Mobile/Archive/Sharing

Summary

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

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)