Oral History Part 2: Sketching out the Idea and Team Organisation
Part 2 of the evolution of Be Seated features Rafael talking about how we organised the team and the meetings to fully sketch out the features of the service.
Oral History Part 1: First meeting and Idea sharing
This is our first part of our oral history of Be Seated, these are a set of recollections about how our idea evolved from differing perspectives as told from our team members. First up is Colin and his recollection about the first big session on choosing the idea and agreeing …
The Future of Be Seated
Future of Be Seated We have presented a feasible, realistic and workable first build of Be Seated. We are aware however of all the extra features that could be added to make the service bigger, better and more exciting for users. Here is a selection of future improvements that we …
News: Twitter vs. Trolls
Twitter and protecting Users In efforts to tackle abuse, Twitter is taking new measures to secure its users. This is interesting and pertinent for any social networking site. The firm has admitted that it has not done enough to protect its users. Be Seated must make sure that it …
Promotion & Marketing of Be Seated
How will we market & promote Be Seated? In this post we will discuss possible ways to market Be Seated. We are confident that the service and idea is quite useful and rewarding for users but initially some leg work will be required to make people aware of the …
User Incentives and Be Seated
Current Incentives for Be Seated Users A certain level of āintrinsic motivationā. Users feel part of the community and can get useful information from the service, like TripAdvisor. This has been proven to be a powerful tool in incentivising the crowd. In order to rapidly build up reviews (create a …
Unavoidable Ethical Questions About Social Networking
Social Networking has some general inescapable ethical concerns such as: Connecting people can be positive but it can also lead people into forming harmful relationships and connections. Cyber-bulling or trolling is a sad phenomenon and every effort should be made to avoid harassment of other users. Users have a right …
Social and Ethical Considerations of Be Seated
While reviewing our idea we must consider its social and ethical impact. What follows is a collection of considerations that we have anticipated our service may expose. Businesses and by default employees could be harmed or have their reputation diminished by users poor reviews. Could lead to loss of …
How we designed the Be Seated logo.
In the process of creating logos. I personally found the website Squarespace rather useful. It provides a free platform to make clean, simple designs which is quite useful. I designed the logo using this simple website. In practice our service may want to invest in a company to make a …
The History of Early Social Networks
A Brief History of the early years of SNSs according to Boyd & Ellison (2008) 1997 SixDegrees.com: First recognisable SNS launches which combines a number of features that previous websites had already been using. It allows users to create proļ¬les, list their Friends and from 1998 browse Friends lists. 1997-2001 …