Thanks to everyone who came out for lunch today - a good crowd:
Matt Hampel, Nathaniel Poor, Dan Cooney, Mihira Jayasekera, Gaia Kile,
Jose Nazario, Dave Barnett, Sam Shin, Ed Vielmetti, (did I miss
anyone? I count 9 which sounds about right).
Some but not all of the topics of conversation.
Social networks - MySpace (teen space), Facebook (college space),
Tribe (Burning Man space), LinkedIn (for getting jobs), U-M Alumni
"InCircle" (leaders and best). Some sense for the demographics of
each, what people use them for, and how you manage identities across
each where your presentation of self is very different.
Online video, YouTube and ABC/Disney - imagine the possibilities if
the marketers and advertisers on these video networks could get you to
connect with your online social network identities.
Games. Learning management skills by playing World of Warcraft -
should you put it on your resume if you are level 60? Back in the
day, people dropping out of school by playing MUD for too long. The
risks of having friends around the world is that you never go to
sleep. Joi Ito doesn't write anymore, he just plays WoW.
We're up to 40 people on the a2b3 mailing list. New faces this week:
Gaia Kile, organizer of the Ann Arbor car cooperative, and community
organizer; Nathaniel (Nat?) Poor, friend of Dan Cooney's, teaches at
Albion until the end of the term, then looking for a position doing
non-profit community telecommunications international development
based in New York City (so you have 5 points to score opportunities
for him on).
thanks all, it was a nice lunch
Ed
Edward Vielmetti