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February 12, 2004

Two Boyds on YASNSes

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Posted by Seb Paquet

First up is the crib of danah boyd's "Revenge of the User" presentation at the O'Reilly emerging technology conference, which offers a quick rundown of relevant sociological research then dives into an excellent illustrated tour of the issues and traps that await technologists who architect social software. It's lengthy but she doesn't waste space.
Social behavior doesn't have a technological solution. We're all involved with social software because we see needs that technology can solve. Yet, by building the technology, we don't simply address or fail to address those needs; we create new realities. At this point, we need to think in a new way. We need to think about what new realities we formed, what new problems evolved, what new needs happened. Then we need to iterate.
Second is Stowe Boyd's notes on an event bringing together five executives of social networking system companies. Rather hard to summarize - just go read it.

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1. Bill Seitz on February 13, 2004 1:23 PM writes...

is worth one in the hand?

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