RRW on Social Networks for Things
Over at ReadWriteWeb today, Richard McManus has a post out on Social Networks for Things. It is a writeup of the DLD panel Ulla-Maaria was on last week. Richard outlines the ideas behind Thinglink and two adjacent services, ThingD and a new startup called rezz.it. He ends with a prediction:
If web 2.0 was largely about social networks for people (which you can certainly argue it was), then the new generation of the web will add things to those networks and create new networks.
It’s good to see people are starting to recognize the emergence of new startups in this space, and advances in image recognition, mobile handsets, product identification, and social networking technologies all combine to make this an exciting time to be working on the “social graph of things.” Read the full post here.
As someone interested in new media and aesthetics, this panel truly looks forward to a new definition/better understanding of “aesthetic identity” for this day and age. We can now endow an object with all of our diverse aesthetic associations – and those associations can travel with that object – and can in turn branch out and network in all kinds of productive ways.
Going to be interesting to watch as you open out the service and move from the initial 10 brands (which is a great start) into to wider design objects sector.
Great home page!
We have a narrower focus in our startup of things – guitars. We are here: http://www.dbtwang.com
keith