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{ Monthly Archives } August 2009

Designing Incentives

Designing social computing systems / social media systems is difficult.  This is at least partially because our existing design strategies don’t work very well for the extremely-social systems like Facebook or delicious.com.  The basic problem comes from trying to straightforwardly apply user-centered design.  You certainly can put a user in a lab and watch them [...]

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2009 08 28 rwash Big Thoughts Comments (0)

Boom Blox

I haven’t been updating this blog much in the last couple of weeks because I’ve been doing the final writing push for my dissertation.   After spending 12+ hours a day writing the dissertation, it is hard to sit down and write more for a blog.  But now that is done, and Emilee and I [...]

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2009 08 17 rwash Real World Observations Comments (0)