Online Social Optimization
April 22nd, 2011

Are you paranoid enough about your smartphone? Probably not…

So this is a pretty amazing disclosure…

“The information on the phone is useful in a forensics context,” Levinson told CNET today. Customers for Lantern 2, he said, include “small-town local police all the way up to state and federal police, different agencies in the government that have forensics units.”

Research by security analyst Samy Kamkar, a onetime hacker with a colorful past, indicates an HTC Android phone determined its location every few seconds and transmitted the data to Google at least a few times an hour, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. It said that the Android phone also transmitted the name, location and signal strength of nearby Wi-Fi networks, as well as a unique identifier for the phone.

http://m.cnet.com/Article.rbml?nid=20056344&cid=null&bcid=&bid=-281

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April 13th, 2011

Don’t eat your face by being an asshat.

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http://findusonfacebook.tumblr.com/

Excellent tumblr blog above written by @ABlakeley which provides valuable clues on not being an asshat with your social media assets. Think carefully about relying on one social media third party network to be your primary replacement microsite though because when the site trends into a demographic you aren’t optimizing for, the results will only seem funny to others. (Thanks to the seemingly omnipresent @briansolis for pointing this out in a tweet earlier this morning.)

Attached is a rough beginning to the mind map I’m building, related in a parallel way to the link above.

March 5th, 2011

We are the new world order…

Unity of knowledge is a technological right, or it should be, and access to the public sphere of knowledge, the open community of global crowd-sourced information, provides the basis for this new world order – where pursuit of happiness can be a dream achieved by all through autodidact education – bootstrapping oneself and one’s community into a prosperous place – not just the American way or dream, it’s the dream of all, for all.

via We are the new world order and it’s a damn bright future » Wes Unruh.

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December 16th, 2010

Memes, Myths, Birds, Bees, and Markets, via @agent139

What’s the sweet nectar and bright colors that lures in the unwitting insects? That’s the question advertisers are bound to ask. The market is strictly concerned with selling the container, and like the insects, is blissfully unaware of the pollen. Countless dollars have been spent researching customer reaction to different colors, configurations of symbols and patterns. Certainly, much of this plays into the cutting edge of UX design. But, in contradiction of the common wisdom that says our biological similarities make us all susceptible to the same patterns, at least if we are looking for big-picture trends, it has been my experience that results vary depending on the “species of insect.” In other words, though the audience and the authors may all be consciously unaware of the genetic code of their work, we can readily sniff out what suits us and what does not, in the same way we have sized up potential mates through smell before a single word has been spoken. Even our immune systems are keyed to seek viable mates – this relates to our sense of smell as well – and further there is some evidence that even activities such as kissing have a matching and mating purpose, preparing our immune systems for one another.

via Memes, Myths, Birds, Bees, and Markets, by James Curcio | [ open myth source ].

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