"There's an arms race going on: parental surveillance vs. technology to assert privacy. (...) As parents implement keyboard tracking, kids go to texting. How long until parents demand that companies send them transcripts of everything?"
Adjacent Social Objects is the latest idea from Rajesh Setty. ASOs (my initialism, not his) are objects that are not directly related to your product or service but are close.
"iPhone users are the perfect group to launch the network to. They’re passionate and elitist, and will like the idea of being in an iPhone-only club. Go to a party and see a picture and first name of everyone there who’s holding an iPhone - then meet
Could be interesting for my upcoming thesis: "Enter what you're reading or your whole library—it's an easy, library-quality catalog. LibraryThing also connects you with people who read the same things."
A great speech by Jyri Engestrom, co-founder of Jaiku and sociologist. In the first part of his presentation he explains his concept on socio-material objects. 49:40, very down-to-earth.
Ein guter Text über soziale Netzwerke und einige ihrer Begleiterscheinungen. "The online expression of human identity is dissolving privacy and transforming friendship, says Mark Vernon."
Nochmal Thomas Pleil (s.o.): Publikations- und Tätigkeitenliste. 2007 hat er ein Buch herausgegeben, dessen Titel viel verspricht: Online-PR im Web 2.0. Fallbeispiele aus Wirtschaft und Politik.
"Children increasingly rely on personal technological devices like cellphones to define themselves and create social circles apart from their families, changing the way they communicate with their parents."
"The DOI System is for identifying content objects in the digital environment. DOI names are assigned to any entity for use on digital networks. They are used to provide current information, including where they (or information about them) can be found on