Re: shiftspace
Mushon Zer-Aviv
Great to hear from you. I am CCing the ShiftSpace discussion list, so
more people can join these points you're making.
Rory Solomon wrote:
> Hey Mushon,
>
> so here's my big idea of the day ... a shift to customize your
> facebook page ... almost as crazy as myspace used to be. of course,
> this a pretty pointless idea. but, (1) i'm taking these media studies
> classes and new media theorists seem to love talking about how from
> /~homespages to myspace to facebook, we're seeing this increasingly
> controlled personal space on the www, so this would reverse that a bit;
Can you elaborate a bit on the idea? How will this shift the Facebook pages?
(guys, I know the first thing you're thinking is "it's problematic to
shift content that is behind a un/pw" but let's learn more about the
idea before we tackle the technical challenges)
> but most importantly, (2) if it was super easy to install etc, it
> could spread really quickly through the network and get shiftspace in
> all those people's browsers, and then maybe they'd experiment with the
> other cooler features.
Definitely, we are actually looking into these issues seriously now.
We're trying to think beyond the plugin and provide wider forms of
participation and cater to different levels of adoption.
>
> maybe you guys are already working on this?
In different levels we are, but we would love to get your input. You
know what? This weekend we're actually participating at the Eyebeam Open
Studios. Do you want to drop by and we can set you up with a dev
environment and discuss these issues? It is actually easier and more
powerful than ever to build spaces now as we've taking most of the heavy
lifting away and are allowing the developer to focus on their app only,
We would love to learn more about your ideas and how they might inform a
new space. Please join shift...@googlegroups.com (and
shiftsp...@googlegroups.com) if you indeed want to get more feedback
on these thoughts.
thanks,
Mushon
>
> R