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Social

• Social, Thoughts

  Howard Rheingold on his love for Twitter

  02.25.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Rheingold, whose 2003 SmartMobs was an indirect inspiration for a lot of our initial thoughts about dodgeball, has a nice post up about why he likes Twitter. Some of the ones I agree with most strongly are:
  Openness — anyone can join, and anyone can follow anyone else (unless they restrict access to friends who request […]

• Customer Service, Gold Star, Process, Social, Thoughts

  Web 2.0 and the developer dialogue (+ invites to Socialthing beta)

  02.18.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Not long after my post about Socialthing, I got a comment from one of the developers:
  Alex, you’re very right that more will come out of it. Subscribing to all of your friends’ RSS feeds can be completely overwhelming. A service like ours allows a user to see everything on all of their networks without being […]

• Review, Social, Thoughts

  Just got my Socialthing beta invite. So far: well-executed Friendstream

  02.15.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  A little while back I read about Socialthing and signed up for the beta as I’m intrigued to see what directions the various purveyors of lifestreams - Jaiku (very early to the game yet now MIA), FriendFeed - can take the idea. The email from Socialthing sets up the beta well and prepares the user […]

• Gold Star, Resource, Social, Thoughts

  Excellent community for innovation in User Experience Design

  02.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  A huge thanks to Lisa E. for sending this site my way. Konigi.com presents Digg-like visual way to browse best-of-breed UX design broken down into five main categories: function, interface, design, notebook (general UX commentary and blog posts) and overall (all categories).
  Clicking on an example takes you to a clean detail page that breaks down […]