Pleasure and Pain

Measuring the impact of new technology on human experience

Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

Entries from July 2008

Links from 7/13/2008 to 7/24/2008

July 23rd, 2008 · Comments

Facebook Connect Launches with 24 Partners Including Digg and Six Apart** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Facebook has announced the official launch of its Facebook Connect offering, which will allow users to port their profile data to third-party Web sites. The company is announcing 24 lau
The Toad Stool by [...]

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I Am Not A Woman Blogger

July 20th, 2008 · Comments

I am a woman (if the photo on the right wasn’t clear). But I am not a woman blogger.
BlogHer ‘08 is going on in San Francisco right now. I know some ladies who are there, and it would’ve been great to be there just to meet a new-and-noteworthy group of people.
But I have to [...]

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10 Worthwhile Twitter Bots

July 19th, 2008 · Comments

Yeah, you get it. I love Twitter. It’s a great place to connect with new and interesting people, but it’s also just a good platform for information delivery and in some cases productivity. Some of these are actual bots (automated accounts) while others are just run by an organization — I’m lumping them into the [...]

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UX Bookshelf

July 19th, 2008 · Comments

In the right sidebar of my blog I promote my UX Bookshelf. I use Amazon Associates just to get the smallest kickback (I’ve never actually made any money with this, but I’d like to!). The other day I noticed that they have a new carousel widget (released in April) that allows you to display up [...]

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Upcoming Posts

July 18th, 2008 · Comments

Just to whet your appetite, here are some posts I’ll be writing in the next week:

The new look of Facebook profiles
10 worthwhile Twitter bots
Thank you letters
Please don’t stalk me (geosocial networking)

If you have any thoughts or questions about these topics that you’d like to see addressed, just leave a comment and I’ll do my best [...]

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