social software

Sociogeek: How do you expose yourself online? How do you choose your online friends? Another kind of online survey

Daniel Kaplan, CEO of French think tank FING, discuss the results of an on-line survey which aimed at investigating the way people expose themselves online. Are we being too candid about ourselves when online? Are we as transparent as we pretend to be? What strategies do we follow in order to maximize the range and efficiency of our online social networks? And how do we select new online "friends"? Does online networking lower current social barriers?

Kevin Marks of Google talks about Open Social, a framework to build cross-site social apps and fight against social network fatigue and incompatibilities.

Headshift are taking a 6-person development team to LIFT this year, and one thing we really want to do is get together 40 cool people for a workshop to define and design a new hybrid social tool that we see a need for in organisations - a bit of real-time product design to get the juices flowing before the real fun begins!

Details are here: http://tinyurl.com/36494p

The workshop is over half-full already, so unless Laurent can hire out the Palais des Nations, we only 15 places left. It follows on ... kinda ... from my talk last year at LIFT.

We'd love to see you there :-)

Lee