Interrelativity

Category: Web/Tech

  • 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…

  • Music and Personality: Reflective and Complex

    As part of my ongoing personal and professional re-engagement with music (since the initiation of my instigation at MyStrands), and renewed exploration of how tastes in music and other media can offer new opportunities for engagement marketing, I was reading up on some of the work by Peter Jason Rentfrow and Sam Gosling on music…

  • 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…

  • Principal Instigator at MyStrands: A Prospective Perspective

    This is my first week as Principal Instigator at MyStrands. I wrote last week about leaving Nokia to join MyStrands, in which I focused primarily on the leaving part. I wanted to write a little more today about the joining part, and the excitement I feel about reprising and redefining my principal instigator role in…

  • 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…

  • Unconcerned About Privacy: The Pew Internet Report on Digital Footprints

    The recent report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project on "Digital Footprints: Online identity management and search in the age of transparency" presents some interesting statistics and analysis regarding people’s awareness and use of digital information about themselves and others on the Internet (their "digital footprints"). The most interesting result, to me, was…

  • I’ve been Schmapped!

    Or rather, one of my Flickr photos – of the large photoboard at the Hopvine Pub on Capitol Hill in Seattle – has been schmapped. Schmap appears to be a not-so-new (founded 2004) travel guide mashup that combines information on points of interest (from Wcities, an online travel information aggregator), e.g., restaurant reviews, with photos…

  • 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.…

  • StumbleUpon Happiness: Computer-Mediated Serendipity

    I enjoyed an engaging presentation by Garrett Camp, founder of StumbleUpon, who was the speaker at this week’s PARC Forum … the first PARC Forum I’ve attended, despite having been working at Nokia Research Center Palo Alto, only about a mile away, for the past 14 months (!). I’d signed up for StumbleUpon in August…

  • 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.,…