May 2012
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“@michaelwolf: Cisco Umi, Eos, Cius: All killed in last 12 months. If...”
– May 25, 2012 at 02:21PM via http://bit.ly/KIw1kA
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Synchronizing Ads On The Second Screen: A Study
Hill Holliday and SecondScreen Networks set up a study to find out how they might sunchronize the head shifting that goes along with the ‘swarm of devices’ style of TV use that goes on these days, given the emergence of the second screen:
Ilya Vedrashko, Smartphones Distract People Away from TV, Mobile Ads Help Bring Them Back
When people are in front of the TV, they don’t just...
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“What is important is providing the conditions through which people can achieve...”
– L. Hunter Lovins, Reframing The Global Economy To Include Happiness via Co.Exist
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Future Work Skills 2020
futurist-foresight:
The Institute for the Future released a report on future work skills that will be needed by 2020. They are:
Sense-making.
Social intelligence.
Novel and adaptive thinking.
Cross-cultural competency.
Computational thinking.
New-media literacy.
Transdisciplinarity.
Design mind-set.
Cognitive load management.
Virtual collaboration.
(Gigaom gives a quick breakdown)
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“It’s worth contemplating one of the primary factors that drove Facebook’s...”
– - Christopher Mims, How Facebook Saved Us from Suburbia via Technology Review
(via courtenaybird)
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“Phatic posts (or small talk) in communication processes online are very...”
– - Danica Radovanovic, Phatic Posts: Even the Small Talk Can Be Big via Scientific American
Small talk is big again.
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Social Discovery Hasn't Found Its Way, Yet
Andrew Keen pans the current crop of social discovery apps, like Highlight, Glancee, Banjo, and Sonar:
Andrew Keen, Messing With Fate via The Atlantic
Applying algorithms to the personal data on networks like Facebook and LinkedIn, these apps try to introduce us to nearby people whom we might like to meet—because we listed the same career on LinkedIn, say, or because we “liked” the same bands...
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Big Data and Data Inequality: Research Is Just The...
There was a recent hoo-ha at a scientific conference in France, when Bernardo Huberman was furious when researchers from Google and a contributing university presenting results of social data analysis declined to share the data.
John Markoff, Big Data Troves Stay Forbidden to Social Scientists via NYTimes.com
The issue came to a boil last month at a scientific conference in Lyon, France, when...
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“@stoweboyd: Can SAP Make Business Processes Social? http://t.co/haXECM7i A...”
– via Twitter: May 25, 2012 at 01:41AM via http://bit.ly/JxeYnG
I take a hard look at a recent Financial Times opinion piece by SAP Co-CEO, Jim Snabe, and although it’s not necessarily socialwash, it doesn’t really get to the heart of the matter: how to create a social environment that...
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“@huddle: RT @PandoTicker: Huddle Raises $24 Million for Enterprise Collaboration...”
– May 24, 2012 at 08:54AM via http://bit.ly/JuMfjk
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What Happened To The Hype About Hyperlocal?
Two things today made me assess the small progress made in hyperlocal journalism to date, and to reconsider the direction we might be headed in.
First, I saw a tweet go by pointing to a WSJ story:
Keach Hagey, For AOL, a Costly Gamble On Local News Draws Trouble
Mr. Armstrong, has held his ground in defending Patch, which he co-founded in 2007 before he joined AOL, but he recently promised to...
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“@LeanBack2_0: GigaOm’s @matthewi says @Twitter is becoming a media company...”
– May 23, 2012 at 08:13AM via http://bit.ly/KyCG0X
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F.C.C. Weighs Treating Video Sites Like Cable... →
The FCC is likely to let the genii out of th bottle, and redefine who is a Multichannel Video Programming Distributor, or MVPDs, now effectively limited to the linear TV players like Comcast and DirecTV. If the rules are changed to include streaming video services like Hulu and YouTube, the landscape of TV will never be the same:
Brian Stelter via NYTimes.com
Major distributors like Comcast and...
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“The broad consensus is that Google is an empty city where the masses go to set...”
