User Labor Presentation, Digital Labor Conference, New School, NY

USER LABOR BURAK ARIKAN & ENGIN ERDOGAN www.userlabor.org

NEW LIVING always online laptops, smart phones, wifi, gsm, gps information heavy generated elsewhere by institutions, people, sensors, machines non-linear hyperlinked non-private status updates, micro-blogs, photo tagging machine readable micro formats, activity streams, RSS feeds hyper-public over-participating, like, comment, share, vote ...

MEDIATED BY PRIVATE SOCIAL SERVICES * Logo cloud by Ludwig Gatzke. flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss

FREE TO USE, BUT PAID WITH DATA “The people who are using it are paying us with information.” – Joshua Schachter Del.icio.us, 2005

FREE TO USE, BUT PAID WITH DATA “It is an ad-supported service. It is a free service.” – Mark Zuckerberg Facebook, 2007

SECURED BY ONE-CLICK CONTRACTS

engagement/use FOR A LONG TAIL OF USERS users

engagement/use FOR A LONG TAIL OF USERS power users users

engagement/use FOR A LONG TAIL OF USERS power users casual users users

engagement/use FOR A LONG TAIL OF USERS power users casual users lurkers users

engagement/use FOR A LONG TAIL OF USERS publishing, remixing, marketing... power users casual users lurkers users

engagement/use FOR A LONG TAIL OF USERS publishing, remixing, marketing... power users liking, sharing, commenting... casual users lurkers users

engagement/use FOR A LONG TAIL OF USERS publishing, remixing, marketing... power users liking, sharing, commenting... casual users reading, clicking... lurkers users

SUSTAINABLE? service provider user tools content protocols opinions interfaces tastes storage effects hardware relationships

USER LABOR MARKUP LANGUAGE (ULML) <actions> <reactions> <network>

<actions> <item object="link" verb="like">3</item> * Object and verb attributes are adopted from the activitystrea.ms project.

ULML <record> <actions> <item object="status" verb="post">124</item> <item object="link" verb="share">10</item> <item object="photo" verb="tag">42</item> <item object="photo" verb="comment">15</item> </actions> <reactions> <item object="status" verb="like">120</item> <item object="photo" verb="comment">92</item> <item object="photo" verb="tag">10</item> </reactions> <network> <item object="connection">615</item> <item object="density">0.2</item> </network> </record>

twitter.com/arikan (2008) interconnections between people who are followed by arikan

Would you share your user labor metrics?

BURAK ARIKAN arikan@burak-arikan.com www.userlabor.org

http://userlabor.org	441
http://burak-arikan.com	405
http://www.userlabor.org	107
http://www.cagdassanat.com	37
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com	4
http://translate.googleusercontent.com	3
http://spime.tumblr.com	1
http://safe.tumblr.com	1
http://www.slideshare.net	1
http://burak-arikan.com:80	1

User Labor Presentation, Digital Labor Conference, New School, NY

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