Category Archives: Social Media

Modern Romantics and the Social Graph

I’ve been letting the Facebook Timeline design settle in now for a while. Today a developer friend was showing me the new Open Graph API (described as Facebook’s core), and it reminded me of some thoughts that have been nagging me about the deeper implications of the Timeline user experience. The Timeline is a wonderful

Experience Design + Community Building – MinneWebCon ’09

I had the pleasure of speaking at the University of Minnesota’s MinneWebCon event on Monday, April 6th. I even got Doc Searls’ to autograph my copy of his legendary book The Cluetrain Manifesto. Enjoyed meeting everyone – keep the conversation going. UX and Community Building, University of Minnesota – MinneWebCon 2009 View more presentations from

Bon Iver’s Breathtaking Beauty, Brought to You By the Network Age

A couple weeks ago I stumbled across a profile of Justin Vernon’s musical platform Bon Iver. It wasn’t in Pitchfork, or City Pages, or The Onion. Believe it or not, it was in fact the Wall Street Journal. My colleague Paul Isakson had turned me on to Bon Iver last year, lending me a copy