Mobile/Archive/Sharing

Summary

Support easy sharing of certain objects (links, pages, bookmarks, etc.) with social networks and contacts.

The browser should remember things that you've shared, because you've shown that this is an item you are interested in (also, you may well want to share it again). We could use bookmarking as a mechanism for this -- i.e. bookmark everything that you share (possibly tagging the bookmark with "shared" so that the browser can keep track).

Team

• Project Lead: madhava, for now

Designs

Research

• Primacy of social networking on mobiles
  • http://www.groundtruth.com/ground-truth-half-of-all-time-spent-on-the-mobile-internet-is-on-social-networking-sites
• Teen mobile phone usage (lots of texting)
  • intro/abstract: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Teens-and-Mobile-Phones.aspx
  • full report: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Teens-and-Mobile-Phones.aspx?r=1
• How are people sharing:
  • http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1009
• [ESP. THIS] Google research on online vs. real world social + sharing behavior
  • http://2010.iasummit.org/talks/9732
  • http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1061

summary of design-actionable findings:

• to come

Mockups

Initiating Sharing

Anroid-specific

• Preference seems to be for this approach:

• versus this "quick-launch" UI pattern:

Site Menu

Bookmarking panel

Context actions

Share menu

Annotation (for services)