Comments on: Social network modalities http://blog.thestateofme.com/2008/12/16/social-network-modalities/ IT mixology and other thoughts about tech, life the universe and everything Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:17:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: alexis http://blog.thestateofme.com/2008/12/16/social-network-modalities/#comment-99 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:56:48 +0000 http://thestateofme.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-99 You could build a trading system in which publishers stated executable prices and subscribed consumers would @reply when they wished to trade. Doing so as a public “@Hugh ..” would enable others potential traders to publish a better price.

]]> By: hagrant http://blog.thestateofme.com/2008/12/16/social-network-modalities/#comment-88 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:37:22 +0000 http://thestateofme.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-88 There really isn’t a commonplace equivalence for the ‘@’ pattern in enterprise pub-sub however. Maybe this is actually something new and useful that has come out of web 2.0? :-)

Of course, the ‘@’ pattern breaks the (usual) rule that the publisher is unaware of specific subscribers, but then again human beings were never as tidy as computer systems.

I wonder if anybody can think of a good example where ‘@’-type behaviour is both common and desirable in enterprise systems (outside of, say, lower-level tasks such as housekeeping and systems management).

–hagrant

]]> By: A social networking operating system « Chris Swan’s Weblog http://blog.thestateofme.com/2008/12/16/social-network-modalities/#comment-81 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:13:49 +0000 http://thestateofme.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-81 [...] networking operating system would be. This is in part why I felt it was necessary to spend time on social network modalities. In the end the presentation wasn’t formalised (or constrained) by being put into a document, [...]

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