Pleasure and Pain

Measuring the impact of new technology on human experience

Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

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. [...]

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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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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.
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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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