Tag Archives: twitter

Why there’s nothing to fear in social search

28 Oct 2009 – 12:32

This was originally posted on ReadWriteWeb on Oct 27, 2009, as a guest author.
Social search was in the news this past week when Google and Bing announced that they would be getting access to the Twitter fire hose. A flurry of subsequent posts speculated on what this “social search” would entail, and some expressed concerns [...]

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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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If you are who you “follow” …..

8 Sep 2008 – 11:41

…then I should be into design, technology, business, twitter, web 2.0, social, and social media.
As a Cognitive Science/HCI person studying social media, that’s pretty close My friend Mike Krieger produced this from a little experiment he did last weekend. The idea is simple:

Take a Twitter user’s friends (who they follow).
Look at each [...]

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Following the KPBS Twitter feed (part II)

15 Feb 2008 – 16:40

After interviewing KPBS about their Twitter activity during the San Diego fires, I was curious to hear from individuals who actually used the Twitter stream for updates. In addition to my posting here, I posted a few questions on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk about how people found and used the Twitter stream. The questions and a [...]

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