There’s a lot to like about the recent changes to Facebook, but, as an application developer, many of the changes are a mixed bag. Changes to navigation and to interaction points between Facebook and applications are problematic, while new application privacy features are a good start but seem incomplete.
Navigation to Apps
Formerly, the application dock made [...]
The first of my social software for wellness applications is available on Facebook (info page).
Three Good Things supports a positive psychology exercise in which participants record three good things, and why these things happened. When completed daily – even on the bad days – over time, participants report increased happiness and decreased symptoms of [...]
In a post describing some teens’ use of Twitter and Facebook (Twitter is for friends; Facebook is everybody; some teens are using private Twitter accounts for communication with friends because Twitter is too public), danah boyd poses the following question:
My guess is that if Twitter does take off among teens and Dylan’s friends feel pressured [...]
Tagged facebook, identity, privacy, twitterIn early September, I attended WikiSym 08 in Porto, Portugal, so this post is nearly two months overdue. In addition to presenting a short paper on the use of a wiki to enhance organizational memory and sharing in a Boeing workgroup, I participated on the WikiFest panel organized by Stewart Mader.
Since then, a couple [...]
The New York Times has a nice writeup on some of the ways companies are using prediction markets. One of the examples given is Best Buy’s use of an internal prediction market to forecast potential delays in products or services, and to catch these delays in time to prevent further slips. I tend to agree [...]
Tagged prediction marketA 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 software