Social = Me First Stowe Boyd [email_address] +1 703 966 9854 625 2nd St, San Francisco CA 94107

Re: Me Editor, /Message "Always beginning, never finished"

Editor, /Message

"Always beginning, never finished"

We’re gonna party like it’s 1999 “ A new category of software is emerging, software intended to augment social systems . Not to change the company inadvertently, like email did, when the electronic analog of interoffice mail became something else, grew into something else by changing the way people communicated, and led a change in the structure of the company. No, this generation of software is intentional, designed from the start to guide human behavior into new paths and patterns, to counter prevailing ways of interaction. I call these social tools : software intended to shape culture. " - Stowe Boyd [ Message , August 1999]

“ A new category of software is emerging, software intended to augment social systems . Not to change the company inadvertently, like email did, when the electronic analog of interoffice mail became something else, grew into something else by changing the way people communicated, and led a change in the structure of the company. No, this generation of software is intentional, designed from the start to guide human behavior into new paths and patterns, to counter prevailing ways of interaction. I call these social tools : software intended to shape culture. " - Stowe Boyd [ Message , August 1999]

Social = Me First The individual is the new group Me first my passions my people my markets The edge dissolves the center Bottom-up belonging

The individual is the new group

Me first

my passions

my people

my markets

The edge dissolves the center

Bottom-up belonging

Me, Mine, and Market Me Mine

Me, Mine, and Market Mine Me Market

The Buddylist Is The Center Of The Universe I am made greater by the sum of my connections, and so are my connections It’s mostly connections

I am made greater by the sum of my connections, and so are my connections

It’s mostly connections

A World Of Discovery The primary abiding motivator: Discovery Discovery of Things (a red herring: the functional domain) Places (the Third Space) People (who fill the places) Self (at the still point of the turning world)

The primary abiding motivator: Discovery

Discovery of

Things (a red herring: the functional domain)

Places (the Third Space)

People (who fill the places)

Self (at the still point of the turning world)

Social = Me First Stowe Boyd [email_address] +1 703 966 9854 625 2nd St, San Francisco CA 94107