Our mission in the Social Computing Group is to research and develop software that contributes to compelling and effective social interactions, with a focus on user-centered design processes and rapid prototyping. Our work includes the Sapphire project
social taging of bookmarks and pulications including bibtex and well formated output of publications. run by FG Wissensverarbeitung of Universität Kassel / L3S research center
Memoir: Learning how technology can help people create and manage long-term personal memories Postdocs in Psychology and Design of Multimedia Technologies to Support Digital Memory Marie Curie Research Posts in Personal Memories for Postdoctoral Researc
My main research interests are in the design and implementation of collaborative systems (CSCW), computer mediated communication (CMC), personal information management (PIM) and interfaces for information retrieval, in particular for speech data. I am hea
Instant messaging (IM) conjures up images of bored teenagers using a software-based gossiping tool. Most IM programs are free, and few competing products can talk to one another, making skeptics wonder how useful IM is in the enterprise.
PROLEARN - Social software - often connected to older forms of computer mediated communication (CMC) and newer discussion about online communities - can be defined as a cluster of activities performed by digital social networks. Under the assumption of a
I’ve been meaning to write broadly on the subject of “the future of content” for a while now. And a huge part of that topic is tied in with the question of “what is popularity, and what does it mean, anyway?” Darniaq’s throwaway comment, along
The Wisdom of Crowds (Paperback) by James Surowiecki "One day in the fall of 1906, the British scientist Francis Galton left his home in the town of Plymouth and headed for a country..." (more)
Digg, slashdot, and del.icio.us/popular - this is a constant browsing cycle for us. So why not combine them into a unified format without all the extra chrome? We can eliminate dupes and add some extra niceities.
The shift to Social Computing Posted by Dion Hinchcliffe There's been a lot of interest recently in the social aspects of Web 2.0 experiences because of their tendency to alter the communities that use them.
Most software applications ever written belong to the so-called single-sink category. Interestingly, some of the applications that are starting to emerge in the age of web are being dubbed Social Software. Here we compare the two, and then look beyond the
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Rubhub is a lookup engine for determining the relationships between people who author personal websites. The relationships are based on XFN, the first offering of the Global Multimedia Protocols Group (GMPG).
AllPeers is a free extension which combines the strength of Firefox and the efficiency of BitTorrent to transform your favorite browser into a media sharing powerhouse. Regain control! You decide which media files you want to share with whom and to maxim
AllPeers is a free extension which combines the strength of Firefox and the efficiency of BitTorrent to transform your favorite browser into a media sharing powerhouse. Regain control! You decide which media files you want to share with whom and to maxim
With the caveats that Alexa’s data is not comprehensive—and even if they had perfect stats, “Alexa Rank” is still just one definition of popularity (a combination of reach and pageviews)—here’s the 10 most popular social media sites (with corr
I want to talk about what I now think is one of the core challenges for designing large-scale social software. Let me offer a definition of social software, because it's a term that's still fairly amorphous. My definition is fairly simple: It's software t