Tag Archives: facebook

When Facebook comes to work

16 May 2011 – 12:18

The chapter I wrote over a year and a half ago, “When Facebook Comes to Work,” has finally been published in a new CyberAge book by Information Today: Dancing with Digital Natives. (View the Table of Contents.) “This remarkable group of editors and authors presents a range of opinions about the challenges and opportunities of [...]

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Facebook vs. everyone

26 May 2010 – 22:55

It seems like Facebook is in the news constantly these days. People are concerned about privacy, security, and general trust of Facebook. So to address those issues, today Facebook announced new privacy controls. I can see both sides of the issue, so I decided to draw a comic:

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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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