Regardless of where you stand on Empire Avenue, there’s this to be said about it. Playing Empire Avenue provides some pretty interesting insights into your social media habits. Now, I don’t know how valuable it
Question: Are social tools a new class of social objects? And this, from a cultural perspective, and not strictly a designer’s perspective. Culture has its objects. Society uses its objects. Objects have their form, their
It’s possible that every social game is built around a core social action. A social action that forms the basis of individual user experiences, and which scales to produce a social dynamic that is entertaining,
“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
“This vanguard is not about computers. Computers are over….The new economy is about communication, deep and wide. Communication is the foundation of society, of our culture, of our humanity, of our own individual identity, and
Twitter’s got a new feature that allows users to see another users’s twitter stream. That is, to change POV. According to Techcrunch: Now You Can See Twitter The Way I See Twitter. I’ve always wondered
