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July 18th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Blogging

Just to whet your appetite, here are some posts I’ll be writing in the next week: The new look of Facebook profiles 10 worthwhile Twitter bots Thank you letters Please don’t stalk me (geosocial networking) If you have any thoughts or questions about these topics that you’d like to see addressed, just leave a comment [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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No, that’s not me

April 16th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Digressions

If you Google “whitney hess” and find this: You’ll get this: Close-up: But sorry, boys. That’s not me. Related Posts: Interviewed for “Facebook, Google, and the data design disaster” Links from 3/2/2008 to 3/5/2008 In 2008, You Changed Me April Fools jokes around the web — causing user pain? The Experience of Giving

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Facebook Chat

April 11th, 2008 · 5 Comments · User Experience

Last Sunday, April 6, brought the launch of the long-awaited Facebook Chat. According to TechCrunch, the feature is so far only available to select members. According to Facebook, “we’re rolling this out slowly.” Not entirely surprising given the backlash that has previously occurred when FB releases new stuff without any warning or feedback and then [...]

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