Via Nick Diakopoulos, I see that Google News has added badges, awarded for reading an number of articles on a certain topics. You earn them privately and can then share them. Nick has some thoughts on his blog. I agree with a lot of Nick’s thoughts. Having validated reading behavior is useful – though it’s [...]
Tagged badges, gamification, google news, newsLast week, Sunlight Labs released Inbox Influence, a set of browser extensions (Chrome, Firefox) and bookmarklets that annotate senders and entities in the body of emails with who has contributed to them and to whom they have contributed. I really like the idea of using browser plugins to annotate information people encounter in their regular [...]
Tagged politics, privacy, recordsThis is an iPhone post. I’d been waiting to replace my sometimes-barely functioning phone for a good while, so, like many others, I showed up at a local AT&T store on Friday in hopes of getting my iPhone. After spending an embarrassing amount of time in line, and shortly before getting to the front, we [...]
Tagged customer service, smart mobs