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We’ve seen these types of article before but I always think it is good to pass them around each time.
If you need help explaining the basics of Social Networking to someone with little-to-no prior exposure, this article from The New York Times has some good ideas.
People of all ages text … no question … but it is good to remember that, as The New York Times reports, teenagers text more than other age group and that they text more than they call.
The online privacy conversation continues. Read what The New York Times observes is a trend … young social networkers are more private than older networkers.
I see this as an interesting confluence of two dynamics.
On one hand we have younger folks maturing and realizing (as we all do in the march to old age) that as we get older, life gets more complicated and privacy becomes more important .. and adding to this .. is the fact that the younger networkers are more familiar, and comfortable dealing with, the hoops you have to jump through to manage online privacy settings.
Using your cell phone or mobile device in place of a ticket is one of those pipe dreams that mobile developers have been talking about for years. Is it finally going to become a reality? A recent patent filing by Apple suggests that it might:
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/20/apples-patent-for-concert-ticket-could-change-your-concert-exp/
Interesting incident with Nestle. This is a great take-away for how to handle negative responses on a Facebook page.
This New York Times article walks through a few examples of how interactive promotions like Monk-e-Mail build brand equity and garner earned impressions over time in a way that display advertising could never do.
So, if you are like me and you’re a bit scrap-happy but can’t bring yourself to clean-up the double-sided tape, sticky glue and papers cut-outs and need some visual inspiration - check out Polyvore.com.
My living room.
Fashionistas are using Polyvore to create look books and I’ve recently used it to create a color-pallette for my current living room to make shopping a breeze. It’s a great design tool. The site allows you to search the web for images and also displays purchasing information. Use Facebook connect to sign-in and share. Check it out.
“The internet did not replace television, which did not replace cinema, which did not replace books. E-books aren’t going to replace books either. E-books are books, merely with a different form.”
A List Apart does a great job of thinking through what it might mean to us designers when e-books finally reach their tipping point. This article takes a broad look at what e-book publishing could mean as a new form, walks through what specifics of formatting designers and developers in this new medium should be aware of, and then does a critical run-down of features the current markup standards are missing which are going to be essential for the widespread adoption of HTML in the publishing of literature.
We have a tendency to look at emerging technologies as new standards that will completely do away with whatever we had been using, but that’s rarely how it actually works. I don’t expect the next copy of Crime and Punishment or Sense and Sensibility I buy to be full of animated GIFs or “multimedia featurettes”. I imagine that authors and publishers will find innovative ways to use e-book technology to define a whole new kind of reading, rather than tacking bells and whistles onto the existing formats.
The article’s a bit on the technical side, but it gets the gears turning about what might be to come:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/ebookstandards/
Still wondering what all of the hub-bub around Twitter is about? Check out this short article from The New York Times. It gives a good overview of how to easily get your feet wet.
The idea of Anonymous Social Networking is an oxymoron .. so, maybe I should have titled this post Potentially Anonymous Socializing.
I’ve just become fascinated by a new site — Chatroulette.com. It may best be described as Social Networking meets Russian Roulette. The site randomly connects you to others via web cam to do or say anything you want. Click..you’re face-to-face with a stranger. Not interested…Click .. and someone else is served up. What is particularly interesting to me is that there is no log-on or registered account. All you need is a web cam.
The New York Times does a much better job describing it. Read the article here.
