People + Media + Messages = Social
January 19th, 2009
In a social application there are always two domains: the domain you define, or the ‘problem’ domain, and the social domain. A video-sharing web application, for instance, has no problem domain. Its entire story can be described within the social domain: it has users, videos, possibly forums, possibly blogs, possibly syndication of content. In other words, there are patterns we can apply that allow us to describe this system to a framework without writing any code, at least not code that isn’t contained within some higher API-level abstraction. If we aren’t there today, then we should move in that…
Socialized