July 2011 06
Google+: Of Circles and Followers
Posted By : Adrian Chan

Of all social tools still going strong today, twitter’s use of the follow/follow back as a means of launching and gaining traction has been the most copied. I can’t think of a faster way to

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,