TAG: Social Design

Trend: Social Networking passes Porn

Everyone is social. Not everyone is into porn.

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The hidden lives of MySpacers

Why opinions from anybody but users rarely matter.

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Collaboration is the Killer App

A big part of the disruption going on in software is that collaboration is much more important than feature lists.

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How Aggregate Displays Change User Behavior

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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Why Circle of Friends Works in Social Networking

An interesting way to think about social connections and design.

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Shift Happens

Thought provoking video of how life is changing:

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Make your Blog more Usable

Nice find in my referral logs.

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Does Form Really Follow Function?

Could form follow failure instead?

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Kudos to Kathy Sierra

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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4 Behaviors of Sociality

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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