#indieweb 2020-01-30

2020-01-30 UTC
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jeremycherfas Good morning IndieWeb
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swentel morning
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[jgmac1106] morning
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Loqi rise and shine!
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jgmac1106 Good list of edtech(ish) tech tools: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TE5wcvWUZBF8bTqlMeN06lEcTssQ8G8UtV1urTM7SgI/edit?usp=sharing I went and added personal websites where I could
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[KevinMarks] https://twitter.com/beep/status/1222628403771211776?s=20
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@beep Stages of a personal site redesign: Hmm, what if we did this? Ooh, and what if we did THIS? And what about THIS???? [weeks pass] okay what if we didn’t do any of that (twitter.com/_/status/1222628403771211776)
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sivy-phone I’m in the “And what about THIS????” stage right now
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sknebel :)
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[jgmac1106] Another Google social network, but this time choosing pinterest and not facebook as target:https://tangi.co/
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[snarfed] ah, it's from area 120. skunkworks, basically. some big co's like google have small and medium things like this that are just individual teams' projects, and don't reflect any big top-down initiative or deliberate push
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[snarfed] sorry if that was obvious. easy to think of big co's as single unified entities, but they rarely are
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[snarfed] they definitely do also have big top-down initiatives though, eg G+
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jgmac1106 I knew it was skunkworks, but G+ still lives on as collections, and Google is getting more and more agressive with Maps as a network, not totally sure they have given up on idea
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[snarfed] oh lots of teams probably still want it, agreed. i guess my point is that there's often no single coherent "they" in big co's like google, as much as a bunch of smaller groups (including exec leadership) that overlap but definitely aren't the same
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jgmac1106 I have been capturing screenshots of the notifications for Maps. Google has a gamification point system with no real perks, and they continously bombard your notification shade with prompts for more reviews and photos
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jgmac1106 there I think the effort is more deliberate, not a social network per se, but using the same tricks to drive UGC
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aaronpk i keep getting emails "congrats your photos have been viewed x thousand times"
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[snarfed] thank god for fine grained notif settings in both ios and android
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jgmac1106 yeah, been doing screenshots, don’t know where on wiki to put them but these are def a/b tested dopamine drivers of engagement
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jgmac1106 aagree snarfed been leaving them on because A: I am starting to get value by getting free stuff or being asked to review local businesses, and B to document, and C because Dopamine drugs work
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[KevinMarks] I have over a million photo views now (I have been deliberately posting photos of local restaurants etc)
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[KevinMarks] 1.2 million views apparently
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jgmac1106 bout halfway there KevinMarks but most are landmarks or parks, I guess I am the biggest reviewer in my county (Middlesex, CT) its a weird new local microinfluencer level, starting to be sought out
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jgmac1106 I wonder if Google is prompting business owners to ask me. Not sure…maybe this is getting chat
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jgmac1106 510k views on photos and 26k on reviews
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aaronpk see it's working
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aaronpk you want the numbers
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jgmac1106 I think I will start to manually POSSE and ad an also on link…if it doesnt get removed
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jgmac1106 I fully admited that
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jgmac1106 especially now that free stuff is coming, feel like when they learned to write letters for free sunglasses in the movie Summer Schhol
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jgmac1106 a place to syndicate reviews that worked with one of the open source nav apps on Android would be a cool #indieweb project
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