Thursday December 21, 2006 Social ITunes
Mashups bringing social metadata to music.
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( Dec 21 2006, 09:01:05 PM MST )
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Thursday December 14, 2006 One of my favorite blog feeds...
...is for the Make Magazine Blog. Make spotlights things that the average Joe/Jane can make as well as other cool & sometimes strange projects. Such as this:
And this.Tho' I would need to add in the message "Oops Sorry" and "One of your shopping cart wheels are worn down" in case I run into the guy in the above photo:
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( Dec 14 2006, 12:47:11 PM MST )
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Wednesday December 13, 2006 2006 User Experience Significant Happenings? David Armano Asks the Question.
David Armano asked his network of passionate marketing professionals what the most significant User Experience events of 2006 were and some really interesting answers came from the question. I personally felt that I experienced and witnessed bits and pieces of many of these things. The exciting part for me is that we are really just at the beginning of all of this. I guess you could say 2006 was about beginning to understand what all these things mean for the future and participating in some of these evolutions now to be able to better understand.
As someone wise once said....
"Tell me, and I will forget, show me and I might remember, involve me, and I will understand. --Ben Franklin"
The answers that are presented by Armano and co-creators feel very familiar to me. I believe these are the big themes from the year.
Here's the list of answers he gives in his post:
2006: The year of...
PC (Power Consumer)
Connection
2.0
Business + Design
Video
Creativity
People
View a slide show with the answers at Slideshare.
I like the last one the most. At the core of all of this is people. We connect to each other for various reasons. The tools that we are creating, co-creating and utilizing are allowing us to connect much more fully as people. I attended the Information Architecture Summit early this year after recently re-reading The Cluetrain Manifesto. That book reminds us over and over, it's about the people.
We have a ton of opportunity and challenge in front of us because as all of this is very exciting, it presents significant complexity and can be overwhelming. One of the big things I hope to see for 2007 is tools that help people. I don't know what those tools are yet, but if something enables you it needs to be accessible, perhaps dare I say simple. This is the user experience dreamer in me but the more accessible the more people will participate. The more people that participate, the more value that each individual will derive from the overall experience.
As it's the end of the year and a good time to think about the year ahead, in 2007 I will focus on thinking about ways to create experiences that guide people to the communication and creative avenues available to them. I know how much fun I have participating, I'd like to share that with anyone that is interested.
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( Dec 13 2006, 05:47:47 PM MST )
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Friday December 08, 2006 'Tis the Season for Sharing on SDN
In the spirit of this holiday season, The Sun Developer Network is reaching out to other online communities. You've seen the icons and links on many Blogger's pages to popular and fast-growing social news and bookmarking sites, like Del•icio•us, Digg.com, Technorati, and slashdot.
These sites enables you to easily save and retrieve bookmarks to cool content you discover on blogs.sun.com, and to share these stories, articles, downloads sites, tech tips, and so on with others.
Here is what Sharing looks like on the Sun Developer Network:
Rolling over the Share This Page link pops-up icons and links:
You can check it out on a live page, too:
http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/mobility/Posted by lou ( Dec 08 2006, 01:27:20 PM MST ) Permalink Comments [0]
Thursday December 07, 2006 Lou in his natural habitat...
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( Dec 07 2006, 03:29:43 PM MST )
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Monday December 04, 2006 Alec Muffett at Blogs & Social Media Conference
Alec Muffett is a geek and proud of it. That makes him my hero, being a geek myself, and sometimes a maligned one at that. :) He's been blogging since Day One ... he's an early adopter and innovator, building his own blog software from scratch, and building readership with interesting stories about his life at home, and his work at Sun.
Alec gave a talk at the 2006 Blogs & Social Media conference earlier this year, and shared his experiences in a funny, engaging talk (Business Blogging – Innovate or Die?) that recounts his early experiments in corporate blogging, and gives glimpses of what the future might hold for companies interested in blogging / social media. Hint: it's about reinventing the way they companies amongst themselves, and how they reach out to customers, too.
Highly recommended -- worth watching!
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The Big Mashup and New Embedding Video Features on sun.com
We've got new functionality on the sun.com site. You can take the videos from the site and embed them in your own content (just like YouTube). This is really exciting as we can now share even more.
Here's a video about the BigMashup that launched on sun.com/bigmashup last week.
So go ahead, grab some Sun videos from our media center and put them out on your site. 
(Hint: Click on the 'embed' button.)
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( Dec 04 2006, 11:40:55 AM MST )
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Sunday December 03, 2006 Aggregation -- the next innovation for 'web 2.0'?
I believe aggregation and curation are going to contiue to be very interesting spaces in the near future. As so much content explodes from the legions of citizen journalists, artists, filmmakers and others that just want to communicate it will be impossible to find all the related content you'd want to consume without some help.
I think services that find the content for you, akin to something like Utne Reader in the magazine world, and allow you to edit/create content are going to be sorely needed sooner than we think.
As this has been on my mind, I came across Spokeo this weekend. I can see how the functionality it provides starts to build that more powerful 'one stop shop' page. Aggregation is based on the activities and services you already participate in.
It's essentially a page that brings in many of the most popular networking sites and services from the Internet today. The service it provides is a platform upon which you can leverage the social networks you already participate in while also continuing to add your own info.
I played with it for awhile and it works great. The user interface is easy to understand, gives great feedback and actually does a good job of encouraging someone to sign up.
So if we play platforms like these out into the future, we start to see some people emerging as organizers of content, those people might publish that content organziation out to a larger group of people that don't have the time or patience to go through it in as much detail. It creates that level of curation and lots of opportunity for interesting things to emerge.
I think the future holds some exciting times for innovation about how to present and consume the added volume of content that is being created. And also ways for people to consume much more specifically things that interest them.
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( Dec 03 2006, 04:32:59 PM MST )
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