Category: Model of Attraction

Shift Happened – Part 2: Small Apps Loosely Joined

Apr 8, 2014

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Connectivity, Design, Devices, Enterprise, Information Architecture, Information Creation, Knowledge Management, Mobile, Model of Attraction, Portability, Shift Happened, Standards, Technology, Tools, User Experience, Web

What are Small Apps Loosely Joined? There has been a large shift in how many people work today and part of that is in the tools that they use to get work done. This shift in work patterns mirrors the shift that many had in their personal lives around social interactions and productivity. Late one…
On the Way to the Next Big Thing

Feb 15, 2012

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Identity, Model of Attraction, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, PKM, Refindability, Social Software, sxd, Web

This was written in April 2011 and a publication had interest in publishing it, but it didn't fit their editorial cycle so it sat. I have annotated this with an endnote to bring it current. A funny thing happened on the way to the next big thing, the big thing was little. Many people are…
40 Plus Social Lenses

Apr 19, 2011

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Identity, Knowledge Management, Model of Attraction, Personal InfoCloud, Social Lenses, Social Software, sxd

Lately, I've been getting asked what I am working on beyond client work, as there have been things popping up here and there that hint something is brewing. Well, there is and there isn’t something new, but something (one of my things has been drawing my attention). It started in Summer or early Fall 2010…
Bing Likes Like, But Does it Mean We Do

Oct 18, 2010

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Enterprise, Folksonomy, Knowledge Management, Model of Attraction, Refindability, Social Software, sxd

Last week Microsoft Bing and Facebook announced Facebook is now part of Bing search. The part that has been touted the most is Bing's inclusion of Facebook Likes. For me this is really surprising as Like has very little value, what little value is has is confounded by it lacks any explicit understanding of intent.…
Understanding the Cost of We Can’t Find Anything

May 20, 2010

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Information Architecture, Knowledge Management, Model of Attraction, Refindability, Social Software, sxd, Technology, Tools, User Experience

One problem I often hear when talking with any organization about new solutions is understanding the cost and inefficiency of their existing way solutions, processes, or general way of doing things. In the past year or two I have used various general measurements around search to help focus the need for improvement not only on…
Getting Info into the Field with Extension

May 2, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Accessibility, Community, Connectivity, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Interface, Knowledge Management, Model of Attraction, Portability, Reference, Syndication, Technology, Tools, Web

This week I was down in Raleigh, North Carolina to speak at National Extension Technology Conference (NETC) 2008, which is for the people running the web and technology components for what used to be the agricultural extension of state universities, but now includes much more. This was a great conference to connect with people trying…
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.…
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…
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…