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Comment on Don’t want my friends to see me by Foad Dabiri

Foad Dabiri — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:30:17 +0000

I think there are two categories of communication which should be considered/studies separately: voice-based and text-based communication. There are few difference among the two and the most important one might be the fact that in text-based communication there is “soft-deadlines” for responses (one can take his/her time to respond…) whereas in voice-based communications, there are “hard-deadlines” (meaning once I “tell” you a sentence, I am kinda waiting to hear back almost immediately).

Therefore when it comes to adaptation of “video” chatting, the better analysis might be to see those who do voice communication (say through phone or chat clients like Skype), what is the rate of adapting to the video features (FaceTime or Skype Video).

Personally, if I am doing voice-chat using Skype, majority of the times (not always!) I do prefer if I had a live video feed. But, as you mentioned, if I am text-chatting with someone, it may not even occur to me if I prefer a video feed or not, what might come to mind is if I want a more “real-time” communication (with hard-deadlines). And if my phone had a feature like “FaceTime” (which it does not ), then I would like to have a video feed as well (I can’t say how often since have not had the option).

Basically what I want to say is that video chat becomes relevant for those communication methods with “hard-deadline” protocols or for “new” applications where visual feature is a necessity, not a luxury (like “meeting” your family members or a sub-set of professional collaboration).

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Don’t want my friends to see me « Practical Entrepreneur — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:00:22 +0000

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Comment on Reductionism and failure in understanding why social web products fail or succeed by Shayan

Shayan — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 06:12:05 +0000

I agree Tourag. Re-framing can help is getting closer to causal relationships in a complex system. One thing that I would caution against is the illusion of causality though. There are times that the best we can do is arrive at correlation and it’s very hard to tell the two apart in these situations.

Another approach is to really forget about finding that “silver bullet” and take the whole system you are studying, glean some best practices (not necessarily causalities), and try to apply them to your parallel/next system.

Comment on Reductionism and failure in understanding why social web products fail or succeed by Touraj

Touraj — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 05:58:25 +0000

Shayan,

This is a VERY interesting topic and you make a very good point about the problem with reductionism. However, I feel equally unsatisfied with the “emergence” approach, because the answer it provides is either circular (“Complex systems are complex”) or unfalsifiable (“Each system has a unique character, somewhat of a SOUL or its own CONSCIOUSNESS, that cannot be replicated through other means”).

Alternatively, I think whenever reductionism doesn’t yield a satisfactory response, we may want to re-examine the formulation and framing of the question. For instance, perhaps reframing “What features of Zoosk make it so great?” to “Why would female Facebook users aged 20-29 prefer creating a Zoosk profile over a Match.com profile” yield a better reductionist answer?