Some interesting insights from the recent Future of Web Apps Conference 2006. AU Interactive gives there recap from the conference titled “10 Things That Will Make Or Break Your Website.” Included on the list are:
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Tom Coates from Yahoo! presented about Social Change on the Web. His presentation was great and his presentation style really kept the audience engaged. Here are some notes from his presentation (comments are raw and unedited):
Tom discusses MySpace as a unit, not at the individual pages. Social software is a long line of software and started all the way back with things like alphabet and writing. Doing more together than we could do apart. Social software definition: Using software to enhance our social and collaborative abilities through social mediation.
Concensus - many contributions make one voice (wikipedia)
Polyphony - Many voices with emergent order
Wikipedia works because of the process and order they have even though the Concensus model does not work and is not replicable
Polyphony model offers much more ability to succeed. Offers infinite communities. Tom talked about the motives for why people share in a community.
Why do people contribute to open source software?
Another way of looking at why people contribute
Things that don't work well:
Open up social value:
Problems:
Business value - wheres the money
Rise of aggregate data:
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Some interesting insights from the recent Future of Web Apps Conference 2006. AU Interactive gives there recap from the conference titled “10 Things That Will Make Or Break Your Website.” Included on the list are:
Make the website easy to ...
Tom Coates from Yahoo gave a great presentation on social networks - their historic basis and how they have evolved on the Internet. His basic premise: make something that is greater than the sum of its parts! We're looking for