December 2010
3 posts
“The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear...”
– Benjamin Franklin
“You can have a conversation without a social object. You cannot have a social object
without a conversation. It is the conversation that makes the object “social.”
Conversations grow around social objects, much like pearls grow around microscopic
dust. Social objects are about growth, they are “live.”
— JP Rangaswami
If you try and “inject” a social object into a conversation, then what...
“Social networks consist of people who are connected by a shared object. That’s...”
– The term “social object” first surfaced in a blog post by Jyri Engeström on April 13, 2005.
Jyri, cofounder of jaiku and now a product manager at Google