#social

41 items tagged social.

• Locally Played
• Beyond Human: Rewilding the Internet — The web was seeded as a monoculture. What would it mean to let it grow wild again, with many species, many niches, and edges that matter?
• Social Trust Graphs — Trust as a graph, directional, contextual and decaying, and what is lost when a system flattens it into one number.
• Avoiding Concentrations of Power — On the role of tokens, and the difference between a mechanism that distributes coordination and one that merely re-centralizes it under new branding.
• Collective Dreaming — Maximizing degrees of freedom for everybody: a Jane Jacobs flavoured, evidence-based case for pluralism over optimization.
• On Media, Games and Attention — Written while a games developer in San Francisco, on media, play and where attention goes.
• Writing a Social Content Engine with RDF — Building a social content engine on RDF, in 2004.
• Smart Money — On money, incentives and what markets measure.
• Building the Metaverse — There are a variety of views on what the metaverse is and who its audiences are. An attempt to sort them out.
• What Comes After the Lloyd Center? — Portland's beloved but beleaguered Lloyd Center and skating rink come to an end.
• The Web and Our Future — What will the web be like in ten years?
• Emergence of the Web — The text-only, no-code web.
• Preconditions for the Web — Is the web a necessary invention?
• Our Uneasy Relationship with Knowledge — A survey of the kinds of knowledge we have, how we feel about them, and what new technologies like the web do to that.
• Homo Loquitur — Why do we rely so heavily on visual gesture, facial expression, spoken and written language?
• Events — Gatherings I turned up to, some to speak, some to build, some to be in the room. The people and the work that came out of them are elsewhere on this site; this is the thread that connects them.
• DWeb Camp Cascadia 2026 — An amazing community. Four days on Salt Spring Island with the decentralised-web crowd.
• AWE EU 2022 — Spoke at Augmented World Expo Europe.
• AWE USA 2022 — Spoke at Augmented World Expo USA, and gave the X-Verse keynote.
• AWE 2020 — A talk on web monetization and social signalling, delivered inside Mozilla Hubs.
• WhereCamp — An unconference for the geo-web crowd. I co-founded it.
• Food Hacking
• People & Communities I Admire — Friends, projects, and organizations doing work I believe in. A standing list of favorites.
• Human Rights Foundation — A foundation I admire for its work on human rights in closed societies, and for the Oslo Freedom Forum. Meeting the people in that room was powerful; two of them wrote books that are on my shelves.
• Regen Foundation — Funding and tooling for ecological regeneration.
• attest.monster — Attestations and trust scoring: passkey identity and one public read endpoint.
• matchmaker.monster — Public asks and offers, jobs first, with an LLM working each one.
• Makerlab — A studio of humans making strange, beautiful, useful things. Co-founded.
• Future-Of — A conference series co-founded and run with Amber Case.
• ARDevCamp — An unconference for augmented reality developers. Co-founded.
• WhereCamp — The geo unconference. Co-founded; now defunct.
• Simulate World, a talk at BIL — Fifteen minutes on simulate.world: putting the models that planners and governments use into the hands of the people a decision lands on, so a community can run its watershed, zoning or drought forward in time and reject the worst ideas before living through them. Weather forecasting is the proof it can be done.
• The X-Verse — AWE keynote — A keynote at Augmented World Expo on where the spatial web goes next.
• The Metaverse Must Be Deeply Human-Centric — Forrester's analysis of the metaverse, citing the AWE presentation.
• Augmented Reality's Influence on the Future of the Web — A long interview on the Design Reality podcast about AR and where the web is heading.
• Web Monetization and Social Signaling — AWE 2020 — A talk at Augmented World Expo 2020 on web monetization and social signalling, given via Mozilla Hubs.
• Interviewed by Tish Shute — A long-form interview on augmented reality, the browser, and the shape of a spatial web.
• THNK School of Leadership — Community profile at the THNK School of Creative Leadership.
• The Alliance — Member profile at The Alliance.
• Thingster — An early geo-place app for annotating the world and sharing places.
• Future-Of Conference — A conference series I co-founded and ran with Amber Case, exploring the future at human scale: micropayments (2020), the browser (2021), water (2022).