- James Ogilvy, Publisher of Luxury Briefing, in conversation with Fame Theory:
“What would be nice, I guess, is if a different kind of celebrity could become the hero and heroines, rather than the people who are, what you would call, ‘eye candy’. And it may come. It may come.” (Audio, 3:25)
Luxury Briefing 2006 conference notes (pdf).
Offcial website: www.luxury-briefing.com
Interesting,
Jose
jose [at] famegame.com
We’ve just rolled out two new features today: Social Scene and Tag pages. Tags and social scenes are now hotlinked everywhere you see them on Fame Game.
I especially like the social scene pages, you can see who went to a lot of parties in a certain scene, what organizations hosted parties in that scene, and what news and events are going on. The only downside right now is that the pages load pretty slow (you might feel like your on a modem). We’re working on some new tricks and will hopefully be able to speed up these pages in the next few weeks. Finally, you might notice that the people listings skew towards those with high overall attention, not necessarily in that particular social scene. We’re working on a new algorithm that will give an individual attention rankings in each social scene, hopefully we can get this done within the next month or two and really make these pages accurately portray the scene.
Here are some social scenes to check out:
The tag pages are just an easy way to see all of the people that have been given the same tag. Here are some to check out:
Editor-in-Chief
Model
Hamptons
Heiress
I’m still waiting for someone else to get tagged with Radical. Have fun with these!
Cheers,
Tim
tim [at] famegame.com
While we’ve been feverishly updating Fame Game’s data, technology and new features, we failed to realize that our claim feature had a glitch.
If you tried to claim your page by filling out the claim request form (on either the claim page, or your profile), our system was collecting your request, but we weren’t getting an alert. Basically, if you’ve experienced a significant lag in response time (more than a few days) please be patient - we’re getting back to everyone as fast as possible.
We’ve fixed it now, but if you hit submit and then saw the message, “unknown column undefine” then you should be expecting a response sometime soon. (Thanks to Ainka for the heads up!)
We should be all caught up by the end of Friday.
Thanks for your patience and encouragement!
Ryan
rbrown [at] famegame [dot] com
We’ve just recently rolled out a new interface with a bunch of new features — we’re hoping you might take a look. It is still an early prototype, but we think we’re headed in the right direction, and we’d love to know what you think.
Since the beginning, our goal has been to create the most accurate map of the social-industrial networks that drive cultural life in NYC. But in its previous form, famegame was limited to the events scoured and scraped by our database. It was accurate, but it was limited – and your feedback helped us realize that. Now we’re opening up the system to allow the very same people and organizations that make up these networks a way to get involved.
Basically this means that people and organizations can now manage their own profiles, as well as other profiles in the system — because every element is editable, by everyone.
Specifically, members of famegame.com can:
To keep everyone in the system accountable, all edits and contributions made on famegame will be linked to the person or organization that made those changes. It works a lot like the Events Attended section on the site – it’s an indisputable and uneditable category. You were there, and you can’t change that! At the same time, by contributing relevant information to other profiles, members will be spreading links to their own profiles.
Managing a famegame profile creates an opportunity to increase your presence in the famegame network, and as an extension, the real-world networks and influentials whose attention it is drawing. We think the contributions of the community are going to help the system grow, and because they are contributions visible to everyone who stops by – registered or not – famegame will now represent the community, as seen by the community (and as accounted for by our technology).
The goal is (and has always been) to allow members to play a smart game in the markets of media and attention in NYC. We think these new features will make that easier.
A couple of notes about joining famegame:
Be sure to let us know your thoughts — famegame works best when the community stays vocal. If you don’t quite understand what’s going on, it is probably because the site is still an open experiment. This is why we’re reaching out to you now. We encourage you to contribute ideas and feedback, and invite your friends to claim their profiles and envision possibilities for the network. We think we are at the beginning of a different kind of social network, and we want people like you to be at the beginning with us.
What good can possibly come of all this? It’s time to figure that out. Check back on this blog as we bring in more influential New Yorkers into our conversation over the next few months. And stay tuned for news from us as we continue to make new features, add new data, and watch this community grow!
