A Frog in the Valley

My impressionistic notes on Stowe Boyd’s workshop at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Italics are my idea/comments in the flow of the presentation.

Is this worth building? That’s a good first question to ask.. He asks for questions from the audience. Many great questions…

There is no wifi in here I am getting crazy, my gprs connection doesn't work either.

This is going to be a presentation with lots of bias. It’s not an answers type of presentation.

Social tools : software intended to shape culture. The new Third Place (Mike is going to like that). Web Culture and the future of Humanity.

Making money and saving the world at the same time (is this protestant/american ethics?).

Social = Me First

The edge dissolve the center (hey that’s one for Seb!) and bottom up belonging. Groups and groupings (small and maybe not persistent groups).

Provide mecanism to support the social patterns. A list of asocial and semi-asocial apps : iTunes, Bestbuy.com, pandora (the old one)… and after the fact ones (eBay, Netflix, Amazon, Basecamp).

Social App is the world that instant messaging has made. Interuptive collaboration. The buddy list is the center of the universe. I am made greater by the sum of my connections, and so are my connections. It’s the inverse of personal productivity, it’s network productivity. It’s 21st century. It’s all about the connections.

Twitter is a flow app. A sense of personal connectiveness.

Me, Mine and Market. Functional Domains vs. Socializing. Functions should passthru socializing. Hey I want this guy on the board of my company…

Grouping and groups… accept the asymmetry of nets. Groupings : ad hoc assemblages of people with similar interests…

The flow is the heart of the next generation of social networks, when it comes to *me* instead of me joining all these networks.

The inexorable power laws… what’s wrong with power? Vox populi, vox humana. Gaming the system is a given, it happens all the time.

Reputation and swarmth. Swarm intelligence.

Tags: culture, folksonomy, identity, web2expo, social