We are in the world of YASNS. The term was first coined by Clay Shirky in 2003, when he said we have on our hands ‘Yet another Social Networking Service’ [1]. Shirky was writing at a time when social networks were growing daily in number. Wikipedia currently lists around 200 active (or recently active) social […]
Archive | March, 2018
Logo : A review of existing social network site logos
Visual Identity What ever we end up calling our social network, we will need to develop a strong visual identify. The name itself will form part of that identity, but there does need to be some visual association of the name with something that users recognise such that it becomes familiar. As a thoroughly non-academic […]
WeSpeke
Analysis of Existing Similar Tools Why look at existing Social Network services? When you are designing a new service to offer consumers, it is important that you do not copy someone else’s service because they can probably (and most likely already are) do it better than you can [1]. In this series of posts, we […]
What to call the social network?
We are struggling to agree on a name for the network. Here are some of the ideas considered (mostly rejected!) Omniglot – from the Latin ‘omni’ meaning “all” and the Greek ‘glot’ meaning “tongue Welcome Aloha – ‘welcome’ in Hawaiian Haykuykuy – ‘welcome’ from the Cusco dialect of Quechua, Peru Bonvenon – ‘welcome’ in Esperanto […]
Meet the Team
Introducing our group Ian Coombs – MSc Web Science. With a first degree in Geography and a second in educational leadership his current areas of interest include considering how schools should prepare young people for a world mediated through social media. Matthew Langford – MEng Computer Science. Having studied both art and computer science, I […]