Not true. Sinatra got it all wrong. It should go something more like this. “You’re nobody ’til you have a facebook app.”
Some interesting facebook analytics to snack on during lunch.
Monthly Archive for December, 2007
Notes from the Mobilefest2007 Conference in Brazil
– Speakers –
Johan Cohen-Brockman- Multiple Projects: Networked Contexts, old interface on new, displacing context so anyone can connect, UMBRELLA.net, “Networks of Coincidence, ad-hoc networks (multi-hop, mobile ad-hoc), where the device has the connectivity; Bumplist.net: forcing people to find news ways of interaction; placing claim on wireless space (compare to Homestead Act); GPS: geo-coding spaces; Kate Bauer- Ovu; Kate Hartman- Botanicalls; Norene Leddy- The Aphrodite Project platform show becomes “platform” for discussion; How To… available in this month’s Make Magazine; alternative site; Shawn Van Every- Mobile Projects @ITP (Dodgeball, Socialight, hugms)
– Discussion –
centralization vs decentralization; annonymity=death; inspire to citizenship, not consumerism; “the majority of my work, I plug into electritcity”l; adding values to social communities, establish a collaboration w/other generations; trying to connect with; the “zapping” culture: fast; are we really doing anything different or doing the same thing differently?; we have become “super-interruptable”, spontaneous (continuous partial attention); text message w/phone call, accessibility issues w/ interface; one technology does not distinguish old but changes it; people get the functionality but don’t know the functionality; Gen Y: figuring stuff out, social, important, Legos; complicated interfaces favor younger people; adults are no longer the guardians of information, the older people must teach the next generation how to use the information, the “culture of content”; the Wii: large acceptance among public not used to games but interface is intuitive; Agitprop?
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