Objects : Personal, Social, Official

There is a new term floating around : “Social Objects”.  Apparently, it was coined about five years ago and is slowly gaining notariety.

The concept of a Social Object is discussed by Jaiku’s Jyri here : http://strange.corante.com/2007/06/13/nmkforum07-jyri-of-jaiku

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Social Objects are basically internet media objects (text, audio, image, video) that are the message of the Social Network medium.  For the longest time on the internet the message had to be sought out.  You had to go to a website to get the social object you wanted.  However, by utilizing your social network, people with similar interests send the social objects to you.  They are gifts.  For example, flickr used to be the place to goto for photos.  Now flickr photos are sent to you by your social network.  Blog posts used to be sought out and blogs subscribed to.  Now blog posts are sent to you by your social network.  News used to have news sites that you would go to and follow.  Now news is sent to you by your social networks.

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But that isn’t everything Social Objects come in different varieties:

1. Dumb Social Object : an object with no link to a source site.
2. Smart Social Object : an object with a link to a free source site.
3. Store Social Object : an object with a link to a store source site.
4. Cart Social Object : an object with a link to a store source site item.

The classification system can be more extensive, but the separation of object from link is worth noting.

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So, the social network is simpler than surfing, it eliminates the cost of filtering, and it is pushed, you don’t have to pull.  So why is it not possible to have a computer do it?  I think a computer can, but not by examining the preferences of the individual.  Instead the system must examine interpersonal and group preferences associated to the individual.

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But even automating individual, interpersonal and group preferences is not enough.  Members of social networks have status as Social Senders.  Part of receiving a Social Object involves filtering who you accept a Social Object from.  How would an advertising vector automate the status of a Social Sender?  Facebook calls them “Pages”.  It is like a Social Sender/Receiver, but it has a different character, a Social Organization, and it failed.  It failed because Social Organizations are one trick ponies.  They have a Mission.  Mission’s kill diversity and consequently desensitize the Social Receiver.

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Now let’s take a step back and rethink the Internet for a moment:

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Interaction can be divided into Self, Personal, Social and World.

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Stand Alone Computing was Self Computing.  Your computer did not interact with any other computer.

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Web 1.0 was Personal Computing.  Suddenly messages were travelling.  And a message could be sent to you without query, Push, or it could be sent to you with query, Pull.  Your computer interacted with other’s computers in the following ways:

• Email : Personal Push
• Web Pages : Personal Pull
• Message Boards : Social Pull

Basically, messages are Push or Pull.  You have:

• Self-Mediums,Self-Senders, Self-Messages, Self-Receivers;
• you have Personal-Mediums, Personal-Senders, Personal-Messages, Personal-Receivers;
• you have Social-Mediums, Social-Senders, Social-Messages, Social-Receivers;
• you have Official-Mediums, Official-Senders, Official-Messages, Official-Receivers.

With the advent of Web 2.0 and Social Networks something new came about : Social Push.  Through Social Network connections you could push a Social Object (Social-Message) to a broad audience of generally like minded individuals.  This is based on the Social Psychological “Law of Attraction” where it is highly likely that individuals of common interests form connections.

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But Companies fail in the Social Network model.  Why?  Perhaps because companies have entered at the wrong end.  Perhaps because we are looking at the next stage, Web 3.0, cold and hard in the face.  Contrary to what many in the industry claim, perhaps Social Objects are not the future for advertising.  Instead of using coercion to get Social Users to share Ad Social Objects, perhaps Objects are the future for Customer Service.  But not in a Social Network.  Perhaps in an Official Network.

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Now to think what the nature of an Official Network would be.

Part of Something Larger than Ourselves

As I mentioned in my previous post I have spent months reading world history.

One of the fascinating things I have learned is the history of the nuclear program.

It turns out that Albert Einstein told the President of the United States about the potential to make a nuclear bomb before 1939.  Before World War II even started.

The United States began a program to build a nuclear weapon.

There were two facilities preparing the fissionable materials Uranium 235 and Plutonium.

The Uranium 235 facility in Tennessee was the largest industrial complex in the United States to that date and consumed ten percent of the United States electrical power supply.  No one except the President of the United States and a handful of people actually knew why the complex existed.  Even the people who built it and worked at the facility did not know what they were making.

The Plutonium facility in Washington State was built in a desert adjacent to one of the state’s largest rivers to provide cooling.  The site had several large nuclear reactors and again no one except the President of the United State and a handful of people actually knew why this complex existed.  Even the people who built it and worked at the facility did not know what they were making.

The same went for the Nevada testing site.  Thousands of people worked in the Nevada desert building the facility where the nuclear devices were constructed.  No one except the President of the United States and a handful of people knew why the complex existed.  Even the people who built it and worked at the facility did not know what they were making.

