Today’s netbased social interaction is getting lazier and lazier. Writing long eMails to you friends? Nope. Send a nice eCard with a personal note? Nope. Chat with them for hours via IM? Nope. Write a blog entry or comment on a posting? Nope. Write a Tweet (max 140 keys to press)? Nope.

We are now just down to one click to "connect" to your friends and tell them you are "with them".

Less and less context and "social stickiness" is created with these tools. It’s more like "rating" relationships and friends instead of creating your mutual "carpet of friendship" by creating unique actions and interaction.

Quote: "There is no Information Overload, there is just selection failure!"

Really? Internet nerds and the Generation Web loves to brag about all the information revolution, how it empowers users and saves the world. But instead we are polluted with information noise …

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Yeah, the future is upon us – including pictures and comic strips (watch the video and you know what I am talking about).

Too bad that newspapers hardly profit from feeding so much information into the internet today.

PS: I feel very old right now.

So many events are snapped and recorded by hundreds if not thousands of gadgets – and beamed all over the world.

The best example is Obama’s recent Inauguration. The event was recorded from a gazillion angles (or literally points of view). They were saved in our shared digital memory to be be digested by the intranets.

But there is more.

Microsofts Photosynth shows how these collective recording can be merged / synthesized into a fuzzy hyperlinked historical "space".

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You can experience this new technology on the CNN website – but you need to install a new plug-in for your browser for the magic to work.

Photosynth creates this virtual environment from hundreds of pictures. It’s like a walk able picture space. Amazing, but not very useful yet. But I am sure future versions will be able to synthesize videos, audio and images into one "space".

But once again there is more.

With additional facial recognition you will not only be able to pick people out of the crowd, but each person will be linked to their available data all over the intranets as well.

Just like Google Maps currently records every street view in major cities all over the world – so will we ourselves share moments of our lives online by recording videos, sharing our photos, our travel reports on blogs and locations via Twitter or similar services.  And EVERYTHING will be stitched together by "intelligent" software.

A few years in the future our real lives are more or less publicly recorded by our gadgets and saved on the internet.

Information at your fingertips? Nah, more like "Your life on my screen in every detail."

Amazing how quickly some of these celebs amass their followers and fans on various sites. This a strange real time parasite relationship between followers and alpha twitters. Can you really have a real dialogue with tens of thousands of people?

But I am sure it’s a great ego boost for these celebs and followers alike.

PS: Full disclosure – I am following Stephen Fry, because I think he is worth it.

Politicians and the Internet – not necessarily a love affair. Look at Saudi Arabia, China and many other depressing nations. Even democratic countries like South Korea politicians hate the Internet and try to suppress freedom of speech and grassroots movement via the net.

Many American Millenials and Webaddicts love to praise their toys as the transformative element that pushed Obama ahead.

But the numbers simply don’t add up: Obama has a massive 144,000 followers on Twitter. This sounds pretty impressive for a generation that measures it’s self-esteem by it’s friend counts on Facebook and MySpace.

But compare 144,000 Twitter followers to staggering 231,229,580 people in voting age in the USA. Even compared to the meager voter turnout of 132,618,580 people it’s a joke. Most of them have never heard of Twitter or own an account on Facebook. Many won’t even own an computer.

Sure many of Obama’s political ads and related videos got millions of views on YouTube, but these figures reflect a global audience – not just an American one.

Obama’s real victory was not on the Internets, but based on good old fashioned neighborhood help. His foot soldiers knocked on many doors and inspired others to vote for him.

The Internet and all it’s gimmicks certainly helped a lot organizing the effort, but the battleground was still this odd thing called reality.

Mousetivism is a great thing, but not as effective as it’s followers claim.

I am sure the CNN editor thought this is a hilarious question for a poll, but it’s rather obvious and lame.

No, you don’t need to be always on and connected everywhere just because you get a WiFi signal.

Best tweet ever.

I hope the Hackers never get caught, unless they did some serious damage.

Excellent Video about Twitter and how it works. Very well done and easy to understand for even twentysomethings or my clients …

Don’t miss the other brilliant videos from commoncraft as well.