Category: Attraction

Cooperation, Coordination, and Competition

Jan 12, 2012

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Attraction, Community, Enterprise, Location, Social Lenses, Social Software, sxd, Urban Planning

There has been a lot of discussion of late in the social media circles about cooperation and how all social tools and services and their managers need to embrace that model. What is really clear is they have never run or tried to run social environments at any scale that have a broad representation of…
LinkedIn: Social Interaction Design Lessons Learned (not to follow) – 2 of 2

Feb 10, 2009

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Attraction, Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Identity, Information Architecture, Interface, Refindability, Social Software, User Experience, Web

This is the second of two posts on the subject, the first post LinkedIn: Social Interaction Design Lessons Learned (not to follow) – 1 or 2 gives the lead-in to this post. Lessons To Learn Sadly, the new social functionality has broken much of worked well as an ambient social tool. More problematic was LinkedIn…
Explaining the Granular Social Network

Apr 15, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Attraction, Attraction Receptor, Community, Folksonomy, Knowledge Management, Local InfoCloud, Model of Attraction, Portability, Privacy, Social Software

This post on Granular Social Networks has been years in the making and is a follow-up to one I previously made in January 2005 on Granular Social Networks as a concept I had been presenting and talking about for quite some time at that point. In the past few years it has floated in and…
Selective Sociality and Social Villages

Apr 5, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Attraction, Community, Identity, Local InfoCloud, Location, Model of Attraction, Personal Info, Privacy, Social Software, Technology

The web provides wonderful serindipity on many fronts, but in this case it brought together two ideas I have been thinking about, working around, and writing about quite a bit lately. The ideas intersect at the junction of the pattern of building social bonds with people and comfort of know interactions that selective sociality brings.…
Inline Messaging

Jul 21, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Attraction, Community, Local InfoCloud, Personal InfoCloud, Social Software, Ubiquitous Computing

Many of the social web services (Facebook, Pownce, MySpace, Twitter, etc.) have messaging services so you can communication with your "friends". Most of the services will only ping you on communication channels outside their website (e-mail, SMS/text messaging, feeds (RSS), etc.) and require the person to go back to the website to see the message,…
Stitching Conversation Threads Fractured Across Channels

Jun 16, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Attraction, Community, Information Architecture, Local InfoCloud, Model of Attraction, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, Portability, Privacy, Social Software, Technology, Ubiquitous Computing

Communicating is simple. Well it is simple at its core of one person talking with another person face-to-face. When we communicate and add technology into the mix (phone, video-chat, text message, etc.) it becomes more difficult. Technology becomes noise in the pure flow of communication. Now With More Complexity But, what we have today is…
Breaking Down LibraryThing vs. Amazon Tagging Analysis

Feb 27, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

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

I have been rather heads down on a project the last week or two since the Thingolology: When tags work and when they don’t: Amazon and LibraryThing blog post was created. Tim from LibraryThing, who wrote the post, was kind enough to give me an early heads-up and I responded a few days later. I…
Life Data Stream

Feb 19, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Attraction, Attraction Receptor, Personal InfoCloud, Syndication, Technology, Tools

Emily Chang posted about "My Data Stream", which brought to mind the idea of personal planets. Emily is pulling together the streaming data from her digital life that passes through feeds. Jeremy Keith has written about his life streams and has had a nice interface to Jeremy’s Life Stream for some time now. It was…
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…