Author: Thomas Vander Wal

Following Friends Across Walled Gardens

Nov 22, 2006

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Identity, Local InfoCloud, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, Social Software

Phil Gyford makes his plea for a single social network sign-on or as it was stated last week by Jeremy Keith on Twitter, "portable social network with XFN" [Jeremy posted his More thoughts on portable social networks on his blog.] The single sign-on is an often heard request these days. Nearly as much as a…
Beneath the Metadata – Replies

Nov 20, 2006

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Folksonomy

I have read the "Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy in the November 2006 DLib. Boy, did I have problems with it, but so did David Weinberger, who responded with Beneath the Metadata – a reply. My reading of the DLib article brought back the pain of taxonomies and the "expert" arrogance that…
Stikkit Is a Nice Example of a Personal InfoCloud Tool

Nov 8, 2006

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Calendar, Folksonomy, Mobile, Personal InfoCloud, PKM, Tools, Web

I have been using the newly launched Stikkit for the last day and rather enjoying it. Stikkit, is a web-based postit with super powers of a notepad with bookmark, calendar, lite address book for people, tagging, to do, and reminders to SMS (in the U.S.) and/or e-mail. Stikkit is the product of values of n…
Local InfoCloud as a Responce

Jun 27, 2006

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Attraction, Attraction Receptor, Community, Identity, Local InfoCloud, Location, Social Software

Ed Vielmetti posted about neighborhoods, networks, communities, online+offline and I had the following comment. My comment seems to fit in as a follow-up post to the Local InfoCloud post (linked below). The online and offline is very important, but so is the individual and the individual interests we have. There is a huge need for…
Dual Folksonomy Triad

Jun 15, 2006

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Attraction, Community, Folksonomy, Local InfoCloud, Social Software

Needing to Express Folksonomy Simply I have been presenting tagging and folksonomy quite a few times in the past two years. I kept coming back to needing a simple to understand view of what is happening in folksonomy that separates it from general tagging. I also wanted to show how it is relatively easy to…
Copy, Point & Tether

May 29, 2006

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Attraction, Personal InfoCloud, PKM

In the Personal InfoCloud people have various means of keeping information close to them. But, these actions come down to two actions, which are non-exclusive (we can do both). These actions are copying the information to a device or location we are comfortable storing the information and pointing to where the information is located. Copy…
Exposing the Local InfoCloud

May 27, 2006

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Applications, Community, Connectivity, Local InfoCloud, Model of Attraction, Personal InfoCloud, Technology

I have spent a lot of time and effort focussing on the Personal InfoCloud, but the past year or two I have been seeing that the interaction between the person and their information resources that are closest to them (the Local InfoCloud) is extremely important. I have gone around the Local InfoCloud looking at ways…
The Future is Now for Information Access

May 23, 2006

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Attraction, Coding, Content Mangement, Devices, Information Creation, Local InfoCloud, Marketplace, Mobile, Personal InfoCloud, PKM, Portability, Standards, Syndication, Ubiquitous Computing, User Experience

An interview with Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer in the in the San Francisco Chronicle regarding Steve’s thoughts about the future of technology, information, and Microsoft (including their competition) sparked a few things regarding the Personal InfoCloud and Local InfoCloud. It could be the people I hang out with and the stay-at-home parents I run across during…
The Come To Me Web

Jan 19, 2006

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Attraction, Calendar, Complexity Lenses, Devices, Model of Attraction, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, PKM, Portability, Social Lenses, Ubiquitous Computing, User Experience

Until May of 2005 I had trouble with one element in my work around the Model of Attraction and Personal InfoCloud (including the Local and Global InfoClouds as well) to build a framework for cross-platform design and development of information and media systems and services. This problem was lack of an easy of explaination of…
Online Information Folksonomy Presentation Posted

Jan 16, 2006

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Conferences, Folksonomy

I have posted the Folksonomy presentation delivered 30 November 2005 at the Online Information Conference (PDF at 1.3MB). This presentation was part of the New approaches to making taxonomies work panel. The main focus of this presentation is not that folksonomies should be seen as a replacement to taxonomy, but as a means to augment…