If a song is shared on Facebook and nobody listens to it, does it make a sound?
by andrew
I’ve just finished reading an interesting post by Mike Loukides on the O’Reilly Radar titled “The End Of Social”. Quite an interesting piece that questions the value of the amount of automated data that is broadcast to us across social channels every day (Spotify, Foursquare etc, etc). The basic premiss is that information broadcast to us is just annoying noise, yet information shared directly with us is, by the fact the creator took time to send it direct is more valuable and, as your social network expands, the amount of this useless noise increases and the number of curated interactions diminishes as you get lost in the crowd.
All sounds very obvious but something to keep in mind while we’re developing a more connected, data powered internet of things.