January 12, 2009 by vanelsas

This post is a followup of a series I did last year on ‘The Human factor in social media’. Technology allows us to be “always on”. To be part of a never ending conversation. Simply plug in, anywhere, and you … Continue reading →

Posted in always on, Facebook, human behavior, myspace, Robert Scoble, social media trends, Tim O'Reilly, web 2.0 | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Our Social Media behavior smothers discussion

Posted on September 2, 2008 by vanelsas

I was wondering about an amazing (well to me it is) “discussion” I saw on a blog post over at Mashable. Mark Rizzn Hopkins wrote a post about Early adopters and it didn’t take long before many people jumped on … Continue reading →

Posted in human behavior, interaction, social media | Tagged , , | 12 Comments

How is the semantic web going to deal with human behavior?

Posted on August 8, 2008 by vanelsas

I have read numerous posts  on the semantic web this past year or so. The latest one by Marshall KirkPatrick at ReadWriteWeb in which he writes about an academic that warns us to pay attention to the  question if the … Continue reading →

Posted in human behavior, semantic web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Uncategorized, user centric web | Tagged , , , | 6 Comments

The human factor in Social Media trends (part 2)

Posted on July 1, 2008 by vanelsas

Monday I started something that might take a few days to finish. I called it the human factor in social media trends. For those of you that missed it, you can find the post here, and besides the comments on … Continue reading →

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The human factor in Social Media trends

Posted on June 30, 2008 by vanelsas

Sometimes when I am really relaxed (this always seems to happen on a weekend 😉 ) I sit back and imagine about possible consequences of things that seem important now. If you follow social media news a bit like I … Continue reading →

Posted in human behavior, Human factor, social media trends | Tagged , , | 28 Comments

Social “search” will not kill web search

Posted on April 17, 2008 by vanelsas

Glenn Derene suggests that Social Networks might replace search giant Google as a place where people will start their search. He bases this on a conversation he has had with a VC. A quote from his post: So what is … Continue reading →

Posted in Facebook, Google, human behavior, KNOL, social interaction, social networks, Wikipedia | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

Our biggest on-line threat might be the power of scale

Posted on March 7, 2008 by vanelsas

In my previous post I spoke about the presentation Charlene Li gave about the future of Social Networks. I ended up analyzing what it would mean for advertisement. But the thought of everything being connected into one big social network, … Continue reading →

Posted in Charlene Li, Forrester Research, future, Google, human behavior, infrastructure, search, social networks, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

Just a few wishes for 2008 (part 2)

Posted on January 7, 2008 by vanelsas

In my first post in 2008 I said I would elaborate a bit about things I would like to see happen in 2008. My first wish for 2008 was to bring back freedom and responsibility to the user. The article … Continue reading →

Posted in business model, human behavior, inspiration, John Battelle, Jonathan Harris, Microsoft, Mobile, Nokia N95, ovi, Uncategorized, web 2.0 | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Observing social behavior through a fishbowl

Posted on December 17, 2007 by vanelsas

Is human behavior changing because of the way the web has allowed us to interact, or  are we still following the same basic social rules as, lets say 10 years ago? My guess is that human behavior is affected around … Continue reading →

Posted in Danah Boyd, Facebook, fishbowl, Harvard research, human behavior, Rolf Skyberg, social behavior | Tagged , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Human nature: Some things will never change

Posted on November 20, 2007 by vanelsas

I usually start writing new entries after the weekend, but yesterday just didn’t work out. I was in a car accident with 6 other cars on the freeway. Nobody hurt, but I parked my car in the back of the … Continue reading →

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