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Connected Work ========= Discussion around scaling issues of Wiki ... too many change notifications ... debate about how many wiki users are too many [several people state that 30-50 seems to be too many] Discussion around usefullness of email Danah Boyd cites research that shows teens don't use email... generation gap exacerbated via media used... email vs. IM No tool exists that is 'ideal' for connected work Will blogs and wikis merge? * Ross Mayfield responds... - blogs are for individual voice - wikis are for group efforts - may not make sense to merge those Building the Matrix ========= Instead of people-to-people networks we have device-to-device-to-people networks Accenture Labs reveal far-out technologies... new uses of... * wearable computers * RFID - getting smaller and smarter * GPS - where is my child? * Sensors - Fire in sector 7 "You will be tracked/recorded/mapped" Better to send bits than people into dangerous environments Web cams everywhere... sensors everywhere... why leave home? Reminds me of this... Argonne Nation Labs discusses The Grid, a national scientific computing structure - virtual distributed connection of minds - a very academic presentation... must get c a f f e i n e ... Mapping Insights ========== Valdis Krebs discusses mapping social networks of people and other objects John Quarterman, the first cartographer of the Internet, discusses networks of routers and how they can be used in risk management and making infrastructure more resilient [Valdis and John, in a discussion during an earlier boring session, discover their technologies are very complementary] Users Do the Darnest Things ================ Danah Boyd talks about the social side of technology and the difficulties of capturing the soft side in technology... Interesting similarities between Autism/Asperger Syndrome and how we interact on-line... why? Because of *limited social cues* on-line... Asperger patients have a limited set of social cues they recognize Friendster is evolving in way not expected... many *fakesters*... especially weird evolution amongst kids in Asia... GIGO. How to roll out I/T: 1) take the technology, put it out there 2) watch what people do with it [very enjoyable presentation... knows her stuff] Dennis Crowley, [founder of dodgeball.com] moving social networks off the desktop and on to your mobile phone. - broadcast your whereabouts or a message to all of your friends. ah, a web site is an integral piece... but the client is the phone not the PC Where are you? Who else is around? Alerts based on relationships. Dynamic Proximity No profile needed to start... an emergent profile develops over time based on where you go and who you connect to Leverage existing technology like text messaging and camera phones Leverage learning curve from other SN services We don't have many technical bugs... it is the social bugs that are hard - the ex-boy/girlfriend bug [this is cool stuff!]