http://www.ayman-naaman.net Social Media is Made of People! Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:05:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Naaman is being persuaded - and even more excitingly, serving as a bridge for persuasion! BJ Fogg and gang had long pointed out the potential of Facebook (and social media) as a persuasive platform. The Causes application on Facebook had been using persuasive elements from the start, and has a ... http://www.ayman-naaman.net/2008/11/20/on-persuasion/ If you live around Pomona, come see me talk today at 4.15 pm in the CS Colloquium. http://www.cs.pomona.edu/colloquium.html Oh and check out the past talk schedule.  Seems attendance is mandatory for my talk and optional for Buzz Aldrin.  Crazy! http://www.ayman-naaman.net/2008/11/13/talking-today/ So I noticed a few things happened while I was dancing in the streets of San Francisco. First, Naaman posted to our humble blog without mentioning me in the post.  Second, my friend the Practicalist posted several maps of "New York Times Election Results: County by County".  The maps are ... http://www.ayman-naaman.net/2008/11/06/sixteen-years-of-change/ I haven't written about Fire Eagle in a while but: this is supercool. When we started thinking about FireEagle this was a large portion of the vision we have in mind - information services that tune in on your location and offering you slightly better services - not necessarily radically ... http://www.ayman-naaman.net/2008/11/06/headup-and-fireeagle/ LinkedIn is one of those sites which, if you still have a job and a you do have life, you only see if something happens (e.g., somebody sends you an invitation). The other day, I got (yet another) invitation, clicked through, and actually even browsed around (to try to figure ... http://www.ayman-naaman.net/2008/10/22/newsflash-nobody-young-is-using-linkedin/ I totally agree with FiveThiryEight's Nate, arguing against broadcasting the presidential debate while including on-screen immediate responses from focus groups. It is one thing to have a Hack The Debate discussion showing Twitter messages over the video stream - this is social media, participation that reflect opinion and is expected ... http://www.ayman-naaman.net/2008/10/17/this-is-no-social-media/ media lab's take on markets: RED Originally uploaded by leahbuechley An ambient display gives a clear indication (maybe for the first time ever). http://www.ayman-naaman.net/2008/10/02/media-labs-take-on-markets-red/ Quite a few Twitter-related items in the news today. Twitter themselves finally take the charge instead of playing catchup with people building on their platform. The Election Center brings together all election-related updates from all over Twitter and allows non-twitterites to participate in the discussion. Nice! I like the way ... http://www.ayman-naaman.net/2008/09/26/twitter-attack/ Bleecker Street Originally uploaded by aymanshamma Question to our readers (Frank, I'm looking in your general direction): How come HDTV broadcasts a good 4-5 seconds behind its analog counterpart? While hanging out with Naaman on Bleecker St, we noticed the bar had both HD and non-HD sets playing a football game. Those ... http://www.ayman-naaman.net/2008/09/24/hdtv-lag/ That actually made me happy. For years I've been telling any Yahoo! who wanted to listen that Start Wearing Purple would make a great Yahoo! theme song. While my preaching did not, in all likelihood, have any influence on the matter, Yahoo! just launched a Start Wearing Purple campaign, sporting ... http://www.ayman-naaman.net/2008/09/16/yahoo-discovers-gogol-bordello/