Alice Marwick directed me to an interesting analysis on Facebook’s redesign, which posits that,
Facebook’s new design, as many of us have been noting since the company began testing it months ago, seems to emphasis features also seen in trendy new web services favored by us self-styled “early adopter” types.
Mark Slee of Facebook, in talking about [...]
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What is Facebook for?
Posted in identity, sns on July 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Twitter as Expressive Identity Affordance
Posted in identity, sns on May 7, 2008 | No Comments »
There was a thoughtspurt the other day among several components of my distributed non-me thoughtspace - Fred and Warren Ellis commenting on a Techcrunch post, the Real Paul Jones commenting on Fred’s post and offering his own thoughts - and all of it together, and substantial other peer pressure, convinced me to join Twitter. And [...]
The Stories We Tell (Redux)
Posted in identity, tagged identity on April 16, 2008 | No Comments »
For a short time in my life, I distanced myself from previous sports fandom. Sports are, after all, kind of silly and often rather repetitive. But they drew me back in, for a variety of reasons, but I think the larger meta-reason is described better by King Kaufman today than I’ve ever seen before, as [...]
Moments of Connection
Posted in identity on February 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Reading the following passage from this paper brought me back to the lobby of a hostel in Thessaloniki :
The Finnish network in Figure 7 is qualitatively different. It continues the trend observed in the Portuguese network in that it is smaller and looser, but unlike the previous networks, it lacks an apparent center. Rather, each [...]
Open LifeBits
Posted in identity, tagged identity on November 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Terrell has some excellent thoughts on the convergence of all the nodes of identity management. Briefly, he’s talking about,
“…a system that plays by all the rules and ‘just works’ for the simplest of use cases today, and is ready to scale up and handle the use cases of tomorrow. I’m envisioning a wrapper - a [...]
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