March 2009 04
Twitter’s Endgame: Search is Chat?
Posted By : Adrian Chan

The recent skittles twitter campaign used a feature in limited testing at twitter. It’s called integrated search, or real-time search. You could see it at work Sunday & Monday on the skittles.com homepage, or in

March 2009 03
The Gift, and the Spirit of the Word
Posted By : Adrian Chan

“In the economic and legal systems that have preceded our own, one hardly ever finds a simple exchange of goods, wealth, and products in transactions concluded by individuals. First, it is not individuals but collectivities

March 2009 01
Who’s motivating your users?
Posted By : Adrian Chan

Alfred Hitchcock used to say that he never made a “Whodunnit” movie. His movies were “For whom was it done?” In fact a lot of his movies begin with the crime. In some, the victim

March 2009 01
Contingencies in Social Media
Posted By : Adrian Chan

There’s a concept we don’t use nearly enough in social media, even though it describes what is possibly the single-most important phenomenon of online interaction: contingency. It means, roughly, that one thing is contingent on