July 2011 05
The burden of sharing
Posted By : Adrian Chan

If our many social tools have one thing in common, it’s sharing. Sharing that is often overwhelming. Overwhelming, because it produces further sharing demands and expectations, and because it communicates itself, and often notifies about

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

June 2011 22
Challenges of local social commerce
Posted By : Adrian Chan

Through client work over the past year, I’ve become somewhat familiar with local social commerce. More than I had expected. I’m not really a deals-oriented kind of guy. Not much of a shopper at all,

June 2011 12
turntable.fm, and the art of listening
Posted By : Adrian Chan

  “Individuals are very rarely expected ‘just’ to be co-present in gatherings and never are permitted to act thus in encounters. The reflexive monitoring of action, in contexts of co-presence, demands a sort of ‘controlled