I have been meaning to write about Likes and users interests for quite some time. But the matter is complicated. [...]
The Like as interest and social gesture
Adrian Chan
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Adrian Chan is a social media expert and social interaction theorist at Gravity7. You can follow him on twitter at /gravity7
The Reality of Social Media
The internet changes over time. That the technology has evolved is obvious. But how we use the internet is also [...]
11 Tips on How To Apply Social Interaction Design Thinking
Adrian’s insights and approaches
What’s Up With Social Objects?
The concept of social objects is pretty widely used in social interaction design, but we’re missing a solid definition of [...]
On Social Interaction Design and the Detective
I have a thing for British television. It’s from having grown up in Edinburgh, I’m sure. But it is bolstered [...]
Realtime streams: now and then
All social media involve a dislocation that de couples the act of communication or interaction from its artifact, which is [...]
Social media, converging streams?
One of my favorite books about community is a work by Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti called Crowds and Power. [...]
The Attention Economy of Social Media
I started wondering last evening what twitter would be like if in addition to followers we could also see who [...]
Why Online Ratings Don’t Work
Recently I came across an article in the Wall Street Journal about online ratings. The article, which surveys a number [...]
Incentives are for Games & Interests for Social Media
Incentives are a commonplace to game designers and developers. They are a means of designing activity to support goals and [...]