Coffee with Pierre

[Nascent Dynamics ( )]

Hi Pierre,

Thank you for joining our discussion group. As you are familiar with, there are a variety of ways for people to have a discussion on Area Light. This group gives us a chance to feature a member and build an ongoing conversation out of it others are welcome to join. We could do this as an expose on your business projects, an informational interview, or perhaps even general discussion. You are welcome to take a lead.

I can't wait to get to know you better. I have thoroughly enjoyed meeting you so far and am quite impressed with your thoughts on social networking. You are a special addition to this community. I also wanted to thank you for the research you did for me. We've been relatively low profile as we test everything out and set up. I think now we are to a point where it is a good time to reach out to our members and get to know them. I'm hoping you will stop by from time to time to explore, interact, and create with us. You might find there are some other members who you have yet to meet and share interests with. It would be great to learn all about you and what you do.


Please join me for coffee and remember to take a look at some of the other discussions we have going and join in to any that interest you. Could be a nice way of meeting new people and interacting on a quality level.

Best,

Anthony

[Nascent Dynamics ( )]

Hey Pierre,

I've been leaning towards Twitter too. I first looked into it years ago when someone I was corresponding with had signed their message with "follow me on Twitter". I checked out their page and they had hundreds of people follwing them and were using their page to list their internet activities. At the time, I thought, why would I want to go out of my way to follow someone else? I also thought it was a bit pressumptuous to think people would follow you.

What actually caught my interest again in Twitter was seeing your widget Twittercast. I'm BETA testing my own on one of my Notes, but it doesn't appear to be consistently functional for me yet. The neat thing for me is combining the app with Ning. For instance, if you broadcast your activity wherever you are, RSS Feeds for recent activity are sometimes out of your control and blogs are more content oriented anyway, right. The Twitter App may just be beneficial in that you can do those other things and embed it wherever you happen to go.

The dynamic of posting short 140 char links and thoughts is great for me! So I have also been exploring how this changes my options for presenting myself online. I'm currently just sampling a couple people, why so many people make a big deal out of Twitter is probably their propensity to overstate things and get attention to whatever trend they are going to be riding. That never attracts me personally. However, when I see professionals putting it to use, then I start to get a sense of the potential too.

Best,

Anthony

[Pierre Tavlitzki]

Hi Anthony !

I decided today to open a second Twitter account. The first one is only dedicated to feed my widgets on Ning. The second one is for taking contacts with art market professionals outside Ning. Most of them will never come on Ning. The great idea by Twitter is to separate Following and Follower, so that if you do not wish to contact one of your followers he cannot find your email. And if you wish that what you do is possibly known by a targeted person, you only have to follow him and for sure he will visit your page.

Twitter looks much better than Ning for actual public relation. On Ning we friend, we send invitations, our email is known by our friend through the invitation, and we are spamed for ever by spam motors. Or we join a bad network, our email is known by its admins, and we are similarly spamed. Ning is very poor on that point.

All the best

Pierre

[Nascent Dynamics ( )]

Yes, I'm sampling Tony Hawk, a very popular public figure/ skateboarder. If people could e-mail him directly, it simply wouldn't be feasible. However, the simple concept of follow/ follwer makes it all possible fro famous people to be public personalities online without the spam.

I've also noted the introduction of group Twittering etc...there's more to the market demography research etc. I like the trending feature which shows what's getting hot in searches and posts. You are smart to extend through Twitter on simply the basis of the broader reach than Ning. In some ways, I see using it to introduce people to what Ning does do and offer they are not benefitting from.

Anthony

[Pierre Tavlitzki]

Yes I appreciated the strength of Twitter when I viewed the page of Oprah Winfrey. Following 14 and followed by 1 346 737. I opened my second account just afterwards !

But I am not Oprah Winfrey. Not yet. LOL

Now I understand the mechanism which makes Twitter the quickest news forwarder.

Have a nice week.

Pierre

[Nascent Dynamics ( )]

Hey Pierre,

Before I forget, I had been sitting on a name you dropped a while back. I knew it sounded familiar. AMD has influenced a lot of my research and development. I saw them do this virtual exhibition; it's literally like walking into a virtual conference center. There's people walking around checking out presentations etc. You can go wherever you want and see the key note speaker for instance. When you do it, you actually see the AMD President giving a live lecture about the company vision and products. To get in, you load their proprietary virtual interface. It's really something to behold!

