good practices on the mobile social web

Mobile Social Networking

Trebor ScholzDepartment of Media [email protected]

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0

Near future scenarios: heightened relational experiences among technologies, environments and humans

1Wednesday, November 28, 2007

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networked sociality in meetspace and in traffic http://tinyurl.com/22ke9m

Today, we are taking our online friends with us into the city and do things with them.


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56% of the world population (6,7 bn) are mobile phone users

2009 3 billion cellphone users worldwide


rating, reviews

social games

tagging

virtual world

barcodes

dating

location based services

mobile wikis

Typology


Location metadataIdentity, phone as extension of one’s persona

Portable, light, small, fits in pocket

Small screen

Micro payments

Battery

Awareness

3rd Party applicationsSMS

GamesRingtones

MusicData driven (form is separate)

AJAX

Open API

Convergence Navigation

Mobile search The Mobile Social Web Services

Voice

Mobile content (text, audio, video)

Multilingual


Datablogging is a collaborative blogging platform that allows for extended data fields to be added to blog posts.

http://tinyurl.com/35hq5d




Mobile SMSvery conversationalshortinstantaneoushigh social bandwidth (emotions)reachless hasslemost connectedExpress emotion in IM

Internet IMpersonalized expressionspontaneousthreadedtransient dialogues

Internet Emailrich messages (persistent storage)

Small attention span, multitasking, always on, anywhere, expensive


More than nine out of 10 12-year-olds in the UK nowhave a mobile phone, a survey has suggested.

Almost 80% of the young people who took part in the research said they felt safer having a mobile and that they had a better social life as a result.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5358784.stm




http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1150997139&size=o

Frequency with which mobile subscribers accessed social networking sites in the US, UK, Italy, France, Germany and Spain during the 3 month period ending June 2007.Source: M:Metrics, Inc., Copyright © 2007

http://www.accuracast.com/searchdailynews/mobile7471/123millionvisitorstomobilesocialnetworksinjune/




http://www.accuracast.com/search-daily-news/mobile-7471/123-million-visitors-to-mobile-social-networks-in-june/

http://www.accuracast.com/search-daily-news/mobile-7471/123-million-visitors-to-mobile-social-networks-in-june/

Good and bad mobile phone practices


Cellphones while driving

Cellphones in restaurant, cafes, etc

Cellphones in everyday encounters

Cost- charge per data per kb


http://tinyurl.com/35cltv

Continuous Partial Attention

http://tinyurl.com/2j8mku






The Pew Internet and American Life Projects surveyed more than 1200 professionals in 2004 about their prediction of the next decade of the Internet. They saw a more ubiquitous Internet embedded in miniaturized devices, clothes, cars, appliances, and they thought that "these networked devices will allow greater surveillance by governments and businesses."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNJl9EEcsoE




Facilitating arguably isolationist "conversations"


We meet and “friend” more and more people in a mobile world. At the same time individuals experience more and more isolation and anxiety.

http://tinyurl.com/2w2k94




Sterling is aware of the netherworld of networked labor when he draws parallels to coal miners, clarifying that today's coal miners of sorts may well have pristine white skin. (They sit, type and stare at screens. All day, every day. It ends up hurting them. It hurts them in ways that are slow enough and subtle enough to steal up on them. Shaping Things 134)

http://tinyurl.com/2nwnps




Today, we are swamped with trivial choices, which plague us with anxiety and depression. Noise is shot at us with increasing speed. Every step you make, every breath you take-- you have to respond to one influx or the other.

A Vertigo of Choice

http://tinyurl.com/2zo3yl




The more we teach this megacomputer, the more it will assume responsibility for our knowing. It will become our memory. Then it will become our identity. In 2015 many people, when divorced from the Machine, won't feel like themselves - as if they'd had a lobotomy.

Kevin Kelly:http://tinyurl.com/2xogfc


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By the time they complete their A levels, ... children have racked up:

10,000 hours playing video games 200,000 emails and texts sent and received 10,000 hours of digital mobile phone use 20,000 hours of watching TV 500,000 TV adverts watched just 5,000 hours of book reading




The first time I saw internet addiction officially announced as a problem among China's youth was in an article about a December, 2006 report from the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League. The report estimated that more than two million Chinese children and teenagers were addicted to the internet. The situation was called a "severe social problem that could threaten the nation's future."

http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/p/1199/pipcomments.asp




Bullying by mobile phone

“Mobile phones are a popular choice for bullies. Text messages provide complete anonymity. Many pay-as-you-go mobile phones can be bought over the counter and do not require proof of identity, nor is any record kept of the new owner. Calls made from these types of mobile phone are difficult to trace.”


