I’ve been thinking a lot about what social search is, what it means, does it matter if we all use it to refer to different things? (I highlighted a few of the different ways it’s being used in commercial applications towards the end of this talk I gave at BarCamp in San Diego this weekend.)
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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 [...]
(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 [...]
After Kittur, Chi, and Suh’s Crowdsourcing user studies with Mechanical Turk (CHI 2008), Ed Chi and I decided to run another study using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service. I finally tallied our “expenses” and response rate, and though it would be interesting to share.
Now, Ed and I were interested in learning something interesting about web search, [...]
