Comments on: Stowe Boyd: Building Social Applications

By: Groups, Groupings, and Taming My Buddy List. And Twitter. at Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth)

Fri, 04 May 2007 16:23:24 +0000

[...] Shared-interest groups are a bit limited when it comes to making your application truly “social”, as I heard Stowe Boyd point out during his Building Social Applications Workshop at the LIFT conference earlier this year. Now, I’ve been through Stowe’s blog to try to serve you with a nice citation that explains exactly what he means by “groupings”, and haven’t really found anything that satisfied me. (As far as I can see, Stowe first talks about groupings in In The Time Of “Me First”: IBM Slowr?, and explains a bit more in In The Time Of “Me-First”: Stikkit.) [...]

By: Centopeia » Designing Social Applications Workshop by Stowe Boyd

Centopeia » Designing Social Applications Workshop by Stowe Boyd — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:49:21 +0000

[...] Notes: Stowe published his notes where he has the presentation available for download, and Stephanie also posted her excellent notes on Stowe’s workshop. [...]

By: Notes on the Building Social Applications Workshop at blog.delaranja.com

Notes on the Building Social Applications Workshop at blog.delaranja.com — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:16:31 +0000

[...] If you’re looking for more information on this workshop, Stephanie Booth wrote a very good set of notes. [...]

By: lisbonlab » Notas sobre a LIFT

lisbonlab » Notas sobre a LIFT — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:49:53 +0000

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By: Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth)

Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth) — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:51:42 +0000

Que d’anglais...

Oui, je sais, je néglige à nouveau mes lecteurs francophones et j’écris des tartines en anglais. Je reviens de la conférence LIFT’07 (l’année dernière, LIFT’06 avait quelque peu changé ma vie), des rencontres plein les ye...

By: Clunky Flow » Building social applications - Riff on Stowe Boyd @ LIFT

Clunky Flow » Building social applications - Riff on Stowe Boyd @ LIFT — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:34:59 +0000

[...] Stephanie Booth’s report on Stowe Boyd’s recent talk @LIFT yesterday has hit on several of the themes I have been running with. [...]

By: Niall Larkin

Niall Larkin — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:34:29 +0000

Stowe Boyd is talking a language I am ready to hear!

Weaved into that presentation is a great review of some of the core 'hard problems' of building applications that work socially.

For more on that particular perspective

and

http://www.farnhamresearch.com/papers/researchinsocialcomputing.pdf

By: Elroy Jetson

Elroy Jetson — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:30:17 +0000

I found one of your notes above right on the money: "Orkut failed because it was just social networking for the sake of social networking. Not targeted at a specific group of people. Nobody who cares! Disease-like replication and then died down. Nothing to do there."

This is the answer to Yahoo! 360. Fantastically engineered MySpace clone, falls down because once you generate all these lists, actual interaction with others is difficult if not impractical.

Which leads to the point that makes a social site successful. People want to interact in someway with other people. If it is not apparent how this interaction happens people will leave. Having tags or other social elements isn't enough.

By: On demande » Construire une application sociale

On demande » Construire une application sociale — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:07:04 +0000

[...] Stéphanie Booth a rédigé un compte-rendu du workshop de Stowe Boyd, workshop auquel je souhaitais véritablement participer. Mais comme j’ai passé l’après-midi loin de Lift à parler de cette même thématique, cette version texte me comble déjà et appuie mes réflexions et conceptions ! A lire. [...]