Category Archives: Social Networking
Pandora and the Song Decoders
I love Pandora and its human based suggestion engine, the Genome Project. In this article, The New York Times explores Pandora and how it and others find your new favorite song. And it isn’t by collaborative filtering…
“However things play out for Pandora as a business, its approach is worth understanding if you’re interested in the [...]
How to Style an Application Like Facebook
Nice article by Bill Konrad over at socialsnippets.com that covers the default facebook css styling:
http://www.socialsnippets.com/snippets/how-to-style-an-application-like-facebook.aspx
“…explore how we can style our Facebook application to look and feel like an extension of the Facebook platform. We will examine colors, fonts, dimensions and a few common design patterns utlized by the Facebook platform in our quest to fit [...]
Social Reputation Design Pattern Described by Yahoo
Reputation Design Pattern
“A person participating in a social structure expects to develop a reputation and hopes for insight into the reputations of others, but each designed model of participation and reputation embodies its own set of biases and incentive structures. Balancing these forces determines in large measure the success or failure of a social system.”
Situated Software
Clay Shirky’s Situated Software:
Clay says, “I teach at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where the student population is about evenly divided between technologists who care about aesthetics and artists who aren’t afraid of machines, which makes it a pretty good place to see the future.”
Top 40 Free Downloadable Open Source Social Networking Software
Not exactly sure if it is the “Top 40 Free Downloadable Open Source Social Networking Software” but worth a mention…link