Big thanks to Caroline McCarthy for interviewing me for her latest CNET article, “Facebook, Google, and the data design disaster” featured in her column The Social.
Caroline asked me what I thought of the new Facebook homepage redesign, as well as Google’s apparent obsession with data (above good design, as exposed by designer Douglas Bowman in [...]
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Interviewed for “Facebook, Google, and the data design disaster”
March 30th, 2009 · Comments · Articles, User Experience
Upcoming Posts
July 18th, 2008 · Comments · Blogging
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 [...]
The Stranger Aversion
June 5th, 2008 · Comments · Social Networking
Social media has created a world in which everyone is interconnected. Forget six degrees of separation; we’re probably down to three. So have we completely lost the notion of a stranger?
Charlie O’Donnell, CEO of Path 101, recently wrote a post on his personal blog about the shift towards using social systems to connect with pre-existing [...]
The Meaning of Friend
April 23rd, 2008 · Comments · Social Networking
Russ Unger’s latest post “We Are All Friends Here. Right?” got me thinking about the nature of friendship on and off the web. I have made a lot of new friends in the three months since I started this blog and began using Twitter. At first I told myself that I would be using both [...]
No, that’s not me
April 16th, 2008 · Comments · Digressions
If you Google “whitney hess” and find this:
You’ll get this:
Close-up:
But sorry, boys. That’s not me.
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