campus party 2008 talk on microblogging
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Talk given on July 29, 2008 for Campus Party 2008.TRANSCRIPT
Microblogging vs. Social Networks: I Just Want to Talk
to My Friends
Mary [email protected]@maryhodderNapsterization.org/storiesDabble.com
Campus Party 2008
• Metaphor: The Castle and the Fields
• Metaphor: Restaurant Service
• Sharing, Conversation, Collaboration and Groups
• Business and Advertising
10 people45 connections
5 people10 connections
15 people105 connections
Illustration Source: Clay Shirky
Why do online communities change communications?
What do social communities need?
For individual *and* community/group support– ease of use– flexibility– comfortable safe place– dynamicism– organization (hundreds of contacts!)– planning– sharing– promoting individual and group– discovery
Castle and Field?
Egescov Castle, Denmark
Photo By Krobaithttp://www.flickr.com/photos/krobait/218435250/
Facebook: Overwrought like a castle?
• Friends: 100+ features• Fans: 10+• Profile: 200+• Feeds: 20+• Events: 15+• Groups: 25+ features• Outside Applications: n X n
+ Facebook Apps
Open API platform leads to 200,000 + applications made by outside developers
Other YASNs: Xing and Linked In
FieldsTwitter: Like a Field?
Twitter: 10 features• Add a friend: follow• private / public• Post/delete 140 character message• See who follows you• Block• Direct Message• Reply to someone else• Search/Discovery/Pivot
"me first collaboration" - stowe boyd
Microblogging: The hallway conversation at a Conference
Titter
Microblogging: semi-private conversation at the watercooler
James Buck: Arrested
Twitter: breaking news and news flash
Tweet: Marry Me.
3/24/08, Twitter
Sharing, Conversation, Collaboration and Groups
Online Sharing: easy
What’s different about sharing in community?
• Old: location first, likes second• New: likes first, location second
Lowering the cost of finding unusual associations.
Conversation and Collaboration
• Blogs, Newsgroups and Flickr• Twitter: simple and lightweight
– Hashmarks: #ehandelsprisen2008, search, discovery, pivots on @
• Facebook: groups & events• Professional tools like Linked In and
Xing to hire and associate
Collaboration is more complicated.
What happens when the group is more important that the
individual?
Offline examples
• Political parties• Governments• Companies• Sports teams• Schools and
universities
(Examples where top down authority doesn’t allow for quick collaboration)
Social Communities
• Complexity of connections: online tools and communities must support
• Many social tools out there– Facebook, Xing and Linked In– Twitter, Identi.ca, Plurk, Friendfeed
• Why does one kind of community work and another doesn’t?
Business and Advertising
The Economist
How do you support this? Advertising?
• Will recommendations fly from friends?• Will users want intrusion with personal
communications• Will advertisers want it?
– 13 cents per cpm on myspace– $75 cpm on Linked In
Contrast with Twitter’s proposal– Ask businesses to pay to use
Who Owns Your Data?
What should developers consider?• Simplicity over Complexity: keep it
simple• Lightweight over Heavy: keep it light• Conversational marketing over ads• User owned data verses site control• Most Important:
–Don’t put biz ahead of users
FieldsIn Other Words:Make a nice warm field
Gracias!