I was really surprised at the number of questions and comments that I received from my presentation at BarCamp Nashville last weekend. For those of you that weren’t there, I talked about some ideas I have been tossing around about how to make social networking more useful. The title of the talk was “3D Social Networking”. I feared it was a topic that had a lot of potential to result in glassy eyes and bored participants (the exact opposite of what BarCamp is supposed to be all about).
I give presentations fairly regularly as part of my day job. One measure that I use to know if the audience is getting anything from my presentation is the quality of the questions. I was amazed at the quality of the questions last Saturday. Not because I expected the BarCampers to be slouches, but because it demonstrated to me that what I was talking about was really resonating with some people. Dare I say that it was even causing people to think about things in a new paradigm (possibly my ultimate goal in life, resulting from my study of Philosophy).
Over the next few days I am going to try and post more details about the concepts and ideas that I was talking about. I hope to remember enough of the questions to be able to explore those in more detail as well. Hopefully I will be able to get the exact questions if/when there is video of the talk available.
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That reminds me: the question i was going to ask and didn’t get to…
Right now the information we give to all those social sites (movie ratings, friendships, etc) is valuable. Some of the businesses use that information to directly generate revenue. Even for the ones that don’t, the recognize the value. - What incentive would those companies have for giving up that info? For opening it up to an API that could be used by other programs?