Comments on: What BrightKite Does Well

By: youtube downloader

youtube downloader — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:26:00 +0000

I need for networks to start realizing a delicate social situation. It’s important that I accept people who know me from my blog and twitter as “friends” on a network, while still keeping them in the “small f” category of my life (until they grow into being more). Facebook doesn’t allow this. Hell, with Friend Suggest, it’s almost the opposite lately. I’m adding six-twelve new people a week that I don’t know, but presume I know from my blog or twitter or my friends.

By: ed hardy

ed hardy — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:35:03 +0000

By: Corvida Raven

Corvida Raven — Sun, 03 May 2009 07:52:55 +0000

I'm late with this comment, but I think that in addition to what you've suggested Chris, they should also start looking at recommending those already IN our networks. The last grows everyday and people get lost in the process of connecting all the time.

I'd love to know the following:
- When I've recently "re-connected" with someone via a message or replying to their content
- Who I haven't talked to that has tried to contact me
- Who I've tried to contact that hasn't responded to me
- Recommend users for certain groups based on keywords or tags

By: Corvida

Corvida — Sun, 03 May 2009 02:52:55 +0000

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Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:19:38 +0000

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By: Clarence Wooten

Clarence Wooten — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:31:03 +0000

Chris,

What about a concept of not having friends at all… but defining trust based on groups… and having dual profile personas (social & professional) that you display depending on the nature of the group that you’re communicating, sharing and networking with?

Yes.. this is a plug.. I’ve just described what CollectiveX does. I felt the need to mention it based on this post. Social networks are very friend-centric… and not very group-centric. CollectiveX-powered Groupsites are 100% group-centric, so defining levels of friendship isn’t necessary. The group defines the context and you decided how much of yourself you want to share based on that context and your level of trust in the group.

Try it and let me know what you think. So far it seems to be working… over 14,000 groups of all types and sizes have setup Groupsites powered by the CollectiveX platform. Not a single friend has been defined ;-)

By: Clarence Wooten

Clarence Wooten — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:31:00 +0000

Chris,

By: Clarence Wooten

Clarence Wooten — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:31:00 +0000

Chris,

By: pieter

pieter — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:16:57 +0000

I’ve been thinking a lot about how normal social interactions might be defined with regard to information sharing between people. Off course how social networks handle this is of great interest to me.

Relationship types (and the mutual sharing of profile data) seems like a recurring theme in social network applications. Differentiation and ‘definition’ of the relationships you have is a basic social phenomenon. However, in my opinion most social web applications (even the ones allowing you to create different groups) have treated the concept of ‘friends’ exactly the wrong way around.

Most sites allow you to designate a relation (usually just ‘friend’, ‘co-worker’, ‘family’ etc) and based on that those people get to see more or less of your profile. This is exactly the opposite of what happens in our daily lives.

In real life, you start out with an initial level of disclosure towards some person, usually just your name and profession maybe. After that, the relationship might grow, and more (two way) disclosure follows. If all goes wel and neither of you causes a trust problem, then at some point you have a friend relationship. With other people such as colleagues, the (again two way) sharing of information doesn’t move beyond a certain point (i.e. no details about private personal things are shared).

So, to sum up; it’s not the relation ‘tag’ that determines what you share, but it’s what you share that determines the relation you have.

For social applications it follows that there is actually no need to explicitly name relationship types (friend, co-worker etc), but granular profile sharing should be implemented. Off course grouping your contacts every which way you want is still very useful, but it’s not strictly based on relationship types. (I could decide to group my contacts on an entirely different basis). Moreover, when grouping is based on predefined relationship types, a person can be only in one group at the time. Not likely in real life either.

By: pieter

pieter — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:16:00 +0000

So, to sum up; it’s not the relation ‘tag’ that determines what you share, but it’s what you share that determines the relation you have.