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Facebook Lexicon: Kinda Fun, But Useful?
Facebook just recently released a fun new thingy called Lexicon. It shows you a graph of the occurrences of certain words or phrases over time on all Facebook walls. Since I do quite a lot of research...
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Facebook Removing Network Pages: WTF?
I was browsing around Facebook today when I thought of checking the network pages for my universities. Network pages are interesting because you can see stuff that’s popular in your particular...
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Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age – Book Report
The weekend is here, and I’m trying to use my “free” time as effectively as possible. I just finished a book that I borrowed form the library, Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age by Duncan...
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Twitter? I Hardly Know Her!
Sometimes it’s fun to go look at what I wrote, say, two years ago and compare it to how I feel now. Case in point: Twitter. Almost two years ago, I wrote that: Now, I actually use the Facebook updates...
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SXSW 2010 Panel Proposal: Student Startups! Entrepreneurship in the University
I have once again proposed a panel for SXSW 2010. Last year’s didn’t get picked, but I have a good feeling about this one. I don’t see any other panel ideas that are too similar to it and I think it’s...
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Connected: The Surprising Power of Social Networks and How They Shape Our...
I just finished reading this book with a really long title: Connected: The Surprising Power of Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives. Whew. Being a connoisseur of social network research, this...
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Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else – Book Review
It looks like I’m continuing my long list of book reviews on my blog. Here’s a review of Linked by Albert-László Barabási (yes, I copy-pasta’ed that). Linked is the story of the birth of graph...
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Openbook Reveals Less Than Facebook’s Own Search
A while ago, I found “Openbook,” a frontend to Facebook’s own search APIs that expose status updates from people who have them set to be public. The site’s purpose is basically to point out how much...
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Quora
I finally heard about Quora enough times (I suppose I reached my contagion threshold) to make a profile for it a week or so ago, and I ended up exploring it in depth today. Quora is basically a site...
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foursquare 2.0 UX Sloppiness
Foursquare just released a new version of its iPhone app. Something I noticed right away which disappointed me was that they basically slapped on a new view to the existing app, and didn’t even bother...
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