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Social

• Data, Social, Thoughts

  What would Freud think of how you use Twitter?

  04.21.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Whitney Hess recently did an analysis of her activity on Twitter using Tweet Clouds and TweetStats. Reading her post inspired me to do the same. Here’s what I came up with (btw, I stripped out the @replies to focus more on the content of the messages) :

  I think it would be interesting to look at […]

• Customer Service, Design, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Interface, Social, Thoughts

  Design in the Wild: Beautiful Barcodes

  04.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Leave it to the Japanese to take something as mundane as the barcode and make an artform out of it.
  Update: Check out this post filled with awesome barcodes that safoocat sent me via Flickr.
  This reminded me of those super cool Japanese manhole covers from a while back:

  These are great examples of how anything (even […]

• Customer Service, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Interface, Social, Thoughts

  Design in the Wild: Get Satisfaction’s Social Onboarding Process

  03.31.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Get Satisfaction is an awesome site devoted to providing a platform for companies, as well as the people who use their products, to provide (and share) support for their products. It’s a top notch approach to customer service that does a great job at leveraging current technology as well as current social community behavioral trends […]

• Design in the Wild, Social, Thoughts

  Design in the Wild: American Science and Surplus - a folksonomy gone bad

  03.28.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  This is an example of the risk you always run when you let your users run wild without a sense of controlled (or suggested) vocabulary. Here we’ve got lots of what looks like usernames and a bunch of gobbledygook - neither of which is particularly useful to the rest of the community.
  Don’t let that discourage […]

• Gadgets, Locative, Mobile, Social, Thoughts

  When will mobile social apps finally take off?

  03.25.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Throughout our dodgeball experience we always felt confident that someone was going to execute Mobile Social Software in a way that gave it mass appeal, whether it was us or someone else, we felt passionately that there was a niche to be filled there.
  I still feel that way but I have to say […]

• Customer Service, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Social, Thoughts

  Design In The Wild: Vineacity - an interesting take on the display of public reputations

  03.19.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  A colleague at work recently pointed me to Newsvine’s concept of “vineacity.” For them, “vineacity” is a quantifiable measure of your behavior on and relationship to, the Newsvine community.
  That behavior boils down to 6 key metrics that get represented as branches on a, you guessed it, vine. These vine icons, concisely denoting varying degrees […]

• Locative, Mobile, Social, Thoughts

  NextWall: Interactive street art as clever marketing and promotion

  03.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  A new media agency in Hamburg called Jung von Matt/next built this slick interactive graffiti wall called NextWall to show how a variety of technologies can be used creatively in public spaces for promotion.
  What I really like about this is that its not an old-world, purely promotional (one way) play. Not only do they provide […]

• Social, Thoughts

  Long Overdo: Twitter in Plain English

  03.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Thank you, guys at Commoncraft. Moms all over the world will thank you too. Go here to check it out for yourself.
  Twitter in Plain Engligh

• Gold Star, Reading List, Social, Thoughts

  Clay Shirky: Here Comes Everybody

  03.01.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Karen, Dennis and I went back to ITP last night to celebrate Clay’s book release for Here Comes Everybody.
  Clay was so instrumental to our experience at ITP and served as a inspiration for a lot of the ideas we ultimately explored with dodgeball. I feel very fortunate to have been able to cross paths […]

• Social, Thoughts

  Just wait till the babies can start posting on each other’s walls

  02.28.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Think social networks are big today? Orange conducted research in the U.K. that yielded some pretty crazy data:
  One in five new parents sent a camera-phone image of their newborn baby to friends and family within 10 minutes of it being born. Meanwhile, up to half took pictures of their babies within an hour.
  Makes sense. […]