Henriette Weber

I have created a ”green meme” to find out how people are acting green in their everyday life. Please take this, localise it and use it to make people reflecting on their green choices:

What do you do in your everyday life, that you would consider green ?

I read a lot about green issues since the wellbeing of the planet is very important to me. I buy ecological ( organic) as often as possible – we get veggies and fruit and meat from ecological farmers.
I bath at 30 c instead of 40 c.
My next task is to convince my boyfriend that we need an green car instead of a largely gasoline consuming car – no matter the price.
I have two sponsor animals and a sponsored child in cabo verde
And I used to be a vegetarian for 5 years…
I made a pledge on green girls global to only buy green clothes, if I choose new, from now on – so far I have been sticking to it.
I like vintage furniture and clothing – and I am pretty much reusing everything

How is your surroundings supporting your green ways?

Well, the danish government is rather green, we have a lot of windmills and the focus is on alternative energy for the future ( windmill parks etc) – also they are currently decreasing the price on eco friendly cars so people better can afford them. They are starting to be focused on global warming and that’s a good development ( I would have liked this to happen10 years ago though)..

How is your surrounding standing in your way of green choices ?
I think that the mentality of people are changing for the better. Normally people would say ” what concious choices I make does not effect other people, not on a large scale anyway”.

I think the world is changing and people are getting heard and are influencing people on larger scales than usually, and that’s a good thing..

Is there any actions you want to take to create a more green enviroment around you?

Well I would like to make a ”these come from trees campaign at work, and then make some ”print nothing days”… and get more documents to be electronic…

What is the biggest threat to the earth’s wellbeing these days ?

I would say that consumption and the focus on economic growth is the biggest threat. Somehow I would think that this focus was more important elsewhere.

Whom are you going to tag in the green meme ?

All of the greengirlsglobal editors, Tara Hunt, Peter Kazanjy, Duarte Grilo, Rebecca Blood, David Camacho and Stephanie Booth

Crossposted on Green Girls Global

please tag this meme with “greenmeme”

For a while now I have been researching transitional web apps and how they are evolving. I have also done some thinking about what is missing in transitional web apps and how they are different from one another…

I did this drawing to explain the difference between some of the different mobile transitional web apps ( btw. it says twitter in the bottom right corner)

I have decided not to add nabaztag or chumby this time around…

first of all, I will like to explain the different words I have been using -

Presence: is all your activities to show your presence, a mash up of different feeds to show your path, both online but also in 1st life.

Statements:is the “me first” when you are doing something active to be a part of a community.

so what’s the difference ?

I have chosen to put Plazes and Imity in the lower left corner of the drawing, because of their very specific way of dealing with presence. Basically both are showing your location and the people around you. Imity is furthermore showing people that aren’t on you buddies list by finding all bluetooth devices in the area. So they are showing a part of your presence but they are both more applicable in 1st life and via mobile than online…

Twitter I would call somewhat egocentric, because it evolves around yourself and the statements you want to make to the world. I am on the edge to call it “impulsive personal outbursts”. hell people are even twittering about twitter ( ohh dear… reminds me of those people who used to – or are still blogging about blogging)
At the same time it’s so giving to be able to read what people are doing and stating everyday on an impulsive basis in addition to reading their blogs. Twitter however, in my opinion, doesn’t scale right now… not technically or community wise..

Jaiku is combining the different tools of presence ( mostly via RSS) it’s shows people from a context point of view by adding up your activitiesMoreover on the website you can comment on the different presences ( you can even comment on bookmarks). So as far as I see Jaiku and Twitter are becoming two very different things. Jaiku is different from blogging because everything is happening in a community that isn’t personally targeted (comments on blogs are personally targeted) but people can actually not only see your jaiku updates, they can also see who has commented them, and what has been commented – in a public community.

So what’s missing?
I would claim that the primary reason that people aren’t using twitter on their phone is that you recieve somewhere around 300 sms’es each day from twitter – which goes into your sms inbox, which makes you a really annoying person if you don’t have your phone on silent. If you have your phone on silent, you might miss important phonecalls. So I would say that most people are deciding not to use twitter mobile.