– Cotton Delo, Google a Ghost Town as Brands Decamp for Pinterest via Advertising Age
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Readlists via Arc90 Lab →
Arc90 — the people behind Readability — have launched a new service called Readlists. Users can create a collation of links — of whatever sort — and bundle into an e-book that can be read on a Kindle, iPad, or iPhone.
I created one using the links I pulled together yesterday on Social Operating Systems, here. They are featuring a number on the www.readlists.com landing...
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A Model For Open Work Media
Over at Work Talk Reports, I’ve written a short introduction to a big idea that I call Open Work. I use the term ‘work media’ to refer to the enterprise social networking tools that are being rapidly adopted in business these days, but I think the basic premises for those tools are too limiting and limited.
Stowe Boyd, A Model For Open Work Media
I am deep into a number of...
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“ Good design is innovative
Good design makes a product useful
Good design is...”
– Dieter Ram’s ten commandments of good design, via Brain Pickings
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Are Smart Phones Spreading Faster than Any... →
Michael DeGusta via Technology Review
[…] smart phones, after a relatively fast start, have also outpaced nearly any comparable technology in the leap to mainstream use. It took landline telephones about 45 years to get from 5 percent to 50 percent penetration among U.S. households, and mobile phones took around seven years to reach a similar proportion of consumers. Smart phones have gone from...
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“It’s unlikely that journalism will morph from digital roadkill to the next big...”
– David Carr, The Atavist Matures as a Publisher and a Platform via NYTimes.com
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The Social Operating System: A Reader
For the sake of my pal Valdis Krebs, I am collating a list of posts I’ve made in recent years on the idea of a social operating system. The basic notion:
Stowe Boyd, Rockmelt: Why The Social Browser Won’t Matter
The next generation of operating systems will be social at the core.We won’t be fooling with files and folders. We will be connecting with others, reading streams from our...
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“@jayrosen_nyu: Morning! New at my Tumblr: USA Today has a new boss. He thinks...”
– May 21, 2012 at 06:00AM via http://bit.ly/JgDRnj
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“Headphones are the new wall.”
– Ray Udeshi cited by John Tierney in From Cubicles, Cry for Quiet Pierces Office Buzz via NYTimes.com, discussing how office workers deal with the increasing noise in open space offices.
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“There is no winning formula or established convention for measuring long-term...”
– Matt Kingdon, ‘Not Everything That Matters Can Be Measured’
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“@lrainie: Cooperation via social software, not competition, is where real future...”
– May 18, 2012 at 07:46AM via http://bit.ly/Lk3ysj
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“@robhof: Old world, new world: HP lays off 30,000 people, Facebook goes public...”
– May 18, 2012 at 07:07AM via http://bit.ly/M111jr
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“@jowyang: Fantastic presentation by @stoweboyd who has a lens of Sociology,...”
– May 16, 2012 at 02:53PM via http://bit.ly/LVUPZY
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More On The New Aesthetic
Is Fashion Ready For A New Aesthetic?, Jay Owens via BOF
For the last few years, the stylistic purview of much of the creative class in places like Shoreditch in London, the borough of Brooklyn in New York, and Berlin’s Mitte district has been curiously backward-looking. Perhaps this retreat into retro nostalgia is a reaction to economic uncertainty and technological change. Maybe it’s a...
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“I suspect that Facebook will forever live within this dialectic, expanding the...”
– Steven Johnson on Can Anything Take Down the Facebook Juggernaut? | Epicenter | Wired.com
(via thisistheverge)
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Google+ Is A Ghost Town
Google continues to say that others’ analysis of public use of Google+ is a distortion of actual use — since much of the use of G+ is supposedly private — but Google will not share the data:
Exclusive: New Google Study Reveals Minimal Social Activity, Weak User Engagement - Austin Carr via Fast Company
This week, the data analytics firm [RJ Metrics] provided Fast Company with...
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“@gapingvoid: Why is it called Google+? Because it came 5+ years too late ;-)”
– May 17, 2012 at 02:53AM via http://bit.ly/KgOiqM
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“@ckenton: 34 Percent Of US Mid-Market Businesses Using Business Intelligence Are...”
