May 2009
39 posts
Typography Geeks http://xkcd.com/590/
The Social Divide
Alan: Actually Wave and an email that's got all feeds and cross linking makes so much sense
Tadhg: Aye. It's all very "conversation"
Alan: It should have chat and skype and twitter and feeds built into the same front end, which to be fair is more like email is today anyway
Tadhg: I think it's more meta than that. Developers will be able to build hooks into it from other services
Alan: That's what i mean
Alan: You can link to a game api
Alan: A blog api
Alan: Facebook connect
Alan: It's your face on the world
Alan: You'd have twitter being added as a response in your email notes or a response on friend feed and comments to your posts or emails
Alan: Essentially an email just becomes a thread
Tadhg: I was thinking though. There's an element of all of these services starting to creep in where they're starting to rely on users to 'get' them more and more.
Tadhg: Apparently Twitter, for instance, has huge sign-up but also a huge fall-off rate (90%) because most people who get into it don't know what it is really and leave. Same with much of Facebook's more advanced functions, Gmail's labels system and so on. I think there's a new emerging form of Digital Divide.
Tadhg: DD used to be people who were connected and peopele who weren't. Now it's people who understand social media and people who don't. And the Don'ts far out-number the Do's.
Alan: Yeah I said this before about twitter
Alan: 90% leave or never use again wthin 30 days
Tadhg: It's like with hardcore games. Their complexity is a wall to be overcome that many people who otherwise like games can't seem to manage (joypad complexity for instance)
Alan: The digital divide. There's somemething we haven't used in a long while
Tadhg: And I think the same is starting to happen to social apps
Alan: The Social Divide
Alan: Actually the Service Divide
Tadhg: Exactly. That's what I called it last night in a forum thread on Wave. The Social Divide
Alan: Divide 2.0
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How I separated my personal and professional...
I get a lot of grief from my fiancee for being boring: We are both on Facebook and I, lazily, had set up tools like Friendfeed to post anything that I posted basically anywhere to everywhere else. The trouble is that I tend to share lots of reads to do with social networks, the social games biz and other similar stuff and my beautiful Jayne finds that dull as dishwater. I can’t really blame...
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