So here’s a list of concepts \/ ideas \/ websites I heard about in my usual bullet-list style, i.e. my “fragments of captured attention”:<\/p>\n
Lee Bryant: Collective Intelligence<\/strong> Social Funneling – social reading, writing, filtering and eventually information will find me.<\/p>\n Adoption of social tools in corporations: IT is an issue, there are various perceptions of dangers and risks. The default position should be “open”. Practical advise how to introduce social tools: set up pilot projects with small groups. <\/p>\n Users will generally fall into 3 categories:<\/p>\n It’s not easy to “create” shared content on a company or corporate level.<\/p>\n Stowe Boyd: Social = Me First<\/strong> There’s a lot of Web 2.0 companies dying off, because their mindset is exactly inverse. Stowe refers to himself as a software psychiatrist.<\/p>\n Discovery is the primary driver. Things like music, places, people, self. If you’re building an app, you need to keep this in mind. In many apps this is often an after-thought.<\/p>\n Paola Ghillani: What kind of Humanity do we want?<\/strong> Profit maximisation vs profit optimisation<\/p>\n Apparently even Swiss producers would like to enter fair trade agreements with Max Havelaar.<\/p>\n Favorite quote:<\/p>\n Daniela Cerqui: Towards a Society of Cyborgs?<\/strong> In 2004, night clubs in Rotterdam and Barcelona introduced membership implants instead of membership cards.<\/p>\n In our society, technology is considered a value. It is an ideology. We need to step back and question developments. We’re part of a social context and we’re on the same path. The line between therapeutic use and social convention is easily crossed. <\/p>\n Julian Bleecker: When 1st Life Meets 2nd Life<\/strong> Aggregate morphologies = mashups<\/p>\n Decanting – take some part of the meta-data The data already has an existence of its own. Previous AI models were too abstract… <\/p>\n Adam Greenfield, Everyware: Further down the rabbit hole<\/strong> There’s an internet toilet in Japan that analyses body wastes. Developed for medical use but the information could very easily be posted to the net.<\/p>\n Inadvertent: Regarding geospatial data, there are times we don’t want everybody to know where we are. If we click the wrong button (by our own mistake), everybody who asks will know.<\/p>\n Unwilling: Buying a sweater with an RFID tag. <\/p>\n Who do we turn to to get the settings changed and corrected?<\/p>\n Sessions which I didn’t go to, but I wish I had:<\/strong> Conclusion:<\/strong> Unlike typical developer conferences with their usual implicit Windows vs Mac, or Sun vs Microsoft\/Eclipse\/* religion wars, LIFT has a much wider scope and a diverse audience. I met very different people from diverse backgrounds. There was no talk of which blogging tool or platform to use, etc. Instead, it was more about the ways we’re using technology and the impact it will have on society and on us. It was good to get out and reflect on the big picture, the overview.<\/p>\n Other websites to check out: Disclaimer: this is my interpretation and view. If I get something completely wrong, please leave a comment \ud83d\ude09<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe next development: joined-up social tools.<\/p>\n![\"DSCN6741\"](\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/156\/383688962_b3d84d7121.jpg\")
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\nThe individual is the new group<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/137\/383688939_149172a7e0.jpg\")
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\nShe challenged us to think about the technology of our soul, who we are and what is our purpose.<\/p>\n![\"quote](\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/178\/383688921_1eb9eb1076.jpg\")
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\nDaniela, anthropologist, interviewed Kevin Warwick and presented her views and findings on RFID tags, etc.<\/p>\n
\nJulian mapped 1st life to 2nd life games:<\/p>\n\n
\nBen Cerveney: The luminous bath: our new volumetric medium<\/strong>
\nLike Tom<\/a>, I’ll need some time to reflect and read more on this. Essentially we’re living in a huge bath of data. Media objects or artifacts get meta-tags. Within the bath of data more complex data structures form. There’s some kind of a low-level ability to organise itself. Compare to memotaxis in chemistry.<\/p>\n
\nCrstallize – form crystal of data flow which melts away when no longer required
\nAcculturate – simulate and iterate various paths of evolution applied to different social context.<\/p>\n
\nThe downsides and upsides of pervasive computing, which Adam calls everyware.
\nHuge new possibilities of surveillance and control,
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\nNathan Eagle
\nFabien Giradin<\/p>\n
\nWorking in an IT-centered company, I’d like to point out that there’s an important development going on: the rest of the world is using technology and they’re shaping it. Coders and engineers need to adapt and consider the needs of users. It’s no longer their sole domain.<\/p>\n
\nDigg Swarm
\nJoost TV \/ The Venice Project
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