A Social Interaction Design (SxD) blog on Web 2.0 & Social Media

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Social search and advertising: Google's endgame?

Oct 27, 2009 10:42 AM

A few weeks back, Jeremiah Owyang wrote a piece "Revealing Google's Stealth Social Network Play." In it he detailed the tactical benefits of a combined of Google Reader, Wave, and Sidewiki in a bac...

Realtime streams: now and then

Oct 8, 2009 8:40 AM

All social media involve a dislocation that de couples the act of communication or interaction from its artifact, which is a text or recording. This is a shame, in some respects, but one that creat...

Brands, and putting twitter word of mouth in context

Oct 6, 2009 12:39 PM

An interesting study of twitter's viability for eWom, or electronic Word of Mouth marketing, has been making the rounds (Twitter Power:Tweets as Electronic Word of Mouth). The research involved ana...

Social media, converging streams?

Oct 6, 2009 8:35 AM

One of my favorite books about community is a work by Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti called Crowds and Power. It's a beautiful and thoroughly insightful study on people assembled in different way...

Social Interaction Design: Ratings

Oct 5, 2009 11:35 AM

I had other things in mind for this morning until a client sent me an article in today's Wall Street Journal about online ratings. She, like many others running review and ratings-based sites, is "...

Twitter, Google Wave, and Online Talk

Oct 2, 2009 11:08 AM

This post is a reflection on some questions raised by Adina Levin in a post on Google Wave dated July. I haven't myself used the product, so this is not a product review but is instead a continuati...

Socially-mediated branding: Revangelism?

Sep 30, 2009 12:18 PM

I have been talking about socially-mediated branding without having really offered a description of what I mean by it. In follow up to yesterday's post on consumers and their identification with br...

Socially-mediated branding: identify yourself

Sep 29, 2009 1:13 PM

If one did a semantic analysis of the language I use in my blog posts of late, I'd not be surprised if two of the words I use most are "many" and "different." I much prefer many and different to "o...

The sociability spec: documenting social interaction requirements

Sep 28, 2009 6:24 AM

The social interaction requirements docWe're all familiar with the MRD and PRD, documents used to set market and product requirements for a new software application or service. For social media pro...

Social Interaction Design: Leaderboard

Sep 25, 2009 11:11 AM

11.On the heels of a bit of to-and-fro with Josh Porter (@bokardo) and Adina Levin (@alevin) on leaderboards as used in social media, I have to confess that Josh may be right. Designers do influenc...

Social media: the attention economy explained

Sep 23, 2009 11:30 AM

I started wondering last evening what twitter would be like if in addition to followers we could also see who was actually being paid attention to. The groups many of us use in clients like Tweetde...

Activity Streams: Realtime and Streamtime

Sep 22, 2009 9:43 AM

The realtime web is living on borrowed time. Not in the sense that time's running out on realtime. But in the sense that the realtime web actually involves two kinds of time. One is the time in whi...

Sociability: Usability for Social Media

Sep 21, 2009 12:47 PM

People who know me personally are familiar with my baroque inclinations for turning simple things into brid"s nests of complexity. I'm drawn to what lies behind, below, before, and because of anyth...

Social Interaction Design: Structure

Sep 17, 2009 12:37 PM

This post is inspired by today's excellent reflection On the thoughtful use of points in social systems by Adin Levin of Socialtext. Adina summarizes a twitter conversation that unfolded yesterday ...

Activity Streams: Content and Flow

Sep 16, 2009 8:13 AM

The realtime trend continues unabated, with presentations at TechCrunch50, Facebook's recent updates, and next-generation newspaper designs all extending the impact and value of the stream in socia...