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Charlie’s Diary: Antisocial Networking

Bookmarked via Diigo on Sunday, April 5, 2009 @ 09:09 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

Social networks don’t grow because they provide utility to their users: they grow because they keep pushing the social stimulus button. And any utility they provide is incidental to that function.

This short post from Charlie Stross is interesting to me, and honestly for as much as I love our social tools I have a hard time disagreeing with him, that social media serves primarily as a distraction. That being said, some authors have no trouble mixing social networking into their day (Scalzi is specifically mentioned in the comments). In fact, if the publishing industry continues to struggle, authors may need to get involved in social networking in order to effectively market their work to readers.

I have a lot more thoughts on this, but I’ll save them for a longer post.

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Diigo Project to Annotate New Book Online

Bookmarked via Diigo on Monday, April 28, 2008 @ 21:54 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

This is a really fascinating project to use Diigo to annotate the book The Future of the Internet by Jonathan Zittrain. I’ll be curious how this comes out.

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Gin, Television, and Social Surplus

Bookmarked via Diigo on Sunday, April 27, 2008 @ 12:17 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

This is a really interesting piece looking at Social Media and comparing it to the industrial revolution. The point being that during the industrial revolution, one of the most important things was gin, because before people started organizing public works they just got drunk as a way of coping with the sudden changes. The author then observes that in the 20th century we also had a similar coping mechanism to cultural change: the sitcom.

He then observes that similar to how people eventually organized and became involved in the new cultures of the industrial revolution, forming institutions like libraries and museums, and how social media is a beginning of that as culture begins to move from passive consumption to active participation.

I’m still collecting my thoughts on this, as there is certainly a bit of social media kool-aid in there, but the central notion is a fascinating observation.

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Diigo

Bookmarked via Diigo on Thursday, April 17, 2008 @ 14:29 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

So I’ve started playing around with Diigo for my social bookmarking and I’m pretty impressed with what I’m seeing. I’ll write up a full review in the near future.

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Amazon Mechanical Turk

Bookmarked via Diigo on Friday, April 11, 2008 @ 19:41 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

I had skimmed over descriptions of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, which is actually a people powered research system, but this is the first time I’ve given it a good look. You can submit HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks, i.e. research, judgment, review) and anyone else can take on those tasks for a monetary reward.

The monetary reward is only a few cents per task (varies by HIT), which is great for people hiring the researches, but while HITs tend to be simple, that’s really a small amount of money, so I’m wondering who will take the time to do all this work. That being said, there are probably enough bored people on the Internet to accomodate these requests.

Regardless, it’s an interesting model and I’m curious how it will pan out.

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Merlin Mann - Worst Website Ever - SXSW 2008

Bookmarked via Diigo on Wednesday, April 2, 2008 @ 20:49 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

I wasn’t originally going to do a link entry on this, but I’ve watched this hilarious presentation a ton of times, and it just keeps getting funnier. This is a link to a video in which Mann presents for a SXSW panel on “Worst Website Ever”.

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MySpace Platform To Launch Next Week

Bookmarked via Diigo on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 @ 09:46 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

This is really an inevitable development and one we’ve all been expecting. I am a little puzzled that apps will have to be stored on a MySpace server, given the nature of web apps. However, the good news is that this kind of activity will without a doubt begin a competition between MySpace, Facebook (and the other networks doing this) on who is the most “open.” That will be good for developers in the long run, and once you get past all the application spam this will inevitably create it will create more opportunities for users.

Just remember, you can use social networks to leverage your business and market, but don’t build your business around it. Build your business and then look at hooking into those networks.

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Theories about Google’s acquisition of Jaiku | FactoryCity

Bookmarked via Diigo on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 @ 09:31 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

Chris Messina actually has a pretty astute analysis of why Google may have bought Jaiku, and it’s definitely worth a read. It all comes down to mobile presence and the future of handheld devices.

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Should you trust Facebook with your business?

Bookmarked via Diigo on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 @ 19:14 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

Jason Calacanis is not someone I always agree with, and quite frankly his blatant self promotion usually irritates me a bit. But none of that stops him from being absolutely right in this post on the foolhardiness of companies trying to build their business around Facebook.

If you are using Facebook as a way of driving traffic or find new users, or even just as a way of networking, that’s great! But don’t think for one moment that you can build your business and secure any sort of longevity by making Facebook the focus of your business. I love the response Calacanis gives to the question in the title of his post:

“Answer: You should trust no one with your business success. You should build your business around the most open platform in the world: the open Internet.”

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Google buys social mobile startup Jaiku

Bookmarked via Diigo on Tuesday, October 9, 2007 @ 14:16 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

“Jaiku, the Twitter (and Pownce)-like service from Finland, has been bought by Google. Jaiku Founders Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen today …”

This is important news. Google has the resources and ability to scale Jaiku and help build up it’s community, which it has needed for a while. I’ll be excited to see what Google does with it.

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