July 2011 29
Google+ Circles: a new design for talk?
Posted By : Adrian Chan

A long while back I wrote up a case for a message-based social networking standard that would couple posts and responses, and which would permit actions on posts that could be updated on participating social

June 2011 29
Google+ circles, hard and soft
Posted By : Adrian Chan

I haven’t used Google+ yet, so these thoughts are uninformed by any product use or testing. But they’re conceptual, anyway, so no matter. It’s a given that one of the byproducts of mediating social technology

May 2011 09
Ambient intimacy, ambient engagement
Posted By : Adrian Chan

A couple years ago we used to refer to the twitter stream in terms of “ambient intimacy.” The phrase stuck. It captured the experience of in-stream serendipity and discovery, of finding and building connections in

August 2010 25
Are social media valuable to society?
Posted By : Adrian Chan

Many have noted the decline and fall of print and professional journalism. Some point their fingers at social media, or at the internet in general. There’s truth to this, although there are economic and business