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Your vacation viewing assignment
On September 8th, TummelVision will return in its full glory, but during our brief summer break/burning man respite, we invite you to dip into our catalog of dozens of fascinating discussions with remarkable guests. In particular, this week we’re enjoying this wonderful conversation with the legendary songwriter and tummler Allee Willis from our show’s fifth episode in glorious TWiT network video format. Check out the show notes for more about Allee, or just dive in!
Got To Shake It Up Now w/Allee Willis – Tummelvision Ep. 5 from heather gold on Vimeo.
TummelVision 14: Derek Powazek on designing the social website
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80’s song title: “One thing leads to another”
TummelVision 9: Brian Oberkirch on the art of small good things
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We had a great chat with Brian Oberkirch on the implicit and explicit impact of the social and geo-loco services rippling through our lives. Brian is a ‘multi-lingual’ understated tummler and marketing guy who speaks geek and non geek alike. He looks at the web from a uniquely human place. We focused a bit on the need for web services and sites to do a better job educating their users on the implications of the data they are sharing in plain english as well as discussing how the features we choose to include on sites set the tone for the community – i.e. ratings systems, game mechanics, “number of followers” etc.
- Dewitt Clinton on the features we choose setting tone: The web would be a better place if …
- Brian’s post on paying a bit more attention to the implicit effects of social services and feature: “Hell, the fall alone will kil ya”
- http://www.brianoberkirch.com/2010/03/04/hell-the-fall-will-kill-ya/
- Adrian Chan on game mechanics and social functionality
- Dave Winer refreshing out memory on what makes a good conference
80’s theme song: Follow me, oh follow me
