A few weeks ago I mentioned that the Facebook feature for friend suggestions could use some improvements. Well, today was the first time recently that I went over to Facebook and noticed that they’ve made some changes to it. They made it worse. Now instead of suggesting people and telling you what friends you have…
I’ve been writing about technology on this blog for a long time. The first posts here date back to Oct. 2001. and while I don’t claim they are very good, I will claim to have been around the tech blogosphere for a very long time relatively speaking. Within the last year, however, as I’ve been…
OK so I found one good thing about Friendfeed, when Twitter has issues showing you all the updates from the people you follow, Friendfeed does a good job picking up the slack. Of course when you only have 10 people you’re following on Friendfeed as opposed to the 96 on Twitter, you’re still missing a…
So I’ve been thinking for awhile now about ways to increase commenting around here. Mostly because I want to hear what you guys have to say, as opposed to just having a conversation with myself. I know most of you read this in some feed reader or other, so coming here to comment requires some…
I’m still not in favor of any service that takes a full post feed and turns it into a headline one, but I wanted to conduct my own little experiment with what the service looks like from a user perspective, because obviously it’s become a huge hit with many in the blogging world. Part of…
I’ve been randomly taking a look at Facebook’s “People you may know” feature over the last week or however long it’s been available. It occurs to me today that this feature is actually a perfect example of the limits of the “friend” definition on Facebook and other social networking services. Here’s an example. I have…