Facebook's Zuckerberg Says The Age of Privacy is Over [ReadWriteWeb]
Zuckerberg controversial argument: "A lot of companies would be trapped by the conventions and their legacies of what they've built, doing a privacy change - doing a privacy change for 350 million users is not the kind of thing that a lot of companies would do. But we viewed that as a really important thing, to always keep a beginner's mind and what would we do if we were starting the company now and we decided that these would be the social norms now and we just went for it." and "What makes Facebook think the world is becoming more public and less private? (...) I think Facebook is just saying that because that's what it wants to be true." ponders the RWW blogger.
Mobile gesture design at Nokia – developing a new dialect of of interactions
"The field of mobile gestures is a fascinating one that Nokia is keenly exploring and researching, with explorative designers Younghee Jung and Joe Macleod on the frontline (...) As part of their fieldwork they ask people from many countries and a broad spectrum of cultures to play out scenarios of how they might perform a task with a gesture that feels natural to them, using simple plastic mono block phones as props."
Apple wants to teach us Multi-Touch gesture language [Unwired View]
"The new patent application from Cupertino, called “Gesture learning” gives a whole new meaning to gesture expansion. It describes how Apple may go about teaching you a whole new multi-touch gesture language, consisting of hundreds of words. Something like American Sign Language for touchscreens."
You Are Not a Gadget [Jaron Lanier]
Lanier: "“Here’s one problem with digital collectivism: We shouldn’t want the whole world to take on the quality of having been designed by a committee. When you have everyone collaborate on everything, you generate a dull, average outcome in all things. You don’t get innovation" Although it's true that only a small % of people participate and that the quality of the contribution varies (be it a website or a workshop about the future of your neighborhood), the big difference is that on-line communities often have a wide-range of participation granularities: e.g. on Wikipedia lots of people are only fixing typos while others are entering sentences. The very existence of this "small contributor" and their co-existence with others is new, relevant and could lead to an interesting transfer to other context (w/o technology).
Many links here that comment on different digital culture things. But each one is quite interesting and meaningfull in itself: from the evolution towards a public life "by default" (instead of the contrary a couple of years ago. Rem: this idea has already been recently quoted here) to the learning of multi-touch and mobile gestures...
Could this 2.0-bird be suffering from Infobesity? Then it must be the result of excessive infocalorie consumption.
Following people and news-sources on microblogservices like Twitter, has become a new addictive nature to many people. While our brains have only just adapted to print, radio, television and the (passive) internet, things worth knowing are now being funneled into them as if they were sponges. And curious swelling sponges they are! The average twittering brain has 126 followers which implies that an average of 126 brains are being followed back. If all these users stick to an average of 22 TPD (Tweets Per Day), reading the tweets will consume approximately 2,5 hours per day (not to mention responding to them).
One would think it is time for a diet. Yet according to Dunbar’s number 126 is still on the safe side! An approximate 150 is assumed to be the cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships.
But if you are are using a microblog and follow more than 150 people on a daily basis, the advise is to either evolve, “defriend” or not read everything they say… Proving your exuberant social skills leads to poor nutrition value and is a waste of energy in the end. Ask Tweetie.
Now social media has the equivalent of the Times Square "deficit clock."
Today the Web is bursting with social media content and a burgeoning supply of (and demand for) "real-time" information. This information is created as people open new Facebook and other social media accounts, churn out Tweets and other microblogs, post photos and videos, and tirelessly text one another. But getting a grip on exactly how much is happening--and what the primary sources are--is a slippery task, especially since web companies often jealously guard their metrics.
The new social media counter. Credit: Gary Hayes.
Now there's a social-media "clock" of sorts, which you can check out here. It charts the second-by-second accumulation of social-media accounts, blogs, Tweets, photo uploadings, status updates, and the like. Consider it the social-media equivalent of that national-deficit "clock" in Times Square.
The effort does require a reality check. It's not actually an accurate rendering of the real-time Web. Rather, it's a counter, created by an Australia-based virtual-world entepreneur named Gary Hayes. Hayes set the various rates of increase according to various estimates culled from disparate sources such as analysts, company blogs, and news media accounts. Some of the estimates are several months old and may not actually be accurate or complete.
But, while it may not provide any new primary information, or be accurate in all categories, Hayes' social-media clock is nevertheless an excellent visualization of where much of the Web's growth is coming from these days.
UPDATE: YouTube 1Billion watched per day SMH (2009)- counter updated!
Second Life 250k virtual goods made daily, text messages 1250 per second (source Linden Lab release Sep 09)
Money – $5.5 billion on virtual goods (casual & game worlds) even Facebooks gifts make $70 million annually (source Viximo Aug 09)
Flickr has 73 million visitors a month who upload 700 million photos (source Yahoo Mar 09)
Mobile social network subscribers – 92.5 million at the end of 2008, by end of 2013 rising to between 641.6-873.1 million or 132 mill annually (source Informa PDF)
SMS – Over 2.3 trillion messages will be sent across major markets worldwide in 2008 (source Everysingleoneofus sms statistics)
As part of London Art Fair - which kicks off next week from 13-17 January at the Business Design Centre in Islington - The Steps Gallery will be showcasing a series of striking images by French photographer Vincent Fournier...
Fournier's work focuses on the interiors of Chinese, Russian and US space agencies - and also includes some remarkable images of astronauts training grounds that, appropriately, look completely out of this world. Here's a selection of some of the imagery that will show at The Steps Gallery stand during next week's event:
For more details on the various galleries and artists exhibiting at the show, visit London Art Fair's website at londonartfair.co.uk
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