The “me, me, me, meme.” What is it?
Cool tech geeks start something online. We jump on the bandwagon. Our friends see what’s going on. A crowd forms, asks questions, then follows our lead. Lifestreams form.
In the video game Final Fantasy VII, the Lifestream is a river of Mako energy coursing through the Planet. The Lifestream [...]
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It’s a Me, Me, Me, Meme World
September 16th, 2007 · 7 Comments · Diatribe, Geo-temporal, Microcrowds, Tagclouds, Web Marketing
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Captology and Microcrowd Influence
July 18th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Mashups, Microcrowds, Online Advertising, Tagclouds, Web 2.0, Web Marketing
I learned a new word the other day, Captology, and it helps me define an area of thought of particular interest (thanks to my buddy Crosby!) I was talking with him about some of my recent posts covering geo-temporal and microcrowd concepts and he suggested that I check out a particular Stanford University website. According [...]
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The Tangible Cost of Bad Trade Show Schwag
April 29th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Online Advertising, Web Marketing
Tradeshows and The Schwag they effuse; we’ve got to get real here.
Bad schwag gets thrown away immediately. Not only does it NOT make it onto desktops, it causes harm to the environment. And all of you who don’t believe the environment is an important issue can go flip a duck.
Schwag has weight. When consumers are [...]
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The Importance of Words in Web Navigation
April 23rd, 2007 · No Comments · Geo-temporal, Web 2.0, Web Marketing
Open API’s ROCK
I’ve written a few posts about Twitter already, fascinated with the simplicity of their pure concept. What a wonderful service, open to new ideas by exposing their API. In my eyes this is very forward looking because the Twitter team is expecting to see not just one community build up around the core [...]
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Time-tagging and Virtual World Geo-temporal Interaction
April 21st, 2007 · No Comments · Web 2.0, Web Marketing
A feature of telemetry processes for spacecraft and particle physics called time-tagging can benefit the future of Internet socialization if applied in the right ways. In the above applications, time-tagging is used to annotate a point in the timeline for a stream of data, where the annotation includes both a recognizable time signature that [...]
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Birthing a Star
April 21st, 2007 · No Comments · Web 2.0, Web Marketing
REALITY
In the physical Universe a Star is born by particles of matter falling into themselves, creating a gravity well which eventually leads to self-induced thermonuclear fusion reactions ignited by nuclear fission.
VIRTUAL
On the web, a Star is born in the same manner. Particles in the form of blog posts, TV interviews, book reviews, social [...]
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