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[Attendee @ conference blogs this...] The Network is the People ================== Esther Dyson talks about social network tools and the personal network inflation in them... she uses LinkedIn, but has several criticisms for the inability of software to handle common human interaction dynamics... wants a wiki for social interaction... [hear that SMD?] explicit quantification of relationships may not work [yep] Chris Allen talks about Dunbar Number = 150, the maximum size of manageable human groups. Grooming required to maintain network -- half of your time? Groups are important but we do not have enough software for them. Asks... will transparency lead to accountability? ... maybe the person in the car next to you will use their mobile phone camera to record your road rage? Wikis don't scale... 7 or 8 users feels right, but 50 is too many Mena Trott talks about web logs for small specific groups... many extended, distributed families use blogs this way. Ignores invitations to on-line social networks -- does not want to say "NO". Instead of a readership of 10,000 I want a passionate readership of 10 Ray Ozzie talks about on-line meritocracy that forms in on-line work groups. In self-organizing groups, the negative and lazy members do not get invited to the next group. Social networks can not be too explicit we must retain their natural fuzziness. [about 200 people in the room and most have their laptops out... almost half are Apple Powerbooks! Only problem is too many wireless users... network keeps going down]