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Nov 09
On the heels of a Chris Messina’s Status Update from 1940, here’s another story of how ultimately familiar this emergent use of Twitter-as-global-network is.
Last week after Web 2.0 I spent a sunny Autumn morning wandering around in Brooklyn, including a stop at a favorite thrift store in Williamsburg. Pouring through their collections of old photos and postcards, a friend found something rather strange.

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Folks frequently refer to an application’s features as intuitive or unintuitive. But I’ve heard the idea from different quarters that in computer technology there really is no such thing as an intuitive design because the interfaces are so far removed from the physical & ecological reality on which human intuition is based and developed over millennia. What do you think?
There’s only so much socializing one can do before it gets a bit boring. Business networks work – but what fun is that? Let’s cut to the chase – how can we leverage social media to modify human behavior in constructive ways?
All the users in the world, but no great model for making money! What business models will emerge to fulfill the business potential of social software?