Observe & Report

The blog of Ingrid Trollope.

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Entries Tagged as 'Social Networking'

Your Future Privacy

January 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Design, Social Network Site, Web Design

Facebook has changed its privacy set up a number of times now – why mostly to make money exposing your personal data to the Web? This should, and is, triggering some fiery debate around privacy. So as Facebook try to force these online changes can you do anything to avoid them and stay private? [...]

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Blowing Your Own Trumpet

January 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Design, General, Marketing, Web Design

‘People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.’
(- Seth Godin )
Seth Godin recently discussed this truism of the web in a post:
Boingboing’s ‘Cory and Mark both have terrific books out. And as co-editors on the world’s most popular blog, you’d think that they could use boingboing to sell a ton of [...]

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Facebook Data Findings

December 30th, 2007 · No Comments · General, Social Network Site, Web Design

Several research projects being done on the social network site, Facebook, are described in an interesting article in the New York Times: On Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data.
Some interesting findings include:
“Researchers learned that while people perceive someone who has a high number of friends as popular, attractive and self-confident, people who accumulate “too many” [...]

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