Interrelativity

Category: Social Media

  • Satirization or Assassination?

    The New Yorker published its July 21 edition this week, with a cartoon on the cover depicting U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, in a way that reflects some of the worst fears of what I suspect is a nontrivial percentage of the electorate. On the cover, shown on the…

  • The Challenges of Location-Based Social Networking

    Meetro, the location-aware instant messaging application – and company – has failed (or as my entrepreneur friends often like to say in such cases, it has "run out of runway"). Peter sent me a link to an inspiring TechCrunch guest post by Paul Bragiel, Meetro's founder, in which Paul has courageously shared the lessons he…

  • Do YouJustGetMe? Do I Even Get Myself?

    David Evans presented a paper at the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2008) this week on the science of interpersonal perception, or more specifically: how well people are able to understand (or “get”) others based on others’ online profiles, and what elements of those profiles are most important to that understanding. The…

  • The Coming Ad Revolution: Predatory vs. Participatory

    Esther Dyson wrote an insightful opinion piece in Monday’s Wall Street Journal on "The Coming Ad Revolution". I agree with many of her observations and prognostications about how advertising will (and will not) evolve – or, perhaps, revolve – but I had a strong adverse reaction to her use of "targeting" with respect to the…

  • Commenting on Validation / Validating Comments

    Ever since my last post, which started out about locked-in syndrome (inspired by The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), but which developed into a revisitation of a frequently discussed topic [on this blog] – "the need for approval … for validation … for appreciation … for mattering" – I’ve been attuned to validation in a…

  • Content-centered Conversations: The Pew Internet Report on Teens and Social Media

    I finally read the recent Pew Internet & American Life Project report on Teens and Social Media. Among the most interesting findings, for me, were the correlation between the creation of content (online stories, photos, videos) and conversations about that content, and the connections between connecting online and connecting offline. As I'd noted with another…

  • Worst Speech Ever: Guy Kawasaki on Stupid Ideas, Indefensibility and Being a Mensch

    Guy Kawaski gave a great demonstration of and presentation on entrepreneurship in the Web 2.0 era at yesterday's PARC Forum. His new company, Truemors.com, is "a Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Citizen Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site" that cost him $12,107.09. The site enables anyone to post, comment on, or rate any breaking rumors or news.…

  • Thanks for the Ad: Brand-Centered Sociality and Socioeconomic Networking on Facebook

    Facebook announced their social advertising tools this week, unveiling a new set of channels for advertising on the site: Facebook Pages: businesses can now be have faces on Facebook Social Ads: advertisements based on actions your friends have taken on the site Facebook Beacon: advertisements based on actions you have taken on other sites (e.g.,…

  • Mobilizing Social Software / Socializing Mobile Software: Nokia Mobile Mashup

    Nokia held its second Mobile Mashup on Thursday. The theme for the event was "the future of mobile social", and we had a series of conversations on and off stage about how social software is and will be mobilized, as well as how mobile software (and devices) are being socialized. [Disclosure: I work for Nokia,…

  • Spampliments, Spampliments, Spampliments, Spampliments …

    A reader using the name "Cara Fletcher" posted the following comment on the first blog entry I posted about my wife’s anal cancer (Anal Cancer: A Real Pain in the Butt): The anal cancer should be really a pain in the butt and I am sure it’s not very pleasant.I now have to deal with…