Transparent Society

Many of us deep in the core of this bubble within a bubble within a bubble that is better known as "Web 2.0" are publishing increasing amounts of details about our lives, in real time on blogs, photo sites, videos etc. Is this merely a local short term phenomenon, or are we pioneers on the bleeding edge of a more transparent society?

soundtrack

• listen to Rockwell: Someone's Watching Me in another tab while reading

sites

That help make it easier to be more transparent.

• http://twitter.com/ - What are you doing? small text updates
• http://flickr.com/ - What did you see? photographs and videos
• http://blip.tv/ - videos
• http://upcoming.org/ - What are going planning on doing or going to?
• http://brightkite.com/ - Where are you? location/venue checkin and photographs

dying:

• http://dodgeball.com/ - Where are you? location/venue checkin and tagging
  • Google is apparently going to shut it down. Why not leave it in their "labs" as they do so many other things?
• http://plazes.com/ - Where are you? wifi hotspot checkin and tagging
  • Multiple critical mistakes. They broke backward compat in their proprietary checkin protocol/API with their small/fast check-in application. They removed the leaderboard/gaming/competitive aspect of wifi hotspot tagging with one of their massive design iterations.

related articles

• WIRED magazine: The Visible Man: An FBI Target Puts His Whole Life Online
• New York Times 2008-09-05: Brave New World of Digital Intimacy

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