Web 3.0 Lab

A community exploring the connection between social space and social technology.

• MySpace making a comeback?
  
  
  MySpace comeback would be a strange story in the development of cloud living, but Apple came back from the edge.  This industry is dynamic and fast, unless you are Yahoo.

  
• Google Maps and Not Google Social
  
  

  
  

  Okay this is trying to make web 3.0 seem cute but this video frankly does not explain what it is about Web 3.0 that makes it of value. Google's techie culture has consistently failed to understand social, and the youTube video above demonstrates that this is still the case. They can execute core technology which will enable the geo-social web, but they don't get it.

  
  
  This video probably captures Google's comfort zone.  Geeky music, geeky concept, geeky games.  It is clear that Google sees the world as clever technical problems to be analyzed and solved in clever ways.  This was an improvement on Microsoft's obsession with market share and is why Google has conquered areas like search and online advertising.  But it lacks the social understanding.
  
  Google is like the engineer that built the bridge that you and your wife had your first kiss on.  The bridge helps support thousands of people every day doing things they want to do, but they don't make that much money from the doing of things.

  
• Tracking real time tweeting intensity in Bahrain
  
  
  So far we are only seeing moderate tweeting coming from Bahrain where demonstrations and police repression is said to be taking place.  This tool will track twitter intensity in real time.  Click around the map to check the twitter 'temperature' at any location.
  We have been seeing some surges in tweeting around Burhama, which is just outside of town near Lulu, where we assume a large demonstration is taking place.

  
• Tweets from the Battle for Athens

  This map shows the locations of tweets from mobile devices during riots in Athens on 12/02/12 mapped with the clima.me tool.

  Athens Greece is not a large area for tweeting.  These are some of the highest levels of tweets we have ever seen for Athens mapped over an evening of violent riots and mass protests.
  

  MMGEISSLER instagram image from Athens after the protets

  
  Notice a cluster of tweets to the north of parliament, this is where the Attikon theater is(was?) located and the tweets cluster is a classic gawkers cluster.  A group of people are standing around photographing the fire and posting images with instagram to twitter.
  

  Closer view shows tweets coming from both Parliament and streets, and a division between riots in the squares and side streets

  
  

  The above map shows a distribution of tweets and foursqaure checkins.  As one would anticipate there is almost not checkins, people are tweeting news events.  But it is interesting that someone checkined during a riot.

  This shows the tweeting for the next day.  There is still continued heavy tweeting down the side streets, we assume these are people photographing sites of damage more than anything else.

  
• The day after tweets