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Open Development
With the early success of Facebook’s decision to open their site to development as a platform, instead of remaining a closed service, other social networks are forced to notice … and react. According to a Mashable post this week, LinkedIn—the professional and career networking site, whose focus is employment—is going to follow suit. This is good news for everyone involved, most importantly the members of the LinkedIn community. Not every social network is going to benefit from an open platform development strategy, but neither is the gap created by Facebook so insurmountable or proprietary as to make it impossible for other communities to benefit from opening development.
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I discovered SuperDeluxe through Twitter in one of the regular spweets that seem to bomb lots of users at once. After they dropped the name of Bob Odenkirk and post a link to L33t Haxxors, I’m now a Twitter friend. kekeke.
Tweeting the red pill
None of my HCI colleagues are in my office right now, but through Twitter the things they might say are. Even though the distance between Eigenmann and Woodlawn isn’t measured in terms of states, it might as well be. This Matrix-style delivery of a Japanese tweet stream inspires me to renew interest in using Twitter to connect our various campus buildings.
Lying, cheating and natural consequences
Junior year in high school, we had a Algebra exam. I stared at the paper, no idea what to do. I hadn’t studied, because the thought of sitting alone in my room trying to figure out something I didn’t believe I could understand in the first place was just nonsense. Dancing and pretending Paul McCartney [...]
Rivals and Colts focus on high school
In news high relevant to Indiana sports fans, paidContent.org reported yesterday that Yahoo! sports has waded through all of the local contract obligations to buy Rivals.com for $100 million. Rivals is a great (albeit, a subscription) service to follow local college recruiting and high school prospect scouting. The guy I got that info from also announced the expected launch next month of MyIndianafootball, a high school spinoff of MyColts.net.
Wanamaker Exhibit online
The quality of the HCI Design II projects this past spring was solid. One of those graduate student groups managed to get to a full implementation on one of the concepts. The Mathers Museum is getting a bit of local press for the effort. Congrats to Adam, Kenton and Selvan on following through with their community partner. Clearly, they appreciate the end result.