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SCA2011: Social computing conference CFP (deadline Aug 15)
By Jon Dron July 25, 2011 - 9:17am Comments (2)Call for papers: SCA2011 - International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sca2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 15,...EA to buy PopCap Games for $1.3B
By Dickson Wai Hei Lam 15 July 2011 @ 2:47pmwww.digitaltrends.com - PopCap makes social games such as Plants vs Zombies, Peggie, Bejewled … EA is a juggernaut in the gaming industry. It will be interesting to see how Zynga reacts...Why Zuckerberg Is (Almost) Right About Great Talent
Started by Dickson Wai Hei Lam July 14, 2011 - 7:05pm Replies (1) Last reply by Eric von Stackelberg July 15, 2011 - 10:38amDo you agree with Zuckerberg: “Some programmers and programming teams are, indeed, 100X more productive than their more typically talented counterparts.” http://blogs.hbr.org/schrage/2011/06/why-zuckerberg-is-almost-right.html Dickson
Site Navigation Model
Last updated July 14, 2011 - 6:28pm by Dickson Wai Hei Lam Comments (1)A good design social site navigation system is very important to the retention of site users. Getting people to sign up is hard enough. In the conversional signup flow (confirm personal info -> add your friends -> invite others -> getting...-
Lightweight APIs
Last updated July 14, 2011 - 1:17am by Dickson Wai Hei LamMany successful social sites I have come across support some level of lightweight APIs for services and individuals to use in addition to their normal end users facing UI. Facebook (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/), using the Open Graph... UX of Social Software
By Dickson Wai Hei Lam 12 July 2011 @ 10:33ambokardo.com - Slides on UX of social online software focusing on UI design. Talked about some cold start solutions as well. Dickson-
Pandora
Last updated July 6, 2011 - 12:25am by Dickson Wai Hei LamPandora is an online automated music recommendation service offered only within United States. Using its proprietary algorithm, called the “Music Genome Project “, to suggest music to user and streams music over various medias such as... -
World of Warcraft
Last updated July 6, 2011 - 12:25am by Dickson Wai Hei LamBlizzard Entertainment is the company behind the popular MMORPG (multi player online role playing game) called WoW (World of Warcraft) [1]. WoW was deemed the most popular and most profitable game in the world [2] [4]. Like most MMORPG, WoW is a... -
eBay
Last updated July 4, 2011 - 11:40pm by Dickson Wai Hei LameBay was established in September 1995 by the company founder Pierre Omidyar [1]. eBay is the largest and most popular online auction site worldwide with over 147 million registered users in 30 countries as of March 2005 [2]. eBay’s primary... Week 8 – New Wikipedia Page
By Dickson Wai Hei Lam 3 July 2011 @ 12:45am Comments (1)en.wikipedia.org - To my surprise I could not find our week 6 topic in Wikipedia so I started a new page after seeing there was no direct topic that discusses Social Mobile Application specifically. You can find the new page in here and please feel free to...
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COMP 650: Social Computing
In support of COMP 650, Social Computing
