NOAH BRIER ON MARKETING, MEDIA, TECHNOLOGY AND RANDOMNESS.

TAG: connectedness

On collaboration and Prisoner's Dilemmas and the Power of Many

"People want to bond. People want to learn. People want to defend that which they hold as precious. And people want to acquire, yes, but not at the cost of the other drivers."

Tags: connectedness culture

How to Kill MySpace

"Your online identity is valuable. It is making money, whether you realize it or not. Would you like to A) Keep the money for yourself, B) Give the money to charity, or C) Continue giving it to Fox News Corporation."

Tags: identity media2.0 myspace socialnetworking connectedness

We Are Not Alone. Life 2.0

"Life 2.0 is about discovering our purpose through finding each other—and ourselves."

Tags: connectedness identity culture web2.0

[Best Of] Traction Class (Or how to end up on the cover of Time, forget who made you and then be looked at as a corporate sell out )

"You treat those core users to your site, those who make comments, those who send suggestions, those who drop you an email to say you suck, like they are freaking gods."

Tags: attention media2.0 connectedness

How All This New Media Stuff Is Going To Make You Famous And Rich (Or A Happy Ending Is Just A Story That Isn't Finished Yet)

"Smart companies are thinking about how to exploit all the power of all these individuals to sell shit. Smarter companies are being set up to bridge that gap between individuals and the companies that need them."

Tags: attention business connectedness marketing

social networking segmentation model

A great graphical breakdown of the different segments of social network users.

Tags: socialnetworking connectedness marketing research

Bloggers at a Bar

"Our multiple selves overlap, intersect, and interact in ways that are much messier. Erasure is not an acceptable ideology - every interaction, every mouse-click, every blog entry becomes a new piece in our larger distributed, networked identity."

Tags: identity blogs connectedness

Confidant Crisis

"Perhaps, as the study’s authors themselves hint at one point, we’ve also gotten better at demarcating what constitutes truly intimate communing — expecting more of our confidants, we have, in effect, defined intimacy up."

Tags: connectedness community psychology internet culture nytimes

Emerging Technology

"The great Internet search engine is still no match for the passion and expertise of a wise human being"

Tags: internet search connectedness