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Even Westvang: From Sites to Flows
Social networks are the bomb. You get intimate details on interesting people, you digg news stories, social bookmarks are del.icio.us and trackbacking is the new black. Any day now, you’ll be asking yourself: Dude, where’s my web site? All I have are these feeds and flows…
That’s the question Even Westvang posed in his lecture From Sites to Flows: Designing for the Porous web at the University of Oslo: “Do I still have a website, or do I maintain a series of f!ows in an ecology of services?”
Even recently helped start a new social network in Norway called [underskog.no-http://underskog.no], so he has lots of opportunity to ponder these questions, and better yet, what does it mean for designers. Graciously, Even has shared his thoughts as a downloadable PDF on his Polarfront site. Licensed with a Creative Commons license of course. It’s all very Web 2.0.
Even also spoke at the Generator.x conference about his Nomen Nominandum project.
[...] I have little to add to this article that I found on Generator X yesterday. Even Westvang gave lecture called From Sites to Flows: Designing for the Porous web at the University of Oslo and put a downloadable PDF online. He addresses many of the issues I’m struggling with at work but more so when i tried to start designing a site for myself. I have a delicious account, a Flickr account, a last.fm account which has a journal that i like and I also blog at work (here too). I keep this blog but I want to bring it all together in a more structured way and now since every blog and web service has a way of exporting and digesting the data its possible. So many possible ways to combine everything that I’m virtually paralyzed on my site. That’s progress. [...]
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