A WordPress Social Network | Given Automattic‘s latest acquisition, it seems a probability. Here’s something I’d certainly be interested in seeing – WordPress MU + BuddyPress + the Prologue theme (+ bbPress if required). I might give that a whirl myself. This post contained some useful information and alternatives too.
Note – I’ll also be taking a look at Xiando.
The future of social networks: Social networks will be like air | In other words, ubiquitous and all-pervasive by virtue of the fact your social interactions and decisions stemming from these will be driven via your networks; networks that are easily accessible and linked. Good article though nothing particularly new or sensational. Some of the comments have good feedback too.
Dashboard Spy | Enhancing Dashboard Value and User Experience | Great resources that are proving very helpful for a project I’ve been heavily involved in the last week – the design for an information dashboard for one of my clients. It’s proving an interesting challenge given the audience it is intended for. Instead of the traditional corporate environment, we’re trying to present user data within a certain niche social activity (forgive the the obscurity but I’m under an NDA).
The people using the system will be from diverse backgrounds and initially may have only a passing familiarity with what they are looking at. The dashboard therefore has not only present data in an easily interpreted manner but also clearly indicate what is presented. We can’t make too many presumptions on the users degree of familiarity with the terms, statistics etc being employed.
Technology Populism | Yay, new buzz word! I picked it up via this article referencing a Forrester report. It is refers to how “information workers can now provision their own software tools, information sources, and social networks via the Web to support their jobs”.
Also via ReadWriteWeb was a link to WorkLight who seem to be in business of creating enterprise-grade applications from social platforms such as Facebook. I’m going to take a closer look at that and see what the game plan is.
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