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Comment on Monday’s Axillaries by Alexander Bunkowski

Alexander Bunkowski — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:35:17 +0000

On Digg users rebellion: I myself am (was) a daily Digg visitor that has left Digg because of the re-vamp. The site has moved heavily to a format of following/followers, in attempt to further leverage social media. I can understand why they did it (and I might write about that soon), but the format doesn’t work for me and doesn’t seem to be working for a lot of other users either. This isn’t like a Facebook interface change that annoys people, but essentially provides the same service; Digg has fundamentally changed how Digg works and what it does. I think that this may very well be the end of Digg.

Comment on Climbing the iPhone ladder. by These are a few of my favourite apps. | Birds on a Wire

These are a few of my favourite apps. | Birds on a Wire — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:03:14 +0000

[...] have been very fortunate in the past few years with my phone choices (besides some mobile carrier headaches) and have been able to take part in the growing app revolution. The estimation that 2010 would be [...]

Comment on Climbing the iPhone ladder. by David Doyle

David Doyle — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:54:20 +0000

Hi Kathryn,
Thank you for the positive mention. I am pleased to hear you had a good experience in our store.
Yours,
David Doyle
VP Sales
Simply Computing

Comment on Is Social Media in Decline? by Kathryn Slater

Kathryn Slater — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:06:22 +0000

I know that my social habits have changed a lot in the past few years. It’s a bit sick to think of how long ago 2 years was in terms of web-land and how much has changed. I’ve been personally using Twitter for 2 years & 7 months (http://howlonghaveyoubeentweeting.com/) and professionally for 1 year and 6 months. I remember my husband scoffing at my using twitter and thinking it was a short term internet phenomenon. 2 months later, he was using it heavily and his friends were mocking him for getting on the bandwagon.

I rarely used Facebook at the start because I have had both a professional and personal blog for years and the concept of social sharing was not new for me. While I appreciated the ability to ‘connect’ with people, I saw the pitfalls in an easy-to-use (ie: everyone at any skill level can use it) social system having fallen victim to TMI sharing (too much information) syndrome in my early blogging days. Only, I had even less control over this system and limited ability to keep personal separated from private. As the system has grown up, users have found more and more flexibility with their privacy settings and people are learning that to un-friend is remain sane.

Twitter is such an important part of my social interaction these days. I follow the people that I want to listen to and it’s restricted to 140 characters. I can choose to go deeper and click on links if I want more, or I can simply be aware that they have been posted. It gives me more control of how I interact with my social-peeps and how much I see.

Comment on To Tweet or Not To Tweet by Is Social Media in Decline? | Birds on a Wire

Is Social Media in Decline? | Birds on a Wire — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:37:17 +0000

[...] you a 2009 historical perception of Twitter & social media, check out Alexander’s & Kathryn’s blog posts from February of last year. Facebook statistics by demographic Facebook Growth showing [...]

Comment on Twitter – secret club for cool kids? by Is Social Media in Decline? | Birds on a Wire

Is Social Media in Decline? | Birds on a Wire — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:49:28 +0000

[...] give you a 2009 historical perception of Twitter & social media, check out Alexander’s & Kathryn’s blog posts from February of last year. Facebook statistics by demographic [...]

Comment on Games that bring people together (part 4) by Kathryn Slater

Kathryn Slater — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:56:46 +0000

Portal – In keeping with my recent trend to make all my outgoing links to Penny Arcade, these game reviewers also gave Portal the thumbs up:

1. PA awards: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/12/28/
2. Game play to real life: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/10/12/

Comment on Games that bring people together (part 4) by Alexander Bunkowski

Alexander Bunkowski — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:15:16 +0000

OK, so I didn’t realize that everybody was going to write a thesis on the topic, so I’ve updated my entry to be more than 1 sentence long.

Comment on F5 Expo by Kathryn Slater

Kathryn Slater — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 04:08:49 +0000

Blog blog blog!! If you got some Facebook expertise, I wanna see your WordPress-fu at work. <3 More Shannon blogging! I demand it.

Comment on The Cookies Monster – Making your life easier. by comScore’s New Panel-Centric Hybrid Measurement | Birds on a Wire

comScore’s New Panel-Centric Hybrid Measurement | Birds on a Wire — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 08:26:30 +0000

[...] IABC Mixx Conference this past Spring showing US cookie deletion data. This spurred Alexander to write a post about why cookies are great for the consumer and echoed my concerns about the US data being [...]