Tag Archives: social search

Social media versus Oil Can Henry’s

Jun 13th – 5pm

It’s the banal that determines whether social media will succeed in the mainstream, and today I had an experience that I think demonstrates how far away we are from achieving the the ubiquitously useful social media experience we deserve. Specifically, I got my oil changed. The epitome of banal, right? Yeah, except, see, I don’t [...]

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My name is not a URL

Mar 21st – 5pm

Arrington has a post that claims that Facebook is getting wise to something MySpace has known from the start – users love vanity URLs. I don’t buy it. In fact, I’m pretty sure that the omission of vanity URLs on Facebook is an intentional design decision from the beginning, and one that I’ve learned to [...]

By Chris Messina | Posted in Citizen-centric Web, Digital Identity, Ideas, Life online, Usability, Web building | Also tagged , , , | Comments (59)