A month or so ago, Cory Doctorow wrote a column about how your “creepy ex-co-workers will kill Facebook,” and introduced what he calls “boyd’s law:”
Adding more users to a social network increases the probability that it will put you in an awkward social circumstance.
I think there’s an important corollary: adding more features and content types [...]
Tagged contacts, design, facebook, gmail, google, gtalk, privacy, social softwareEver since I first started geotagging photos and posting them to Flickr, I’ve wanted to use this information to find photos that were taken in roughly the same location at roughly the same time. can I find photos with myself in them? Can I find other pictures from an event without having to use textual [...]
Tagged flickr, photos, placeFor my final project in Network Cities (ARCH531), I worked with Garin Fons and Amy Grude to explore urban flows. We propose a system that enables sidewalks to respond to you and the people who came before you. As you walk through a city, the ground underfoot glows. Intense, extended glows show the most common [...]
Tagged design, place, siFor one of our Networked Cities projects, we were asked to explore urban markup. While looking at existing projects, my teammate David Hutchful and I got the feeling that tagging spaces is a pretty crowded space. Tagging or otherwise marking people with the intent of learning more about them or feeling more connected to them [...]
Tagged design, identity, place, siThe phrase “alone together” came up in a couple of different contexts this week. In both instances it was expressed as being physical with other people participating in a solitary activity: checking email at Starbucks, flying without talking with your seatmates, and the like. This is not unlike Ducheneaut’s use of the phrase alone together [...]
Tagged community, design, place