links for 2010-​​01-​​18

The Predictive Web | Brian Solis Social Media becomes less about a move-​​​​and-​​​​react strategy and sets the stage for engen­dering mean­ingful inter­ac­tions as well as building more tuned business infra­struc­tures to support anti­cip­ated activity based on the intel­li­gence and insight extracted from online behavior. (tags: pre­dic­tions pre­dictive inten­tions socialweb,) Continue reading links for 2010-​​​​01-​​​​18

A Warning on the Web

In this online radio inter­view, internet vis­ionary Jaron Lanier talks about the danger of Web 2.0 turning us into a col­lect­ivist digital mush. He’s got a new book out, so doing a lot of PAs lately.

The problems, to para­phrase, are these:

Collectivisation We’ve reached for the wisdom of crowds, and this silences individual

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Social Media Done Well: One Frame at a Time

You may well have seen this already, but there’s a lovely inter­active campaign being carried out by Dutch indie band C-​​​​Mon & Kypski. (Note: never heard of them; don’t care; bring back The Smiths).

The idea is that fans can col­lab­orate with the band in their latest music video. You use your webcam to

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Mobile + Cloud — Gartner’s Crystal Ball

Late December and early January see the seasonal appear­ance of a popular type of blog post: ‘My Predictions for [Next Year]’. They’re a great stock-​​​​in-​​​​trade because you can say whatever you like and nobody can prove you wrong until the end of the fol­lowing year, by which time everyone’s for­gotten. I’ve written a couple in the

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Mobile Internet Users: The Silent Minority

I’ve just installed the WordPress Mobile Pack, a free set of plug-​​​​ins that format, edit and compress your blog so that it works better for mobile users. It switches to the mobile version on-​​​​the-​​​​fly as it detects the user agent (browser) used. There’s a link to the mobile version in the sidebar, if you want to

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Facebook on Privacy: ‘We’re Finished’

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is reported as having changed his mind about privacy. The recent set of changes to the site’s T&Cs in December – which rendered members’ names, profile picture, gender, network, fan pages and friends visible to the world unless they expli­citly changed their settings – merely reflects societal

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