Pleasure and Pain

Measuring the impact of new technology on human experience

Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

People you may know

March 30th, 2008 · 4 comments so far

Earlier this week, Facebook released a new feature called “People You May Know.” Three random friends of friends are displayed in the right sidebar of your homepage in the hopes that you’ll make more connections.
When you click the “see all” link, a longer list of possible friends is offered up. Of the 27 people displayed, [...]

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Links from 3/2/2008 to 3/5/2008

March 5th, 2008 · No comments yet

Facebook Hires Google Executive as No. 2 - New York Times
iPhonic: Steve Wozniak has another pop at the iPhone
Will Tomorrow’s World Still Need Designers? / frogblog / frog design
35 Ways to Stream Your Life - ReadWriteWeb
Data is the New Links
Tim Berners-Lee Says Sites That Don?t Give Users Their Data Back Are Boring
Official Google Blog: Hello, [...]

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links for 2008-02-25

February 25th, 2008 · No comments yet

MAKE: Blog: Macbook air - yes, it can be laser etched
Mine cost way too much to irreversibly decorate, but perhaps you’d like to put a monkey on your Air.
(tags: macbook_air personalization fun)

Facebook Fatigue? Visitors Level Off In the U.S.
Is Facebook app spam driving users away? I certainly don’t use it as much
(tags: facebook statistics traffic [...]

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links for 2008-02-24

February 24th, 2008 · No comments yet

Facebook Targets FriendFeed; Opening Up The News Feed
Facebook plans to allow users to add activities from FriendFeed directly into their Facebook news feed.
(tags: community facebook friendfeed lifestream socialnetworking)

Commuter Feed
Commuter Feed is a Twitter mashup that aggregates traffic reports. Users tweet traffic updates to a Twitter robot along with an airport code and then parses those [...]

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