moments, orig­i­nally uploaded by alex*c.

even the mem­o­rable moments in your life pile up, when placed next to each other, like a stack of pic­tures … and of those, which moments really stand out?

Scrap­blog had been TechCrunched before, but not like this: The Real Scrap­blog is Here … Finally. Pre­vi­ously, either we were still open with the first ver­sion, or we had put on the “bub­ble wrap” as we pre­pared for launch.

Except, of course, we haven’t launched yet!

We had been hand­ing out a pre­view URL (www.scrapblog.com/preview) to friends and pre­vi­ous users of Scrap­blog, to help us kick the tires, adjust the mir­rors and rev up the engine before we got on the highway.

Despite our plans, it didn’t quite work out that way and once TechCrunch posted URL, blog­gers picked it up and word started to get out.

At this point, our advi­sors, includ­ing Shel, David and Tara, and our peers, includ­ing Jere­miah, Hyku, Dou­glas Karr, and Ryan Stew­art pitched in with their respec­tive mega­phones to point out that we’re still tidy­ing up around here

Lost in this excite­ment was a bit of hero­ism by our devel­op­ers, who had already been pushed to the max. As  Tara and Ryan
describe, Omar and his team stepped up to the plate to col­lab­o­rate with Adobe’s Apollo team, who wanted to demo a kick-ass appli­ca­tion. Since Scrap­blog is built in Flex, Omar down­loaded the Apollo SDK and stitched together a demoable appli­ca­tion for the platform.

With a bit more work, we can be ready for Apollo, which totally rocks. It’s a bit early, but it’ll be great to sup­port mobile and wire­less plat­forms, includ­ing lap­tops, and to be able to work on scrap­blogs, pre­sen­ta­tions and slideshows on the browser, with­out being con­nected to the internet.

As a bonus, it runs on the lap­top as well and now we can demo Scrap­blog with­out being con­nected

„, to be continued …

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Recently I orga­nized the Brazil­ian del­e­ga­tion’s par­tic­i­pa­tion at the 6th World Forum on e-Democracy, an event held by the French “high-tech Mayor” Andre San­tini, at Issy-Les-Moulineaux, near Paris.

Dur­ing the event, Monique Ciprut of Les Echos quoted me regard­ing the role of blogs in Brazil (pdf ver­sion note: copy­right Les Echos). We spoke about the impor­tance of par­tic­i­pa­tory jour­nal­ism in a democ­racy and how blog­gers in Brazil were con­tribut­ing to open up the debate. In par­tic­u­lar, she picked up my ref­er­ence to the pop­u­lar blog by the right-wing politi­cian Cesar Maia, who has been openly crit­i­cal of the Lula admin­is­tra­tion. How­ever, the blog has been ‘too” pop­u­lar and was recently dis­con­tin­ued (on 30/9/2005) because it took too much of Maia’s “men­tal time,” even though he had three assis­tants, each less than 25 years old. I expressed reser­va­tions about how open the con­ver­sa­tion can be in coun­tries were inter­net pen­e­tra­tion was rel­a­tively low, were there were high lev­els of illit­er­acy, and where access to com­put­ers and the inter­net were reserved to the mid­dle class and above. I believe the gov­ern­ment has an impor­tant role in pro­vid­ing con­di­tions for greater inter­net access, in pro­vid­ing lower-priced com­put­ers and in financ­ing local munic­i­pal­i­ties to sup­port them in e-government initiatives. 

Brazil­ian Del­e­ga­tion 
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The Brazil­ian del­e­ga­tion, pic­tured left included Min­is­ter Car­los Vel­loso, Pres­i­dent of Brazil’s Supe­rior Elec­toral Tri­bunal and in charge of the country’s elec­tions, Ana Cristina Hof­mann, Pres­i­dent of Petropolis-Tecnopolis and co-chair of the W2i (Wire­less Inter­net Insti­tute) Dig­i­tal Cities Con­ven­tion in Europe, held at the begin­ning of Novem­ber 2005 in Bil­bao, and Vagner Diniz, Pres­i­dent of Insti­tuto Conip and active pro­po­nent of mobile gov­ern­ment (m-gov) in Brazil.

