eTech: Untethering the Social Network

Didn't take very good notes in this one: Too much hecklebot brew-ha-ha.

Mimi Ito:

* research on japanese kids w/mobile phones
- SMS = intimate company in solitary moment (SMS while on bus/train) + use of SMS vs. voice (can be more intimate) + can accomodate pauses without being awkward.

* some teens now say send SMS before calling as a "knock" before coming in.

* full-time intimate community theme

* common genre for phonecam shots: new hair cut shot, baby shot, food shot.

* You're never alone in urban space anymore.

* Trends here emerged from user space. Hard to predict uses, better to give users simple tool set and let them develop rich user practices.

Scott Fisher

* Location based services. R-click RFID. email to phone w/options nearby. Very boring. Not very good content.

* Interesting projects for annotating spaces with mobile phones: murmur project, campus aware, city poems, urban tapestries, PDPAL, locative network.

danah boyd

* older mobile phones weren't technologically hackable.
- now phones are socially hackable. starting to come more and more together.
- privacy concerns
- should we regulate social norms on networks? social hacking allows us to expand use and markets.

Joi Ito

* social hacking has been against carrier's wishes so far. computer has been the core of hacking but now mobility is allowing hacking to become social.

* Can you use IRC on cell phone and what ports can you access?

Mimi: Most people are communicating with 4 people, not 4,000 people. Very similar to blogging in that sense.