Dear Google, social is about context not just about your network

January 24th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink

Google rolled out it Social Search and besides that Google might have jumped the shark on this one and is likely to be moving to the dark side, there is something else that bothers me. Google approaches social as an engineering thing, by just adding the content from my circles from Google+ to my search

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Social Design

December 31st, 2011 § 1 comment § permalink

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In 2012 I will spend some more time on explaining and writing about the concept of social design, what you can do with it and more important how you implement it. To provide you with some insights on how I see what social design is, hereby a definition: Social Design is a design strategy that

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Google+, not thinking globally (again)

December 29th, 2011 § 1 comment § permalink

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Google is an interesting company to watch especially around the mistakes they make with the roll out of Google+. First of all they made the mistake of trying to enforce real names as Friendster did years ago with their fakesters issues and Facebook did a few years after Friendster. For both Friendster and Facebook it

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iForget – the social app you will need for 2012

December 28th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink

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The big difference from what Orwell described in 1984 is that we are the ones who installed the telescreens and we are the ones recording. With social media we record every aspect of our life. And if we don’t record it, there is always somebody else who will be recording it. Facebook has probably more

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Enterprises: the sun doesn’t revolve around you

December 24th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink

Yesterday we had an issue when checking in for our holiday at Landal GreenParks. We received the confirmation for our dinner on Boxing Day however we hadn’t received a time slot yet. So we decided to ask what the time would be and all of a sudden we heard that we wouldn’t have dinner at all

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