The context of the experience is hard to predict.

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http://www.totalobscurity.com/mind/e-leash/




piratesmobilemultiplayer.com

Mobile Social Games

Mobile data not just for work but also for leisure


http://www.piratesmobilemultiplayer.com/

http://www.piratesmobilemultiplayer.com/

http://tinyurl.com/2rb5ea




When I walk through the streets of Brooklyn my cell phone gets short SMS reminders from the land of Google calendar that get me going.

http://tinyurl.com/2b2769




Then I sit in the park or cafe and enjoy the availability of a free wireless network. Its node just communicated with my laptop, both are amenable to each other until there is a stronger commercial signal that may overwhelm them. This battle over free or for-pay wireless network matters- free networks set expectations. Why would I go to elsewhere when I can get access here for free?

http://tinyurl.com/ysldw6




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Do you hear objects whisper to other networked objects?

Tête-à-tête of things? A “thing-ly” takeover?

http://tinyurl.com/2ts2qe




Networked objects are around and they make some things easier and they join our conversations by contributing data. We often attach affect to these networked things. How do all these things make us feel? Will children demand even more “screen time” from their parents?

What would an emancipatory relationship with a networked object look like? Should we assume that there would be no exploitation of labor, no class differences, no poverty, no people without heath insurance, and no people without access to hardware or the network of networks in that near future scenario? What would a "unaligned alliance" of networked objects look like?

http://tinyurl.com/28o5ff




New fences in the public sphere(s)

We already co-inhabit, co-perform in one world with all these networked objects. We experience the convergence of web technology, wireless networks and portable devices.

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New fences in the public sphere(s)

http://tinyurl.com/2w6v6o




For the obscenely wealthy- Rem Koolhaas' Broadway Prada store offers a service that charges the object of your desire to your credit card merely by exiting the store with it.





The UPS delivery guy brings up that package from the gallery and I sign for it. I sign on a device that beams my signature right to the UPS mother ship.

http://tinyurl.com/24foox




Open Gardens


Closed versus open standards

Open is the new black

http://tinyurl.com/28y4uohttp://tinyurl.com/ynntz7


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Our Own Rules for the Social Web and the Power to Enforce Them


How do we exercise our power? By what protocols and agreements, tools, and policies to manage the asymmetrical relationship between platform owners and users ?


One ID or one storage place for profiles

One Friends list – mobile phone and online

One subscription service – RSS, widgets…


Bill of Rights

We publicly assert that all users of the social web are entitled to certain fundamental rights, specifically:

Ownership of their own personal information, including: - their own profile data - the list of people they are connected to - the activity stream of content they create; Control of whether and how such personal information is shared with others; and Freedom to grant persistent access to their personal information to trusted external sites.

http://datasharingsummit.com/Bill%20of%20Rights

or co-ownership (Hodder)




http://tinyurl.com/3bjgd7




We own our navigational access stream


We own the list of our friends

We own the list of our friends


http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/mommy-child-locator.html

We own our location

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Bill of Rights

Sites supporting these rights shall:Allow their users to syndicate their own profile data, their friends list, and the data that’s shared with them via the service, using a persistent URL or API token and open data formats;Allow their users to syndicate their own stream of activity outside the site;Allow their users to link from their profile pages to external identifiers in a public way; andAllow their users to discover who else they know is also on their site, using the same external identifiers made available for lookup within the service.





http://openid.net/

Profile and registration data: How do we quantify and manage profile data across lots of different sites. This is your first/last name, email address, avatar, etc. All of these create your profile.

Profile update push: I’ve updated something in my profile and now I would like to push it to all of the sites that use this data. New email address? Great, push it out to all of the sites (or IMHO - get it from on place all the time). http://tinyurl.com/26c36h


http://openid.net

http://openid.net

http://tinyurl.com/26c36h

http://tinyurl.com/26c36h

Sites to visit


Moblr is a mobile video community.

Videos shown on Moblr have been submitted by Moblr members, they have been shot either through a camera phone or any other device that allows video capture. It is free to publish your videos.


Mobiles2Go

GPS phone

accurate to within 10-20 m

Receive texts when a phone enters or leaves a zone


tagging

Access Delicious bookmarks on your mobile


Dodgeball

Flagr

Friendstribe

Hobnobster

Jambo

JuiceCaster

Moblabber

Nakama

Rabble

Socialight

Treemo

Twitter

Veeker

Wadja

Zemble

Zingku


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