Microsoft Wallop Hacks - How to customize Wallop



What is Microsoft Wallop

Wallop



The mission in Microsoft's Wallop Social Computing Group is to research and develop software that contributes to compelling and effective social interactions, with a focus on user-centered design processes and rapid prototyping.

The work includes the Sapphire project, sharing, mobile applications, trust and reputation, collaboration, and story telling. To facilitate the rapid prototyping, they also have an online lab for running studies to evaluate the social user interfaces.

In Wallop, you can share photos, blog, and interact with your friends. Wallop is a research project that explores how people share media and build conversations in the context of social networks. Wallop is currently running a small, real world test with small friendship groups.

Wallop is modeled after the way people (vs computers) think, feel, organize and remember. This simple but fundamental change in perspective has caused Wallop to rethink the way the system is experienced and designed, from the user experience to the lowest levels of the system.
The current desktop assumes you organize files by manually sorting into folders. As the amount of information increases, finding items becomes more frustrating. Wallop's goal is to have automatic, dynamic grouping by association replace folders as the primary means of organizing. The prototypes that has been developed automatically determines the importance (what you care about), similarity (relationships between objects), and the current context of the user. All objects (people, communication, documents, web pages, etc.) and metadata are stored in a database and queries determining associations can be calculated in real-time.
The Sapphire project includes the backend, data & queries, and user interface prototypes, and is a cross group effort.

Wallop is currently in testing and not open to the general public. For more information go to www.wallop.com

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Re: Microsoft Wallop Hacks - How to customize Wallop

Well, it seems now anyone can get invited to wallop, try it now: go to the Wallop home page and click "Get Invited button there".

Flash Teh Ripper

Re: Microsoft Wallop Hacks - How to customize Wallop

If you experience problems with Wallop invitations - contact me, I've got some again.

Flash Teh Ripper

Re: Microsoft Wallop Hacks - How to customize Wallop

can i get an invite?
thanks

Re: Microsoft Wallop Hacks - How to customize Wallop

I would love to help. I'm online 50% of the day, so that'd be rad to try out. Thanks, I had no idea it was in motion.

Re: Microsoft Wallop Hacks - How to customize Wallop

can u give me an invite?
this is the only social network i've not gotten into...

10 wallop invitations are available

Does anybody is still interested in joining Wallop? I've got 10 invitations for wallop so now I can invite 10 people. Contact me if you need it (surely you'll love Wallop Smiling

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Flash Ripper

Re: 10 wallop invitations are available

I really would like 2 get invited ... my addy is

**********.. that ok? ty Smiling

 

Email Address removed by a moderator for your protection. Please enable the contact form in your account settings instead! You can do this by registering for free!

Re: 10 wallop invitations are available

Hi i m interested in joining,plz send me one at in.vaibhav(at)gmail.com.
Thanks & Regards

Re: 10 wallop invitations are available

Vaibhav, invitation has been sent. Have cool time with Wallop! - Flash The Ripper

Re: 10 wallop invitations are available

Hey Flash,

I was just wondering, are the invites you mentioned just for the social networking side of the site or are they modder accounts?

 

Yours faithfully,

Beethoven

Once one has met music, he may never return to speech.

Re: 10 wallop invitations are available

Beethoven,

Invitations I've mentioned are for social networking side. I've got the modder account too but at this moments I'm not sure I can invite someone to modder accounts. If you're really interested in modder account, feel free to ping me on this subject and I'll discover how this can be accomplished.

Anyway, there's at least one sure way to request modder account directly from Brian Blau, he manages modders community at Wallop. Usually you do it via this online form: Request A Wallop Modder Account (and so I did). It took nearly 3 days in my case to get their approval. The best enforcement for this is to write them a couple of cute idea you intend to implement -- then they'll approve faster I guess (or you can show them your works).

BTW, I've just discovered there's one more usable Get Invited form available. I think it can be used to get Wallop accounts too. I haven't noticed it earlier.

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Regards,
Flash Ripper

Microsoft Wallop

I'd like to try Wallop but how do you join? Is it by inviatation only? If somone knows how to get in please post it.

Microsoft Wallop

I think they're keeping membership pretty limited still.