If I was an transitional web app my next step would be an “mirror” inbox – receiving updates ( not sms’es) ( either presence updates or statements) and putting it all out on mobile – no matter if it was direct statements, presence updates from del.icio.us and last.fm…

For me that would be a step in the right direction to stay in touch with my community mobilewise. – so as far as I am concerned THAT’s what’s missing right now - a presence mirror defined by contacts and what presence they want to put out there.

oh and I definetly should be able to comment on presences on the mobile too…

So, I declared web 2.0 dead after lift07 because it wasn’t what people talked about anymore – In my blogreader today, the ever genious Stowe Boyd is writing about the same thing

wonderful – now I am getting in the arena to claim that I declared it dead first … or something like that..

now the race for the transitional web apps starts – especially because it looks like the VC’s are spotting this too

Ben Metcalfe wrote in a twitter a couple of weeks ago that “the way that twitter currently works doesn’t scale”.
I think that’s my problem too. twitter doesn’t scale, not technically and not as a mobile community either. solely on web – it’s great – but I want the twitter messages on my phone without having to have my phone on mute because I recieve around 300 messages from twitter a day. is there a way to make twitter more sustainable ?

my heart belongs to Jaiku these days – largely because of their new design -because as a webbased community – it’s absolutely stunning for conversation… it has everything “me” just because of the total rss feed integration. it’s simple, functional and impulsive. I lack the mobile integration though because my lovely nokia n70 can’t really cope with the jaiku mobile beta.

so is there a way to make a community on web/mobile that doesn’t evolve sms’es but has the community of twitter and “me” because of the rss feed integration ?

I have proposed a talk on transitional web apps for reboot 9 – would a talk about these apps be interesting?

# 18 … I think I did pretty good – what do you think ?

So according to Eric, after the SXSW this year – there was a mysterious lack of blogposts about the subject. There was a lot of twitter messages though…

Ewan is asking if it’s not going to be a visual black hole in conferences that occurs first, but a blogging black hole because of twitter. I think so, I don’t think blogging will be replaced yet – but we’re getting somewhere.

Still we need a place for the blogconsultants to make money and the mainstream media to hype…

But as far as I am concerned, as I said after Lift07 – web 2.0 is dead – transitional web apps is the way ahead, im getting more and more sure about it by the minute

photo by Du Pierris

So my post about communities in support of… communities got me on a roll after 5 minutes of incubation =) ( just had to feed the cats and put on the dryer so I have a fresh business suit ready for monday morning)..

Anyway while I was brushing my teeth and getting ready to bed I stated thinking about the difference between loving a product and loving a web app.

IS a web app a product ?

YES – and no.

A web app has easier access to it’s community because it was born online. A product is something produced – possibly in a factory or by a crafts(wo)man somewhere. a web app has the web as first priority, because it needs the web to live – a product on the other hand, can exist in a context without the web.

So why do you love a product ? – well why do I love my orange large Luella Bartley bag? – because it’s pretty and fashionable and it makes me feel like the statement I want to make to the world…
Ao why do I love a web app ? either because it’s extremely useful – or it’s pretty, or it’s because of the community using the web app.

BUT would i be a member in a Luella Bartley last.fm group ? or a member of the supportive Luella Bartley googlegroup ? or the Jaiku stream ? no I wouldn’t. would I subscribe to the Luella Bartley supportive group blog ? no.

Somewhere along the line of all these communities in support of the products I would feel like I am being marketed to. In a viral overhyped way.

Am I being marketed a viral buzz – that is a result af a marketing brainstorm about what communities and web apps the buzz could use to become bigger and reach more people ?

possibly…

is the future going to include more of these supportive communities on behalf of products/web apps – yep .

will it make the communities less pure, and the participants more cautious ? yep.

so are communities as a marketing tool ( and not as a community) a part of the future ? Im afraid so.

