8/15/2023 0 Comments Ah snap meaning![]() For example, let’s look at the list of applications tracked by Appaholic, a fantastic service that tells you what the most popular widgets are: MySpace widgets were all about pimping your profile – adding new decorations, glittery text, moving photos, and the like.įacebook widgets, however, allow deeper integration points as to allow substantially different applications to be built. One big distinction that has been enabled by Facebook (but arguably not from MySpace) is that there’s a new class of widgets that are functional in nature versus decorative. ![]() It strikes me that User Generation Content is opening up into User Generated Interaction, facilitated by these full-blown applications. ![]() It used to be that you would e-mail only pictures to people, but now on MySpace, you can message someone a YouTube video that has a mini-version of the website embedded into the player. In the next generation, widgets are BOTH content and application logic, all rolled into one. Today, you still see a steady progression of that in richer and richer contexts, via video and slideshows, etc. In the first generation, it was all about text and graphics that were authored by users, going as far back as mailing lists and Usenet and eBay and all of that. Social Networking Applications are the next evolution of User Generated Content. I agree with Max’s idea that one day, someone will build World of Warcraft (or something of that complexity) into a social network. I much prefer it over the “widget” terminology because widgets strongly underplay their sophistication and potential of what developers can create. My friend Chris Smoak came up with a great acronym today, called “SNAP” meaning Social Network Application. A new acronym brought to you by Chris Smoak ![]()
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