I think Murray Turoff is referring to the system that he pioneered, called the Emergency Management Information Systems And Reference Index (EMISARI). See: Hiltz and Turoff, (1978), The Network Nation: Human Communication via Computer (Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley), also see: http://www.livinginternet.com/r/ri_emisari.htm Murray Turoff and Roxanne Hiltz had a vision that was decades ahead of the times. Bill On 31 Dec 2008, at 09:39, Frank Thomas wrote:
Murray Turoff wrote:
The standard design philosophy currently being used in many social network systems is to encourage the user to sign into the site and duplicate functions like exchanging messages in different formats. For many users this is too much a waste of time in that most important things are carried out by the user in their current message environment. The addition of groups that social networks finally recognized (they existed in some systems in the 70's) Would you please give more details on this ? Which one, and how did they differ from today's ?
- ft