Last 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 [...]
Also tagged politics, recordsIn 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 [...]
Also tagged facebook, identity, twitterA 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 [...]
Also tagged contacts, design, facebook, gmail, google, gtalk, social software