Ideas at Ambient Sociabilitiy

Social Media Greening the World

diane rinaldo — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:55:46 GMT

a good launch article might be how social media is used to make the world better. For instance Freecycle is my favorite site of the day. People give away stuff to others in their ‘hood. I just got rid of a 15 year old frig that otherwise would have hit the dump. One mans’s garbage is another man’s treasure. Or something like that. There are other examples too, this is just a current fave site.

MicroSourcing the Social Web

Chris Pallé — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:47:04 GMT

Or maybe it’s called micro-hiring. With aggregation of lifestreams being the focus of late, are there opportunities for small or young groups tapping into “Expert Lifestreams”? The idea is getting little bits of experts’ opinions and knowledge available to the less knowledgeable.

• Breaking groupthink by injecting dynamic knowledge-sharing into homogenous groups

• Personal assistants to organize and sort through Lifestreams to accomplish specific tasks like discovering new topics/tools/sources, etc. and then prompting (or nudging) to take action.

• Successfully applying the Long-tail to people

• Will monetary incentives encourage extended levels of participation on the experts’ parts… “A penny for your thoughts,” literally. If a (low-cost) thought or stream of thoughts and activity is paid for by a lot of people to a lot of people a revenue-sharing framework could develop.

• How does FriendFeed, MyBlogLog, SocialThing, Ping.fm, and the likes play into this?

• Problems: As lives and interests change, how does the Social Web remain Semantic?

This was originally a biz idea i had, but maybe exploring it will make for interesting reading? I dunno. thoughts?

Blurring the lines between professional and personal

David Malouf — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:14:57 GMT

I’m working on a presentation for the SHIFT confernece (shift.pt) on the blurring lines between professional and personal interactions due to new technologies, and social mediation is a huge part of that.

How is our cultural expectations around the line between professional and personal changing due to social mediation in networked software?

eh?

Social Network modelling/visualization

Trevor Stafford — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:35:44 GMT

I’m interested in how social networks can be visualized or modelled (by node, by branched connections, by volume, and so on), and what software can help realize this.

Are certain people ‘supernodes?’ Do supernodes have a natural proximity to each other or perhaps a natural repulsion? What would that look like graphically?