Marc Davis at Social Graph Foo Camp, February 2008
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Argues the mobile phone becomes the personal social hub and the social graph turns into infrastructure, enabling TagMaps that use Flickr-tagged photos to map collective attention; the demo surfaces unexpected items like the Yoda statue in the Presidio that don’t appear on traditional maps. Claims the field moves toward billions of connections stitched across services, creating a planetary experimental apparatus for computational social science and location-aware apps that answer “what do people near me find interesting.”
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