Internet and social media technologies for humans
by Andy DeSoto on August 5, 2008
Whether you want to believe it or not, the way a particular social network is designed can have wide-reaching effects on our behavior. Staying plugged into any network, digital or otherwise, for a prolonged amount of time can begin to change us unconsciously in a way we don’t realize until we finally become untethered. Here’s a little anecdote of why I’m iterating this particular message now.
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by Andy DeSoto on July 14, 2008
I’ve only been up for a few hours, and already I’m stuck in an afternoon rut: reloading the same websites, refreshing the same empty conversations, and switching between the same tabs. As my summer vacation nears an end, I realize the next five weeks will pass in a similar way unless I cut back on useless web activity to jump-start my productivity both on- and off-line.
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Real-time competitiveness makes Plurk sticky
by Andy DeSoto on July 25, 2008
I think I’ve figured out what helps make social network Plurk so sticky, why it continues to draw users back increasingly more often for longer periods of time: the Plurk timeline not only shows the conversations that you’re engaged in, but those that your friends and followers are keeping up with, too. Let me be a [...]
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