Got it, your main concern is on inspiration ( if it's too easy to cross past, it's more risk a spam ), maybe Google reader's cross past could be redesign accordingly (with some social enabling feature), :)
Br, Jarod On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Will Evans <w...@semanticfoundry.com>wrote: > Jarod, > > There are very good reasons why we don't encourage cross posting entire > articles from the web. We have over 10,000 members. There are perhaps 100s > of articles of interest to the IxD community posted every day. Imagine > getting thousands of articles clogging up you inbox everyday. Snippets of > articles with commentary and thoughtful reflection are great, but simply > cross posting articles from the web would quickly get out of hand, clog our > email servers, and ultimately hurt our community. It's really for the best. > > Cheers, > > > > ~ will > > "Where you innovate, how you innovate, > and what you innovate are design problems" > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Will Evans | Director, Experience Design > tel: +1.617.281.1281 | w...@semanticfoundry.com > http://blog.semanticfoundry.com > http://www.linkedin.com/in/semanticwill > aim: semanticwill > gtalk: semanticwill > twitter: semanticwill > skype: semanticwill > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > On Feb 10, 2010, at 3:24 PM, Jarod Tang wrote: > > 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 <w...@semanticfoundry.com>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 | w...@semanticfoundry.com >> 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? 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