http://www.zengestrom.com/blog/2008/12/foreign-friends-from-a-service-centric-to-an-object-centric-social-web.html Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:46:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.zengestrom.com/blog/2008/12/foreign-friends-from-a-service-centric-to-an-object-centric-social-web.html#comment-36 Matt Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:00:49 +0000 http://www.zengestrom.com/?p=10#comment-36 "Currently, we're forced to treat services as proxies for communities." - true, but as we know from the work of danah and others, people often *opt* to treat services as proxies for communities to reflect different aspects of their personalities, or to keep (increasingly-fragile) walls between their online lives. I feel strongly that the excellent work that David, Chris et al are doing needs to take this into account, before all our fragile facets get collapsed into one (and indexed by google ;-) At Web2.0expo Open in the corridors at the moscone center this year there was some constrcutive discussion of this, but often it gets dismissed by developers as 'fluffy', or something that will be developed after all the interesting interop stuff. This worries me. Since then I have always had in my mind what Brad Templeton said in that session: "Sometimes, ease-of-use is a bug". I want smoother discovery and the advantages of being able to have free-trade in social objects, but I hope that the ability to maintain and construct thresholds and 'defensible spaces' will be built alongside this. Cheers Jyri and "Hyvää joulua!" (did I get that right?) to you, Ulla and Eliel... “Currently, we’re forced to treat services as proxies for communities.” – true, but as we know from the work of danah and others, people often *opt* to treat services as proxies for communities to reflect different aspects of their personalities, or to keep (increasingly-fragile) walls between their online lives.
I feel strongly that the excellent work that David, Chris et al are doing needs to take this into account, before all our fragile facets get collapsed into one (and indexed by google ;-)
At Web2.0expo Open in the corridors at the moscone center this year there was some constrcutive discussion of this, but often it gets dismissed by developers as ‘fluffy’, or something that will be developed after all the interesting interop stuff. This worries me.
Since then I have always had in my mind what Brad Templeton said in that session: “Sometimes, ease-of-use is a bug”. I want smoother discovery and the advantages of being able to have free-trade in social objects, but I hope that the ability to maintain and construct thresholds and ‘defensible spaces’ will be built alongside this.
Cheers Jyri and “Hyvää joulua!” (did I get that right?) to you, Ulla and Eliel…

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