It’s always nice to get some kind of confirmation that you’re heading for something good. That my senses aren’t way off and that what I’m doing might even be useful in a way. Let me explain.

As you may or may not know, I am doing a graduation project. When I started I had no idea I would be heading for a social interaction tool to be used in education, but hey, there you go. And to find an article in the “newspaper” - metro, wish I could find an online source of this article - , while evaluating the result from my little three-week qualitative reseach with fourteen twelve year olds in a school for media and arts, about the European Commission starting an investigation whether mobile phones are good for our children.

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We all know presence settings. I’m available, busy, away, out to lunch, offline etc.. This is all good and well, but obviously, this kind of presence is rather useless in a mobile context. I’m hardly ever away from my mobile, I’m offline in tunnels, and availability .. well, to be honest, how often do you turn down a phonecall without a comforting txt to explain.

And it’s exactly this type of text message which I won’t need to send you if you would know what I’m doing and where I am. I’ve always believed there’s room and need for an extended contact list, which informs you about your contacts, friend, colleagues, clients, family. So you don’t disturb them when they’re asleep, so you can check when they get into the office, so you can see if they’re in the bar around the corner. I don’t know if the developers of Jaiku considered these ideas, but even if they haven’t, I believe they’re heading the right way.

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This years Barca-edition of the Online Flash Film Festival is going to take place in CCCB from 11 to 13 May.
More information on Offf BCN 2006 coming soon.

Are mobile devices really enhancing our social habits?

It’s probably a question that’s been asked many many times before, but to which a good answer is still out in the open. We’ve all seen or maybe even experienced the problems in today’s society, e.g. happy slapping, conversations being interupted to get that call, loud music on the bus or tube, accidentily bumping into people because you’re talking on the phone, ignoring violence on the streets.. the list goes on and on.. And there is no apparent movement in the industry to acknowledge, let alone try and tackle these social changes. On the contrary, every product that’s been released to the market is focussed on preserving the mini-private space where you are not engaging in what’s going on around you at all. Voice calling, mobile TV, portable gaming, iPods, all destined to enable us to ignore everything and everyone around us alltogether. Where has the surprise element gone?

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Will this be the year we actually get round to publishing a new site on May 1st?

Give it your best shot!

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MySpace, Friendster, Cyworld, Yahoo 360, Hyves, Hi5, 43People, LinkedIn, Spaces .. the list goes on and on. Then there’s Blogger, Wordpress, Flickr, Flock, Digg, Ohmynews, Current TV, NowPublic etc.. . and the all combining Technorati, Del.icio.us and Wikipedia. Almost forgot the oldies MSN, Skype, AIM, . Pretty daunting if you’re just starting out.

Why should you join? What if you join the wrong group? How many different groups do you join? Where are your friends at? Where are the interesting people at? Where do you put up your blog? How many places do you have for getting messages in the end? How does all this affect your privacy? How does this affect our usage of time? How is my sister - who is everything but tech-savvy - going to get all this and be part of this if it’s going to be as big as we like to believe it is?

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I just found a link to eye-spot, a video upload, control, trim and mixer tool to share creations with your friends. This is the kind of tool which is really good for a good laugh and some creativity. Motorola came up with a similar kind of tool just a few days ago, and although it is limited already uploaded video files and pre-cut scenes, you can still create funky movieclips to send on to your mates. It kind of reminds me of the weddingcrashers crash trailer or the senseo mixer (shameless plug)
I really feel these are the kind of tools that make the internet a much more fun place. To enable anybody to create content, and to create a smile on the face behind your desk