Posts Tagged ‘Facebook

With very few exceptions, I have ran across everyone I ever went to high school with on Facebook. From the first week I joined, I was inundated with friend requests from everyone you could imagine. In many cases they were even people I don’t remember getting along with at all. Of course you, probably just [...]

I had read a little about the new Facebook user names today, and was surprised at the flaming negativity on Facebook’s blog post describing the feature. It was, well, read it:

That’s a bit overboard don’t you think? Facebook user names are a great idea and here is why:

Today, Facebook is most people’s online presence. [...]

MUI, or Multilingual User Interface, is the technology that Microsoft Windows and Office, as well as other applications, use to deal with multiple languages. So what does this have to do with Facebook? If you are the global icon I am (laughs), you obviously communicate with people all over the world. I have been trolling [...]

I have only been using Twitter regularly for about a month. While I am totally enjoying it, this article on Adage.com brings me to a crossroads on where I feel Twitter fits in. Right now I have about 75 friends on Facebook and about 50/140 (Following/Followers) on Twitter. The interesting thing about them? They [...]

I was about 12 years old when a kid on my block showed up with a Huffy freestyle bike. All he ever did on it was pop wheelies and try to bunny hop cracks in the street in our neighborhood. Somehow we all thought it was really cool. We sat on the sidewalk on our [...]

I am going to single out YouTube and MySpace here. This is a simple post, it’s about user experience, it’s straight to the point…
Don’t send me an email saying I have a comment or new message and NOT tell me what the message IS! I know you want traffic and all, but get real,that’s just [...]

Ina Fried had a chance to interview Chris Jones, Vice President of Windows Live at Microsoft.  There were a few interesting points:
On Open Social“I think on OpenSocial we’re honestly just still looking at it. It’s more of a gadget platform than a social-networking approach. It’s a way to add gadgets to pages with a couple [...]


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