This document discusses designing social networks and interactions online. It proposes creating social objects that users can interact with using defined verbs. The social objects would be networked together and allow importing profiles and friends from other networks. It notes some challenges including privacy issues that are still unknown and managing ongoing user expectations of a system designed for experimentation.

1. Designing Social Sandboxes

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6. Can we mimic & extend our
social interactions online?

7. You know, act naturally.

8. Available Social Dialtone

9. Object Centered Sociality
User Generated Context
Practices & Problems
Why Dopplr Rules

11. Create social objects

13. Define the object.
Name the verbs.
Network the objects.

19. User Generated Context

22. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

27. Profile Import

30. Friend Import

32. hCard + XFN

34. Activity Streams/Identity Consolidation

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42. “The key lesson for me is that our
members became very thoroughly
obsessed with those numbers. Even
though points on Consumating were
redeemable for absolutely nothing, not
even a gold star, our members had an
unquenchable desire for them.”

46. Friend or Follow?

50. [this is good]

59. [this is not good]

63. Caveats:
* Making explicit what was latent
* Need to see the beautiful seams
* Interconnection brings emergent,
unexpected consequences
* We donʼt know the privacy issues yet
* Avoid the ʻset upʼ problem
* Managing ongoing user expectations
* Structure v. experimentation

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