3 Mar 2010 (2 weeks ago) – 11:42
I now have a translation of the dutch article about social search! It was done by a very generous Dutch woman, Joyce Brouwers (also on Twitter). Thank you so much, Joyce!
This was really my first interview with a journalist, so it’s interesting to see how some of my thoughts were spun in a certain direction…but [...]
17 Feb 2010 (4 weeks ago) – 20:58
I don’t actually know what the title of this article is, but Google translate tells me that this:
“Het Googlen van de toekomst doe je met je vrienden”
translates to this:
“The Googling of the future that you do with your friends”.
If anyone out there speaks Dutch and wants to provide a translation for me, I’m quite curious [...]
This was originally posted on the Bolt|Peters blog on February 2, 2010, as a guest author.
What is social interaction design?
Social interaction design (SxD) is the practice of designing for person-to-person interactions mediated by a computer interface, going beyond pure usability and human-computer interaction. Even fairly solitary experiences like editing a Wikipedia page occur in a [...]
I was contacted by a dutch journalist who’s writing an article on the merits of social interaction versus search engines. She read a paper of mine and emailed me with two questions. I thought it’d be useful to post my reply publicly:
First, do you think search engines making use of social networks will improve search [...]
I was invited to speak at the Yahoo Research Group seminar last week (December 9, 2009) about the research methods I’ve used to study online communities. I called the talk “Digital Ethnography for Social Interaction Design” to capture the essence of what I wanted to cover. There are a number of challenges in studying online [...]
