This post began as a comment on the following post by Adina Levin, but quickly became too long, so I am posting it here instead. Read Adina’s post on social context first (excerpted here). Where
Facebook’s recent F8 announcements concerning the Like button, connected pages, and Open Graph api have resurrected some discussion around social objects. I wrote last week about social objects from a theoretical perspective, and want to
In a recent post titled The Social Media Bubble, Umair Haque raises some provocative questions concerning the value of the relationships we form on the internet. His post has drawn some attention, and I’d like
It has been a busy week for realtime social media enthusiasts. Google’s launch of Buzz has given us something to try out and to talk about, and this has been the biggest test of a
Update: The recent launch of Google+ and twitter’s imminent UX redesign got me thinking that it might be worth reposting this concept for Action Streams. Most of our social services are currently structured as feeds,
My appearance on last week’s live Tummelvision show with Heather Gold and Kevin Marks is up. We talked about Google’s Buzz, which at the time was only a few days old and not yet “fixed,”