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Microsoft’s ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ experiment
Microsoft have used their MSN network to study the Six Degrees of Separation theory and seem to think the average number is about six after all. Which I could have told them anyway… The good news is my Six Degrees … Continue reading
Six Degrees passes 300k installs
I’ve been working on my Six Degrees Facebook application on and off the past couple of weeks, partly as a way to get to know what the new platform is capable of, and it seems to have paid off. For … Continue reading
Social Media Business School
I was on the marketing panel at the Social Media Business School last Friday (27th June). In the main, I was there as a Facebook application developer and to talk about how to design and grow an application. The day … Continue reading
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Bill Gates on Windows usability
This e-mail from Bill Gates when trying to install Microsoft Movie Maker from 5 years ago is an interesting insight into not only what Gates did at Microsoft, but just how frustrated he seems to be with the usability of … Continue reading
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Eurovision 2008
Another year, and another Eurovision is over. For me, this one will be remembered for a lack of any real event (since we didn’t have a get-together), a few reasonable songs, a few awful ones, and possibly the most predictable … Continue reading
Word popularity on Facebook
Facebook have posted a link to a tool they’ve built to track the popularity of different words and phrases within wall posts. It’s available here as the Facebook Lexicon. Basically, type in one word to see its popularity, and then … Continue reading
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Trip to Girona
Okay, I went to Girona last December, and it’s taken me over three months to put the photos up, but stop complaining… Anyway, there was me, Paul J White, Neelesh Sonaware and Deborah Causton (are you reading this Google?). Paul, … Continue reading
Trip to Washington DC
While I was in Washington last week (as one often just happens to be, obviously), I had a few hours in the morning to wander around. Assisted by being still on UK time which meant I could get up very … Continue reading
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New feed publication methods in Facebook
The new feed forms available to Facebook applications look like they could be interesting, although I’m wary of any documentation that contains text like “Now when the user submits the form, a little magic happens.”
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