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Social media, email and relationship inflation
Umair Haque has a post at Harvard Business Review advancing the following hypothesis which he dubs “relationship inflation”: Despite all the excitement surrounding social media, the Internet isn’t...
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Apple’s music social network, Ping, and a followup on Facebook feeds
After my last post, I had a few conversations with friends about a categorized or sortable Facebook feed. The point of my post was as much about how Facebook could have better managed the transition...
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Facebook and face-to-face
I’ve blogged about this before, but I wanted to share a great post from Ed Glaeser at NYT’s Economix on how social networking – in this case Facebook – supplements in-person interaction, rather than...
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Imagine a smart chair
Hearing others’ visions for the future of the Net can be inspiring. But a lot of the time it’s not. One thing I’m struck by with the explosion of social media, in particular, is the shallow nature of...
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The NYT’s Unsustainable Paywall
The New York Times has finally released the details of their paywall, and they confirm that the model is not sustainable. I have a short post up at The Atlantic Tech saying as much. Here’s the basic...
View ArticleEvidence that too much social media is making us unhappy
We published a piece at HBR this past week on Facebook and well-being, by two researchers writing about their recent study: Overall, our results showed that, while real-world social networks were...
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