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This is a very insightful piece considering it's from 6 years ago. "Social software" is about making it easy for people to do other things that make them happy
by bigtones 16y ago
This is a very insightful piece considering it's from 6 years ago.
"Social software" is about making it easy for people to do other things that make them happy: meeting, communicating, and hooking up.
Wow, thats basically a Facebook manifesto, albeit 6 months after TheFacebook was launched (but when it was still very small and relatively unknown).
Pretty insightful stuff from JWZ.
- cookiecaper 16y agoFacebook has replaced Evite, but it really doesn't do calendaring in any meaningful way. JWZ seems to be talking about software that make serendipitous real-life interaction easier and better; Facebook seems to mostly have the effect of isolating people all day, replacing parties and Monopoly for wall posts and Cityville. There's still a lot of room to improve.