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 [...]
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 [...]
Also tagged contacts, design, facebook, gmail, google, gtalk, privacyAs an ischool student, I like to see what folks at other ischools are thinking about, and I had experimented some with claimid in the fall. In the developers’ own words,
One of the greatest things about having a claimID page is that you can easily provide people searching for you with a real picture [...]
Also tagged identitySam Anderson’s article “Judging Your Friends by their Netflix Queue” made it onto a few blogs and the like over the past week, often with comments along the lines of “This article is totally true.” Anderson describes his initial reaction:
When I first started looking at my friends’ Netflix lists, it felt a little creepy. [...]
Also tagged collections, identity