Category: Location

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…
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…
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.…
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…
Location? Location? Where am I?

Oct 26, 2005

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Identity, Local InfoCloud, Location, Mobile, Personal InfoCloud, PKM, Social Software, Travel, Ubiquitous Computing, User Experience

I have been traveling more than usual this year to places in the United States and Europe. Some I have been to before and others I have not. Many of the trips are to places for only a few days and are set around meetings, conferences, or speaking engagements. I am often making plans at…
Local InfoCloud and Community

Jun 28, 2005

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Location

I have been thinking about the Local InfoCloud and its role lately. Viewing the world through the InfoCloud lenses has found some rough edges around the Local InfoCloud, initially defined by information accessible because of location or membership to a closed group. The location component makes sense, but it really also needs to include community.…
Good Bye to the User?

Apr 12, 2005

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Accessibility, Devices, Location, Mobile, Personal Info, Portability, User Experience

One of the side-effects of my focus on the Personal InfoCloud has been finding putting the focus on the person gets to more options than focussing on the “user”. When doing user interviews for existing systems and sites, we are interviewing people. These people we ask: What works for them; what is missing; What are…
Recent Speaking Engagements

Mar 10, 2005

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Conferences, Folksonomy, Information Architecture, Location, Mobile, Personal Info, Portability

I have posted the last three presentations I have given in the last five days. The presentations and a little about each presentation are available as follows: IA for the Personal InfoCloud from the IA Summit, Folksonomy: A Wrapper’s Delight a panel at the IA Summit, and The Blog as Personal Knowledge Managment from a…
Two Sides of the Local InfoCloud

Jun 23, 2004

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Connectivity, Information Creation, Location, Mobile, Ubiquitous Computing

The Local InfoCloud (one of four clouds, Personal, Local, Global, and External) focusses on access to information that is based on location, as well as membership. These two elements are related, but also can stand on their own. The Local InfoCloud often uses the Local Area Network (LAN) as an example of its properties. The…