January 2010 05
Broken social (online) scenes
Posted By : Adrian Chan

I’ve just gotten off a skype call with friend and colleague, and fellow sxdsalon member Thomas Vander Wal. Thomas and I pick up the virtual phone about every month or six weeks to tie up

January 2010 04
Life offline, and why I do it
Posted By : Adrian Chan

Greetings, and a happy new year. I am back after a prolonged absence from blogging, tweeting, status updating and online socializing. I took what was almost a month away from social media, and spent my

November 2009 30
Lunch for good, food for thought
Posted By : Adrian Chan

A post by friend Chiah Hwu today has reminded me of a topic that was on my mind recently. That being both the subtext and explicit goal of a series of well-catered, guested, and hosted

October 2009 05
Social Interaction Design: Ratings
Posted By : Adrian Chan

I had other things in mind for this morning until a client sent me an article in today’s Wall Street Journal about online ratings. She, like many others running review and ratings-based sites, is “suffering”