āItās fascinating to consider that events based industries such as live music have succeeded in growing their overall pie, whilst so much of the digital media debate is about cannibalisation.” – Publishing Rights Society (PRS), UK[1] Live events are an important social, cultural and economic component of many of our lives. They are both a […]
Author Archive | Jack Webster
EventHive’s Point System
Introduction Fundamental to the EventHive experience is its event point system. EventHive reward users for attending events and using our platform. Users are encouraged and motivated to continue using our service and attending because there is a possibility of earning pointsĀ thatĀ can be exchanged for rewards. TheĀ concept andĀ motivation behind our point system will be explained by […]
Social Networks, Graph Theory & EventHive
This blog post will introduce you to the field of network theory and the study of social networks. It will explore some types of network characteristics and network theory techniques and discuss them in relation to social networks on EventHive. Because no network analysis has been performed, this blog post remains both speculative and descriptive. […]
EventHive in Action #2 – Attendee User Stories
Jack has curated three storyboards that illustrate some further potential use scenarios of EventHive. The storyboards are from the perspective of the event attendee, as opposed to the event organiser, and attempt to highlight the breadth and dynamism of EventHive’s application. This entry is complimented by Zingming’s post, which discusses user scenarios from the event […]
The Buzz Count Algorithm & Popularity Metric
Algorithms and metrics are becoming an increasingly important way in which Web content is mediated to us. The development of algorithms is a lucrative endeavour and is also generating debating amongst the academic community[1]. Many well known Web applications, such as Google, Flickr, Facebook, Netflix and Amazon, use algorithms to identify relevant content. Flickr, for […]
EventHiveās ‘Beehive’ Branding & Design
The word “hive” is rich in meanings. It refers to a teeming multitude; a structure; a natural habitation; a collective body; and the movement of a group[1]. āHive” has both natural world connotations and more abstract and conceptual meanings. In the natural world, a hive is a structure occupied by bees, which emerge, disappear, and […]
EventHive, Collective User Value & Network Effects
As a social networking service, EventHive primarily brings together two distinct groups, event attendeesĀ (or potential attendees) and event organisers. The types of events and event organisers that we unite with potential attendees range from local music venues to large sporting tournaments. In this way, EventHive represents a two-sided market, or two-sided network, and EventHive is […]
EventHive Through the Lens of Actor-Network Theory
In the EventHive world, events are viewed as hives of activity. These hives are made up of people, media content, organisers, mobile devices, computers, places, and the list goes on. In short, the hive is a network made up of all of the human and non human actors that make any given event, an event. […]
The ‘Fear of Missing Out’ as EventHive’s Psychological Underpinning
āOne recent rainy night, I curled up on my couch with popcorn and Netflix Instant, ready to spend a quiet night at home. The peace was sweet ā while it lasted. Soon, my iPhone began flashing with notifications from a handful of social networking sites, each a beacon of information about what my friends were […]
The Project Brief 1.0 – Initial Proposition
Written by the EventHive team Today, social networking sites are an important part of daily life for some people and are a useful tool for sharing experiences of events. However, existing social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc.) are not specifically designed for event-based activities. Arguably, they lack efficient mechanisms to attract people to interact […]