Since friday the 30. of January the place where I have choosen to store all my bookmarks has been down. According to their Twitter account, ma.gnolia.com had severe failure. Which was okay for a day or two, but by now Im kinda wondering if I will ever see what I think is about 3 years of bookmarks again. Im pretty pissed about that to say the least. I have even wondered to myself "why oh why I have ever putted my bookmarks on the internet" - and "why oh why I didn't stay on del.icio.us".
Ma.gnolia had a lot of charm for me, and where a really interesting tool to use for open knowledge sharing within a company.
I am using my bookmarks everyday for research and benchmarking and best casestudies. I don't know if I will be able to access my "knowledge bank of expertise goods" which used to be my magnolia account.
They lost it - or so it seems.
I trusted their service so much - and I also thought that they had really great backup of our data, but I guess not.
Now in my current mood of "pissed off ness" I am sure that they have brought miscredit to all of the internet - from my point of view because I don't believe I will be able to trust an online service again - not without having it all backed up at home.
If I face it, there's a lot of those bookmarks that are not that important (a lot of them are - but probably 70 % I could live without).
But I would never be able to use ma.gnolia again - also because of their way of communicating to their users - which has almost non-existent. The value in my bookmarks is extremely high. I wanted to know the day after the failure that I would probably not see my bookmarks again.
Bottomline is: I wont be able to trust the internet with my data without having most of it backup at home. I can't believe that they could loose my data. I don't think my trust in social network and services will ever be regained. At least not in services where I store data that is actually that valuable to my work and my daily life.
[magnolia, ma.gnolia.com, bookmarks, data, trust, security, communication, badwill]
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Last night I received an invitation to a group on facebook from one of my friends.
It said something like, "sign up for this group and invite all of your friends".
Basically a lot of group invitations says that, but the way this was said make me tremble. They were using me as a catalysator for growth to become something bigger. Using people as catalysators is a great thing normally! - if:
- you use creativity to do it
- you don't tell your motives
- you attach your motives to storytelling
- you tell stories about everything BUT yourself
So you basically have to be silent about yourself.
Wrap your motives in stories.
be creative.
Think about what data you think would give a lot of value to your users ( and it's often not data about yourself)
[creativity, data, presence-marketing, community-marketing, facebook, invitation, catalysators, motives, storytelling, social media marketing, social marketing, social branding]
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I am in Geneva, Switzerland - for the
lift conference for the 3rd time.
it has been really exciting for me to see how the lift team is evolving every year - and this year is no exception.
I found myself lucky enough to be at
Mark Wubbens workshop this morning about "forgetful interfaces and the ever-ness of data". which was really interesting. And as you probably will find out - I have more questions now than when I found myself at the workshop.
My idea was from the beginning that we don't need to adress the ever-ness of data. But I got more and more enlightned by the talks. And there was a lot of talking going on.
I think what I thought the most about was the fact that:
before photos became digital we stored both good and bad photos because we had gone through "such a hard time" ( development time + money) to get them. They where kept in shoeboxes IRL or something like that.
The state of these photos for us was emotional - meaning that it was something we wanted to keep because it was a part of our documented past.
it's kind off the same reason we keep books and nostalgic items. they are emotional.
So when photos became digital - we started storing everything on the computer ( and later on sharing this data on the web) because we could and we don't really have to be selective about it - because it's basically free to store data (1 picture more or less don't make a huge difference)..
but how are we supposed to go "simple data living" and "clean up our data mess" ? should we really be using the time of evaluating every piece of data we keep stored whether its relevant or not ? is our data consumption becoming as greedy as consumption in general these days ?
just thinking about it makes me tired. do we really need to adress the ever-ness of data issue ? ( if there is an issue at all ?) are we gonna adress data overload from a consumption point of view in the future ?
is deleting the same as forgetting ? or how do you define "forgetting data"?
anyway we came up with a "recency index for data" at the workshop that could work ( and I liked personally) which was:
If the data hasn't been tagged by us - it should be filed by location (gps)
if the data hasn't been gps located - it should be dated.
if the data is dated - it should be compressed.
should data "fade away" when it becomes "unrecent" ?
what do you think ?
[lift08, data, ever-ness, consumption]
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