Tag Archive: History

Apr 30

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

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

Oral History Part 3: Challenges and decision of website’s design

  This is the 3rd part Be Seated history of meetings. In this meeting we discussed about the feasibility of implementing some features and the challenges we faced in the process of finalising our idea. This recording is done by Stefanie, emphasizing on the main issues we encountered when deciding the design of the website.  

Apr 24

Oral History Part 2: Sketching out the Idea and Team Organisation

Part 2 of the evolution of Be Seated features Rafael talking about how we organised the team and the meetings to fully sketch out the features of the service.

Apr 23

Oral History Part 1: First meeting and Idea sharing

This is our first part of our oral history of Be Seated, these are a set of recollections about how our idea evolved from differing perspectives as told from our team members. First up is Colin and his recollection about the first big session on choosing the idea and agreeing on a name.

Apr 22

The History of Early Social Networks

A Brief History of the early years of SNSs according to Boyd & Ellison (2008) 1997 SixDegrees.com: First recognisable SNS launches which combines a number of features that previous websites had already been using. It allows users to create profiles, list their Friends and from 1998 browse Friends lists. 1997-2001 Community tools begin supporting a …

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