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Web 2.0 Expo Notes: Building Social Applications

Posted by bryanzug - 2007/04/16

I really enjoyed Stowe Boyd’s 3 hour workshop at the Web 2.0 Expo yesterday AM on ‘Building Social Applications‘.

He really helped me get my head around some of the foundations of designing these next generation online social experiences.

Highlights quotes were:

• “Social apps is the world that IM has made”
• “I am made greater by the sum of my connections, and so are my connections”
• “I give up personal productivity for network productivity. I sacrifice for the group.”
• “Fashionista recommendation is a different UI than a feature lookup (size, color, etc)”
• “What happens when the money gets serious? Well, what happened to the blogs? TechCrunch is no longer a blog per-se, it is a media property.”
• “Reputation is fragile both online and offline. Squander your rep and CBS may fire you.”
• “I often play psychologist for social apps. I set them on the couch and ask about their childhood.”
• “Find people who tag items the same way you do and you will find a social group based on shared ways of thinking and speaking.”
• “To understand social apps, you have to be in the flow, not outside. You can’t get it unless you are using them and you can’t explain it to people — you’ve got to do it. You can’t learn Karate by thinking about it”

Took notes in MindManger — here’s the .PDF or the .MMAP files.

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