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Internet as a Social Ally
How do people use the Internet to solve problems? We find that a significant portion of online Americans turn to the Internet at times because it seems to fulfill their needs more readily and thoroughly than the people in their community network do. We present evidence of when people use the Internet versus seeking the assistance of friends and family and possible reasons for this behavior. This research demonstrates how, to what extent, when and why the Internet supplements people's lives.
Information Retrieval/Search Technologies Seminar 2008
This looks like a really interesting Seminar (organized by IBM Hailfa Research Lab), including discussions of social search, sensemaking, and discovery.
T N T — The Network Thinker: Twitter Maps
Valdis Krebs demos his InFlow Twitter map to show meaningful relationships between people and between clusters of people among his network of Twitter followers (as opposed to the only pretty TweetWheel.)
Mechanical Hype « The Alter Egozi
Is Aardvark really a social search engine if it outsources your search queries to random people?
Augmented Social Cognition: CSCW2008 Paper on "Towards a Model of Understanding Social Search"
A teaser for our paper on social search (written by Ed Chi).
The social web: All about the small stuff
From the Google blog: they argue that the benefit of the social web and social technologies is that people are able to stay close to friends because they are aware of the small events going on daily in their lives.
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I'd argue that a big part of it is the small details that you know about each other.
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ie they saw two nights before. Closeness often comes from knowing the small things, not just the big things. Distance makes knowing those small things harder. When you live together, either with your family or your friends, knowing the small things is easy. They get con
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Official Google Blog: The future of search
Marisa Mayer talks about using location, natural language (and voice), mobile media, and social networks to personalize search in the next 10 years.
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s impact on people's lives around the world in the 10 years since Google's founding. It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of. Which got us to thinking, what's going to happen in the next 10 years? How will this phenomenal technology evolve, how will we adapt, and (more importantly) how will it adapt to us? We asked 10 of our top experts this very question, and over the next three weeks we will pre
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Alan Kay has famously observed, the best way to predict the future is to invent it
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Know the Net (to get information you need)
"When you know the net you can quickly get to the information or resources you need in your local community.
So, the statements below about John McCain's vetting process for his VP candidate are puzzling. Did they not know how to scroll through the network via key access nodes [a.k.a. network weavers] or did they just not do it?"
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When you know the net you can quickly get to the information or resources you need in your local community.
Coming to Terms with Sociality (Vander Wal's slides)
An overview presentation on social web and social computing that introduces some of the conceptual model I have been using to do analysis and strategy to vastly improve value for the people using the services and tools as well as the system owners.
Santa Clara University - Center for Science, Technology & Society -Values in Design
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I should apply for this...Hopefully I'll be in the area in August anyway, and this looks particularly interesting.
- bmevans on 2008-01-08
Cogenz
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sadly not impressed with the demo video here: http://blog.cogenz.com/. this looks like a del.icio.us clone simply marketed for the enterprise. surely we can do better than this? a question i think would help: for those users who won't/don't adopt a system like this, why?
- bmevans on 2008-01-04
Connectbeam
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this group helps companies with content managment by selling them "social computing appliances" and software for social tagging and bookmarking.
- bmevans on 2008-01-04
Musing about things I can do with Twitter that I couldn’t easily do before Twitter | confused of calcutta
Gate 1: Is it a Martini thing, anytime anyplace anywhere?
Gate 2: Are the barriers to entry and participation sufficiently low?
Gate 3: Is there at least one thing I can do with this new thing, one thing I couldn’t do before with anything else?
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Cliff Lampe
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Cliff Lampe is another faculty person who has looked at social capital in Facebook.
- bmevans on 2007-12-02
Nicole Ellison
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Nicole Ellison has studied the formation of social capital through Facebook.
- bmevans on 2007-12-02
Visualizing Wikipedia
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brand new tool released by the augmented social cognition group at parc intended to help users assess article quality through visualizations of editors' contributions.
- bmevans on 2007-09-10
The social technography of Web 2.0
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Mac users are more likely to contribute content online than Dell users.
Forrester's research found that as many as 48 percent
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