Links for 2007-07-01
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First in a series of posts on the significance of Second Life. Part of a debate with Clay Shirky and Henry Jenkins.
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Elaborate write-up by Alper on a way to make your social network portable between services using open standards and formats.
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Interview with Matt Biddulph shining some light on where social travel service Dopplr is headed.
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First post of Clay Shirky’s part in the debate on Second Life’s significance, mainly zeroing in on the false statistics (aren’t they always) behind the hype.
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Descent piece on the current state of (US) location based services.
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More CSS typography goodness, this time on incremental leading; the ‘next level’ after baseline grids.
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Critique of Marinka Copiers thesis on the non-existence of a magic circle in massive multiplayer online games. I don’t agree with Marinka or Jörgen, I guess I should blog on that sometime soon.
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Timo reports on NFC developments around the world. It’s coming fast! (Or actually, it’s already here.)
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This seems to have stirred up quite a storm. Thought-provoking essay by Danah Boyd on the differences in audience of Facebook and MySpace.
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Merholz’s angle on experience design: the starting point for a product should not be features.
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First in a two part post with some useful pointers to things you should address when designing social sites.
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