Category Archives: interaction
The human factor in social media (revisited)
Last year I wrote 3 (rather long) thought experiments I pretentiously called ‘The human factor in Social media’. You can find part 1, part 2, and part 3 here. I was reading them back recently and thought about what came … Continue reading
Posted in Human factor, interaction, social media, social networks, web 2.0
Tagged human behavior, interaction, social media, social networks, user value, web 2.0
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Google Wave is a plumbing project for the web
So, Google Wave makes people unproductive? Says Robert Scoble in a good post where he writes down his first impressions with the new service. Robert says: It is noisy, but the noise often happens way down in a wave deep … Continue reading
Posted in freedom, Google Wave, interaction, noise, real-time web, social media
Tagged freedom, Google, Google Wave, interaction, noise, real-time web, social media
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Calling BS on the Real-Time Web
The tech world is full of the real-time web. Google seems to have missed it, Twitter is on top of it but sucks at indexing it, Friendfeed is the aggregation king, and Facebook might get there by copying Twitter and … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Friendfeed, Google, interaction, real-time web, Twitter
Tagged Facebook, Friendfeed, Google, interaction, real-time web, Twitter
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Questions
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
Our need for interaction locks us up
MySpace has over 200 Mln registered users. Facebook follows fast with 140Mln registered users, and they are adding an astonishing 600.ooo new users every day. A rough estimate suggests that more than half a Billion people are registered in social … Continue reading
Posted in business model, Facebook, interaction, myspace, privacy, web 2.0
Tagged business model, Facebook, interaction, myspace, privacy, web 2.0
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Our Social Media behavior smothers discussion
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 human behavior, interaction, social media
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The real value of Social media = Interaction
Fred Wilson writes about his vision of social media. He has a very simple definition for it: every single human being posting their thoughts and experiences in any number of ways to the Internet. I like it’s simplicity. Fred says … Continue reading
Posted in Fred Wilson, interaction, My vision on social medial
Tagged Fred Wilson, interaction, my vision on social media
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Why I don’t like Friendfeed as much as I wanted, it lacks intention
Webware writes about Friendfeed this morning. A quote from the article that drew my attention: The vision FriendFeed is currently a “social-network aggregator.” It picks up the stuff you do online and tells your friends about it, saving them the … Continue reading
It’s about interaction stupid!
Justin Smith has an article up this morning (well for me anyways ;-)) in which he suggests that Facebook isn’t trying to be the biggest content or entertainment platform, but instead tries to dominate as a communications platform. In his … Continue reading
Freedom to the people (part 2)
In a previous post I talked about some major changes I would like to see happening to the current web. The most important aspect of that is to provide the user freedom again. I said: More than 2006, when Time … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander van Elsas, Beacon, business model, Data Portability, Facebook, Flickr, freedom, interaction, on-line advertisement, privacy, Real life, social networks, SocialAds, Uncategorized, user centric web, web 2.0, web 3.0
Tagged Beacon, business model, Facebook, freedom, on-line advertisement, social networks, SocialAds, user centric web, web 2.0, web 3.0
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The web is just a poor surrogate of real-life interactions
This Saturday my wife and I celebrated our 12,5 years of marriage together with our family and many friends and neighbours. We had a great time living towards the party while remembering lots of things from the the past years. … Continue reading
Posted in distribution of emotions, Facebook, Flickr, interaction, Real life, Record industry, Twitter, Uncategorized, web 2.0, YouTube
Tagged Doris Lessing, emotions, Facebook, Flickr, interaction, Real life, Record industry, Twitter, web 2.0, YouTube
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Advice to the record industry: go from distribution of music to distribution of emotions
Michael Arrington of TechCrunchs wrote an article just now on in which he talks about the CEO of Warner music admitting “we were wrong”: We used to fool ourselves…We used to think our content was perfect just exactly as it … Continue reading
The conversation never stops
If I would have to name one thing technology has brought us the past years it would be the ability to interact with each other. There are so many ways we can connect now that we almost need to hire … Continue reading
Google’s assault plans on social networks
TechCrunch just posted an article in which they reveal that Google might be planning a “major assault” on the social networking scene. I have written on the Google strategy before, and it seems that a lot of the things written … Continue reading
Posted in advertisement, Facebook, Google, interaction, Mobile, privacy, Social Graph, social networks, web 2.0
Tagged business model, Facebook, Google, mobile strategy, on-line advertisement, privacy, Social Graph, social networks, web 2.0
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Solving the Mobile Internet equation
There is a lot of talk going on about mobile services. Especially Location Based Services (LBS) get a lot of attention. A few posts that drew my attention: Om Malik wrote a short overview article of the deals that have … Continue reading
Posted in Google, interaction, Jaiku, Location Based Services, Mobile Internet, privacy, SMS, Walter Mossberg
Tagged Google, interaction, Jaiku, Location Based Services, Mobile Internet, privacy, SMS, Twitter, Walter Mossberg
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Dear Yahoo, Microsoft, Google e-mail. Forget Facebook, start innovating!
I read an article this morning by the Wall Street Journal on social features in e-mail. In this article they state that e-mail providers are trying to gain back ground from social networking sites like Facebook by adding social features … Continue reading
Twitter makes me a groupie, I’d rather be a friend
I have recently decided to give Twitter a try. Out of curiosity, as I read a lot about it. The most compelling argument to give it a try was provided by Robert Scoble (couldn’t find the original post, sorry) who … Continue reading
Posted in Biz Stone, emotions, Google, interaction, Jaiku, Robert Scoble, social networks, Twitter
Tagged Biz Stone, emotions, Google, interaction, Jaiku, Robert Scoble, social networks, Twitter
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(Re-) discovering great things on the web
Tim O’Reilly wrote a nice post today on the effects of self fulfilling prophecies on social media. One of the examples he provides (read his article, it’s longer and nicer than my brief summary here) is that if everyone uses … Continue reading
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Commenting is easy, try blogging for a change!
Fred Wilson started a discussion this weekend suggesting that comments on blogs are often more insightful than the blog post being commented on. He suggests that comments should be more prominent available in aggregating sites like TechMeme and Friendfeed. And … Continue reading →