#social

35 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 — many species, many niches, edges that matter.
• Social Trust Graphs — Trust is not a score. It's a graph — directional, contextual, decaying — and most systems flatten it into a number and lose everything that mattered.
• 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-flavored, 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 — semantic web thinking well before it was fashionable.
• Smart Money — On money, incentives and what markets actually 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 just 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 — Talked about web monetization and social signalling — delivered via 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 deeply admire — work on human rights in closed societies, and the Oslo Freedom Forum. Meeting the people in that room was powerful for me; two of them wrote books that are on my shelves.
• Regen Foundation — Funding and tooling for ecological regeneration — money that grows soil instead of extracting it.
• 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 — annotate the world, share places, long before it was common.
• Future-Of Conference — Exploring the future at human scale — a conference series I co-founded, run with Amber Case: micropayments (2020), the browser (2021), water (2022).
• Anselm at BIL — Simulate World — Conference talk.