Comments on: Social Networking Sites Renew Interest in User Research

By: Gordon Montgomery

Gordon Montgomery — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:17:58 +0000

Great points Joshua. I feel that there is an innate strand in all humans to communicate; to get their message to another, to be acknowleged and even sometimes to connect with others and hear what they have to say.

Perhaps, social software is just a 21st century extension of the self-directed (i.e. not post-industrial institution directed) foraging that our caveman ancestors carried out once they were established and did not have to hunt just to survive.

There’s also something very interesting and very “1995″ about the type of interactions and content that we see on these new sites…let’s keep observing

Thanks.
Gordon.

By: UIE Brain Sparks » Blog Archive » Birth of a New Specialty: Social Networking Design

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:50:59 +0000

[...] Around the office, we’ve been talking about the increasing amount of social networking functionality that is permeating into the products and services we’re dealing with. Tagging, for example, allows people who use a resource to help define a living category structure for the content. But it also gives insight into what the other people are thinking. By looking at how other people tag certain items, you get new information about that item. The bookmarking service, Del.icio.us is a great example of that. [...]

By: Daniel Szuc

Daniel Szuc — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 01:42:37 +0000

Suggest this will also extend to devices. How people want to share content more easily across their devices. Giving a photo to a friend, here is some music I am listening to, read this article … Palm played with this idea in terms of beaming info from one Palm to another …