Subject: Re: 'Became a zombie' Life Event
Benjamin Rosenbaum has posted a sharp, blackly amusing short story about how Facebook's users and software developers would react to a zombie plague breaking out, called Feature Development for Social...
View ArticleOlivia and her friends weren't wrong when they thought she'd become suddenly...
Shantal Roddam (@Allieqtzm) was a typical example of one of her new followers. Shantal was a "Friendly beer fan" from Butte. She was following: @ESPN, the world's leading sports brand; @MarsPhoenix, a...
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Data does not include domestic crying…
Quantified Breakup applies a little data analysis to the aftermath of the end of a relationship. Like these infographics about the Public Display of Emotions: Every day we function within parameters....
View ArticleWho needs the NSA?
What a brand knows… …and here's what a brand knows when you login via facebook pic.twitter.com/mxYYfsaoSn — The Bakery London (@TheBakeryLDN) January 26, 2014 The question is, would your privacy fare...
View Article'Oral histories that are completely fabricated have value.'
Talking to The Verge in the wake of the publication of her book It's Complicated, danah boyd talks a lot of sense about how people interact online: People seem very afraid of their kids creating...
View ArticleIntroducing Duplo
This description of how Duplo, Flipboard's new page layout engine, works is fascinating. It's ludicrous to think of just how much work your computer1 can get done in a few fractions of a second just in...
View ArticleImagine Facebook with safe words
After visiting Kink.com's studios at The Armory,1 Kate Losse shares Further Notes on Kink as a Platform: The first thing our tour guide wanted to make sure we understood was that not only is tourist...
View ArticleWholesale
We can marry you off, wholesale. Facebook knew you were in love a long time before you did. It noticed you scrolling back through her timeline. Every millisecond lingering over the photos of her at the...
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The story of The Last Museum: I am not at my ranch, nor my Beijing office, nor the lesser office in Brooklyn, but here, back home, in the Old Valley. In a few minutes we'll pull off the highway and...
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