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

• in the short term, before the browser can keep track of a user's contacts, we have to rely on the sharing app itself (email, sms) to know who the user's contacts are. This means that the user has to pick a mechanism through which to share in the browser:

• this is the longer-term approach (that I prefer) - letting the user choose who to share with (rather than how to share) in the browser. This lets the browser be clever suggesting likely contacts to share with, and dynamically creating sharing groups based on sharing behavior.

Annotation (for services)