The Week in Review – 10.25.04
This past week was a productive week in social software. after last week’s disasterous meeting, where we couldn’t agree on a topic, we stripped down the idea down to the bare minimum and started over. I led a session where we though extensively about our project and our interests. We created a bug list and ...
Notes from the Road
http://www.kottke.org/04/10/design-for-web-20 – Blogs democratized publishing, now “tags” could be considered to democratize information architecture. What’s behind this? Are powerful tools in the hands of millions really better than well-trained experts? we discussed the idea of tagging objects and pieces in the web world for our project. is this something we should re-evaluate? I’m looking up ...
Social Software Fresh Ideas
I was reading some prior posts about the Social Software assignment. After we met on Monday with Clay and as a group after class, I came away thinking that we’re now ready to move forward. I already see some tension in the group because of our stutter-step. We’ve got only a few days left until ...
Social Software Rollback
Sarit, Derek, and I met with Clay today. We spent time talking about our ideas and the impasse we had reached. We need to all be together if we are able to move the idea and project forward. So based on his suggestion, we rolled back our thoughts and tried to attack the problem head ...
Social Software Meeting PIcs
We’ve been trying to hammer out our ideas for Monday’s class. This afternoon, Sari, Derek, and I met to talk about our direction. Dedi also met with us, but wasn’t able to attend until the end because of Mid Terms. Here are some pictures from our session. Whiteboard #1: Whiteboard #2: I’m worried about the ...
Social Software Reading Notes
A Happening is an ad hoc multi-modal group event. Three modes were used actively during the event for different means: * Mode 1: Conference Call o 17 participants (some elected not to participate because of the cost of international calls) o Mean: moderated turn-taking discussion * Mode 2: Chat o 23 participants o Mean: moderating ...
Social Software Thoughts
The meeting went well yesterday, though we need to spend more time thinking about different ideas and approaches. It seems like we’ve walked away from the first four ideas, some of them just don’t seem practical. We looked at a bunch of different ideas and even spoke about the music sharing platform. whomever can figure ...
Random Thoughts
I’ve been thinking a lot about social software as of late. In fact since I’ve been freed from my “job”, i’ve had a lot of time to reflect on what i did there. I’ve also been thinking a lot about Lotus Notes, Groove, Centra, Peer to Peer software, and collaboration. I’ve thought about some other ...
Initial Thoughts
Initial Thoughts Over the last two weeks, I’ve attended the first two sessions of Social Software. Clay Shirky is our instructor, and has led some thought provoking discussions about the topic at hand. What is social software? Class Links Social Software Syllabus: http://stage.itp.nyu.edu/~cs97/social_software/ Social Software Wiki: http://stage.itp.nyu.edu/~cs97/wiki/wiki.cgi?HomePage September 27th, 2004 Today we’re going to be ...
Assignment #2
September 20th, 2004 Week 2: Definitions and Boundaries Further examples of social software, with an emphasis on understanding different genres, and on finding new needs to address or new technical capabilities to exploit. – Reading: Matt Webb on Glancing / Joi Ito’s Happenings (Repeat) – Reading: Conceptual Blockbusting, Chapter 6 (Alternate Thinking Languages) [Handout] – ...
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