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Rethinking Social Relevancy Rank: What’s Missing?

28 Jul 2009 – 11:33

Although I’m working from San Francisco on independent projects this summer, the social search issue remains at the forefront of my mind. I read an insightful essay by Alex Iskold at ReadWriteWeb a few weeks back describing how searches could be filtered by social groups to provide more relevant results listings. I agreed with his [...]

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Just how virtual are virtual social networks?

19 Sep 2008 – 20:30

I’ve been working on a social sensemaking project with Peter Pirolli at PARC. In the process of designing it, we realized that there were smaller pieces of the puzzle, so to speak, that could be investigated one at a time. The results I’m reporting here are from a study looking at just how virtual today’s [...]

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