Spe­cial thanks to my part­ner on this project, Philippe Luce, Founder of Agora-Consultants. Thanks also to Yann Mauchamp, France Coun­try Man­ager, OpenBC, who first saw the Les Echos arti­cle. Update: Thanks also to Jus­sara Nunes, Brazil­ian blog­ger in France, who lent us an impor­tant hand. We were glad to have you with us!

For more on the sig­nif­i­cance of the par­tic­i­pa­tory, read-write web (Web 2.0), see Al Gore’s speech at the We Media Con­fer­ence a cou­ple of days ago in New York.

“We
must ensure that the Inter­net remains open and acces­si­ble to all
cit­i­zens with­out any lim­i­ta­tion on the abil­ity of indi­vid­u­als to choose
the con­tent they wish regard­less of the Inter­net ser­vice provider they
use to con­nect to the World­wide Web.”

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Ok, the title to this post sounds arro­gant and I don’t mean it to … read on.

Kon­stan­tin Guer­icke, LinkedIn’s VP Mar­ket­ing, announced at the Web 2.0 con­fer­ence a deal with AOL to inte­grate pres­ence ser­vice onto their pro­file, as per this cita­tion from Forbes:

LinkedIn Cor­po­ra­tion, oper­a­tor of the world’s largest busi­ness net­work, today announced that it has signed an agree­ment with Amer­ica Online, Inc. to inte­grate its AIM® ser­vice into LinkedIn to pro­vide LinkedIn users with AIM pres­ence infor­ma­tion, so that they can eas­ily see when their LinkedIn con­nec­tions are online and avail­able for real-time com­mu­ni­ca­tions. This new capa­bil­ity for instant text, voice and video com­mu­ni­ca­tion will give the more than 3.8 mil­lion LinkedIn users a new way to main­tain and strengthen their rela­tion­ships with rel­e­vant busi­ness con­tacts, such as clients, busi­ness part­ners and for­mer co-workers.

Reid Hoff­man, CEO of LinkedIn [says:]“By pro­vid­ing AIM pres­ence infor­ma­tion within LinkedIn, we pro­vide our mem­bers with another vehi­cle for main­tain­ing and strength­en­ing exist­ing busi­ness relationships.”

For an exam­ple of a pres­ence server, this blog (cur­rently) indi­cates my Skype pres­ence on the right side­bar. (As you read the blog, you know whether I’m con­nected on Skype or not, and whether I’m avail­able for a call or away from the com­puter. In this sense, the blog acts as my extended, vir­tual self (my aug­mented pres­ence), and the var­i­ous post­ings are top­ics we may talk about or chat about at greater length, if any are of inter­est to you as well. Alter­na­tively, you may leave me a com­ment, which is an asyn­chro­nous form of com­mu­ni­ca­tion.) Like­wise, my pro­file on LinkedIn will also indi­cate my AOL pres­ence when the com­pa­nies imple­ment the announced part­ner­ship. LinkedIn pro­files are “sta­tic” biogra­phies which rarely get updated, while blogs are “dynamic” per­son­al­i­ties that evolve con­tin­u­ally, accord­ing to the author’s rhythm of posting.

The announced pres­ence indi­ca­tor starts to make com­mu­ni­ca­tions more fluid on the noto­ri­ously “rigid” LinkedIn. To date, you could con­tact or con­nect with some­one through the sys­tem, but would then have to con­tinue com­mu­ni­ca­tions off the LinkedIn plat­form, through e-mails. This is in con­trast to many other social net­works, includ­ing OpenBC, Ecad­emy, Orkut and par­tic­u­larly aSmall­World, which has had a pres­ence server and chat forum for a while now.

