Live at OCS - A Tour of Innovation
Topic: On the Horizon: A Tour of Innovation
Description: What are the most significant trends in social software as we look ahead 24 months?
Introductory comments: Danyel Fisher, Microsoft Research Community Technologies Group & Ross Mayfield, Socialtext
Last year this session talked about the emergence of mash-up applications and how your app, without an API, would be meaningless.
3:11: Opening remarks. Now is time to start thinking forward.
3:12: Ross Mayfield, Socialtext
3:14: Now: Wysiwyg in wikis is here now. Not really new, but makes the collaboration more accessible. Also building API's into all the wiki's. But it really needs to get to the point where copy/paste from word works.
3:15: Bar-Camp and other "unconferences" are huge.
3:16: Social software features built into everything else on the web. Need to be there or else your site will lose traffic as users start to expect it. Then "kingdom of loathing".
3:17: Screen sharing, video and voice is now the norm.
3:18: Identity and "single sign on" is still an issue. "drives me batty" - Don't see this problem going away any time soon. I wonder if Google will earn enough trust to solve this problem personally.
3:19: Animal Crossing DS - real time with map of world. Kids know when the virtual stores around the world open.
3:20: Interesting link: https://gmpg.org/xfn/ for the uber geeky.
3:21: Call to action participate in more and more online communities.
3:23: Interesting Link: https://beta.plazes.com/ Real time track where I am with software on my laptop. Share this with friends. I think this needs to be migrated to mobile phones not laptops.
3:26: More web based utilities coming like the Amazon scaled storage. Just outsource my business needs until I have high enough demand to set up my server. Today you can upload a virtual server for 10 cents an hour and use their storage back end. The really cool thing is that you can scale out instantly. Then the servers turn on instantly. Pay for what you need. Jungledisk: will let you save storage to amazon world. Creates a shared drive similar to foldershare, but with online storage built in.
3:28: More collaborative working coming. Screen sharing is more fun than editor sharing.
3:33: What about ajax/chat type web based collaborative real time editing?
3:34: Danyel Fisher is up now.
3:35: Intro to the MSR Communities technologies group.
3:36: Mentioning the research about online interaction. "Sooner or later everything will have a conversation attatched to it".
3:37: "Greased Paths" making it easier for folks to have targetted interaction. The thing to think about is "have you greased the paths for your users in a way that is useful for them"
3:40: Interop VS Money: Is it bad to take people away from your site if you are interoping well?
3:41: Now into netscan... too bad they don't bring in forums... Danyel should get on that. :-)
3:49: https://www.msslam.com/ - Cool mobile stuff.
3:51: Why hasn't RSS caught on? A. People need to be able to use it without knowing. I would say it has caught on. Most users don't know they need it though.
3:54: What's on the horizon for MS products? A. Wide varity of things. :-)
Time for Wine and Cheese. A better, more readable recap of everything coming in the weeks to come.
Let me know if everyone liked this live blogging thing.
Comments
Anonymous
October 08, 2006
3:23: Interesting Link: http://beta.plazes.com/ Real time track where I am with software on my laptop. Share this with friends. I think this needs to be migrated to mobile phones not laptops.Plazes is currently testing an SMS feature: http://blog.plazes.com/?p=123Anonymous
October 09, 2006
nice live OCS blogging! I'm still consolidating my notes for a single post. correction: Ross wasn't able to make OCS, so it was Peter Kaminski who gave this talk with Danyel.http://www.socialtext.net/ocs/index.cgi?future_of_social_software_peter_kaminskiAnonymous
October 10, 2006
You take excellent notes, Josh. thanks!Anonymous
October 10, 2006
Tim: Cool. It was hard to grep all that information with < 1 min at the site. Delyn: Thanks! Gail: No problem. I enjoyed the challenge of trying to capture everything.Anonymous
October 10, 2006
ditto to Gail - these notes rock