A weblog by Christopher Carfi, since 2004.
A great presentation on design patterns in communities can be found in the presentation attached below. NOTE: This presentation focuses primarily on the technical patterns (ie. "features") that can be used in creating online communities. It does NOT address the more important issue of the interpersonal and social patterns that emerge. More on those in a future post.
Ok, one small politically-oriented post. Check out this hot mashup of Lee Dorsey v. Obama by Tano Sokolow…"Yes We Can"…brilliant.
Just re-found an article from Fortune Small Business featuring some really solid advice on putting an organization’s people forward, in this case using online video. Key line:
"People want to do business with a company that has a personality."
Related: And, just because, here’s an iPhone in a blender.
We just used Cerado Ventana to create an iPhone, mobile and widget application to support #votereport. Twitter VoteReport is a non-partisan initiative to call out voting issues, and is urging those with Twitter accounts to report voting issues by adding #votereport to their tweets. The resulting tweets flow to the site’s home page, and will also be plotted on a Google map.
Here’s where to get it.
As a blog widget
You can put it on your iGoogle page.
It’s also available as an iPhone app.
A very interesting ethnographic study from our friends over at CreateWithContext. Key findings include learnings on:
RSS readers: Click here.
Sweet. If you have an iPhone, you now have free wifi at Starbucks and other AT&T hotspots.
Related: Even if you don’t have the iPhone, it’s easy to get free wifi there with their "loyalty" card thing. Use the card once a month, and you get free access.
Also Related: If you have an iPhone, these look great, by the way.
Nice liveblog here of Day 1 of the Social Media Strategies conference in San Francisco. Rajiv, Darius and I had a blast on the "Thinking Vertically" panel, which starts at 1525.
