Comments on: Google, MIT, and IBM to invest in Social Web Research

By: supertist

supertist — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:36:50 +0000

Reserch of people’s interaction is rather difficult task , differ from place to place….
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Full Mp3 Albums — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:02:22 +0000

Didnâ€™t hear from that initiative for a while now, is there any progress? Itâ€™s nice to register these efforts though, we definitely need more web design research (2 Unlimited).

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Download Full Movies — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:28:03 +0000

Very Good

By: Jens Meiert

Jens Meiert — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:34:46 +0000

Didn't hear from that initiative for a while now, is there any progress? It's nice to register these efforts though, we definitely need more web design research (HFI still seems to do/publish the most).

By: pauric

pauric — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:26:26 +0000

“Once ordinary people see past the system on to what they can accomplish then we will have arrived at true social networking.”

e.g… http://tinyurl.com/ykolpp
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/14/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/14Rhyperlocal.html?ex=1326430800&en=eda047d57877babd&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

By: » From Bokardo - Google, MIT, and IBM to invest in Social Web Research - Best Web Design Blogs

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 01:18:51 +0000

[...] “The Web fails to capture the nature of social relationships. We want the Web to be more responsive to the existing relationships people actually have,” So says Daniel Wentzner, principal research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), in announcing a new initiative to study the Web, called Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI). […] Read more… [...]

By: Pauric

Pauric — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:58:43 +0000

The best analogy I can think of right now to describe where I think the web is at is the diametrically opposed approaches to development. With UCD on one hand and engineering-out on the other, I see a parallel between the way people approach the web and the way the web provides features. Its the difference between a use case and a feature.

I think the net as a platform has a long way to go. Once it moves beyond providing features: email, photo sharing, etc. and on to a place where people manipulate the platform to their own individual ends… only then will we see the emergence of the true potential of the web.

Every once in a while I see a spark of what is possible, most long term net users have their own stories. Yesterday I had an idea for a site. I mailed a friend the idea, his company got back to me and said make it. Just then another friend sent me a link to a site that would enable the idea, completely unrelated. I wrapped their api in to a page, mailed it back to the company, chingching. This whole interaction from start to finish, from Boston to S.F took less than 2 hours. This is the web enabling my needs as a ui designer, social networking albeit at a fairly rudimentary & techincal level.

I envision a time when the local farmstand has technology to easily broadcast to the neighbourhood that their corn will be in season next week. Real people, real social interactions on the net platform. Again, its not about the features the net can provide, its not about the next myspace, it should be about how we think of and approach the platform to communicate with others. Once ordinary people see past the system on to what they can accomplish then we will have arrived at true social networking.

I guess I would say that at a very high level the entire platform needs a little UCD instead of featurecreep and this initiative is a step towards that.

By: Daus

Daus — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:55:05 +0000

Good