No Social Graph
Ceglowski on social networks: The social graph is neither a graph, nor is it social; http://eicker.at/NoSocialGraph
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Gerrit Eicker
Talent Economy
Weiner: The talent economy is about who you know and the information they possess; http://eicker.at/TalentEconomy
Gerrit Eicker
Kommunikation ist Online.
8 Studenten, 1 Woche, kein Internet, kein Handy: Ich schlafe schnell ein und träume von Facebook; http://j.mp/9hcQXs
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Gerrit Eicker
Harvard Business Manager: “Acht Studenten der Hochschule Furtwangen wagten ein Experiment: Sie verzichteten eine Woche komplett auf Internet und Handy. Ihre Erfahrungen sind sehr spannend – und auch für Manager interessant. Denn der Kommunikationsstil der Generation Y wird die Arbeitswelt verändern. … [Aus dem Erfahrungsbericht] Weil ich nicht weiß, worüber die Freunde sprechen, fühle ich mich total isoliert. Seit Tagen lebe ich mit dem Gefühl, ständig etwas zu verpassen. … Am frühen Abend schaue ich seit Langem einmal wieder fern. Ich bin entsetzt über das, was mir geboten wird. … Ich glaube, Internet und Handys nehmen uns allen die Geduld. … Eine Zeit lang nicht erreichbar zu sein, ist irgendwie auch ein gutes Gefühl. Ich hatte selten so viel Zeit und Ruhe. … Ich schlafe schnell ein und träume von Facebook und wie ich mit Freunden chatte. Mir wird schnell klar, dass ich etwas Verbotenes tue, schließlich habe ich eine Erklärung unterschrieben. Ich habe im Traum ein schlechtes Gewissen. Dass es so was gibt? … Eltern sollten verstehen, wie ihre Kinder in diesem Alter kommunizieren. Dasselbe gilt für Manager. Auch sie sollten das Kommunikationsverhalten ihrer jüngeren Mitarbeiter kennen. Das ist für die künftige Gestaltung der Arbeitswelt enorm wichtig – auch unabhängig davon, was das am Ende konkret bedeuten mag.”
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Gerrit Eicker
Knüwer: “Im analogen Zeitalter war unser Leben digitaler. Also, bildlich gesprochen. – Denn vor der Zeit des Internet und der Computer bestanden unsere Verbindungen zu Menschen praktisch nur aus 1 (Freund) oder 0 (keine Verbindung). Dazwischen gab es kaum etwas. Wir pflegten unsere starken Bindungen zu unseren besten Freunden, der engen Verwandtschaft, der Familie. … Das Internet, vor allem Social Media, verändert diese Situation. Verbindungen können nun – auch wenn das schrecklich unmenschlich klingt – graduell aufrecht erhalten werden. Schwache Kontakte zu halten wird überhaupt erst möglich. … Ersetzt dies ein persönliches Gespräch, ein Treffen zum Abendessen, einen gemeinsamen Nachmittag? Nein. Das will auch niemand. Aber: Diese intensive Kommunikation ist eben für jene starken Verbindungen vorenthalten – ganz so, wie bisher. … Dieses Medienverhalten ist keine Sache ‘von jungen Leuten’, das sich erst ‘in einigen Jahren’ durchsetzen wird – es ist heute Realität. … Die Welt wird – so gutmenschesk das auch klingt – besser. … Jene schwachen Verbindungen [sind] keine Blase – sondern eine reale Veränderung in der Gesellschaft.“
Gerrit Eicker
Reputation and the End of Forgetting
First existential crisis of the Net: the impossibility of erasing your posted past and moving on; http://j.mp/amPXhp
Gerrit Eicker
Karriere Facebook Pages
Karriere via Facebook: Facebook Pages renommierter Unternehmen auf dem Prüfstand; http://j.mp/beaFcE
Gerrit Eicker 10:21 on 11. November 2011 Permalink |
Ceglowski, Pinboard: “The Social Graph is Neither – Last week Forbes even went to the extent of calling the social graph an exploitable resource comprarable to crude oil, with riches to those who figure out how to mine it and refine it. I think this is a fascinating metaphor. If the social graph is crude oil, doesn’t that make our friends and colleagues the little animals that get crushed and buried underground? But right now I would like to take issue with the underlying concept, which I think has two flaws: I. It’s not a graph – This obsession with modeling has led us into a social version of the Uncanny Valley, that weird phenomenon from computer graphics where the more faithfully you try to represent something human, the creepier it becomes. As the model becomes more expressive, we really start to notice the places where it fails. Personally, I think finding an