Menu option to see the lists I follow

Once you follow an external public list, you can't find it again until a notification comes. The whole purpose of following a list is to refer to the existing entries as well.

Otherwise I'd need to create a list of "public lists I follow". Thats not efficient.

in reference to: Follow a list : Managing lists and labels - Bookmarks Help (view on Google Sidewiki)

Startup Metrics for Convicts

Yesterday Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer.com and asked me to do a fill-in guest lecture for Technology Venture Creation (ELEC5701) course at Sydney University.

So, because the web is already cluttered with a bajillion posts, articles, platitudes and opinions on startups I thought I'd make some comments on the uniquely Australian perspective. Having started and been involved in a few startups bootstrapped from Australia - its worth sharing some tips and traps that might help young aussie entrepreneurs thinking they have a global product/company.

Most aussies know that the convict thing is a convenient ice-breaker in offshore conversations, so I've called the presentation "Startup Metrics for Convicts" in homage/rip-off of Dave McClure's "pirates" talks. Sorry, its a bit rough - I was short on time.

Startup Metrics for Convicts

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Zuckerberg says nobody uses lists - umm Gmail contacts?

truth is facebook has less utility than an a sorted categorized contact list. Google Buzz does it well and you can simply buzz to family, friends or colleagues

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/iHeEme-pOTc/

will "green" or "games" drive internet of things?

This post shows the big boys are taking sensors seriously....BUT it still seems like "technology looking for a problem".
Normally porn is awarded the kudos of furthering internet technology (sort of like NASA) but I half suspect social gaming will be the heir (commercially speaking) to the throne. (iPhone and Wii sensor driven gaming).
Or perhaps it will be the more altruistic, green initiative that will apply sensors for energy reduction and intelligent minimisation of resources. Here are the "thing" sensors (as HP crow):

• Vibration
  
• Tilt
  
• Rotation
  
• Navigation
  
• Sound
  
• Air flow
  
• Light
  
• Temperature
  
• Biological
  
• Chemical
  
• Humidity
  
• Pressure
  
• Location
  

..still seems applicable to porn....

Great post on embedding "viscerality" in your UX

A perfect companion for Made to Stick by Chip Heath is this post. Focussing on "transitions", "wow moments" and "endings" the post communicates the weaving of a story that embeds deeper in the user's emotional level than just clicking stuff. Made to Stick!

I don't agree with one of the commenters complaining about eBay - yes its an ugly 1.0 site but:

• I think the star rating was central to their success. It "took reputation to the consumers" in a form that was (mostly) understandable and dissolved distrust of remote buyers/sellers. People forget how revolutionary that was.
  
• Also the concept of "WINning" an auction was a critical piece of reality distortion that surfaced an emotion that people often don't realise themselves. That reinforcing a visceral experience.
  

It also reminds me how ever since mint.com - everyone seems to be building green sites - meh.

The emergence of game culture in other ecosystems (foursquare etc) is also another huge wave that will be interesting to follow - will we become fatigued at the endless goals applications/sites start to set for us? Can I monetize my effort, is there a liquid market for "badges"?

Pop will eat itself

...was the name of a seminal "alternative" Brit music outfit in the '80s.

A mere 3/4 years ago Dave Recordin gave seminal presentation on openid that still stands today. At some point he casually remarks that people want different identities for themselves and in fact he had several OpenIDs.

This seemed perfectly naturally to me coming from a security background - having more fake identities than Sybil (or fellow aussie Tara) is just your starting point.

In OZ various identity systems (the australia card) and various government and banking PKI initiatives have failed because a unique explicit identity is just too creepy.  What's worse is a flat social network where there is no granularity.  In recent years Chi.MP and Google Buzz have allowed "Groups" but Facebook has remained steadfastly flat - what crazy logic is that?

Its fashionable to critique FB based on privacy - but thats not the point. The point is that it can't work. Now everyone's friend are blamange of mates, Nannas,  ex school friends, colleagues and people that owe you one beer. With "lists" Facebook is showing some vague hint of granularity but maybe too little too late.
Leakage of the disenfranchised will become a network effect - Ryze, Friendster the proof.

The Law of 150 probably only survives on your ability to "chunk down" into subsets. Without seeing the mooted FB privacy controls, "pop" will eat itself.
Dave Recordin was right that everyone deserves to select what identities they have and as many as they can keep a track of!

the fridge delivered social granularity for hormone charged transgressions

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/qBPc8TsfEX4/
See earlier post on multiple personalities