Also, as a par­tic­i­pant on Vin­cent Wright’s very active 2,200+ mem­ber MyLinked­In­Pow­er­Fo­rum (MLPF), I’ve read and con­tributed to ongo­ing dis­cus­sions on what leads peo­ple con­nect to each other. Many dis­cus­sions cen­ter on Mark Gra­novet­ter “The strength of weak ties” the­ory, in which he argues that “weak ties, e.g. the con­nec­tions between col­leagues, acquain­tances etc., are more impor­tant for per­sonal advance­ment, such as get­ting good jobs, than the strong ties of fam­ily and friend­ship.” (from Wikipedia). The point is, how do you meet these weak ties? 

• LinkedIn’s phi­los­o­phy so far has been to favor link­ing with peo­ple you have met and main­tain rela­tion­ships with. As your net­work grows, you can start to iden­tify and con­nect with peo­ple based on your direct connections’s rec­om­men­da­tions and in the­ory, you are sep­a­rated by any­one else on earth by just 6 peo­ple (“degrees”) on average.

 

• An alter­nate phi­los­o­phy, referred to as “object-centered social­ity”, main­tains that you often meet peo­ple through shared inter­ests. For instance, you might exchange cards and con­duct busi­ness with some­one at a pro­fes­sional con­fer­ence, with­out iden­ti­fy­ing who you know in com­mon. Much, if not most, of busi­ness occurs this way, as do other parts of social life. Although it’s pos­si­ble to be a mem­ber of the same pro­fes­sional group on LinkedIn, it’s far from the pre­ferred way of con­nect­ing with oth­ers. In fact, it has been eas­ier to get to know peo­ple at MLPF and later con­nect­ing with them at LinkedIn. Through dis­cus­sions on top­ics of com­mon inter­est, we can estab­lish a mean­ing­ful direct con­nec­tion on LinkedIn, with­out both­er­ing to fig­ure out who can link us up. This activ­ity occurs off the LinkedIn plat­form, unfortunately*.

As such, LinkedIn con­tin­ues to be a bet­ter place to refer­ring peo­ple to for an online resume and endorse­ments, rather than for strength­en­ing your rela­tion­ship with them by com­mu­ni­cat­ing with them. The AOL pres­ence server will help in this respect as well, by sug­gest­ing a com­mon plat­form on which to com­mu­ni­cate. Although I pre­fer chat­ting on Skype, switch­ing costs are vir­tu­ally nonex­is­tent, par­tic­u­larly when you use a multiple-chat client like Tril­lian, which sup­ports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Mes­sen­ger, and IRC.

My pro­file on LinkedIn is here.

*Note: time and again peo­ple have con­nected with each other pro­fes­sion­ally and socially and have formed rela­tion­ships with each other long before meet­ing in per­son (telegram, tele­phone, inter­net …) but it’s not always easy to iden­tify prospec­tive part­ners. On the other hand, LinkedIn has per­haps the most exten­sive and inter­na­tional net­work of pro­fes­sion­als and exec­u­tives, yet it has not been easy to com­mu­ni­cate with them. Let’s hope for improved LinkedIn com­mu­nity areas (ie. “tele­coms pro­fes­sion­als”, etc.) and LinkedIn Mobile (or LinkedIn Wire­less), which shouldn’t be too far off as GoogleNet gets built in San Fran­cisco, where 342,000 peo­ple main­tain LinkedIn profiles.

Update: This fas­ci­nat­ing post at Bub­ble Gen­er­a­tion explains how com­bi­na­to­r­ial gains are supe­rior to expo­nen­tial gains:

More sim­ply, Web 2.0 is about the shift from net­work search economies,
which real­ize mild expo­nen­tial gains — your util­ity is bounded by the
num­ber of things (peo­ple, etc) you can find on the net­work -
to net­work coor­di­na­tion economies, which real­ize com­bi­na­to­r­ial gains:
your util­ity is bounded by the num­ber of things (trans­ac­tions, etc) you
can do on the network.

