October 2009 01
Foursquare vs Yelp: Recommendations and Reviews
Posted By : Adrian Chan

Foursquare and Yelp are each sites that capitalize on user-contributed reviews and recommendations. Users contribute their favorite places and things to do, spotlighting best-kept secrets and customer favorites. Users get visibility and even some amount

September 2009 30
Socially-mediated branding: Revangelism?
Posted By : Adrian Chan

I have been talking about socially-mediated branding without having really offered a description of what I mean by it. In follow up to yesterday’s post on consumers and their identification with brands, I want to

September 2009 21
Sociability: Usability for Social Media
Posted By : Adrian Chan

People who know me personally are familiar with my baroque inclinations for turning simple things into brid”s nests of complexity. I’m drawn to what lies behind, below, before, and because of anything that has to

September 2009 08
Structured Tweeting?
Posted By : Adrian Chan

Adina Levin of Socialtext posted recently about Tags for ActivityStrea.ms. I’ve been enjoying online conversations with Adina quite a lot of late; there’s a constructive Venn overlap between our approaches to design for social media