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 My name is danah boyd and I'm a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, a Visting Researcher at Harvard Law School, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales. I received my PhD from the School of Information at UC-Berkeley. I spend 1/3 of my time in Cambridge, MA, 1/3 in New York, NY, and 1/3 in the air. Buzzwords in my world include: public/private, identity, context, youth culture, social network sites, social media. I use this blog to express random thoughts about whatever I'm thinking.
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Friendster usability analysisWow. This is quite old, but it is *fantastic*. Apparently, a whole class at MIT analyzed for their midterm and were asked to “… identify three usability problems with Friendster and write instructions to their programmers on how to fix them.” Needless to say, they have a lot of thoughts on the matter. How fascinating is it that people all over the world, in classes and personally, are putting thought into solving Friendster’s problems? [Thanks Jason] 2 comments to Friendster usability analysis |
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I wonder if Greenspun’s students had seen this before posting their suggestions: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/academics/courses/is255/f03/lectures/lecture22.pdf
My criticism with Friendster is the target audience is young and doesn’t especially need power tools like Friendster for social networking. The target audience (he said selfishly) is the middle age w/ kids gang that don’t get out much but desperately need to network for personal and professional reasons.
I stumbled on your site via SXSW and find a lot of your pursuits quite interesting.
Thanks