Related resources: McKinsey Report "The Internet of Things"
Other things to watch out for:
Bio-sensing
awareness of the thing moving around us
Application and opportunity:
Airport security
Environmental Protection
Food integrity
Semantic Measurement of location-based data plus bio sensing can make for some helpful scenarios for virus detection and infectious disease control, crisis management and response.
Anticipatory Systems
Systems that collect data from machines or social systems and create an automated response mechanism to respond before crisis or the need to replenish occur.
In concept of these ideas and technologies it is helpful to consider the holistic scenarios involved.
Who are the actors? What is the system? How to they interact (or not) and where can measurable, quantifiable and responsive metrics and data be extrapolated. Look for the places where data is already being emitted and leverage those spots to add value to a business, consumer or process and create meaning for this data.
chat roulette from Casey Neistat on Vimeo.
]]>JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.
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It is undeniable that social media has changed the way we interact with friends, co workers and family.
We hasn't felt the burn of seeing a photo of your former flame with their new love, been annoyed with the old classmate who tries to convert you to their religion or political party on their status messages, or at least been solicited to throw sheep at someone?
Some interesting social network stats:
31% of today’s social networkers have only been at it a year or less.
Another 30% have been using social networking sites for one to two years, with the rest having used these sites for at least three years.
Length of time using online social networking sites
Most “Residents” (persona of folks who are avid social networkers) have been using online social networking sites for over three years, significantly longer than other segments.
“Twitterers” are most likely to have used social networking sites for 1-2 years.
75% access social networking sites from home .
- Beresford Research, “Use of Online Social Networks White Paper”, Nov 2009
So while I don’t have the research to back this assertion up – this says to me the early adopters might be looking for some new stuff to play with.
Today’s headline for a San Francisco paper reads: “’Friends’ No More, for some Social Networking has become too much of a good thing”
Anecdotally I can say that even some of the local “social media gurus” are unplugging.
Some companies have even streamlined the process for you and created social media “suicide” apps:
http://www.seppukoo.com/
http://suicidemachine.org/
Click for random Strangers
So where does that leave opportunity? If we have “friended” ourselves to boredom, there's always the kindness of strangers...
Chat Roulette* is an irc type chat channel that allows people to connect with strangers picked at random on open 1:1 video/audio channel.
I am very curious to see how big this gets and I can already see many product, service and entertainment opportunities using this basic platform.
Safe for work articles:
http://nymag.com/news/media/63663/comments.html
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/cliff-kuang/design-innovation/welcome-weirdest-new-internet-past-time-chat-roulette
Is it possible we are seeing the birth of the next wave of tech mediated social interactions?
And perhaps we are making a sentimental journey to return to the wild west the web once was.
* Warning: a lot of what is on chat roulette is NOT safe for work. It is completely unfiltered, non-edited content. It’s the idea and the platform I wanted to bring to your attention.
from 2009 Salone del Mobile, Milano Italia
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