Social Graph Design
The medium is the message. This page is about how the decisions we make about social graph and network design impact behavior.
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Social Graph Design
people think the solution to the web becoming a big performance stage is to have lots of fragmented smaller communities. But finding the right community is really hard. A better way is to use novel technologies and network mechanics to matchmake in real-time. You get a new community every second depending on what you’re thinking.
a twitter 10x brainstorm, hear me out:
IF every tweet was assigned a set of Topics via AI/NLP (auto or manual, mock-up below), and IF every creator thereby gained varying levels of “authority” in Topics based on how others w/ authority engaged w/ their tweets, THEN…
The Boneyard Principle: Why the Next Big Thing Will Emerge From a Failed Idea
David King and Mishti Sharmaevery.to
FB’s has an interface problem, not an algorithm problem… because people won’t affirmatively click on the things they actually deep down want to watch
An idea that the Benchmark partners taught me: in social networks, you want the celebrities to join at the end, not the beginning
New networks should mint new celebrities, not get built by existing ones
My interest in chain runners was low since it was (investor) celebrity led
Patrick OShaughnessytwitter.com