Pleasure and Pain

Measuring the impact of new technology on human experience

Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

Twubble

April 18th, 2008 · 1 comment so far

Uh oh… I’m in twubble…
Dave Malouf shared a cool link today. It’s a (new?) “People you may know” tool for Twitter. This was a great tip for me since I’d recently written about the topic.
Twubble finds the most common people your Twitter friends are following (who you aren’t).

The scan starts when you click on [...]

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Flickr introduces video

April 9th, 2008 · 5 comments so far

Flickr announced today that they are now offering video. Now when you log in to Flickr, this is what you see:

Before I go any further, I have to admit that while I watch a lot of video online, I don’t post much video online. Aside from helping my mom post her videos to YouTube, I’ve [...]

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Update on Amazon’s TextBuyIt

April 5th, 2008 · 1 comment so far

As you may have read on Wednesday, I bought a book through Amazon’s new service TextBuyIt. I was really impressed by the user flow and was able to buy the book I was looking for in about two minutes.
Even more incredible is that the book showed up at my house yesterday morning, just two [...]

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Text message your order to Amazon

April 2nd, 2008 · 7 comments so far

Amazon launched a new service yesterday called TextBuyIt in which you can look up and compare product info via SMS and purchase with your pre-existing account.

I tried it out this morning by texting “Purple cow” to short code 262966 (”Amazon” on the keypad). A moment later I got a response that read:
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The JDate Toolbar

March 7th, 2008 · 2 comments so far

I’m Jewish and I’m single, so it shouldn’t be any surprise to you that I’m on JDate. It’s raining and I’m home on a Friday night, so obviously I signed on. And what did I see? The JDate Toolbar!

I’ve used JDate on and off for years, and one day when I have the time and [...]

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