Pleasure and Pain

Measuring the impact of new technology on human experience

Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

The Meaning of Friend

April 23rd, 2008 · 11 comments so far

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 [...]

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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 for 2008-02-26

February 26th, 2008 · No comments yet

Twitter / tencommandments
Via Alex Rainert: http://twitter.com/arainert
(tags: twitter etiquette)

Least helpful apartment listing photo of all time
Via Curbed
(tags: craigslist funny)

The LinkedIn Blog: Announcing LinkedIn Mobile
(tags: socialnetworking linkedin mobile wap)

How To Manage Your Online Reputation - ReadWriteWeb
How Trackur matches up against Google Alerts, Technorati, Monitor This, Naymz, Rapleaf, etc.
(tags: tools identity reputation track)

Botanicalls Twitter DIY
We are officially in [...]

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