Colin Pattinson

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Name: Colin Pattinson
Date registered: October 17, 2014

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Web Science Msc/PhD Candidate.

Latest posts

  1. Oral History Part 4: The Final Meeting & Dragon’s Den Prep — April 30, 2015
  2. Dragon’s Den Overview — April 30, 2015
  3. Trust and Be Seated — April 25, 2015
  4. Power and Be Seated — April 25, 2015
  5. Crowds and Be Seated: When to use Crowds — April 25, 2015

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Apr 30

Oral History Part 4: The Final Meeting & Dragon’s Den Prep

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Oral History

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In our final meeting we held a special recording with 5/6 of the team. We went through a group of questions discussing reflections on the project, what we have been upto in the final weeks and some insights into our Dragon’s Den preperations. Download: Part4.wav This brings an end to the oral history accounts of …

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Apr 30

Dragon’s Den Overview

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Dragon's Den

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In our meeting on 30/04/2015 we have begun preparations for our Dragon’s Den pitch. After discussing the format, we have come to some decisions regarding the pitch: As the pitch is only 5 minutes we have decided that 2 members of the team will be responsible for delivering the pitch while the other team members …

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Apr 25

Trust and Be Seated

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Academic Literature

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How can Be Seated users trust other user’s reviews? Research has been conducted into how users trust information from unknown sources. 26.3% of respondents in the study indicated that what lies in the text is the best indicator to trustworthiness. The main traits they referred to where; Correctness Comprehension Length Clarity Writing style Scope Neutrality. …

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Apr 25

Power and Be Seated

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Context

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What types of power do Be Seated users use? Experts have discussed different types of power. Such as: Reward: The ability to give rewards. Coercive: ability to use punishment as a way to enforce what you want. Legitimate: having a position or role of authority. Referent: perceived as caring. Expert: having superior knowledge. But do …

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Apr 25

Crowds and Be Seated: When to use Crowds

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“The potential of using crowds continues to expand as the talent pool broadens and platforms evolve. However this doesn’t mean that tapping global providers is always the best approach. Organizations need to consider when they should use crowds, and how best to go about finding the right kinds of providers for the tasks required.” The …

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Apr 25

Future Design: Semantic Web & Be Seated

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Design

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While this isn’t necessarily a feature within our current design, our service could build its own ontology to be able to weave into the rest of the semantic web movement, using a program such as Protégé. For example, the ontology could utilise syntax’s such as FOAF to describe our users and if there is not …

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Apr 25

The Tipping Point : Ways to Popularise Be Seated

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Academic Literature

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A classic book that tries to identify what makes certain trends more popular than others, especially pertinent in an age where something can be launched from obscurity into being viral and universally known. While the Be Seated service is happy to have modest growth rather than just be a viral flash in the pan, it …

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Apr 25

Crowds and Be Seated: A crowded market?

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Context

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Be Seated is not trying to compete with mega-sites/hubs in the social networking/crowd-sourcing landscape. It is happy to be a niche but useful service that doesn’t step on others toes. It is a service that is not readily available elsewhere and can offer something that more established players on the scene have yet to offer …

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Apr 25

Crowds and Be Seated: Crowd Business Models

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Business Plan

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Where does Be Seated fit in the crowd? As a predominately crowd-based service it is important to do some research into what other services, akin to Be Seated, use as their business models. As a site that relies on knowledge sharing and content from its users it must be located in the top left category …

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Apr 24

Be Seated Contents Page

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Home

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This blog documents the evolution of our project. You can navigate the blog using the contents provided below, the headers at the top of this page or simply as a standard blog. We have more detailed categories on the right of the page and have used tags so you can view specific posts about particular …

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