Liz Lawley, Director, Lab for Social Computing, Rochester Institute of Technology, hadn’t spoken in three months so had lots to talk about. She did a personal history with social tools from 1992 (Gopher playlists) to 2005 (World of Warcraft, which today boasts 8 million people paying $15/month!).
She talked about what makes her tingle now — what we should be looking at:
* integrating services, mashups — flickr thumbnails in del.i.cous & her new Pulp
* photos as presence indicators — communicative artifacts
* photos as shared artifacts with collaborative annotations (family pics for instance)
* changing nature of TV with downloads from itunes — changing where and we get TV
and lots m0re, here are her slides. Great presentation as always, her enthusiasm is definitely catching!