Tag Archives: human behavior
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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Why Google will win: entrapment in the iPhone is a failing long-term strategy
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 Android, Apple, entrapment, freedom, human behavior, iPhone
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The magic is gone
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 human behavior, social interaction, social media
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Social Media is bound by our human limitations
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 Facebook, Friendfeed, Google, human behavior, Louis Gray, Robert Scoble, social media, social networks, web 2.0
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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
Are you enslaved by your mobile device? Take this test!
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 addiction, Blackberry, human behavior, iPhone, mobile device, social interaction
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It is naive to think our online lives are not connected to real-life
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
On diminishing network effects in web 2.0, social media and human limitations
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 Facebook, human behavior, Louis Gray, myspace, network effect, Robert Scoble, social media, Tim O'Reilly, 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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How is the semantic web going to deal with human behavior?
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
The human factor in Social Media trends (part 2)
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
Posted in human behavior, Human factor, social media trends
Tagged human behavior, Human factor, social media trends
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The human factor in Social Media trends
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 human behavior, Human factor, social media trends
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Social “search” will not kill web search
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 Google, human behavior, social interaction, social networks, Social search, web search
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Our biggest on-line threat might be the power of scale
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
Just a few wishes for 2008 (part 2)
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 human behavior, inspiration, John Battelle, Jonathan Harris, Microsoft, Mobile UI, N95, Nokia, ovi, web 2.0 business models
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Observing social behavior through a fishbowl
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
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