Embark Together

I would like to quickly follow up on my previous post on explicitly collaborative information seeking.  My claim in that post was that, despite the shared terminology, a service like Aardvark (or Twitter) is not truly collaborative.

Let me be clear about Aardvark: What that service does is help you comb through a network [...]

March 15th, 2010 | Category: Collaborative Information Seeking, Social Implications | 3 comments

Don’t Forget Explicitly Collaborative Information Seeking

A panel on Social Search is happening at SXSW right now.  Reading Danny Sullivan’s liveblogging, I came across the panel’s definition of the three distinct types of social searching.  And I think they left one out:

Collective (gathering advice from a crowd) Friend Filtered (using your friends) Collaborative (asking a friend — see also [...]

March 15th, 2010 | Category: Collaborative Information Seeking | 2 comments