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
Musical.ly's Alex Zhu on Igniting Viral Growth and Building a User Community | #ProductSF
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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.
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
Something for decentralized social graph protocols to consider:
Social connections are not homogeneous, but instead differ in their degree of:
- intensity/affinity
- context
- duration
- velocity
nametwitter.comThe Boneyard Principle: Why the Next Big Thing Will Emerge From a Failed Idea
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