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CSCW’08 talk on Social Search

Today I gave a talk at the Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) conference in San Diego in the Social Sensemaking track. It was called: “Towards a Model of Understanding Social Search” (in collaboration with Ed Chi).
My slides are posted here and I’d welcome any further discussion, commentary, or questions on the talk or of “social [...]

User Needs during Social Search

(This was also posted on the ASC blog.)
There has been a lot of buzz around social search in the online tech community, but I am largely disappointed by the new tools and services I’ve encountered. It’s not that these sites are unusable, but that they each seem to take on a different conception of what [...]