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Thursday, August 5th, 2010So it looks like Google has given up on Wave, its experiment on computer-mediated communication. While I always liked the idea of Wave, I felt that the way that Google had implemented it fell short of it being a usable tool for groups. One of the most egregious problems with Wave was how difficult it […]
Today’s Meet
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009Liz Lawley points us in a tweet to Today’s Meet, a web-based website for creating backchannels for free. If it’s easier to use than IRC, I’m all for it. Although I agree with her that the user interface looks kind of crappy.
City use of Twitter
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009Mashable reports on an interesting use of Twitter by the city of San Francisco, in which people can use Twitter to contact the city’s 311 (non-emergency) services. I think that’s a pretty clever use of that micro-blogging tool.
Present.io
Friday, May 15th, 2009Present.io is a service that lets you present a file’s content in real time over the web to a group. You use drop.io to upload the file, send the URL to the people you want to show it to, and then start the presentation. The advantage with present.io is that there is no need for […]
More video how-tos for Second Life
Thursday, March 27th, 2008Did you know you could now talk in Second Life? Yep, you can now chat with others instead of just typing to communicate. Well, the other day I turned off the voice function and I couldn’t figure out how to turn it back on, so this little video on how to turn chat on would […]
The unbearable likeness of being digital
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007I came across a discussion of the paper The unbearable likeness of being digital: The persistence of nonverbal social norms in online virtual environments, by Nick Yee, Jeremy N. Bailenson, Mark Urbanek, Francis Chang and Dan Merget, published in Cyberpsychology and Behavior, volume 10, no. 1, pp. 115-121, a copy of which is available at […]
Behaviour and Information Technology papers
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007A couple of papers in BIT that sound interesting for CSCW researchers:
The effects from technology-mediated interaction and openness in virtual team performance measures, by M. Workman, vol. 26, issue 5, pp. 355-365.
As globalisation continues concurrent with mergers and acquisitions, transnational organisations are increasingly turning to the use of virtual teams in which members collaborate […]
