« RIP Louis Mackey | Main | More on Social Networks » Microsoft Social Computing SymposiumDavid Weinberger blogs Microsoft's Social Computing Symposium, which was organized by Lili Cheng and Microsoft's social computing group and included many of the usual suspects. David blogs several observations, including Joi's - as usual I find myself most in sync with his thinking: Joi denies that social networking tools necessarily diminish social lives and/or spirits. Blogs, he says, is publishing, but IRC is "hanging out." Changes in presence are events, and people should be able to know about those events. Social software like Friendster filter this: Who do you want to know about your presence, and at what level of detail? Cellphones give you presence, location and mobility, none of which we've had in computers, and that makes a big difference. I also like Tim O'Reilly's perspective on the 'net: Tim O'Reilly: We're in the early stages of building an operating system for the Internet as a platform. We need an architecture of participation. He's excited about Microsoft Wallop because it tries to find the existing implict data about relationships. We should be creating loose confederations that allow us to query distributed personal/social info (with the proper privacy and permissioning, of course). "We need to reinvent the user control of social networks using an end-to-end architecture..." This morning I attend a meeting with a bunch of Austinites who want to learn more about social networks, and later this morning Honoria and I are going to work on our plan for an SN seminar. About technology for SNs I keep thinking "The map is not the territory, but it's good to have the map." [Link] jon posted this at 7:21 AM |
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