Martin Wattenberg - ManyEyes
http://www.many-eyes.com/
part of the goal was to democratize visualization
saw a lot of political usage
saw citizen activism
also saw play
eg, tag cloud of Shakespeare’s favorite words was used to highlight specific words to create poetic phrases
blogs as a social “petri dish”
maybe the goal is connectivity, placed on blog where conversation can be pushed
there’s some competitive uploading now that is political
have a very conservative person on the site right now who is challenging them with what could be considered a rant in a different format about how you interact with data

you are a blogger - Anil Dash
we don’t get far outside of our world, and as a result, we don’t create tools outside of it
blogging is hip-hop
hip hop is currently driving our culture
links are beats
the core of the behavior we have is sampling; is still considered subversive
both are still seen as not being a legitimate art form
Apple - rip | mix | burn
turntables outsell guitars
we’re also not buying printing presses a lot
the reaction when hip hop came out is “that’s not music”
we had the same reaction to blogs - it’s not media
what we can learn is that we can see where the threats are going to come from

we link to content that eventually gets pulled down
the companies frown on the fact that you are the vehicle of distribution
they will railroad us if we let them
hip hop is more than just rap - it’s freestyling
graffiti is OpenID
the ability to be entrepreneurial
outsiders don’t get it - we have to pay attention
violence and misogyny are what rappers were knwon for
we’re seen as medium, not manners, by outsiders
have to think about the implications of tools
“conscious” is a genre

Justin Kan - Justin.tv
started out as a 24/7 broadcast of his life to the internet
at first, walked around trying to entertain people 24/7
was like a roller coaster ride to internet fame
first lesson he learned is that there are a lot of assholes on the internet when they had the police bust in on him at home
building a platform to let anyone do this online - almost ready to open it up to anyone to live broadcast
thinks we’ll see a huge number of video broadcasts that will violate copyright

Teen Second Life at a Glance (Don’t touch mah bukkit) - Lane Lawley
showed his house in TSL
reason #1 he can’t live on the ground in TSL
1 - public school; thinks schools should provide better technological education; he still hasn’t been taught Powerpoint in school yet, maybe it will happen when he’s 18
2 - lack of advertisements; HTML is making a comeback in his world because of MySpace

communities in TSL
- scripting; very few good scripters in TSL
- building; slightly larger community because easier to learn; get a sense of creation without having to learn as much
- social: on TSL to do things they do in RL (shop, be with friends, etc.)
- educational: usually owned by adults; teens in social communities have no interest in the educational one

interaction
- scripting + building

judgment day - the day Teen Second Life residents turn 18, and are transferred to main SL
the system is supposed to do it, but it doesn’t happen “overnight”
teens look forward to getting on the main grid because it’s so much larger

Liz: her big frustration is that she can’t play SL with her son; no socialization into the bigger world
“it takes a guild to raise a child” - how important it is that her son can learn from adults, mentors, peers in one place
so she doesn’t play in SL because she can’t be in either world with her son

Ben Gross - How Many

How many?
- email addresses do you have?
- IM networks are you on?
- phone numbers do you have?
- logins to websites do you have?

why do people have multiple identifiers?
it’s commonplace and mundane to have all of these things now
separation of personal and professional, separating out social groups
a category of “that’s my spam account,” which is really trusted and known versus not trusted or not known
focusing attention or limiting interruption for your work
permanence and continuity - your college account is likely to outlive any ISP account

“the odds”
“I got my name”
people are more likely to remember their passwords because they use the same one on each service, whereas they’re unlikely to remember their usernames/logins because they’re different on each one

implications
- usability
- workarounds
- side effects
- security implications

Elizabeth Churchill
interested in cultures of privacy and how we come to know what we’re allowed to share and what we’re not
me putting up my friend’s picture is different than her putting it up
how people manage what they share with others
did some interviews with people asking if they understand privacy settings in Flickr
chart of Flickr sharing by age
60% of the people didn’t change the defaults at all (which means 40% do)
1 in 12 doesn’t share pictures at all
younger people share more
chart of photo sharing by connectedness - the more you put in your profile, the more you tend to share your pictures
map visualizing sharing across the world
interested in volatility - what makes you take something down
can you retract things?
how do our literacies develop around privacy, sharing, etc.

Flickr is about:
- documenting (personal and collective memory)
- competition (status)
- affiliation (group membership)
- learning (emulating)
- curiosity/voyeurism
- awareness (near and far)

Liz Lawley:
saw Twitter becoming a conversation like IM away messages that didn’t require a response, could

happen over a period of time
students building a typology of Twitter users
these kinds of communicating presence
Linda Stone sees these tools de-emphasizing your relationships
Liz sees them as strengthening ties
communicating day-to-day lif - the patterns, the nuances of it – is difficult to do across

distances

Panel on “interesting implementations of presence

Matt Biddulph - Dopplr (http://dopplr.com/)