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Asmallworld.net (ASW), the *exclu­sive* invitation-only social net­work, announced this week that key func­tion­al­i­ties of their plat­form are avail­able for brow­ing on mobile phones.

Link: ASW goes mobile (the link may work for mem­bers only):

“Today (10 May ’05) we proudly present our mobile plat­form. We don’t believe that you will be using this mobile plat­form in the same way as you use the site in gen­eral, but think it is impor­tant that you can reach cer­tain parts of aSmall­World, even when you are on the move. The size of files has been top pri­or­ity to make down­load of pages as quick as pos­si­ble. As most cell phones have reg­u­lar browsers today we have built this in html, which means you can use the mobile plat­form in your reg­u­lar browser. Could be good if you are on a slow con­nec­tion. It works on all hand­helds, Blackberry’s and most new phones. But this is not a wap appli­ca­tion, and won’t work on the phones that only have wap-browsers.”

The news of Google’s acqui­si­tion of Dodge­ball this week and Nokia’s launch
of the Nokia Sen­sor under­stand­ably over­shad­owed ASW’s move to mobile social com­put­ing. The impor­tance of the move shouldn’t be over­looked how­ever, as ASW is reach­ing DLA nir­vana with their part­ner Broad­band Mechan­ics (French Net­flix  Glowria.fr is another client) … (what’s DLA?):

“In many ways the final mile of get­ting dig­i­tal data into and out of the
home may be solved by wire­less tech­nol­ogy. So mobile ser­vices could
also become our main artery onto the Inter­net and world of on-line
media.

It’s obvi­ous that “any­thing, any­time, any­where” means mobil­ity is essential.

Mobile devices will soon be in the hands of over half the world’s
pop­u­la­tion. Inte­grat­ing not only gate­ways, but also mobile dri­ven
appli­ca­tions and ser­vices into DLAs, is going to be a key
dif­fer­en­tia­tor mov­ing forward.

So when you mix peo­ple and social net­work­ing, media and devices,
con­tent, com­mu­ni­ca­tions, and mobility—and add our magic sauce—then,
poof, it’s a DLA: value-added, revenue-generating, cost sav­ings, prod­ucts and ser­vices for our clients and their customers.”

How long before other online social net­works 1) go mobile and 2)  incor­po­rate Dodge­ball– or Sensor-like prox­im­ity features?

Nokia Sensor’s devel­op­ers briefly men­tioned in a lec­ture the syn­er­gies between cen­tral net­works (such as LinkedIn or online dat­ing sites) and prox­im­ity net­works. Like­wise, it seems to me Plea­sure­cards is an ideal com­ple­ment to mobile social com­put­ing (I’m not a mem­ber / would like to be invited).

On another note, this year we’ve already seen a num­ber of acqui­si­tions, with IAC/InterActiveCorp –> AskJeeves –> Blog­lines, Yahoo! –> Flickr, Google –> Dodge­ball and Sabre –> LastMinute.com (for 577M pounds) … As Marc Can­ter says, who’s next?

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Sapago’s Art-FID is a hand­held, mul­ti­me­dia infor­ma­tion sys­tem for gallery art­work. Vis­i­tors
bor­row the sys­tem at the door and then scan tags placed near the works
to get more details, includ­ing the artist’s biog­ra­phy, sound, video, the work’s price tag, and so on.

Link: Sapago Art-FID prod­uct pic­tures.

Most gallery vis­i­tors are not experts in art and are uncom­fort­able ask­ing about the medium, artist or style for fear of look­ing unknowl­edge­able. It is frus­trat­ing for gallery own­ers and man­agers to know that a cus­tomer has ques­tions but to get only a “just brows­ing” from them.

