Yesterday the Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium ran a session on social objects. It was chaired by Tom Coates and included great talks by Matt Webb (Schulze & Webb), Kati London (Botanicalls), and Rob Faludi (ITP).

Reboot has now published the video of my talk on social objects, social peripheral vision, and nodal points. I gave a slightly developed, much condensed version of the same at PICNIC08 last week. Below's the blurb from the Reboot site. The length of the video is 33 minutes.

Here's a video of the social objects & nodal points keynote from The Web and Beyond: Mobility conference:

Copenhagen's Reboot is one of a few conferences I would not miss.

I woke up this morning and felt like blogging. It's been a long time :)

We've had Reboot, FOO Camp, and a bunch of other opportunities for rewarding conversations and so it feels like I could write posts for a week about all the new or further developed thoughts and ideas that are crowding my head. I've touched on some of those in recent talks (here's video&slides from one), but I haven't gotten around to blogging about them yet.

MSN has posted a short video interview about my talk on designing services around social objects, recorded at their Innovate event in Stockholm in December.

A video and MP3 of the full talk are up on the Innovate site.

A quick shout from Reboot 7 in Copenhagen: it's the first time I've made it to Reboot, and this has got to be the coolest social software-related event at these latitudes. It's a lot bigger than I had expected and everything is still really laid-back.

A while ago I wondered how our relationship to social networking services will change when instead of adding new contacts, we begin to feel like we'd be better off cutting the links to the people who we actually don't know, stopped liking, or no longer want to be associated with for whatever other reason. I was reminded of this on reading that Russel Beattie has now decided to link out of LinkedIn. He explains: