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<h1 id="title-i-for-one-welcome-our-new-overlords">TITLE: I, for one, welcome our new Overlords</h1>
<h2 id="introcommunity-panic">INTRO:COMMUNITY PANIC</h2>
<h3 id="focus-a-traumatized-community-uncertain-future-prospects.">FOCUS: A traumatized community; uncertain future prospects.</h3>
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<p>Shortly after Google officially announces the selling of it's popular 3D-software 'Google Sketchup', panic is spreading amongst it's huge 3d-modellers community. The users are split in two camps; one camp sceptical towards the unknown implications of an owner change, while the second camp tries to pour oil on the troubled waters attempting a more pragmatic, optimistic approach.</p>
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<p>FURTHER: explain the purpose of the thesis - what will happen.</p>
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<p>With the notion of 'crowdsourcing', and the current case as a vantage point this text seeks to cover the dymanics of user-provider relationships, looking critically at pitfalls and 'positives' of such symbiosis.</p>
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<h2 id="i-productive-users">I: PRODUCTIVE USERS</h2>
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<h3 id="focus-how-to-harness-the-crowd-into-producing-a-desired-output">FOCUS: How to harness the crowd into producing a desired output?</h3>
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<p>REWIND: google acquires Sketchup: reasons</p>
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<p>...Already we’ve had hundreds of users create 3D content in SketchUp and place their models in Google Earth. (A free plug-in enables you to do this.) What will that virtual world look like when tens of thousands of users are doing the same?</p>
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<p>(http://googleblog.blogspot.nl/2006/03/new-home-for-last-software.html)</p>
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<p>Crowdsourcing theory...</p>
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<p>game-theory: design systems which generate outcome for the provider but enables 'freedom' for the individual.</p>
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<h2 id="ii-users-as-users">II: Users as Users</h2>
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<li>Latour: on speedbumps: motivations and limits for the user. confinement of 'movement'.</li>
<H1 CLASS="western" STYLE="line-height: 150%">TITLE: I, for one,
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welcome our new Overlords
<h2 id="iii-more-than-a-user-fail-of-google-earth.">III: More than a user? Fail of google earth.</h2>
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<h3 id="focus-mutual-dependence-change-perspective-to-second-camp-we-will-adaptwe-did-not-lose-money.-the-crowd-produced-undesired-objects">FOCUS: Mutual dependence? Change perspective to second camp: we will adapt/we did not lose money. The crowd produced undesired objects?</h3>
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<li>Enthusiasm amongst the users</li>
<P STYLE="line-height: 150%"><B>General: the thesis will revolve
<li>Emergence of 'unproductive'-subscenes</li>
around a discussion thread on the sale of Google SketchUp and how the
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modelers handle this situation. The discussion thread is named: 'I,
<br>
for one, welcome our new Trimble Overlords', Trimble being the new
<hr />
owners of Sketchup. This title already indicates a distinguished
<p>[...] As long as &quot;WE&quot; still have control over editing and the model information we uploaded remains the same, I won't care about anything else (that I can think of right now anyway). Furthermore, as long as the models still identify the Modeler .... so that &quot;WE&quot; are still recognized for each of our works, I think I'll be satisfied.</p>
relationship between users and provider/owner. </B>
<p>People are starting to Jump, personally I've started to remove models on a graduated basis. Regards,</p>
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<p>We're doing our best. Please be patient and again, try not to react harshly (like removing models) until all the information is published.</p>
<H2 CLASS="western" STYLE="line-height: 150%">I: INTRO: Community
<p>All I can say is &quot;Beware of Greeks Baring Gifts&quot; Be very careful what you ask for as one day it just might come true and unfortunately, just when you least expect it and if you think a &quot;overlord&quot; is welcoming just look at history.</p>
Panic</H2>
<p>Provider/Workers-relationship</p>
<P STYLE="line-height: 150%"><B>FOCUS: depict the despair/panic in
<pre><code>- game-theory
the modelers-community at the time of sale (of SketchUp). Give
- crowd-control
overview of implicated software and platforms. </B>
- self-constrainment
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- design systems which generate outcome for the provider but enables &#39;freedom&#39; for the individual.
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- holmes/cybernetics
  <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><I>...I deleted all my [...]
- regulation/law/lessig
models! </I></FONT>
- Latour: </code></pre>
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<p>'Between a car driver that slows down near a school because she has seen the ‘30 MPH’ yellow sign and a car driver that slows down because he wants to protect the suspension of his car threatened by the bump of a ‘speed trap’, is the difference big or small? Big, since the obedience of the first has gone through morality, symbols, sign posts, yellow paint, while the other has passed through the same list to which has been added a carefully designed concrete slab. But it is small since they both have obeyed something: the first driver to a rarely manifested altruism—if she had not slowed down, her heart would have been broken by the moral law; the second driver to a largely distributed selfishness—if he had not slowed down his suspension would have been broken by the concrete slab. Should we say that only the first connection is social, moral and symbolic, and that the second is objective and material? No. But, if we say that both are social, how are we going to justify the difference between moral conduct and suspension springs? They might not be social all the way through, but they certainly are collected or associated together by the very work of road designers. One cannot call oneself a social scientist and pursue only some links—the moral, legal, and symbolic ones—and stop as soon as there is some physical relation interspersed in between the others. That would render any enquiry impossible.' p.77-78</p>
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<pre><code>- a biased game?</code></pre>
      <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><I>...I will also delete
<p>I, for one, welcome our new Trimble Overlords - Something more than just exploitation</p>
all my models! </I></FONT>
<pre><code>- the symbiosis (also forth coming in the source material
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- we are the gold farmers
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- the &#39;whatever&#39;</code></pre>
            <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><I>...It is Over. </I></FONT>
<p>http://www.mastersketchup.com/why-google-doesnt-need-sketchup-anymore/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/06/03/14/google.acquires.sketchup/ http://www.jonathansblog.net/google_earth_sketchup_plugin http://www.constructech.com/news/articles/article.aspx?article_id=9248&amp;SECTION=1 http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2059388/Google-Buys-SketchUp-Google-To-Map-The-World-in-3D http://googlesystem.blogspot.nl/2006/03/google-acquires-sketchup-3d-sketching.html</p>
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<p>http://news.cnet.com/Google-acquires-Last-Software/2100-1030_3-6049511.html</p>
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<p>official blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.nl/2006/03/new-home-for-last-software.html</p>
  <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><I>...People are starting to
Jump! </I></FONT>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.48in; margin-right: 0.48in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%">
    <FONT SIZE=2 STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><I>...I, for one, welcome
our new [...] Overlords.   </I></FONT>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%">“I wonder that
people aren't adding to their models little prophets carrying 'The
End is Nigh!' placards.”.</P>
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<H2 CLASS="western">A broken trinity: Software, Platform &amp;
Repository</H2>
<P CLASS="first-line-indent" STYLE="text-indent: 0in">For the sake of
overview a brief outline of the different implicated software and
platforms and their relations will be sketched out in the following.<BR><BR>
</P>
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<H2 CLASS="western">II: The crowd</H2>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%"><B>FOCUS: How to
harness the crowd into producing a desired output? How is the crowd
utilized for production? Main argument revolves around exploitation
of users. </B>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%"><B>REWIND: google
acquires Sketchup: reasons </B>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%">
<BR>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%">
...Already we’ve had hundreds of users create 3D content in
SketchUp and place their models in Google Earth. (A free plug-in
enables you to do this.) What will that virtual world look like when
tens of thousands of users are doing the same?
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%">
<BR>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">“<SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Crowdsourcing
is outsourcing on steroids” - Jeff Howe (</SPAN>Crowdsourcing - Why
the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business)
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game-theory: design systems which generate outcome for the provider
but enables 'freedom' for the individual. --&gt; leads to next
chapter
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<BR>
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Exploitation critique</P>
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<H2 CLASS="western">III: Users as Users
</H2>
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<BR>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%"><B>FOCUS: Dependency
on software and platform. Google sells Sketchup. This chapter will
extend above critique and discuss more technical aspects of
rectrictions/regulations</B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%">
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%">
This chapter will discuss how the software and platform is designed
to make the crowd perform a desired task, by introducing certain
confinements and restrictions to the capabilities of the
software/platform and the users 'freedom'.
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<BR>
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Bring in more source-material
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- regulation/law/lessig:
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<BR>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%">
- Latour: on speedbumps: motivations and limits for the user.
confinement of 'movement'.
</P>
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- ganeesh (own note)</P>
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<H2 CLASS="western">IV: More than a user?
</H2>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%"><B>FOCUS: Mutual
dependence? Broaden the perspective of the previous chapters. </B>
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- Enthusiasm amongst the users
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- back to the title of the discussion thread
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- Emergence of subscenes, and cultures some more conform than others
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</P>
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The platform allows not only for rigid 'upload' to Google earth but
spawns a vivid scene of cultures and subcultures. The users evolves
strong emotional bonds towards the platform, and the content they've
produced, the provider plays a less 'dominant' role since the
production is 'benefiting' the user it self. 
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TITLE: I, for one, welcome our new Overlords



General: the thesis will revolve around a discussion thread on the sale of Google SketchUp and how the modelers handle this situation. The discussion thread is named: 'I, for one, welcome our new Trimble Overlords', Trimble being the new owners of Sketchup. This title already indicates a distinguished relationship between users and provider/owner.

I: INTRO: Community Panic

FOCUS: depict the despair/panic in the modelers-community at the time of sale (of SketchUp). Give overview of implicated software and platforms.



...I deleted all my [...] models!

...I will also delete all my models!

...It is Over.

...People are starting to Jump!

...I, for one, welcome our new [...] Overlords.


“I wonder that people aren't adding to their models little prophets carrying 'The End is Nigh!' placards.”.


A broken trinity: Software, Platform & Repository

For the sake of overview a brief outline of the different implicated software and platforms and their relations will be sketched out in the following.


II: The crowd

FOCUS: How to harness the crowd into producing a desired output? How is the crowd utilized for production? Main argument revolves around exploitation of users.

REWIND: google acquires Sketchup: reasons


...Already we’ve had hundreds of users create 3D content in SketchUp and place their models in Google Earth. (A free plug-in enables you to do this.) What will that virtual world look like when tens of thousands of users are doing the same?


“Crowdsourcing is outsourcing on steroids” - Jeff Howe (Crowdsourcing - Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business)


game-theory: design systems which generate outcome for the provider but enables 'freedom' for the individual. --> leads to next chapter


Exploitation critique


III: Users as Users


FOCUS: Dependency on software and platform. Google sells Sketchup. This chapter will extend above critique and discuss more technical aspects of rectrictions/regulations

This chapter will discuss how the software and platform is designed to make the crowd perform a desired task, by introducing certain confinements and restrictions to the capabilities of the software/platform and the users 'freedom'.


Bring in more source-material


- regulation/law/lessig:


- Latour: on speedbumps: motivations and limits for the user. confinement of 'movement'.


    - ganeesh (own note)


IV: More than a user?



FOCUS: Mutual dependence? Broaden the perspective of the previous chapters.


- Enthusiasm amongst the users

- back to the title of the discussion thread

- Emergence of subscenes, and cultures some more conform than others

The platform allows not only for rigid 'upload' to Google earth but spawns a vivid scene of cultures and subcultures. The users evolves strong emotional bonds towards the platform, and the content they've produced, the provider plays a less 'dominant' role since the production is 'benefiting' the user it self.









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