Fur­ther to my pre­vi­ous posts on Mobile MUSE and Spin-Off Tourism and Gam­ing Con­cepts and on Increased Inter­ac­tion with your Envi­ron­ment, these sys­tems could be fur­ther enhanced to allow for the user to pro­vide his own feed­back, com­ments, pic­tures, pho­tos and so on about the artwork.

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“No mat­ter how col­or­ful you make it, con­tent will never be king in a wire­less world. It’s not the con­tent that mat­ters — it’s the con­tact” writes Dou­glas Rushkoff in his often-quoted arti­cle in The Fea­ture.

This state­ment rings true based on my expe­ri­ence in mobile mar­ket­ing and con­tent com­pa­nies. In fact, rel­e­vant, timely con­tent can lead to viral dis­tri­b­u­tion, which is about giv­ing peo­ple the oppor­tu­nity for social inter­ac­tion (see “Social Cur­rency”). Unfor­tu­nately, many large mobile phone oper­a­tors and device man­u­fac­tur­ers do not develop the con­tact aspect enough and pre­fer to seek new con­tent (for instance, wide­spread con­sumer adop­tion of SMS came as a surprise).

This Feb­ru­ary I was kindly extended an invi­ta­tion to visit the 3GSM con­gress in Cannes by Oberthur Card Sys­tems. While there, I came across Elek­sen, a com­pany inno­vat­ing with fab­ric sen­sor tech­nol­ogy and was intrigued by their rol­lable tac­tile keyboard:

“Among our achieve­ments within this sec­tor are our Log­itech and Orange fab­ric key­boards; pro­vid­ing a full QWERTY key­board that can be rolled up when not in use, for peo­ple on the move. Our fab­ric key­board for the Log­itech M500 PDA range recently received the IDEA Busi­ness Week Gold Award for Inno­va­tion (2004).”

The pic­tured rol­lable fab­ric key­board for mobile devices makes it sig­nif­i­cantly eas­ier and more con­ve­nient to work as well as to estab­lish con­tact with oth­ers
(for exam­ple, by mak­ing it eas­ier to write e-mails, sms or even to chat … no more sore thumbs from texting!).

Today, I came across  Philips-Polymer Vision’s paper-thin rol­lable screen, which looks like some­thing out of a science-fiction movie:

“In a world of pow­er­ful, ‘always con­nected’ wire­less devices, Poly­mer Vision’s goal is to pro­vide the lead­ing tech­nolo­gies for large dis­plays in small mobile devices. We’re enabling whole new design con­cepts in mobile prod­ucts, open­ing up rev­o­lu­tion­ary pos­si­bil­i­ties in form and flexibility.”

Besides being more pleas­ant to watch stream­ing video, images or text on a large screen, rol­lable dis­plays also make it eas­ier to share con­tent with oth­ers. For instance, the pic­ture below, from Poly­mer Vision’s site, shows two busi­ness peo­ple jointly view­ing the screen on a mobile device.

Today, this sit­u­a­tion might occur over a brochure, a lap­top screen or the small screen of a mobile phone. Rol­lable screens mul­ti­ply the types of infor­ma­tion that can be dis­played and cre­ate addi­tional, com­pelling oppor­tu­ni­ties for social interaction.

These inno­va­tions are com­pelling tech­nolo­gies in their own right and hope­fully mobile device man­u­fac­tur­ers will soon incor­po­rate them into new mod­els. Together, they are sure to enhance your effec­tive­ness not only in work­ing, but also in devel­op­ing busi­ness and social rela­tion­ships … in other words, your abil­ity to make and main­tain con­tact.

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Link: Sam­sung SCG-S260 Super­im­pos­ing Cam­er­a­phone : Giz­modo.

Samsung’s SCG-S260 cell phone lets you dab­ble in com­posit­ing, allow­ing you to super­im­pose a hand­writ­ten note over another image. Just snap a shot of your note and your back­ground image and let it work its magic.

