Microsoft Social Computing Symposium

Just returned from a trip to Seattle and Redmond, Washington. I was there for the Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium, a small meeting of professionals, academics, and researchers interested in current and future directions in social computing. It was a terrific collection of people and I feel so lucky to have gone. Topics covered:

• social objects
• alternate reality games
• geo-location devices and applications
• privacy
• virtual worlds
• distributed cognition
• passively multiplayer online game (PMOG)
• ethics of sharing online
•  usability
• architecture

And many others, but I’m posting this quickly since I’m batting a lot of balls at the moment. Thanks to everyone who attended and made it a super place to be for a couple of days. It’s a fantastic opportunity for me to learn new things and ponder connections between ideas. And now, back to the game. The balls, they’re coming faster than I can hit them. Gah.