The Internet is People
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From the Elgg conference, December 2008. See http://benwerd.com/2008/12/the-internet-is-people/ for notes and description.
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- 1. THE INTERNET IS PEOPLE Ben Werdmuller December 1, 2008
- 3. Social network adj. Relating to human society and its members.
- 4. Social network n. An interconnected system of things or people.
- 5. Social network n. An interconnected group of people.
- 9. The post
- 10. Phone
- 11. SMS, MMS
- 12. Fax, email
- 13. (Etc)
- 14. Web
- 16. Delicious is a bookmarking tool.
- 17. Last.fm lets you discover new music based on your preferences.
- 18. Facebook is a utility that lets you keep track of your existing friends.
- 19. "If you need scale in order to create value, it's hard to get scale, because there's little incentive for the first people to use the product. [...] The system should be useful for user number one." - Joshua Schachter, inventor of Delicious, Technology Review, 2006
- 21. Don't try to create the network
- 22. (New network connections may arise through a purpose)
- 24. Educational community software inflexible, expensive, underused
- 27. Elsewhere, a revolution was taking place ...
- 28. "If I went in there and said, Hey, you're using that tag wrong, people would just tell me [where to go]" - Joshua again (Or to put it another way: people are individuals.)
- 30. User maintains full control over their data and persona
- 31. Granular, cross-site privacy settings
- 33. Discovery through relevant connections
- 34. Freedom to customise an individual site
- 37. No features as standard; why mandate blogs? Or profiles?
- 38. Easier to create a new function
- 39. Easier to support different platforms
- 40. Me My university (Elgg) My friends (Facebook) My place of work (Sharepoint) My obsessive Doctor Who fandom (Livejournal)
- 42. Elgg is one way to facilitate a social network
- 43. The best social apps have another main purpose
- 44. Platform(s) and feature(s) should be chosen based on the needs of the network
- 45. Social networking tools don't have any required features (except users)
- 47. Thanks for listening! Enjoy the day. Ben Werdmuller [email_address] http://elgg.org/ http://benwerd.com/ http://twitter.com/benwerd/