The Medium - Being There - The Subtle Art of the Facebook Update - NYTimes.com

The Medium - Being There - The Subtle Art of the Facebook Update - NYTimes.com:

"In 2007, a college student explained to me that he preferred Facebook to MySpace because MySpace (in his view) was for emo kids who liked Death Cab for Cutie and Facebook was for clever kids who liked words. “The Facebook interface is minimalist and not stupid or smeared with fingerpaint like MySpace,” he said, if I remember right. “It leaves room for wit.”"

It is interesting to think that Facebook is more about the use of words--especially the clever use of words. How important is the status update in Facebook? Does it show connection to the group? Does it show engagement with the Social Network Site? Does it show a willingness to communicate with others which the other more static aspects of the profile do not?

FaceTime - Employee Web 2.0 Usage in Corporate Networks Up to 10 Times More than IT Estimates

FaceTime - Employee Web 2.0 Usage in Corporate Networks Up to 10 Times More than IT Estimates:

"Press Release
FaceTime Finds Employee Web 2.0 Usage in Corporate Networks Up to 10 Times More than IT Managers' Estimates
Unified Security Gateway 2.0 identifies and manages 1,400 Internet applications; new real-time data shows Web 2.0 usage penetration at 100%
BELMONT, Calif - February 3, 2009 - Actual network data from FaceTime Communications reveals that employee use of Web 2.0 applications such as Instant Messaging, IPTV, VoIP and Social Networking on corporate networks exceeds IT estimates by up to 10 times."

The Adaptive City -- the adaptive place

cityofsound: The Adaptive City posted by Dan Hill:

"Yet there is possibility for more active conscious interventions too. To enable this, the informational city must be reconfigured with a series of seams, hooks, handles and portals. In the language of code, the city itself has APIs, through which information can be read and written, enabling a self-reflexivity that in turn enables the city to adapt, just as those early cities were able to through physical proximity. A panoply of varying smart meters, sensors, and schema are required to feed data to the model, and so the only possible technical architecture is an open one. This openness also provides safeguards against misuse, opportunities for creative hacking and enables a vast set of possible outputs. As openness informs the model, with more data-sources providing a richer model, the aggregate is open too, a web service that citizens can immerse themselves in just as much as city officials and planners. The model is something everyone can touch, as it is comprised of everyone. It encourages interaction, reflexivity and adaptation."

And he wonders:

Will architecture, property development and urban governance be able to deal with a system which indicates the pace the city is actually lived at, which indicates how designs are actually used and abused, which requires an ambient ongoing service design model?

How much more easily could these technologies he imagines be implemented in small places: cyber cafés, learning commons, libraries. These are places that are now immersed in technology and where the pace of unfolding technology technology use is a major challenge.

Five years of Facebook. How will it last five more? | Media | guardian.co.uk

Five years of Facebook. How will it last five more? | Media | guardian.co.uk:
Jemima Kiss writes in the Guardian:

"Facebook has many challenges: the battle against social networking fatigue, information overload, the migration of influential early adopters to more specialist networks like Twitter and the intensifying scrutiny of its plans to make money."

Technology is all about change, but will change come due to "networking fatigue"? Bobbie Johnson gives some details about what this might be also in the Guardian Technology Blog:

Listen. I have blog. I use Twitter. I idly flick through lists of people I'd forgotten I ever knew on Facebook. I've even got a MySpace page, although I don't like to talk about it. They are great ways of connecting people, and they're very exciting when you start using them, because they allow virtual contact in ways that are analogous to - if not the same as - real life. You know, communicate with people. That old thing.

Perhaps what we all need is a lesson in setting boundaries on social networking sites, like this one from Nick O'Neill from allfacebook.com: 10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook user should know