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Monday, July 19th, 2010And so I’m back, though not from outer space; from Redmond, Washington, where I was attending the annual Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security.
This year’s SOUPS was held on the Microsoft campus itself, or at least one of them in the Seattle area (so I’ve been told). And it really is a campus, just […]
Back from the Microsoft Research 2010 Social Computing Symposium
Monday, January 18th, 2010Note: I’m not going to give a blow-by-blow of the various presentations that were given at the symposium. If you want to get an idea of what the presentations were about, you can check my tweets from last week or, better yet, go read Elizabeth Goodman’s notes taken during the symposium.
And so I’m back from […]
I’ve never been to New York City - except for the airport
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Next week I will be in New York City participating in the Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium, which is a great honour since it’s invitation only. We’re taking a couple of days of vacation in addition, so I’ll finally be able to see some of those famous NYC sites. I am particularly looking forward to […]
CTS 2009
Friday, January 9th, 2009Here’s a symposium in my area I don’t remember mentioning before. The 2009 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems will be held in 2009 in Baltimore, Maryland, from May 18 to 22.
The symposium is to address, explore and exchange information on the state-of-the-art in collaborative enterprises, their modeling and simulation, design and […]
That symposium rocked!
Thursday, October 16th, 2008Best…Meeting…Evah!!!
It was an intense two and a half days of listening to smart people present interesting ideas on social computing issues, of getting to chat with some of these people and of listening to all these smart people discuss important as well as more trivial issues. There wasn’t a moment where I could just turn […]
Social objects
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008Tom Coates
Objects as a focus for social activity: photos in Flickr, short messages in Twitter
Objects as a medium for social activity: moving from phone to computer to gaming to iphone. Computation is being embedded into smaller and smaller items.
Objects that act as social agents: Nabaztag, Needies
Jyri Engestrom: Bookmarks, Babies, Barack… and other social objects
People don’t […]
We won!
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008Second day of the symposium, and I haven’t had a chance to live blog yet. We started the day off with a reverse scavenger hunt. The idea is to go out and get 5 items and then, once you have them, they give you the reasons why you were getting them. So the game is […]
SCS teen panel on technology impact on their lives
Monday, October 13th, 2008A presentation by 3 Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences students: Mariah Gentry, Alex Smith, Alex Brewer.
SCS session on boundaries/context
Monday, October 13th, 2008Missed the first speaker because I was trying to get irc working.
Molly Steenson is now talking about sharing of mobile phone in India. Different types of sharing: between family members, between friends, between people working in the same area, around a village-to-urban. Mobile sharing is pervasive. It serves as a bridge.
Liz Lawley: Twitter
The various ways […]
My strategy backfired on me
Monday, October 13th, 2008I was convinced that by choosing a subject that was only peripherally related to what is normally associated with social computing would mean that nobody would want to hear my talk. However, I didn’t take into account the fact that the uniqueness of this subject might increase people’s interest. So yeah, I got selected as […]
SCS session on location
Monday, October 13th, 2008No longer about maps, now it’s all about location, beauty.
Next in location - what is open and closed in the city in real time. Mobile phones will be viewers and broadcasters. Blinkenlight in iPhone.
Tom Carden of Stamen Design (stamen.com):
Visualization of information
labs.digg.com showing what stories are popular in Digg
Mappr (situating images in Flickr), cabspotting (real time […]
