links for 2006-07-14

Edward Viel­met­ti won­ders whether there’s any sig­nif­i­cant work done on the crossover of phys­i­cal and vir­tu­al com­mu­ni­ties. Thomas Van­der Wal replies that his work on the local info­cloud touch­es on this.

Van­der Wal describes his con­cept of the local info­cloud as “infor­ma­tion resources that are famil­iar and eas­i­er to access than the whole of the web”. Most impor­tant­ly he includes real-world resources.

Blue Fla­vor bash­es the recent­ly launched Peo­ple Aggre­ga­tor for its bad design. Right­ly so, I guess. Per­haps PA should sole­ly focus on deliv­er­ing an infra­struc­ture and leave the design of apps to oth­ers?

Huge amount of per­sona-relat­ed resources.

“Love­marks are a new way of think­ing about the things we love. Love­marks are bet­ter than brands, because they are about Love and Respect: they speak to us as think­ing and feel­ing human beings. Love­marks embody Mys­tery, Sen­su­al­i­ty and Inti­ma­cy.”