- blogject by Julian Bleecker
- spime by Bruce Sterling
- Track me Not by Daniel C. Howe, Helen Nissenbaum
Idea:
The Idea is to create an “meta personal identity” of an everyday object. The idea is based on the practice of data-profiling (logging user search activities and creating individual user profiles) by search engines like google, AOL etc.
Approach:
The object generates specified search-queries to produce an individual user profile. The search-queries are based on tags which are associated with the object. So web services like Google assign a personality the object.
It turns out that your bottle of water likes philosophy or your algebra book loves porn
- Bruce Sterling and the neologism “spime”
- The word spime is filled with semantics by the user through “taging”, “linking” etc…
Scenario:
If an user interacts with an object it starts generating the specified search-queries (e.g. If You open a bottle)
Problem:
The Problem is to produce feedback which is readable by the user.
- How could the user know that your waterbottle loves reading Wittgenstein?
- is the generated user profile produced by the object readable?
- how does it look like? see: websearch queries or: w3C definition: link
- nytimes:”Marketers Trace Paths Users Leave on Internet”
- ”buried in a list of 20 million Web search queries collected by AOL and recently released on the Internet is user No. 4417749. The number was assigned by the company to protect the searcher’s anonymity, but it was not much of a shield”: link