Tag Archives: social search

The Googling of the future that you do with your friends

17 Feb 2010 – 20:58

I don’t actually know what the title of this article is, but Google translate tells me that this: “Het Googlen van de toekomst doe je met je vrienden” translates to this: “The Googling of the future that you do with your friends”. If anyone out there speaks Dutch and wants to provide a translation for [...]

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Using remote research to inform social interaction design (SxD)

4 Feb 2010 – 9:02

This was originally posted on the Bolt|Peters blog on February 2, 2010, as a guest author. What is social interaction design? Social interaction design (SxD) is the practice of designing for person-to-person interactions mediated by a computer interface, going beyond pure usability and human-computer interaction. Even fairly solitary experiences like editing a Wikipedia page occur [...]

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“Social” can’t be solved by an algorithm

14 Jan 2010 – 12:44

I was contacted by a dutch journalist who’s writing an article on the merits of social interaction versus search engines. She read a paper of mine and emailed me with two questions. I thought it’d be useful to post my reply publicly: First, do you think search engines making use of social networks will improve [...]

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Digital Ethnography for Social Interaction Design

12 Dec 2009 – 13:49

I was invited to speak at the Yahoo Research Group seminar last week (December 9, 2009) about the research methods I’ve used to study online communities. I called the talk “Digital Ethnography for Social Interaction Design” to capture the essence of what I wanted to cover. There are a number of challenges in studying online [...]

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Social shopping: Putting the emotion back in e-commerce

5 Dec 2009 – 11:49

This was originally posted on ReadWriteWeb on December 4, 2009, as a guest author. What are you going to buy this holiday season? Gift cards aren’t very personal, but friends’ recommendations can be. Richard MacManus recently covered the trends in e-commerce over the past decade. He noted that Amazon and eBay have dominated the online [...]

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