There are now only 17 days left until I have to have everything ready for the Graduation Show of my MA in Interaction Design. I’m going to be showing Chatsum itself alongside different ways of looking at the social data its use produces.
We’ve just entered the second phase of beta testing Chatsum which involved inviting in another 1,500 users to test our new Member Profile pages, you can check out my profile here. We’re letting users bring in feeds from lots of other web services so when you’re looking at someone’s profile you can also see their photos, blog posts, bookmarks, videos and upcoming events. There’s something beautiful about these pages that will hopefully get us a lot of press. I think it’s a different approach to a lot of other sites - we pull in content from the internet’s Web of Data rather than trying to replicate Flickr, YouTube, etc.
If all goes well and I don’t have to look through the MySQL slow queries log again then we’ll be taking Chatsum into public beta in about week or so. The prospect of doing this so close to the show, when my part in it relies on Chatsum working, is terrifying but as the MBA students that Lucy has put me in touch with keep saying, “it’s also very exciting”.
