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sixgroups co-worked on scientific paper

Published by
Johannes
at February 28, 2009 in Cooperation, Internals, vielmehr08 and web2expo. 1 Comment

sixgroups.com Livecommunity has supported several conferences such as (suspended) OMD, Web 2.0 Expo, or VielMehr. In the follow-up of the VielMehr conference one of the organizers, Dr. Martin C. Kindsmüller, brought up the idea to write a scientific paper for the HCI International 2009. In this paper the application of the Livecommunity as an instant online community (IOC) in the context of a conference should be analyzed. Now, a paper titled Instant Online Communities as a means to foster conferences written by Martin C. Kindmüller, Jan Milz, and Johannes Schmidt is submitted to HCII and is going to be published in the HCII proceedings in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Martin C. will present it at HCII which takes place this summer in San Diego, CA, USA.

We start with the introduction of our notion of an instant online community. As mentioned, we further analyze the successful application of the Livecommunity at VielMehr in detail, uncover several shortcomings and sketch appropriate solutions to solve the described issues and to improve the Livecommunity (lessons learned). Finally, we introduce the idea of the Shared Common Subject spreading beyond system boundaries. This spreading which implies the blurring of system boundaries is enabled by IOCs providing backchannel functionality such as the Twitter backchannel of the Livecommunity. We regard this idea which causes a paradigm shift as the (scientific) foundation of our future activities.

Update 10/2009: Jan just published his Diplomarbeit – Instant-Online-Communities

Livecommunity update

Published by
Bahne Carstensen
at October 16, 2008 in Features, Functions and web2expo. 2 Comments

We released a really big update of the Livecommunity early this morning:

Usability enhancements

Starting with the toolbar we reduced the number of items and links significantly. We eliminated the search form, login/register and lots of other things and added a big “open” link:

toolbar

We applied the same principle to the first overview page of the Livecommunity:

- separation between main content area and sidebar

- reduced functional links, i.e. filters are hidden

- added a breadcrump navigation

- Livecommunity opens now in full browser height allowing more entries to be displayed

The new toolbar is available and you have to update your embed-code to a new version. You can do this manually by changing this line:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://communityname.sixgroups.com/widgets/api/json/?v=0.2"></script>

to

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://communityname.sixgroups.com/widgets/api/json/v/03/"></script>

or go to the community your choice and get the new code from the partnersites overview.

Slideshare

You can now embed presentations from slideshare within the Livestream. Just post the URL in the shoutform and the presentation will be part of your community:

slideshare

We also made a lot of changes in the background. These should lead to a more stable and faster version.

Tell us how you like the new Livecommunity.

Growth is exciting…. sixgroups.com proud to serve web2.0 Expo

Published by
Andreas Stephan
at September 18, 2008 in Events, Features, Hosting, theme08 and web2expo. 14 Comments

As you might have noticed, we have had connectivity issues on Monday and also partly on Tuesday. This is partly due to the fact that we are hosting two premium Livecommunities at the moment: Apart from the European Online Marketing Conference OMD which has been online for a few weeks already we are now providing a Livecommunity for THE ULTIMATE web2.0 conference, the web2.0 Expo NewYork!

Thanks to talks with the web2.0 organizers at O’Reilly by our advisor Stowe Boyd, we are able to provide the community network on crowdvine with an enhanced conference version of sixgroups.com. The Livestream is aggregating Tweets, Flickr photos, blogposts and YouTube videos tagged w2e_NY08 or web2expo a. Until today we already aggregated more than 1500 tweets related to the conference, as well as a bunch of other interesting resources.

Unfortunately one of our application servers crashed on Monday morning, and it took us way to long to replace it. Combined with the higher traffic from the conferences we were unable to cope with the requests coming in to our servers and thus were unreachable for quite some time – we are really sorry about that!
We worked hard to fix the performance issues and the team has basically forgotten what beds look like since… well…  the application server has been replaced with a stronger one and the performance issues have been resolved – yay!

We also added a bunch of features in the latest release, of which most are also available in the standard version of Livecommunities.

Filters

You can now filter the Livestream of communities by a variety of filters to show only things you are interested in, e.g. only new images or tweets:

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Featured Livediscussions

If you feel like something you said is of major importance and want to point others to your post, you can change the title and permalink of the post to something meaningful. Instead of linking to http://webexny2008.sixgroups.com/live/thread/392467/ you can now create links like http://webexny2008.sixgroups.com/live/thread/design-and-ux/

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For conferences we also added a new feature that allows them to add a twitter hashtag to the room, so people can tweet their responses directly into that room:

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Deeplinks

You can now deeplink to posts in your Livecommunity: http://webexny2008.crowdvine.com/#6g/live/thread/design-and-ux/
If you want to a post directly from your own page with a Livecommunity, add the class “sgDeeplink” to your anchors, to make them open in the overlay.:
<a href=”http://blog.sixgroups.com/#6g/live/thread/367257/” class=”sgDeeplink” >Mein Deeplink</a> , e.g. like this: Check out what Helge said in the Livestream

Follow discussions

Before, it was hard to get back to a post in the Livestream without bookmarking the permalink somewhere. Now you can do this with the new “follow” functionality. Click on the little heart on the right corner of every new item in the Livestream to add this to your list of followed posts.

Follow a discussion

You can then filter the Livestream to show only discussions you like:

filtered by favs

Custom guest name

Guests can now pick a custom name:

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