Much more about potential presence than something like Twitter
“absence of notification” – you’re going where she lives but she won’t be there
all they do is take where you tell them you will be
the important thing about travel is memory – the side artifacts of your presence in a place
the idea of URLs as important resources
if you put a trip on Dopplr, there is no URL you can use outside of Dopplr for it, but that is

going to change
heuristics for who travels a lot to a certain place
exploring expertise through the social graph; helping people help each other
showing you someone who knows about where you’re going instead of saying “we’ve started a forum

about your trip and invited this person to join it”
looking at the fuzzy edges
Jyfi Engestrom - http://www.zengestrom.com/blog/2007/08/what-makes-a-go.html
what would happen if you fuzzed up the edges of your trip
can optimize travel and figure out which is the best day to go if you know who will be there when

(earlier than you, later than you, during your trip – if you go a few days early, you’ll see these

people)
geographical fuzziness (how far you can travel from where you will be) = “coincidences”
how do we create natural-feeling interfaces to make these things fuzzy?
The documentation and real artifacts that you put out there from your trip
can easily hit the Flickr photos or Twits for a trip
can you take this data set and compare it against another one without having to do the geotagging

(which most people don’t get around to)
working on a Facebook app that puts your Dopplr updates into your minified
What has changed in the world of the people who matter to you? – not just their status
how can social software avoid lying to your friends about your presence?

Tom Coates – Yahoo
“Geopresence & Fire Eagle” – It’s where you’re at
Communicating your state to other people
90% of Twitter’s traffic comes from APIs
connected data sources – “an aggregated web of connected data sources and services”
data that actively looks for opportunities to recombine itself
letting these data sources “see” you and potentially hook into you
not so much as me making myself visible, but also making myself comprehensible to software as well
becomes a foundation to build on, rather than a goal between two people
Fire eagle tries to express this - http://fireeagle.research.yahoo.com/
what if the web just updated your location ambiently in the background?
how you could use fire eagle to manifest your presence:
1 – twitter maps
2 – phone app that would communicate ambient location of friends so you could look for a group
Geotragging all user content
app on mobile phone would SMS your location to tell you useful things around you
“proximizer” – boss status/presence (how far away she is)
desktop widgets showing pictures of people and their status/location
ambient sense of where your family is
Unexpected uses of this information and what could go wrong
1 – revealing too much information and not knowing you’re doing it
2 –how to trust whom
3 - specific circumstances when you may want to hide
Slide of how you could authorize Flickr to use your fire eagle data and how much they could have

access to
App would check in periodically to make sure you still want to share information at the level

you’re at
Could specify a neighborhood instead of a specific location (like your home)

Gilad Lotan – Presence: intimacy and immediacy in mediated spaces (http://giladlotan.com/)
Love, power, tribute, culture, architecture, religion
Connection and how it informs in mediated spaces:
- tangible: importance of the tangible online and how we can enhance it
- intimacy: the ability and choice to be close, loving, and vulnerable (eg, imPulse – heartbeat

sharing devices, something you don’t share with anyone other than your loved ones or doctor)
- immediacy: having a meaningful conversation, the more synchronous it is, the more attention it

requires; asynchronous lets you connect with many friends at once but is superficial; wanted

deeper meaning in deeper relationships, less on the screen, more complete experience so went to

Jerusalem; intimate connection to the Wall in Jerusalem at Kotel (webcams) but people rarely do

that
- culture & context: we’re all used to cultural norms all around us; when you take a certain norm

or an object and place it outside of its cultural context, you get a much stronger sense of it;

took real missiles that fell in the Gaza Strip and re-enacted scenes on open streets (art exhibit)
Ubi.ach – takes email away from the screen; a ubiquitous doll (pronounced u-beeyatch, heh) that

uses email filters
Tibetan prayer wheels – took the concept and let them react to world news – as you turned these

“news wheels,” images from current news would randomly appear

danah boyd
publics not just as civic spaces but where collections of people come together, often with people

you don’t normally interact with
we validate who we are and make sense of the world around us, differentiate ourselves, in the

presence of others
“always on intimate communities” – spaces created via mobile phones
(davidtr on irc: “attention cannot be forced, but surely distractions can be minimized”
You have a way to express yourself through what your friends say about you, meant to be witnessed

by others (eg, you know others will look at the wall on facebook- showcases your relationships)
Public displays of teenage dating – you talk about having sex long before having it; progressions
who is the intended audience of these performances? Peer group
teens create these images to create presence online and be together when they can’t be
constant construction of profiles as presence
animated visual cues, two pictures merged together, written for the display to people around them
when a breakup occurs, you delete somebody (the only time you do this)
presence and investment disappears when you delete them – comments disappear (except on Facebook)
When we conceptualize presence, it’s people sharing place and time
uncoupling location but keeping time together; can be doing the same thing in different places at

the same time
asynchronously being together
how do we think about technologies that inspire these things
Presence as etching into artifacts
actually see time as part of it
Why does presence matter to people? What is necessary for presence? Shared space, shared time?
What role does persistence or ephemerality play in the construction of presence? Synchronicity,

asynchronicity, semi-synchronicity?
Is time bending synchronicity?
How are people creating presence out of tools that aren’t made for that?