That is the future of web interface. Coincidently that leads me to Area Light and Ning. I knew to have a modern website, it would need to be interactive. That's also how I came to the virtual secretary concept I have with Area Light Member Services. The thing that is great with Ning, besides being empowered to create an entire interactive environment, is it is like having a staff of interface programmers working for you. I still have some reservations for it's use in content management, but you can use it. In fact, I couldn't find the quote you used for AMD, but I used the Area Light Search and got to it right away.

I have been playing with a segment I call F-11 Full Spectrum Dominance in Intelligent Search and Customizable Interfaces . I think some goal like that it what you might find on a business plan from Microsoft, Google, and many others. It's the browsing experience...where do you go when you go online, where do you spend your time, and what paths do you travel as you make your decisions such as what to buy, etc. Now you see Microsoft just came up with Bing...not a search engine, but "the world's first decision engine". If you really intend to make it big and compete, do what the big guys are doing...except with a platform such as Ning.

The F-11 part is about the shortcut key to allow full screen browsing...with maybe a reference and scroll bar. I don't know about you, but I'm tired of everybody trying to get into my browser! I want people to view my website like a movie, and Area Light to be like a desktop application for interfacing with the internet. Ning's being as they are, much better viewed in full screen anyway. So I think this is something a lot of creators could get behind. I like the functionality of my browser, such as to remember history, favorites, recently visitted sites, and RSS Feeds. But, I see all of these things doable through the Ning interface.

So the goal is kind of to get people to make my site their home page. F-11 and browse online based on their preferences. At the same time, I'm seriously contemplating the content applications. So far, I've not reached a usage limit on the content I've added along with my members. I'm thinking, the value is in the substance of the content, the production value, and the utility to the end-users. So rather than a directory, I'm thinking more of an online social networking magazine...Area Light Explorer...and other interface media projects based out of Ning. Promoting Ning only makes sense.

Sure glad you mentioned AMD. I'd almost forgotten some key aspects underlying my projects, but now have refreshed them in context.

Best,

Anthony

[Nascent Dynamics ( )]

Hi Pierre,

How are you doing lately? I took a look at Art Network directory again and continue to be impressed with your work. I'm starting to center in on a few aspects of art that may give me some relevance for joining and participating in your communities again.

I recently looked through a lot of concept car art and love the fusion of design and engineering. Aesthetics are something I think communicates a broader universal understanding of intelligence. Specifically, what impresses people and why gives some insight into what is produced and for whom. I tend to focus on certain aspects of things that are often not as a whole, but rather an intuitive aspect of part of something I like more or less. If I see some design aspect I think is sharp, then I get a bit excited, and start imagining how to incorporate it into my own work. What better field to talk about this than art?

I am also beginning to produce media to support my personal vision. These little commercials I am creating are really an artistic representation of my passion to do something amazing. The neat thing about taking an idea and then making some art out of it is that it gives me something more substantial or tangible. It's exciting to see something start to formalize from my mind, because it no longer becomes just a vision, but a created object...even if it is not the actual idea coming true. In art, I see a significance in visualization where people can connect their visions to actions and move closer to achieving them than if they harbored these only as thoughts. Not to mention I think out loud so much about all these dynamics, nothing says it better or more concisely than art. Art also reveals aspects that are easier to refer to than say trying to desribe something and then talking about it.

If you know of anyone who does art pertaining to soccer or engineering, I would be interested in looking into them. Perhaps I will explore through the Art Network Directory.

I was discussing with one of my members ways to protect work from copywrite or even flat out stealing. She said she posted art and someone actually had the nerve to take it and claim it as their own somehow. As a result, she avoids publishing her work. What a sham it would be for people not to share their art because they are concerned it will be taken from them. I told her about watermarking as you find on Flickr or Photobucket I think. You can watermark anything right on your computer with some common programs. It doesn't really detract from the quality I think. Maybe the dynamics of her art are so characteristic of the creative identity she has, that she's concerned others will emulate and copy the essence of what is essentially her signature. I know this has been at least attempted to be addressed in music sharing sites too. I just wonder how people go about protecting their creative works from being straight out used or copied for their merits. Have you any ideas?

Always nice talking with you Pierre.

Best,

Anthony

[Pierre Tavlitzki]

Hi Anthony !

Thank you for coffee and for your visit to the Art Network Directory.

On the subject on art being stolen on the web, I have the best possible answer :

There is no art on the web. Web is not and will never be a suitable technique for art.
Web is useful for informing and advertising on art.

Friendly

Pierre