Shinji Kuwayama

On my flight to Austin for SXSW yesterday, I spoke with Shawn Yeager about, among other things, mobile culture and how audiences are quickly maturing.
We talked about Foursquare, of course, and Shawn observed this: Foursquare creates this hope that after checking in somewhere, one of your contacts will see your check-in and spontaneously join you, [...]

Cory Doctorow “makes a couple of good points.”:http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204203573

1) “[Social networks] make it easy for you to be found by the people you’re looking to avoid.”
2) The big social networks – Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, et al – make it difficult or awkward to *end* relationships.

It’s true, and as a consequence, people tend to eventually “reboot” and [...]