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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.
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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.
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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.
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Interview with fellow HKU graduates who are doing cool stuff out of their own small agency, mostly in experimental interfaces.
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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.