Category: Personal Info

Open Conversations and Privacy Needs for Business

Aug 12, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Enterprise, Identity, Local InfoCloud, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, Social Software

I thought I would share the latest press bit around this joint, Thomas Vander Wal was quoted in Inc Magazine What's Next: Shout it Out Loud (or in the August 2007 issue beginning on page 69). The article focuses the need and desire for companies to share and be open with more of their data…
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…
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…
The Come To Me Web

Jan 19, 2006

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Attraction, Calendar, 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…
WebVisions Designing for the Personal InfoCloud Presentation

Jul 16, 2005

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Conferences, Mobile, Personal Info, Portability, Standards, Syndication, Ubiquitous Computing, Web

The presentation at
Who Are You

Jun 12, 2005

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Identity, Personal Info, Social Software

The person is the center of focus in the Personal InfoCloud, but each person has to interact with others and others’ information. It is at this point of interaction where identity becomes important. We use many services around the web. From Epinions to LinkedIn to our personal blogs and beyond we all have many identities…
It is Getting Personal

May 31, 2005

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Calendar, Devices, Folksonomy, Mobile, Personal Info, PKM

One of the main concepts around the Personal InfoCloud is access to our information when we need it. It has become relatively easy to find digital information on the internet these days, but keeping track of information for ourselves is a huge problem. Not only do we have the problem of tracking our information on…
Focus of Startups

Apr 14, 2005

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Information Architecture, Personal Info, Social Software, Technology, User Experience

David Weingberger discusses Meet-up new charge to use plan and wonders about free competition. David, and those commenting on the posting, offer alternatives to Meetup. I am not so concerned with Meetup charging money as I am the changes that have come to Meetup in the past year, some have been very good. I have…
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…
SXSW Calendar the Personal Way

Mar 26, 2005

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Applications, Information Creation, Personal Info, Portability

I really enjoyed my short time at SXSW Interactive Festival this year. One of the things that helped me was their step to help people interested in SXSW to build their “own” calendar. Yes, they understood the people attending have a lot of offerings to consider and nobody wants to miss anything they really would…