I’ve been wanting to write about Plurk for a while. Everyone seemed to be so enamored with it when it first launched, but maybe that was because Twitter was experiencing serious downtime and people were pissed off — not because it was anything actually worth being excited about.
The first time I logged on, I had [...]
Plurk You
June 20th, 2008 · 3 comments so far
Tags:Design·Onboarding·Pain·Pleasure·Social·User Experience
Bluefly don’t bother me
June 13th, 2008 · 1 comment so far
It’s been hot in NYC lately. Very hot. So it’s time to buy some more dresses. But being the busy woman that I am, I don’t have a ton of time to go shopping. I decided to check out a few websites to see if anything caught my eye. I’ve never shopped at Bluefly.com, but [...]
Tags:Pain·User Experience
The Stranger Aversion
June 5th, 2008 · 2 comments so far
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 [...]
Tags:Design·Facebook·Networking·Social·User Experience
Social Feed Aggregators
May 30th, 2008 · 8 comments so far
There are hundreds, probably thousands, of powerful social networking platforms out there, with new ones launching every week. Send 140-character messages with Twitter. Save links with del.icio.us. Promote content with Digg. Share music with Last.fm. It’s endless.
Lifestreaming — recording your daily activities through text, links, photos, music and video — is quickly becoming the [...]
Tags:Mashups·Networking·RSS·Social·Usability Evaluations·User Experience·Webapps
Group Video Chat: A Usability Evaluation
May 23rd, 2008 · 2 comments so far
Back in January when I started this whole “getting to know the community” thing, I met a couple guys named @matto and @snook, a.k.a. Matthew Oliphant and Jonathan Snook respectively. Matthew had been following me based on David Armano’s recommendation, and I had followed him back because, well, I basically didn’t know anybody on Twitter. [...]
Tags:Design·Pain·Pleasure·Usability Evaluations·User Experience·Video