Best,
Jose, Seth, and Ryan
Hello and welcome back after a month long hiatus. We’ve been working on processesing the feedback we’ve gotten from our first public showing, and working on partnerships to add more media and information to the profile pages.
We would love your help in making this site a more accurate, participatory social map of New York City. You can inform profile pages with information using the ‘Profile Feedback’ box at the top of the profile pages. Biographical information, connections, and links can be input here for review, and eventually added to the profile page. Think of it as kind of a Wikipedia of the New York City social and cultural life….
At least that is where the site stands now. We have a lot more planned for the future, including the ability to claim your own pages, upload video and pictures, and add more artists, bloggers, and journalists to the database.
As always, let us know what you think works.
After the first day of being public, we’ve gotten some constructive notes from you, which are summarized below. Most of the feedback we received involves features that we’re developing, but will take a while to implement. In the mean time, feel free to take advantage of the Profile Feedback feature next to everyone’s name to add biographical information, tags, or external links that relate to the profile. Thanks for the thoughts, they influence the direction of our development!
Feedback
from Phillip Wood:
looks great,
i like the images, and the linking to the others,
I think i’d like to create some more Lombardi type structures. the http://www.theyrule.net/
is an interesting example.
I thinks it’s getting much more web 2.0 as they say, certainly looks more complete than Beta.
Maybe I’ll want to save my connections, and view them later, or be warned when a desired connection happens in the future.
I could do with larger images to look at the’re a little small.
urm, what else.
well your back end should obviously be tracking the links and views, building a model and possibly adding some weighting on the front end.
ie most popular viewed. favourite person this week on famegame, a famegame award for most viewed.
famegame awards, why not, fuck it. let’s be straight with this stuff, hey you with the hat, you’re the most famous person, here’s a prize. Where are my sponsors for this?
From Andrew Der:
It’ll be interesting to see how accurate the statistics are once more information has been factored in, since — based on my very cursory perusal of the site — a lot of the stats seem a bit askew.
We’ll adding all the old statistics from excesdaily.com with graphs, coming soon.
From Ceslie Armstrong:
Looks like a great site. Keep going! I emailed
some tag suggestions via the contact field on the site. Also, please
place me in MEDIA.
From Roy Kean:
You have me listed as both Roy Kean and Roy Keane.
It’s going to take a while to weed out all the duplicate names and misspellings, but we’re workin on it. Apologies.
From F. Sheeran:
I quickly browsed seems to be put together well. Congrats!
From Alexandra Lebenthal:
pretty darn cool- would be great if you had a section that could link
to someones website- also will someone be notified when they have a
new entry or one for someone they indicate they’d like to be informed
of?
From Lorre White:
I was looking around your site. You had sent something out a long time ago
where one was to type in their name and a number came up for sphere of
influence? I found it interesting that since I typed my name in then and
now it was the same number despite the fact that I have been on several
national networks numerous times, have started w magazine column and
developed a highly popular blog. Are you sure this system is current? Just
common sense seems to indicate that this is inaccurate? If nothing ever
changes then there is no need to come to the site twice. It would just be
something that I would look into. Others names I typed in had not changed
either. I am not as familiar with their changes so it is harder for me to
comment…..but I think you can see the point ; )
From Kelly Will:
hysterical! i love the rating system. xoxo
From Spencer Alcorn:
I don’t know what your original mission
was (is?), but I think you have an opportunity to do something very
interesting here, and establishing a site filled with original content
would be more constructive than the (admittedly very efficient) fields
of thumbnails and abstract-less and often-duplicated links. Allow me
to go out on a limb here and say that, insofar as “thought
experiments” go, your site has a great deal of evolving to do –
perhaps even to the point of developing some original thoughts.
As for the timing of your launch, I’ll say nothing beyond a genuine
expression of interest in what your site will become.
We’ll be adding original content soon, but we wanted feedback from people who will be using the site first.
From Andrew Saffir:
Looks great!!! Thanks so much for including me (and Daniel) in what is
truly a very unique take on the NY world! Keep up the good work! I’ll
be watching!
