Living Off Craigslist
Have you ever tried living entirely off Craiglist?
Social networking
Recipe for Success: Keep Up Your Connection to the Ground Level
Jyri Engeström, Product Manager at Google who found his way there by co-developing the microblogging service Jaiku and selling it to the search engine giant in 2007, says that without a hands on approach to its business on all levels of management, the company will lose its touch with the reality. Sounds rather obvious, doesn’t [...]
Too much Twitter?
Toronto was truly embraced by different conferences and events this week. There was the Information Architecture Institute’s Idea09 for information architects, social media and interaction designers, and Mobile Innovation Week for several events including Mobile Media World. There was also CaseCamp for everyone interested in social media and “the nuances of Internet culture”, as the [...]
It’s all about the niche
As an answer to Mr. Tweet‘s Twitter-celebrity-lists I think, TwiTip’s Darren Rowse has asked people to construct their own Top 10 Must Follow lists as it relates to their own niche. I just posted mine on the site, and here it is too – my top 10 of UXD/IA/IxD people and web strategists (in no [...]
From industrial marketing to social marketing
Graeme Wood has put together an excellent, comprehensive roundup of what’s happened in marketing and communications, where are we coming from and where are we headed. From the value of a brand in mass marketing to the value of a brand in the world of social media, recommendation and reputation. You can read the whole [...]
"Social networks were thought to be the way to outsource desire fabrication…"
“…to consumers themselves. To some degree they will do so. But in this age of individuality it will be the ego-centric wish that will be the more powerful driver of demand. “If I can dream it, I can have it.” Wish-based consumables are ego-centric: they are about my impulses based on the pleasure principle.” I [...]
Social interactions are not designed
Earlier this week I linked to Adrian Chan’s great article on social interaction design in Johnny Holland Magazine. It made me think of a few points that I think are worth a post in my own blog. First I think the term ‘social interaction design’ is misleading. Of course, in our context, in this industry, [...]
What ever happened to Fidg’t?
KillerStartups and several other sites featured Fidg’t, developed by the LA-based company Protohaus, as a very promising new tool last year. Fidg’t is a “social networking address book” that promised to help users to aggregate all of their social networking sites and group them into meta contacts. In other words, put all your friends from [...]
Social interaction design
Quite a brilliant, benchmark article by Adrian Chan in Johnny Holland Magazine today! Writing about social interaction design, Adrian states that “If the task of conventional software is to provide successful interactions, to inform the user that his actions worked, then what of social media? … Social interaction design works by respecting the psychological and [...]
"If it’s too social, you’re too old"
Here’s a refreshing note on social media from Khoi Vinh. I can very well relate to what Khoi says, but I also like what people say in the comments…