Category: Attraction Receptor

Pieces of Time, Place, Things, and Personal Connections Loosly Joined

Oct 26, 2009

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Attraction Receptor, Community, Identity, Local InfoCloud, Location, Marketplace, Personal InfoCloud, Social Software, Ubiquitous Computing

There are a lot of people wondering what to do with all the data that is being generated by social tools/sites around the web and the social tools/services inside organization. Well, the answer is to watch the flows, but the pay off value is not in the flow it is in contextualizing the data into…
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…
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…
Mash-ups and the Model of Attraction

Sep 25, 2005

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Attraction, Attraction Receptor, Community, Interface, Local InfoCloud, Model of Attraction, Personal InfoCloud, Standards, Technology

I have been thinking a lot about web2.0 mash-ups like Housing Maps since I was on a panel with Paul Rademacher. Particularly I have been trying to make sense of mash-ups in the context of the Model of Attraction. It was not difficult to use these models as a lens to better understand what is…

Category: Attraction Receptor

Pieces of Time, Place, Things, and Personal Connections Loosly Joined

Explaining the Granular Social Network

Life Data Stream

Local InfoCloud as a Responce

Mash-ups and the Model of Attraction