Hi Will, Thanks for you kindly notice ( and sorry for the cross posting). And, let's step further by asking a designer's questioin, Is "Cross posting an article directly from a website" good for make life better or not?
Cheers, Jarod On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Will Evans <[email protected]>wrote: > > Cross posting an article directly from a website is not really encouraged > behavior. > > > ~ will > > "Where you innovate, how you innovate, > and what you innovate are design problems" > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Will Evans | Director, Experience Design > tel: +1.617.281.1281 | [email protected] > http://blog.semanticfoundry.com > http://www.linkedin.com/in/semanticwill > aim: semanticwill > gtalk: semanticwill > twitter: semanticwill > skype: semanticwill > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > On Feb 10, 2010, at 3:09 PM, jtang wrote: > > FYI > > Sent to you by jtang via Google Reader: Facebook on Google Buzz: How > Well Does That Friendship Model Work? via ReadWriteWeb by Jolie O'Dell > on 2/9/10 > > While end users are eager to try out Google Buzz for themselves, many > of the Web's largest social properties have expressed a certain amount > of fear, uncertainty and doubt about the search giant's move into the > social space. > > A Facebook rep said that the company is interested to see how Google's > latest product will make the Web more social and more open, but the > Facebook team has their concerns about whether Buzz's friendship model > is really all that functional. After a little bit of messing around > with the new product today, we can understand their point of view. > > Sponsor > > ReadWriteWeb's full coverage and analysis of Google Buzz: > "We're supportive of technologies that help make the web more social > and the world more open," a Facebook rep wrote to us today, "and we're > interested to see how Google Buzz progresses over time." > > However, the Facebooker had words of warning about Buzz's hazy > friendship model. > > To offer a brief explanation, Google has taken users' Gmail inboxes and > Google Talk IM contacts and programmatically tried to determine with > whom users communicate most frequently. Users can share Buzz posts with > the world (and Google search), or they can share privately through > their existing Gmail groups or custom-made groups in Buzz. For more > detail, take a look at this demo video: > > > > Google Buzz seems to involve an asymmetric follower/friend model, but > we're not completely sure how friendships and shared posts will work. > As our Facebooker wrote, "The continued growth of the social web will > be determined by people and personal relationships. The people that you > email and chat with the most may not be your closest friends or the > people that you want to share and connect with." > > We can definitely understand this point of view. Some folks rarely use > Gmail to communicate with their closest friends and family members > because they see them in person or use other networks to get in touch. > On the flip side of that coin, as more of us are using Gmail for work > communication, it might be irrelevant or overly personal to follow and > share with professional contacts. > > All in all, one of our biggest concerns about Buzz adoption (being able > to play nicely with existing social apps) carries over into this part > of the conversation, as well: In addition to creating "best guesses" > for who to friend and follow using Gmail & Google Talk, why doesn't > Google simply use Twitter OAuth and Facebook Connect to import existing > friendships? > > What do you think? Will Google Buzz's friendship model work? Or does > Facebook have a point about having carefully user-approved friendships > online? > Discuss > > > Things you can do from here: > - Subscribe to ReadWriteWeb using Google Reader > - Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your > favorite sites > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > > > -- @jarodtang http://designforuse.blogspot.com/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
