I have not been using an RSS reader for months. Lately I have been trying to look at my NetNewsWire again, but there are a couple of things that frustrate me.
The first is that it is not easy for me to share items. I used to be able to clip them, but now that NNW [...]
Tag Archives: 3dsn
What I Want in a News Reader
Clippings, Shared Items, and Attention
Have you seen ReadBurner.com? It is a service that allows you to post a feed of your “shared items” from Google Reader or your “clippings” from Newsgator/FeedDemon/NetNewsWire. ReadBurner then displays what the most popular items are. It is the latest entry in the “cream floats to the top” category of applications like TechMeme or Digg [...]
Attention Information Could Add Depth to Social Networks
I just read that Ma.gnolia (my social bookmark application of choice) is starting to provide APML information (read the annoucement). This is very cool.
At BarCamp Nashville I was talking about a concept I had termed “3D Social Networking”. The basic idea was to add attention information to social networks to provide relationship depth. Then that [...]
3DSN: Summary
What is 3D Social Networking? The simplest way to put is that 3D Social Networking is about adding depth to relationships in social networking applications (and all applications are now all social networking applications).
The way I broke it down on Saturday was to talk about what the three dimensions are:
Do you know them?
In what [...]
3DSN: Continuing Discussion
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 [...]