So this is apparently a new thing on how to spin hyped web apps – communities in support of communities…as weird as it sounds…

Apparently twitter even has a last.fm account, a fan wiki and even though I like the development of these transitional web apps – I have a feeling of … well.. “come on guys it is just a web app”…

and I think that making communities in support of communities is not my cup of tea…

im my ideal Henriette world, communities should be based on interest, and I would claim that a web app can’t be an interest…

a web app can be interesting but is flickr an interest? or is the processes and creativity of the site that makes the difference for people ?

on the fan wiki it states that “twitter is a way of life”. I would say that twitter is a way of keeping in touch with your wonderful community – and not a way of life as such.

I would claim that this is an odd development and to me it just seem like overhyping a hyped web app.. *s*

Copenhagen is being normalised. Normal to me means boring, uninspiring and especially uncreative. they’re thinking about building luxurious buildings in Christiania and now, the politicians has taken away a house, killed a dream, turned the bad guys into winners for the moment, and you have a lot of angry youngsters on the streets of Copenhagen…


One of the funniest days I’ve ever experienced was a mayday (1. of may) in Copenhagen where Thomas, my daughter, my dearest friend and I joined an anarchistic mayday demonstration walking from Vesterbro around the city hall square and out towards Nørrebro and Ungdomshuset , then towards fælledparken together with the euro mayday demonstration.



Now you can ask if worker days and maydays are still necessary. They always get me dancing in the streets. Penny was with me at the international women’s day demonstration when she was 7 months old.

so are they necessary ? – well the last couple of days, months, years tells me obviously. There’s still a lot of minorities to fight for.

My general opinion on taking down Ungdomshuset is: it tears my soul apart and it makes me cry. I feel numb.

So why is that ? – because I know how much they struggled to keep it. A house given to them by the commune of Copenhagen, then taken back and sold to a company which proved to be an evangelical insane christian cult called “faderhuset”

So why is it important for the city of Copenhagen to have an ungdomshus ? – basically it’s because it keeps the kids out of trouble and off the streets, and it gives them ideals.
I have been in Ungdomshuset several times, and the place sprung with CREATIVITY, PASSION, IMPULSES and DIVERSITY. You can always see it on what clothes people chose to wear. At Ungdomshuset, fashion was fantastic. But it was also the acceptance from the community and the politicians of ungdomshuset, that made it a special place.

So, in Copenhagen these days, creativity and culture has been killed on the behalf of an christian cult – who has been quoted saying that they will take on the homosexuals next time. I have no idea who decided this or who made this happen. And I have no idea who turned the focus to the violence of the youngsters. At least the only damaged materials. it was a statement and a cry for help.

Instead the commune of Copenhagen choses to say that they will not tolerate violence. Well I think that the danish society should make a statement saying that they will not tolerate religious fanatism. well no one should tolerate violence. but really, what choice did the youngsters have ?. Instead a great gift was given to faderhuset. More PR than the mtv music awards 2006 in copenhagen. Funny no one spotted that one before.

And you have a sad youth now, Copenhagen. Now they will go rebel and dance in the streets to fight for what they believe in.

Aren’t you allowed to do that when you’re a teenager ? isn’t that a part of the proces ? a part of creativity?

all pictures are by my friend Søren Haraldsted ..more here ( under a CC license of course)

In an entrepreneur course that I attended a couple of years ago, I was told that the entrepreneur needed to be able to focus on his “area”, his startup – too much diversity was a distraction.

I guess I am proving the teacher wrong:

Everyday I get emails from people asking my advice on transitional web apps and where I see the future is heading.

yet at the same time, I absolutely adore my editorship of greengirlsglobal and the creativity/flow work I have been conducting with Dannie at various tech conferences.

ohh and I am involving myself in one impulsive movieproject after another

Tara did an excellent blogpost today about patience in business

I have been thinking about how wrong I think the teacher was, when he told 25 entrepreneurs that focus was key. I think that focus gets a second place in the attention race – right after, well everything that actually catches my attention.

Because it’s not my attention towards my playground or my blog that helps me learn and grow. it’s all these little tendencies and things that I would love to try out.

so my attention IS diversified focus. why shouldn’t you be able to focus on more things at one time ?

Oh, and distraction is not in my vocabulary *s* only “thirst for knowledge”..