I heard recently that Skype can shorten a hard drive’s life span: A more serious drawback lies in Skype’s software. By accessing the hard drive multiple times per minute, the program prevents it from entering
I recently had my first experience with a skype IM conference chat. This wasn’t my first group chat, but it’s been a while. IRC chats were so much faster! The chat started off as a
Social Interaction Design Case Studies In an attempt to flesh out the issues and approaches particular to social interaction design, I’m undertaking several case studies of popular social software systems. As each system has its
The big splash that blogging has made must be on the edge of integration with email. Blogging’s popularity as a mode of expression, and email’s popularity as a mode of communication are begging to unite
Excerpt from a Skype IM today w/ Jason Lewis, old friend and fellow geek at Montreal’s Concordia Univ. The project referred to involves projecting txt msg’s into public spaces. The artile I sent him was
Just a quick thought on tagging. With all the social software and community, as well as blogging and other services embedding tagging, i wonder if the net effect may be a mainstreaming at the expense
