I used to work for a web design shop during the highs and lows of the internet bubble. When I first started, we were hiring every kid who could string two href's together because work was coming our way, more than we could handle. It was great! We had parties, ate fancy lunches, and drove around in …
Archives for August 2007
Categorizing Social Networking Sites
This is part of a response that I wrote to Eric Nehrlich's post, " Affordances of social software". The question at hand is... why do I have a gut feeling that it's "better" to build a social networking site through providing people with fun tasks, rather than just a place to gather? Looking …
Is it really good to know who’s watching?
A few months ago, I read that MySpace or Facebook, or one of those sites, released a tracking feature - you could see who had visited your page and when. This backfired pretty badly because (a) people were creeped out when they saw that strangers were coming to their page over and over and (b) …