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Singularity is the first large-scale online web conference in the world.
Monthly Archive for February, 2008
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rounded corners in jquery. Found via Bogdan
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Free vector graphics, silhouettes and vector icons, graphic design and best designers. Download illustrations, styles, shapes & brushes for PS CS3, backgrounds, textures. Found via “LeGizz”
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1. Choose the grandma
2. Choose the socks she will knit for you
3. Pay
4. Receive.
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web proxy: provide a generic us ip address to the site you’re visiting, instead of yours. Can be useful
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be aware of instances where people who were previously smack in the middle of your target audience become edge-cases and try to make their edge-case experience not utterly impossible
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“With so many new web sites and services vying for our attention it is easy to feel the effects of social media fatigue. Andrew Shuttleworth, a social media junky living in Japan, thought it might be helpful to try to map his social media usage. The resul
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Create Winning Landing Pages: discover what your visitors really want to see and optimize. Found via Capitaine Commerce
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A great article about building communities to support brands. Jeep Community given as an example. Found via “Capitaine Commerce”
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A virtual human guide to help you navigate on, for instance, an online store. The answer to a larger acceptance of e-commerce by the customers, especially elderly? Found via “Alain Hubler Blogue”, who seems is concerned by the potential bad uses of the sy
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Posts most shared on Google Reader
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Found via Jérôme Bailly
Unexisting notes, sorry… From Mieke Gerritzen‘s keynote .
Actually, I just posted this so that Anto can watch the video.
Pups, au fait 
Notes on the run of the talk by the cybernetician Kevin Warwick.
Just 2 words to say that this is the probably the craziest thing I have ever seen!
During the talk, I had the feeling I was witnessing the birth of Daleks…
Weird…
Won’t be attending this afternoon. Too much work waiting for me at the office. I’ll try and make it to the fondue though.
Paul Dourish (UC Irvine)
On interaction between ethnography and design.
(really experiencing trouble with wi-fi, firefox and wordpress 
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In short: ethnography IS relevant for design.
Aboriginal navigation vs cartographic navigation relevant for our understanding of mobility.
The wi-fi here is definitely dead
Notes on the run…
Genevieve Bell is an anthropologist with a Ph.D. from Stanford. Why an anthropologist at Intel’s? Well… There are at least 30 of them there! Intel seems to want to understand what kind of a specie humans actually are.
“Technology changes faster than people do”
A few interesting figures:
- 45% of cellphone users in the UK lie about where they are
- 100% of online dating servicesin the US lie about themselves
- Men tell 20% more lies than women
- We tell somewhere btw 6-200 lies per day! (concealing misbehaviour, increasing popularity, keeping one’s social world ticking over)
We are entering “arms race of digital deception”
- Volker Sommer: self-deception is a part of survival
“secret” or sacred knowledge have deep history in many cultural, religious and political systems. Layers of knowledge – not everything should be known to everyone. Parallels with digital world are quite obvious: cultural ideals on the one hand (lying is bad) and cultural practices on the other.
Cites a research by Danah Boyd : a surprising % of myspaces users are over 100 (restricted access to 14 years and above)
About secrets and sacred, mentions postsecret.blogspot.com
=> Tensions between cultural practices and ideals persist around lies and secrets
=> Do the twin ideas of secrets & lies offer new ways to think about pricavy and security?
Brilliant talk, sorry I’m so lousy out taking notes…
Actually, it’s the same talk as he gave in Reboot in May. Still just as brilliant!
About the online social skills of kids, their parents aren’t even aware of.
The last renaissance was lead by a bunch of Scotts. The second renaissance is lead by people in this room
Don’t think. Try!
