A Project of Waggle Labs

Who we are: Web 2.0 software company, at Http://www.wagglelabs.com

Founded in January 2007

Our mission:augmenting social experiences through technology Increasing access, improving relevance, more fun!

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Pathable Buttons

Social matching based on Crowdvine profiles

My tagsMy matchesMy oppositesMy color cluster

What do Colors Mean?

Find event overview and live message feed in fowa.crowdvine.com

How Does it Work?

A little social sciencePredictors of affinity: common interests, friend

of a friend, co-occurrence at events

A little social web 2.0 technologySocial tagging: emergence of collective

knowledge

A little mathSocial network and cluster analysis

Pathable SMS

Many-to-Many MesssagingDynamic / ad hoc groupsBased on Crowdvine tagsRecommended uses:

Arrange to spontaneous BOFs Find others with similar interestsProvide real-time conference updatesHave fun

Join the Pathable Text Messaging (SMS) Backchannel now!

Go to FOWA.CROWDVINE.COM My Profile -> edit answers

Or send “JOIN <your name>" to (44) 7800008126

just send “OFF" to the same number to turn it off

 

Pathable SMS Syntax

Send messages to tags“Design: great presentation in room 23”

See your tags, or someone else’s tags“TAGS”“TAGS Shelly Farnham”

Add and remove tags for yourself“ADD ruby”“REMOVE ruby”

Find out who’s has a tag“WHO werewolf”

Turn messages on and off“ON / OFF”

See handout for more info!

Have fun:

Meet the people recommended by Pathable as most similar and most opposite

Report back, whom did you prefer…?

Do birds of a feather flock together…

or do opposites attract?