What They Say:
"Socialstream is the result of a Google-sponsored capstone project in the Master's program at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute. This project was guided by three goals that built upon each other:
Initial Task: Rethink and reinvent online social networking
Refined Focus: Discover the user needs related to social networking and explore how a unified social network service can enhance their experience.
Prototype Goal: Create a system for users to seamlessly share, view, and respond to many types of social content across multiple networks.
Directed to help improve the online community orkut, the project's scope was not to simply redesign the interface. Our team considered how online social networking could bring greater value to users, especially for ages above twenty. After initial brainstorming and research, we chose to focus on the effects of a new model for online social networking: a unified social network that, as a service, provides social data to many other applications."
SocialStream is a project created by the Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute, and funded by none other than Google, which tries to really unify all the social networks in one place. This means that not only you will be able to gather bits and pieces of your digital life in one place; you’ll also be able to update your social networks directly from SocialStream. See the screencast below for an overview of the project in its current stage.
The application is not actually live yet, and there’s no word on when it will be launch. From what I can gather from the screencast, the idea is great, but the actual implementation seems a bit too complex for the average user.
More at:http://www.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/M-HCI/2006/SocialstreamProject/index.php
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