Samsung’s tech­nol­ogy part­ner has not been dis­closed, but they might be part­ner­ing with French start-up RealEyes3D, whose Phone2Fun prod­uct fam­ily “allows cam­era phones users to send hand-written mes­sages with text, draw­ings or pre-printed information”.

In the­ory, this should make send­ing MMS more com­pelling … but in prac­tice it’ll be an uphill battle:

• Cur­rently, about 2 Bil­lion SMS are being sent per month in France, com­pared to 25 Mil­lion MMS per year. Send­ing a pic­ture is com­pelling enough rea­son to use an MMS and the real block­age is the cost of send­ing one, not the lack of fun fea­tures. Send­ing an SMS costs a frac­tion of what it costs to send an MMS.
• Besides high pric­ing, oper­a­tors are equally noto­ri­ous for poor mar­ket­ing. Sam­sung cam­er­a­phones already sell well with­out this fea­ture, which the user will per­ceive as a nice gimmick.
• Now, pic­ture a sales­man at a retail store doing a demo and sell­ing this ser­vice as a key ser­vice (see pic­ture above): “let’s find a piece of paper” … “where’s my pen” … “ok, now I’ll write some­thing cute” … “I need to take a pic­ture of what I just wrote” … “ok, now let me take a pic­ture of you” … “smile” … “now, let’s com­bine your pic­ture with the note I scrib­bled” … “see how easy that was?!“

  Not! How many such demos do you think a sales­man will do before he stops telling prospects about the nifty feature? 

More promis­ing is RealEyes3D’s new Digitizer3 (“Dig­i­tizer cubed”) prod­uct, a cam­era phone doc­u­ment scan­ner
ser­vice for busi­ness users.

Update 7/3/05:

Samsung’s part­ner is indeed RealEyes3d, accord­ing to this press state­ment released the day fol­low­ing my post:

Realeyes3D, the pio­neer in hand­writ­ten mes­sag­ing and other embed­ded appli­ca­tions and con­tent ser­vices for cam­era phones, today announced the world-premiere avail­abil­ity of hand­writ­ten mes­sag­ing on Samsung’s SCH-S260 hand­set, released in Korea. This launch fol­lows the sign­ing of an exten­sive global agree­ment, under which Sam­sung has licensed Realeyes3D’s w-Postcard™ and Dig­i­tizer™ hand­writ­ten mes­sag­ing appli­ca­tions for inte­gra­tion as stan­dard fea­tures in its cam­era phones.

That’s great news for RealEyes3D. To appre­ci­ate the con­text of adding such fea­tures to MMS, The Fea­ture pub­lished an arti­cle last year regard­ing the lack of suc­cess of WAP and MMS. Accord­ing to the article:

“WAP and MMS failed to meet expec­ta­tions because ser­vices were designed by … ‘default think­ing,’ a clichéd and unques­tioned mind­set
that com­bines “a weak col­lec­tion of axioms of design, broad mar­ket
visions, or rules of exe­cu­tion that aren’t clearly artic­u­lated. This
col­lec­tion exists in the back­ground, much like the assump­tion that
grav­ity exists .…

It is pos­si­ble to cre­ate quite a com­plex MMS, one that includes not
only a pic­ture but sound and text as well. This has clear value as a
gift. There could be a small study in the gift giv­ing groups to see
how they would respond to pho­tos as gifts…”

In other words, the inno­v­a­tive w-Postcard appli­ca­tion from RealEyes3D adds a more com­pelling con­text to send pho­tos by MMS. Admit­tedly, it is not touted as a killer appli­ca­tion meant to boost MMS mes­sages. Nev­er­the­less, whether w-Postcard is com­pelling enough for peo­ple to use under cur­rent high MMS pric­ing by oper­a­tors remains to be seen.

Full dis­clo­sure:

I inter­viewed with RealEyes3D in Octo­ber 2004.

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