Links for 2007-05-04

In Links on 4 May 2007 with no comments

• Bokardo » Digg Surrenders to Community
  Porter’s at his best when he just concisely describes stuff that’s happening in the social web field. I agree with him, this latest example of the Digg community’s out of control-ness is insane.
  (tags: Digg control DRM communities socialsoftware)
• Gamasutra – Virtual Worlds 2007: The Future of Marketing and Media
  Hype-laden report of conference on virtual worlds. Perhaps the most noteworthy point is the call made for dramatic improvements in the user experience of these environments.
  (tags: virtualworlds conferences reports hype ux userexperience)
• Bokardo » Why Circle of Friends Works in Social Networking
  What does Porter mean by ‘works’? I don’t think the current implementations of befriending in social software work. Friendship is such a fluid thing (as Danah Boyd has pointed out in the past) that we need to move beyond simple binary categories.
  (tags: socialnetworking friends socialsoftware friendship)
• Interview of David Kousemaker and Tim Olden from Blendid
  Interview with fellow HKU graduates who are doing cool stuff out of their own small agency, mostly in experimental interfaces.
  (tags: Blendid interviews DavidKousemaker TimOlden business art design interactiondesign IxD interfaces experiments)
• Bokardo » How Aggregate Displays Change User Behavior
  I’m reading too much Bokardo lately. This is Porter’s analysis of a New York Times piece on the effect of showing popularity scores for items on social web sites. Good to keep in mind when coming up with aggregate data views.
  (tags: socialsoftware popularity feedback behaviour)

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