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Flashier Mobs?

Flashier Mobs?

A lot has been written about technologies, such as Facebook Causes in bringing people together and rightly so, it’s an excellent platform. Fast forward to a world of rich profiles and location awareness. At what point does the cost of identifying and bringing together like-minds in a crowd become so low as to be deemed trivial? In what contexts will the process be sufficiently automated/rapid that a significant % of ‘mobsters will be unsure what they’re mobbing about? (via Future Perfect)

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Oct 05.09

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