Transcendental Social Networking

Stewart Butterfield and Co with some really groovy stuff. Motto: Don't build application, build contexts for interaction.

The architecture of entertainment has been shaped by the idea of Immersion. Play is about people, not places [Thumbs Up] to this. Architecture emerges out of play.

Badge -> Graph -> Scrape -> game/blog context -> Neighborhood browser -> Neverending blogroll ->

App-based -> Document-based -> Relationship-based Computing (BooYaa!)

Flickr. Saw this social networking photo sharing application last night and it simply rocks.

Instant chat. Groups are objects. Using the social network as a whitelist. You get the idea (when you see it).