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    June 28, 2008

    Social nodalities: Engestrom on social objects, peripheral vision, and the mobile

    Jyri Engestrom speaks to social objects and social nodalities: David Weinberger's account.  It's a fascinating set of notes, with some typically great points:

    • Verbs for social objects: we need to think about the verbs that people perform on objects. E.g., Flickr’s aggregation of what people have done with your photos. We should be surfacing the available actions.
    • World of Warcraft's information methods for everyday life: “Imagine a physical world where we have as much peripheral information at our disposal as in WoW.” Not just “boring update feeds.” Innovate, especially on mobiles. We will see this stuff in the next 24 months. Some examples: Maps: Where my friends are. Phonebook: what are people up to. Email: prioritized. Photos: Face recognition.
    • A new take on social search: Detecting nodal points: “What should I be aware of that’s happening around me? Was what just happened significant to someone on the network.” And then deliver it to people at just the right time, perhaps via push. “Discovery is becoming social.” “It is the end of the era of search,” i.e., of querying for stuff. From browser to search to share (citing former ceo of paypal). From pagerank to “facerank” where what counts is friends in common, physical proximity, shared taste, shared objects.

    And yes, did you catch the bit about upcoming Googleosity, "We will see this stuff in the next 24 months"?  From Jyri's site: "Tonight we demonstrated Jaiku running on Google App Engine..."

    Has anyone posted a fuller report?

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