Presentation on inserting social interactions into information flow using gaming constructs, and how discovery innately reinforces social sharing.

1. Finding Vorpal Blades:Questing for Content Peter Brantley Internet Archive

2. @nickbilton The Web is shifting from a paradigm of *publishing* to a model of *communication* - @tedroden speaking to my NYU class. http://twitter.com/nickbilton/status/9851408533 01 March 2010

4. Steady state How to find information 1985: Go to a library Circulate papers Attend seminars Ask around

5. Life cycle of things solicitation curation - selection editing - preparation publication --------- Content (things)

7. Life cycle of discovery search filtering referrals recommends --------- Discovery (process)

8. Network social Dominant sources of information embody network mediated social interactions

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19. A generation’s search when we search where we search what we search for what we expect to find how we share - and - what sharing means

21. Pervasive data The growth and proliferation of databases and libraries that we access and update in the course of our every day lives, and new techniques of accessing, visualising and using that data, leads to new forms of representation and social interaction. Futureeverything & Leonardo Electronic Almanac: Art in the age of pervasive data

22. Implicit action Finding is collaborative ... sharing is “built in” (our platforms are premised on sharing)

23. The great reciprocity discover   sharing

24. Do-ing things user active (^passive) filtering interacting augmenting republishing

25. Asmara, 1940s

26. Across generations @naypinya thanks so much for posting that, I have never seen pictures of when Americans were there. I'm favorite-ing this! 11:53 PM Feb 1st @naypinya that would be great.. I recognized some of the places in Asmara like the mosque which is right near my house ... 2:27 PM Feb 2nd MessiShukor Asmara Eritrea

27. 60 years, 1 world, and 2 days

28. Social systems We {all} can publish [stuff] and link to (it) share_the_links

30. Linear economics The business of content – and the “law of things” – are no longer as viable. Investment, production, distribution

31. Link based services We must remix & not just content ! (Invest) +ment (Product) +ion (Distribute) +ion uberAlles

32. “Berlin is here to mix everything with everything.” [The author] finds herself in the middle of a collision ... between the staid, literary establishment ... and the Berlin youth culture of D.J.’s and artists that sample freely and thereby breathe creativity into old forms. “Author, 17, Says It’s ‘Mixing,’ Not Plagiarism” NY Times, Feb 11, 2010, Nicholas Kulish

33. Re-capitulate Re-Mix Business Processes Re-form The Law

34. Idea-ation Re-flect the value of the content > _______ > into the social flow of the information

35. Into the flow flickr could enable the acquisition of use rights for an image on its homepage

36. Bookserver Readers Search Engines Libraries Publishers Booksellers

37. Atom-ic gateway

38. Atom-ic articles

40. a toy story When you were young, would you have expected your toys to surprise you?

41. Rubber ducky intrigue

42. Toward the social trending toward sophistication complexity surprise deeper social interaction

43. Robotic Seal

44. Gaming it Best metaphor is gaming: Rapid, participatory, collaborative: Quests to find beneficial things Cooperation to fend away evil. Imagination, interaction, incited curiosity leading to surprise.

45. MMORPG of Old Beware the Jabberwocky!

46. Snicker-snack! One, two! One, two! And through and throughThe vorpal blade went snicker-snack!He left it dead, and with its headHe went galumphing back. - Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky

47. Embedded associations Vorpal blades Back-cited through references in a wide range of SF&F works. Magic re-invoked | A term endowed again and again. | with a narrative.

48. Channeled wormholes I’ve seen blades like that before. Vorpal blades, they call them. I’m not sure why. This one is obviously decommissioned, but how did it get here? They don’t rely on the edge or point to cut, that’s not what they’re for. - Charles Stross, Glasshouse, 2006

49. Chains of conduct We can thread “latent opportunities” in info systems Bound to action (If they are known otherwise ignored)

50. The game surprises Thinking of services as games We can avoid thing-ness Focus on interaction Embed the option to find the spell and cast it (if you know its language) you can open the darkened door

51. Make a quest

53. Image work Swish swish, move them back and forward. Pinch and pull, smaller and larger. Tap tap tap, make a collection. Hold and drag, to share.

54. Thanks peter brantley director, bookserver project internet archive san francisco, ca (twitter) @naypinya (slideshare) peter at archive.org