adequate data model for the totality of interpersonal connections is an AI-hard problem. But even if you disagree, it’s clear that a plain old graph is not going to cut it. – II. It’s Not Social – We have a name for the kind of person who collects a detailed, permanent dossier on everyone they interact with, with the intent of using it to manipulate others for personal advantage – we call that person a sociopath. And both Google and Facebook have gone deep into stalker territory with their attempts to track our every action. Even if you have faith in their good intentions, you feel misgivings about stepping into the elaborate shrine they’ve built to document your entire online life. … My hope is that whatever replaces Facebook and Google+ will look equally inevitable, and that our kids will think we were complete rubes for ever having thrown a sheep or clicked a +1 button. It’s just a matter of waiting things out, and leaving ourselves enough freedom to find some interesting, organic, and human ways to bring our social lives online.”
GigaOM: “If you’ve ever gotten a little creeped out by the way social networks have invaded our lives, then you aren’t alone. There are a lot of people who enjoy using the social web, but struggle with it too. … The real problem with the social graph, he argues, is that it’s based around a series of troubling assumptions – including the idea that we can and should model human relationships, and for profit. As he says, ‘Imagine the U.S. Census as conducted by direct marketers – that’s the social graph.‘ – This is partly because the social web has really been spun off from the idea of the semantic web, and ways of describing connections between data that require all kinds of sleight-of-hand to work. How do you interpret messy relationships into things computers can understand, or translate meanings that are complex and constantly moving? … But he’s certainly right that mapping this stuff is very difficult, and perhaps impossible. … The real difference, however, is that while sociologists try to come up with ways to define interaction, technologists end up building systems that define the interactions that can happen. That means the processes behind today’s biggest social networks actually place themselves as a layer over human activity, as much as they help that activity exist. … This conflict is, I think, why Facebook is constantly struggling with privacy issues, or why the real names controversy on Google+ exploded. The social graph, to them, is an attempt to codify what people do rather than act as midwife to their ideas.”
Marks: “People choose to model different relationships on different sites and applications, but being able to avoid re-entering them anew each time by importing some or all from another source makes this easier. The Social Graph API may return results that are a little frayed or out of date, but humans can cope with that and smart social sites will let them edit the lists and selectively connect the new account to the web. Having a common data representation doesn’t mean that all data is revealed to all who ask; we have OAuth to reveal different subsets to different apps, if need be. – The real value comes from combining these imperfect, scrappy computerized representations of relationships with the rich, nuanced understandings we have stored away in our cerebella. With the face of your friend, acquaintance or crush next to what they are saying, your brain is instantly engaged and can decide whether they are joking, flirting or just being a grumpy poet again, and choose whether to signal that you have seen it or not.”
ORR: “It’s hardly surprising that the founder of a ‘bookmarking site for introverts’ would have something to say about the ‘social graph.’ But what Pinboard’s Maciej Ceglowski has penned in a blog post titled ‘The Social Graph Is Neither’ is arguably the must-read article of the week. – The social graph is neither a graph, nor is it social, Ceglowski posits. … But if today’s social networks are troublesome, they’re also doomed, Ceglowski contends, much as the CompuServes and the Prodigys of an earlier era were undone. It’s not so much a question of their being out-innovated, but rather they were out-democratized. As the global network spread, the mass marketing has given way to grassroots efforts.“