Skittles is one of my favorite candies. I love opening up a fresh pack, finding one of each color and squishing them together to make a rainbow. It just makes me happy. I’ve been eating Skittles my whole life and I’ve been on a computer my whole life, and yet never in a million years [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Social Networking'
Why the new Skittles website is ridiculous but I don’t actually care
March 3rd, 2009 · 10 Comments · Customer Experience, Social Networking, Twitter
Tags:Branding·Customer Experience·Pleasure·Social Networking·Twitter
The Stranger Aversion
June 5th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Social Networking
Social media has created a world in which everyone is interconnected. Forget six degrees of separation; we’re probably down to three. So have we completely lost the notion of a stranger? Charlie O’Donnell, CEO of Path 101, recently wrote a post on his personal blog about the shift towards using social systems to connect with [...]
Social Feed Aggregators
May 30th, 2008 · 10 Comments · Social Networking
There are hundreds, probably thousands, of powerful social networking platforms out there, with new ones launching every week. Send 140-character messages with Twitter. Save links with del.icio.us. Promote content with Digg. Share music with Last.fm. It’s endless. Lifestreaming — recording your daily activities through text, links, photos, music and video — is quickly becoming the [...]
Tags:Mashups·RSS·Social Networking·Usability Evaluations·User Experience·Webapps
Places you can find me
April 24th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Social Networking
In the spirit of unreciprocated online friendship, feel free to add me to your networks on the following sites. Chances are good that I’ll add you back. Twitter FriendFeed Del.icio.us Flickr Digg StumbleUpon Upcoming Readr BrightKite Dopplr Should I be connected somewhere that I’m not? Let me know in [...]
Tags:Social Networking
The Meaning of Friend
April 23rd, 2008 · 14 Comments · Social Networking
Russ Unger’s latest post “We Are All Friends Here. Right?” got me thinking about the nature of friendship on and off the web. I have made a lot of new friends in the three months since I started this blog and began using Twitter. At first I told myself that I would be using both [...]