These facilities came into existence before the Second World War and operated with only the knowledge of the President of the United States and a small community of people right up until the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear devices.  That means the largest scientific, engineering, industrial and military project in the world was operating without almost anyone’s knowledge.  Including General MacArthur the Supreme Commander of the Pacific Allied Forces.

And until the moment of detonation, no one on Earth knew if each device would even work.

All of us in the world are part of something larger than we understand.  Each of us only knows a subsystem of the global human system.  We each have knowledge the rest of the world does not have.  And we are each influencing as individuals, as the human colony and as part of nature the course the Earth is taking.

None of us has an understanding of the full picture and none of us ever will.  Historians admit we will never understand why any world event of any kind is happening.

What we have to accept is that the Universe, Nature, Yawheh, God, Allah, Brahma, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Confucious, Manitou, Ehecatl, Shango, Bochica, Wandjina, Io and all creators told us their creation is “Very Good”.

All hardships stem from humanity doubting this.

We are all part of something greater than ourselves and we simply will never understand all of it as Goedel the mathematician explained to us in his proof.

After 25 years developing information systems I realized every system will be asked to do something it is not designed to do.

That is what Charles Darwin was explaining to us.  Whatever the Universe’s origin it is constantly evolving.  We will always find something larger than ourselves, the same as ourselves and smaller than ourselves that we have not encountered before.  The Universe is just too vast for us to experience all of it.

Einstein told Heisenberg, “God does not play dice.”  Heisenberg agreed and told Einstein, “We will never know what game God is playing.”

Von Clauswitz said this is also the case for warfare.  Peter Drucker said this is also the case for business.

After decoding the human genome biologists are saying the same thing too.

If you want to be happy in life everything in the Universe is telling you this:  There is no meaning you will fully understand, just accept moment to moment everything is very good.

Jack Kerouac said, “Nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides growing old.”

As Max Ehrmann, the author of Desiderata said, “The Universe is unfolding as it should.”

Education: The Bell Curve

Media: Evolution Timeline

I have done further work on: Media: Evolution Timeline

Evolution: Manchinekind

My latest post in my blog “globvilla” worth checking out:

Evolution: Manchinekind

Media: Globalization

A Brief History of Globalization, by Alex MacGillivary

http://tinyurl.com/npj945

Reveals that the major turning points in history were changes in the predominant media:

150,000 years ago Advent of Sequential Man – Global Culture

15,000 years ago Advent of Numeral Man – Global Agriculture

5,000 years ago Advent of Literal Man – Global Literature

500 years ago Advent of Graphical Man – Global Mapping

125 years ago Advent of Chronal Man – Global Time Zones

100 years ago Advent of Audial Man – Global Radio

75 years ago Advent of Visual Man – Global Television

50 years ago Advent of Virtual Sequential Man – Global Satellite

25 years ago Advent of Virtual Numerical Man – Global Internet

0 years ago Advent of Virtual Literal Man – Global Social Networks

Do you see a pattern?

globvilla

With this video I announce a change in my interests and my new blog.

Please visit me at globvilla.com

Apollo 11: Cold War Victory

Icons: System States

I had a very interesting discussion regarding Aristotlean Drama, Linear Programming and Transactional Analysis today and it lead me to reevaluate my own thoughts on these concepts.

First I reevaluated my thoughts on States:

Aristotlean Drama is simple because it only involves the state of one character following a linear path.

However, when you begin to think about the outcomes for two characters the dynamic becomes tabular which brings us to game theory and the famous prisoner’s dilemma and game theory payoff matrixes:

However, it immediately becomes apparent that the Prisoner’s Dilemma does not account for all of the States.

Here we have the States of Transactional Analysis, however this state model is not complete either.

Even with a pentad the States are incomplete.  This is where my epiphany came in.  There has to be a begin state and an end state.

Now with a heptad, we have all seven States and a complete tabular model.

However, we are learning tabular models are not adequate.  We are learning network models are necessary.  And network models require an alternate portrayal.

Here we have a network presentation of the seven States.  And each of these States have seven states of their own.  There is no magic here.  The correlation to the week I do not think is coincidental, but cultural, however I do not think that astronomical phenomena have any causation.

Related Link:

• Social Psychology: Escaping the Prisoner’s Dilemma

The Plurality is Near

I decided to take a leap.

There is an institute in the United States started based on the writings of futurist Ray Kurzweil regarding the advent of computer intelligence called The Singularity is Near.

The institute is called “The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence“.

Here is The Transcendent Man:

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I am going to advocate that as we approach computer singularity, we are also approaching human plurality.

More and more people are creating personal internet identities until every human being on earth will be online.

I call this human population threshold “The Plurality”.

The Plurality is Near.

Think about the implications.

I have incorporated “The Plurality Institute for Natural Perception”.

I will be setting up the website plurinst.com soon.

All it means is everyone online and thinking for themselves.

We will work to advance preparation for the impending plurality.