Social media and the art of being interested Are you one of those people who has a hard time remembering names when you meet someone new? I was, too – and then I learned what the problem was: I’m a jerk. It turns out that how well you can remember names has nothing to do with your brain or memory and everything to do with whether or not you’re actually interested in that person. “Some people, perhaps those who are more socially aware, are just more interested in people, more interested in relationships,” says Kansas State University professor of psychology Richard Harris. And most of us, let’s face it, aren’t that interested in the people around us. It’s incredibly rare – and becoming more so – to find someone who’s truly interested in others. Social media has a lot to do with this. When “share” becomes just another way to say “let me tell you more about me,” it’s clear social media has begun to show us something about ourselves: We really want someone to listen to us. This isn’t sales. You can’t automate it.
Jamie Thomson The Myth Of Serendipity Editor’s note: Henry “Hank” Nothhaft, Jr. is the co-founder and CMO of Trapit, a virtual personal assistant for Web content still in private beta that was incubated out of SRI and the CALO project (as was Siri, the conversational search engine bought by Apple). One of the most interesting concepts to emerge in media and tech lately is that of “serendipity”—showing people what they want even if they didn’t ask for it. Despite its seemingly ubiquitous invocation, however, the concept of serendipity remains ill-defined and put forth as some vague panacea for a slew of emerging innovations hoping to attract new users in droves. What is needed is a closer look at what we actually mean when we talk about serendipity. From Search to Discovery Eric Schmidt’s recent remarks about Google as a “Serendipity Engine” (and Facebook’s quick reply), emphasize an important shift in our daily interaction with the Web and how we use it. Serendipity and personalization are in fact two sides to the same coin.
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"Serendipity" – en slags griseflaks - Newton Engelskmennene har en god del festlige ord som ikke vi kan. Ett av dem er "serendipity", som betyr noe sånt som "tilfeldig griseflaks som fører til en oppdagelse". Det aller morsomste er at temmelig mange store oppdagelser og oppfinnelser skyldes slike tilfeldigheter. Men for at merkelige sammentreff skal bli til nye oppfinnelser er det et par saker som er ganske viktige: 1 Noe nytt og nyttig må skje helt tilfeldig. 2 Noen i nærheten må være smarte nok til å skjønne hvor nyttig det egentlig er. Penicillin Bakterier er noen artige, encellede vesener som kan stelle i stand en hel del ubehageligheter inne i menneskekroppen, og før i tiden kunne de godt ta kverken på en før man fikk sukk for seg. Riktig mugg i rett skål Alexander drev og forsket på bakterier, som han dyrket i små skåler i laboratoriet sitt. En viktig tåre Men Alexander selv hadde nok ikke tenkt noe særlig over flekken i bakterieskåla hvis det ikke hadde vært for enda en tilfeldighet som skjedde seks år tidligere. Sikkerhetsglass
Social Media Science: How Behavior Impacts Social Media Marketing Want to understand the psychology behind why people interact via social networks? During this fascinating interview I explore these very concepts. To learn about the science and psychology of social media marketing, I interview Ric Dragon for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from Social Media Examiner. It’s designed to help busy marketers and business owners discover what works with social media marketing. The show format is on-demand talk radio (also known as podcasting). In this episode, I interview Ric Dragon, author of Social Marketology and CEO of DragonSearch. Ric shares tips on how businesses can build relationships on social media. You’ll learn how relationships develop and why the concepts of gamification and gifting are important. Share your feedback, read the show notes and get the links mentioned in this episode below! Listen Now Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Social Media Science
Toot Consumer Info Overload - Meet the US Navy's Relevance Technology! (New SRI Screenshots) Apple acquired the military-technology spin-off, mobile personal assistant app called SIRI this Spring, but SIRI isn't the only consumer startup cut from the cloth of the $200 million DARPA investment in an artificial intelligence project called CALO. The next SRI/CALO app to launch may be TrapIt, a news feed reading and recommendation service designed to act as a "cognitive prosthetic" to "adapt to unexpected events" in situations of "intense information overload". The US Navy has used the core technology TrapIt is based on to parse through huge quantities of information for what's most relevant. Soon you'll be able to use it to find the best news about your obscure interests, in the web's otherwise overwhelming ocean of Justin Bieber references. Click for a larger view. TrapIt has raised two rounds of funding, one lead by Asia's most powerful businessman, Li Ka-shing. See today's guest post: "The Age of Assistants": The View From Inside SRI, by SRI's Norman Winarsky
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Serendipity is unexpected relevance « BuzzMachine Serendipity is not randomness. It is unexpected relevance. I constantly hear the fear that serendipity is among the many things we’re supposedly set to lose as news moves out of newsrooms and off print to online. Serendipity, says The New York Times, is lost in the digital age. Serendipity, it is said, is something we get from that story we happen upon as we flip pages, the story we never would have searched for but find only or best in print. Serendipity, it is also said, is the province and value of editors, who pick the fluky and fortuitous for us. A few days ago, a Guardian guy, inspired by Clay Shirky hacked together a serendipity generator: just a random story served up on a click. What is serendipity? Can that relevance be analyzed and served? Can an algorithm serve us serendipity? MORE: See also Chris Anderson and Matthew Ingram on serendipity. Like this: Like Loading...
مدونة إبراهيم السحيباني ذكرت في تويتر وفي انستقرام، أن الصورة السابقة اقضّت مضجعي، ولم انم ليلتها حتى اتممت هذه التدوينة، واجّلت نشرها، حتى اتاكد من بعض النقاط الخاصة بهذا الموضوع. السؤال الذي قد يطرأ على البعض؛ ما المميز في هذه الصورة؟ ما الشيء “الخطير” الذي استثارني، حتى اكتب، واجمع هذه الصور، واتحدث عن هذا الموضوع؟ الجواب ببساطة: التناسقية، أو كما يحلو للعاملين في مجال العلامات التجارية أن يسموه: الـ Consistency ! المكان: برج خليفة داون تاون، وهي تلك المنطقة التي كانت رسالة شركة إعمار “أثناء مرحلة البناء”: (أرقى كيلو متر مربع في العالم). أتذكر جيداً حينما بدأ العمل في تنفيذ المشروع، والهدف واضح جداً في أعين كل العاملين في الشركة، أن يصل المشروع إلى الهدف المنشود (أرقى كيلو متر مربع في العالم).. بعيداً عن المشروع، وعن تفاصيله من ناحية البناء، التصميم، التوزيع، الخدمات.. هذه هي المنطقة التي تعتبرها إعمار، أرقى “كيلو متر مربع في العالم”.. عمدت براند يونيون في بناءها للهوية الخاصة بالعلامة التجارية على الشكل الخاص بالبرج من الزاوية الرأسية له، كانت براند يونيون تبحث عن ما يُمكن حفظه، ولا يُمكن نسيانه! وأخيراً..
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