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webvisions 06 – Designing for Social Sharing
Designing for Social Sharing
Thursday, July 20, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Category: Design
In recent months, a term that has become increasingly popular is “social search”. In this talk, I will argue that we should be designing for social sharing instead of for social search. In order for Page-Rank based search to work, we need people to create hyperlinks to web documents that they feel like linking to. Similarly, in order for social search to work, we need people to share their information, media, opinions and preferences. I will discuss tagging systems such as Flickr & del.icio.us, and media sharing sites such as YouTube as models for the design of participatory systems.
I will discuss three trends that designers working with such systems should think about. First of all the web has evolved from its geeky roots and become a social sphere for …
