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Kevin Deegan-KrauseClay Shirky's writings about the Internet, including Economics and Culture, Media and Community, Open Source
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Fabio CaballeroEl valor de "n".
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Michel Bauwenssoftware designed in and for a particular social situation or context. This way of making software is in contrast with what I'll call the Web School
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Situated Software
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flyingkumquatSource: shirky.com<br>
Date: March 30, 2004<br>
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Both groups had the classic problem of notification -- getting a user to tune in requires interrupting their current activity, not something users have been known to relish. Billions were spent on Web School applications that assumed users would bookmark for a return visit, or would happily accept email alerts, but despite a few well-publicized successes like Schwab.com and eBay, users have mostly refused to "check back often."
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We constantly rely on the cognitive capabilities of individuals in software design -- we assume a user can associate the mouse with the cursor, or that icons will be informative. We rarely rely on the cognitive capabilities of groups, however, though we rely on those capabilities in the real world all the time.
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mark van"Part of the future I believe I'm seeing is a change in the software ecosystem which, for the moment, I'm calling situated software. This is software designed in and for a particular social situation or context. This way of making software is in contrast
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Nick Gallaka Disposable Applications
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Part of the future I believe I'm seeing is a change in the software ecosystem which, for the moment, I'm calling situated software. This is software designed in and for a particular social situation or context. This way of making software is in contrast with what I'll call the Web School (the paradigm I learned to program in), where scalability, generality, and completeness were the key virtues.
I see my students cheerfully ignoring Web School practices and yet making interesting work, a fact that has given me persistent cognitive dissonance for a year, so I want to describe the pattern here, even in its nascent stages, to see if other people are seeing the same thing elsewhere.
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Michael GilesAn interesting piece on the business of software.
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We've always had a tension between enterprise design practices and a "small pieces, loosely joined" way of making software, to use David Weinberger's felicitous phrase. The advantages to the latter are in part described in Worse is Better and The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Situated software is in the small pieces category, with the following additional characteristic -- it is designed for use by a specific social group, rather than for a generic set of "users".
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...software designed in and for a particular social situation or context. This way of making software is in contrast with [...] the Web School [...], where scalability, generality, and completeness were the key virtues
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M GClay Shirky on small, form-fit applications
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