– May 15, 2012 at 08:55AM via http://twitter.com/ckenton/status/202426882032021505
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The Walking Dead? →
TV advertising is up, but it’s a Ponzi scheme, like the increased revenue in movie theaters: in both cases, they are losing viewers but charging more.
David Carr via NYTimes.com
According to estimates reported by Reuters, in the coming week the big four broadcast networks and the CW will book some $9 billion in advertising revenue, with the big four up 2 to 4 percent from last year. And...
“Anything with a screen is a TV set, as far as I’m concerned.”
– Glenn Britt, chief executive of Time Warner Cable, via NYTimes.com
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MixMedias - Montreal
I’m doing the closing keynote at MixMedias - Montreal next week: Curation In A Liquid Media World
Curation In A Liquid Media World The rise of several mutually-reinforcing trends — ubiquitous connectivity, mobile devices, web-oriented operating platforms and apps, and the explosion of the social revolution online — are converging to transform the fundamentals of media. I...
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Tympathy: Getting Into a Shared Tempo At Work
Had a fascinating talk yesterday with Deb Louison Lavoy as a part of my work on a new book, The Business Of Social Business (I hope to be done in June). Deb mentioned a term that she’d read in a David Brooks column, of all places. He reels off a bunch of terms that he thinks are critical skills for the new world we are entering (I leave the others for other posts, perhaps). One was not like...
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“@Rafe: Author Daniel Suarez (“Daemon,” “Freedom”) at...”
– May 08, 2012 at 11:54AM via http://bit.ly/IOcNhv
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A Web That Forgets
Megan Garber writes about a new iPhone photo app that will only share pics for a certain period of time — Snapchat — and suggests that the persistence of the web has it’s downside in that it cannot forget, and so we can’t either:
Forget About It: Making the Internet More Like Our Brains - Megan Garber viaThe Atlantic
Anti-archival tools provide a countervailing force to...
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Could These Start-Ups Become the Next Big Thing? -... →
I voted for Dropbox. See Why haven’t Microsoft or Apple built Dropbox-style sharing into their OS’s?
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“@panklam: Collaboration tools exacerbate centrality of those already central...”
– May 08, 2012 at 06:45AM via http://bit.ly/IS31vZ
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The Fall Of Facebook Social Readers
John Herrman dissects the news about the declining popularity of social news readers on Facebook, and points out the key observation:
Sharing isn’t really sharing if you don’t mean to do it.
He also suggests that Facebook’s rejiggering of ‘trending stories’ so they are segregated and pulled to the side of actual posts by actual people could be a devastating blow...
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OgilvyOne London: “As an ad agency, we’ll always... →
OgilvyOne London: “As an ad agency, we’ll always be trying to lean forward” - Emma Gardner via Lean Back 2.0
Has OgilvyOne London seen any evidence of people “leaning back” when consuming ads or creative content on their iPad?
[OlgivyOne London Chief Executive Annette] KING: It’s interesting because we were having a debate between lean forward and lean back before we got on the call with you....
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Is Bezos Crazy Like a Fox, Or Just Crazy?
Nobody Seems to Understand What Jeff Bezos is Doing. Does He? - Farhad Manjoo via PandoDaily
Jeff Bezos once famously declared that, in the service of innovation and its long-term success, Amazon is “willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.” He was being a bit modest there; Amazon is not merely “willing” to be misunderstood, it often tries to actively sow widespread...
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Web, City, Cars, Parking
As the web and urban continue to collide and build on each other, post-industrial concerns like parking will be managed in very different ways. Instead of the 20th century hunter/gatherer model — where people search for empty spaces to park — we’ll see hotel reservation models, autonomous vehicles parking themselves, and dynamic pricing algorithms:
The Networked Urban Environment - Jan Chipchase...
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“from: noreply@plazes.com
to: stowe boyd email
date: may 4 2012
subject:...”
– via email
Email yesterday from Plazes (Nokia, now), announcing they’re shutting down the service, one of the pioneers in the geomobile check-in arena. Just another example of a big company trying to buy into a new market, and screwing it up. Of course, the Plazes guys really stalled the...
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