Comments on: The three pillars of Social Search Engines http://webnomena.com/2008/04/12/the-three-pillars-of-social-search-engines/ Experimenting with the web Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:00:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Scott Rutherford http://webnomena.com/2008/04/12/the-three-pillars-of-social-search-engines/#comment-187 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:07:03 +0000 http://usingit.wordpress.com/?p=130#comment-187 Keren, thanks for the reply and for updating your post. I don’t know if you came across this: http://invites.mashable.com/ for getting into beta sites – not exactly what you are talking about but a start.

We decided to just launch, a closed alpha / beta just seemed a little pointless if you have a service which is based around people inviting their friends!! Plus I figured that the time it takes to build a community should be long enough to act as an alpha / beta period anyway.

]]> By: Keren Dagan http://webnomena.com/2008/04/12/the-three-pillars-of-social-search-engines/#comment-185 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:33:06 +0000 http://usingit.wordpress.com/?p=130#comment-185 @Scott
Thanks for taking the time to comment here and sorry for my misrepresentation of RecommendBox.
I did not know that you were in alpha (where is it stated?). Now I really feel bad. Maybe now it is more crucial having a service like this: Alpha, Beta, Launch – whom, where,when?
I logged-in and I missed the welcome page, the right panel where I could add exiting contacts.
Then, I went looking for existing users to see if I can add some new friends and I saw none (I did not want to bother my already bothered existing friends from other social networks) .
RecommendBox was listed on the same TechCruch post writing about nsyght and other social search engine so I gave it a short test run.
I wish you good luck with the new service making it as social as possible building large community.
Keren

]]> By: Scott Rutherford http://webnomena.com/2008/04/12/the-three-pillars-of-social-search-engines/#comment-184 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:28:36 +0000 http://usingit.wordpress.com/?p=130#comment-184 Hi Keren,

Thanks for taking a look at the site (and so soon too, we only went alpha at the start of April!). However, I feel that it has been a little misrepresented. Firstly because RecommendBox is not a social search engine!! It is a closed social network focused on trying to improve the process of sharing recommendations with your existing friends.

I am a little bemused by the suggestion there is no way to add friends too. When you join the welcome page allows you to invite people (both by typing in their email and using any online address books – hotmail, gmail, yahoo and aol) and clicking on invites in the top right hand menu gives the same options. Clicking on friends in the same menu gives you access to a people search and the ability to send friend requests. There is also a ‘people you might know feature’ which kicks in when the system knows you better (it uses a FOAF mechanism and is not very advanced at present).

This area of functionality is ‘currently’ missing an automated ‘import all’ feature but you can import your contacts and select which ones to send requests / recommendations / invites too.

Apart from that, good post, I would agree with the concepts.

]]> By: Steve Maclin http://webnomena.com/2008/04/12/the-three-pillars-of-social-search-engines/#comment-178 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:30:58 +0000 http://usingit.wordpress.com/?p=130#comment-178 Social networks are becoming so popular that many newer sites are popping up and usability is getting better and better…it forces the big ones to catch up. I like your three pillars.

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