About Marci
I am a New York-based user experience designer. Here you'll find my musings on everything digital (and some things that aren't).
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5 Ways to Improve Reputation Systems
Social Networking Will Become Ubiquitous
Social Networking Will Become Ubiquitous
Excellent article from Logic + Emotion about the role of social networking online. I completely agree that social features are best suited to be supplementary to a site’s primary purpose, as opposed to being stand-alone apps.
Crackbook
Crackbook — Excellent spoof on Facebook
From the site: “Crackbook is an addictive social utility that makes you feel that you’re connecting with people when actually you’re just not.”
Via House of Naked
I’m increasingly convinced that the only thing Facebook really has is critical mass.
I'm increasingly convinced that the only thing Facebook really has is critical mass.
Rather than forcing people to constantly update [our] blog with full entries, why not pull from the
Rather than forcing people to constantly update [our] blog with full entries, why not pull from the content they're creating anyway? So [the aggregator] pulls in content from del.icio.us, Flickr, Twitter and other people's blogs and inserts it right into [the site]. In my mind, it's an example of passive activity, which I define as tapping into people's existing behavior in order to deliver, rather than asking them for the information themselves.
That’s It — I’m Getting a Bigger Monitor!
His essence was just too big for a MySpace page.
Who participates and what people are doing online
Who participates and what people are doing online
Great information graphic showing the breakdown of how people participate with social media according to their age group.