Social Object

ideas

• objects are a basis for social interaction/connection
  • is this because they give some shared Context?
    • the objects that do this most effectively could be called Social Marker-s
  • or just because they give us something to talk about?
• Virtual Community or other WebSite-s are more successful when anchored by a Social Object
• maybe new Business Models For Information have to monetize the social part instead of the content part..

Apr'2008 packaged by Jyri Engstrom of JaiKu, spread by Hugh MacLeod

• summary of meme
• presentation slides
• summary from Wayback Machine: When we're building services, it's helpful to think about it from this angle rather than simply social networks. You think about Flickr. What they managed to do was to turn photos into social objects. Flickr with photos. Del.cio.us with bookmarks.
• The most important word on the internet is not "Search". The most important word on the internet is "Share". Sharing is the driver. Sharing is the DNA. We use Social Objects to share ourselves with other people. We're primates. we like to groom each other. It's in our nature.
• http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/003995.html
• http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/003998.html

older background

• http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/dksearle.htm

A Book is definitely a Social Object - Social Reading, etc.

• 2010-11-10-EbookLayersAndDecentralization
• "We're going to use the book to market the internet" - Tim OReilly