Developing successful social networking applications

In General on 17/7/2005 at 10:58 pm

Via Stephen, Dave Pollard comes up with “a set of principles … on how to develop Social Networking Applications that really do work”.

It’s well worth a read but I’m unconvinced. There’s not one mention of anything approximating centred communication there… that I can see at least.

It’s one of those things that keeps on and keeps on striking me about social networking and which very few people seem to get… you can’t have a community without first addressing the question of identity and individual presence.

  1. I agree with your notion of centred communication. I’m trying to implement this (similar to your graphic on the ref post) with an internal CoP at this time. The idea has been accepted by the client team and we’ll see how it goes over the next 6 to 12 months.

    You might want to see what Jon Husband has to say as well:
    http://blog.wirearchy.com/blog/_archives/2005/7/15/1034827.html

    Harold Jarche 18 July 2005 at 1am

  2. Harold, I’m jealous!!!

    Thanks for the link too… fascinating stuff!

    James 18 July 2005 at 10am

  3. I’ll tell if you it’s worth being jealous or if sympathy is more in order in a few months time ;-)

    Harold

    Harold Jarche 18 July 2005 at 12pm