Michael Voong HCI Researcher @ Birmingham University

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Posts from October 2006

Online Social Webs: A Waste of Time?

My friend recently sent me a link to a really interesting article which pretty much summed up a lot of what I’ve been thinking about recently regarding the real nature of online social networks:
Link: Facing the Faceless
In summary, the article says that people are increasingly using online social networks as an excuse for avoiding F2F [...]


Bad MoSoSo

Our lives are filled with a multitude of distractions. Taking email as an example, some people adopt one-a-day approach. As the name implies, email is only checked once a day. The communication medium becomes used in the way that it was designed for - a persistent inbox where people could leave messages that don’t have [...]


Cybersquatting on the Social Hypertext

A friend of mine working for a trends prediction company emailed me the following link which discusses the problem of cybersquatting; which has so far only been a large problem on older technologies such as, say, domain names. Now that websites that create a social hypertext, i.e. ones which have a large community of [...]


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