JumpSocial Blog

For those who are wondering how my Facebook lockout is going, here are the messages I’ve received so far. I received two copies of the message that I received today (Sunday).

I’m still not able to log into Facebook.

I’ve had more people get in touch with my by email asking what’s up (the fact that I’m disappearing from Facebook makes people think that I’m blocking them).

—–Original Message—–
From: Appeals from Facebook [mailto:appeals@facebook.com]
Sent: October-14-07 10:56 AM
To: darcy@siteware.com
Subject: [rt.facebook.com #xxxxxxx] AutoReply: RE: Hey!

Hi,

Action has been taken on your account, and Facebook Customer Support has received your inquiry. We will review your situation and get back to you as soon as possible.

Thanks for contacting Facebook.

-Facebook Customer Support

—–Original Message—–
From: Craig from Facebook [mailto:appeals-comment@facebook.com]
Sent: October-12-07 10:02 PM
To: darcy@siteware.com
Subject: [rt.facebook.com #xxxxxxx]

Hi Darcy,

I apologize for the inconvenience. We have reactivated this account.
Please let me know if you have any additional questions.

Thanks for contacting Facebook,

Craig
Customer Support Representative
Facebook

—–Original Message—–
From: Appeals from Facebook [mailto:appeals@facebook.com]
Sent: October-11-07 9:38 PM
To: darcy@siteware.com
Subject: [rt.facebook.com #xxxxxxx] AutoReply:

Hi,

Action has been taken on your account, and Facebook Customer Support has received your inquiry. We will review your situation and get back to you as soon as possible.

Thanks for contacting Facebook.

-Facebook Customer Support

Last Wednesday we had another great SNTTT session at Pub 101.

Personally I love the MyChannl Application.

It’s really cool to be able to have relevant video content without having to do an explicit search. The MyChannl system takes information from your profile, searches various sources then presents you with the content.

You can also view videos based on your friends. I’m understanding that it uses votes from your friends for this. I think it should use your friends’ interests to come up with content and use the voting for ranking rather than content selection. Also that if I have viewed a video, it should be listed lower in my list. (The ones that I like will be in my favourites).

What’s your opinion?

Darcy

My friend Tim Inkpen sent me this article:

Web networking boom blasts into the workplace
The article is about FaceBook and MySpace and it also talks about the fact that many employers block people from certain aspects of the Internet such as email and FaceBook.

Personally I believe that this is generally bad for professionals who use their social networks to assist with problem solving and to discover information. I’ve been on contract sites where they block Internet access and it interfered with my ability to research.

On the other hand, it’s hard to stomach the idea that the civil service is spending their day cruising FaceBook or dating sites and their salaries come from public money. So I can see why they block many people.

Darcy

As a dance enthusiast, I subscribe to a number of listservs and also have a number of friends who forward information to me about dance activities.

There are over twenty sources that send me information.

What happens is that I receive between 25 and 40 emails per week.

I find out about some events from 4 different sources.

The idea behind the JumpSocial calendar is that information providers can put the information into the JumpSocail calendar and categorize it. Then I can indicate in my JumpSocial profile what my interests are and at what frequency I’d like to receive email (if at all). The system will then aggregate all the information together for me. It removes redunancy and consolodates all the information into a lower number of emails.

Further, because the users must fill forms to create the calendar events, they can’t miss information. I recieve information about activities that don’t have all the details. Occasionally the day of week or end date for a repeating event is missing so I can’t tell if it fits into my schedule.

The system is a work in progress and was deployed summer 2006. At the time I am writing this, we have around 2400 users of the system.

Darcy