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Social Computing

Twitter & Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs … nay … Hierarchy of #Tweets

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs January 12, 2010

I was chatting with a friend today who’s not a Twitter user, and trying to explain why I like it, and why so many people do too. I found myself turning to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and his Theory of Human Motivations to try and explain this. I discovered this blog post titled The Hierarchy [...]

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Social Media – WTF?

November 19, 2009

Digital Strangelove …. the Intention Economy … or WTF Social Media?  David Gillespie,  Account Director at Maclaren McCann, Toronto shares a great presentation (263 slides). There’s a lot that speaks to the fact that all media is social, it is about people not technology, paid vs free, attention vs intention, the need to listen [...]

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Designing for the social web

May 28, 2009

Came across this really interesting presentation from Chris Messina on designing for the Social Web. The new assumptions are:

And then, some more:

Here’s his presentation on Slideshare – there are some good lessons spelt out in there for each of the assumptions.
New Assumptions for Designing for the Social Web

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Interesting things – Taglets

January 15, 2009

I’ve spent the morning playing with Taglets – which is very cool and has the potential to be quite revolutionary as it’s offering up an open platform and API for developers. It seems like reverse Twitter in some ways – I create or follow tags that are really keywords of interest to me, and I [...]

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To hustle … or not?

December 12, 2008

Gaurav Mishra says he’s “the marketer who hates the social media hustle”. And yet he finds himself hustling, as he believes much of what we do in social media is hustle:
But social media is all about the hustle, it’s all about working the room, and, indeed, working your social networks, doing anything you need [...]

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Phweet on the WATshow

September 25, 2008

Been meaning to post this video – it was fun talking to Rajiv Dingra and Navneet from the WATShow on Phweet and the Social Media scene in India.
Dina Mehta On Phweet – A Tool That Enables Voice Conversation On Twitter (Via WATShow)

I look forward to Part 2 where I have demo’d how Phweet works.

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The Future of Social Networking?

September 11, 2008

This morning, I set up an Open Phweet around the Future of Social Computing, triggered by Jan Chipchase’s paper called Future Social, and my subsequent feeling of reinforcement and validation around a study we recently did around the future of Mobile Social Computing.  It’s been an interesting day, talking to a few people who joined [...]

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Invasive or Transformative – mobile phones now read you

December 22, 2007

Marshall Kirkpatrick over at ReadWriteWeb shares, with some optimism and a lot of caution, the Reality Mining project, being conducted by the Human Dynamics Group at the MIT Media Lab. They are processing more than 350,000 hours of data collected from peoples’ cell phones. More than just who calls who, Pentland is also [...]

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Flock 1.0 – More Intuitive, More Social

October 20, 2007

I first saw a demo of Flock at Pop!Tech in 2005 – I remember feeling it was cool because it brought together so many tools into one space. And I’m re-visiting Flock today, withe the launch of Flock 1.0 beta.
What I like:
I’m liking it – it is like integrating my desktop-browsing-bookmarking-tagging-publishing-social networking all in one. [...]

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Information Flows: Enterprise 2.0

October 7, 2007

  Olivier at Headshift has a good post titled “Enterprise 2.0″ Performance:  Exploitation or Exploration?” Reminds me of a post I had done way back in 2004 called Revisiting Knowledge Management – Presence, Communication, Collaboration = FLOW. And that was pre-Twitter, pre-Facebook, pre-so-many-new-web-2.0-tools. How amazing it would be if we could turn [...]

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