A fascinating study demonstrates how simply displaying aggregate data like Top 10 lists heavily influences the way people make decisions on social web sites.

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An interesting way to think about social connections and design.

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Thought provoking video of how life is changing:

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Nice find in my referral logs.

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Could form follow failure instead?

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Kathy Sierra is awesome for standing up and sharing what happened so that others can learn and prevent it in the future.

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A follow up to 9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers.

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Nicholas Wade, in Scientists find beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior (NYTimes), produces a definition of sociality. Sociality is comprised of four behaviors: empathy the ability to learn and follow social rules reciprocity peacemaking So this would answer the question: What does social mean? That’s a core part of what we’re talking about here at […]

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My obligatory Twitter post. An interesting thing about Twitter is that, on the web site, the read page is also the write page. On the very same page that we read aggregated posts from our contacts we write our own posts to them. This is different…most tools don’t have this except IM. Not SMS, not […]

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