01 May
Posted by Harper in Technology at 10:43 PM
Tags: communities, digg, online, Technology, users, web-2.0
It all started today when DIGG censored a news story. A story about the AACS controversy. AACS issued some cease and desists to various organizations (I think including DIGG) who talked about cracking the AACS encryption on HDDVD and Blu-Ray DVDs.
So anyway - DIGG being a community based news site, the users rebelled and basically [...]
31 Oct
Posted by Harper in Technology at 04:19 PM
Tags: content, endeca, usability, users, wikipedia
So. I love Wikipedia. I love encyclopedias. I love the knowledge and the ability to learn anything quickly. Wikipedia is special because it allows people to contribute their knowledge to the general content base. This is awesome. This alone is enough of a differentiation to make Wikipedia the choice for the new generation. But wtf [...]
22 Jul
Posted by Harper in Technology at 08:37 PM
Tags: bad, friendly, myspace, users
So myspace is annoying. Don’t get me wrong. i have two accounts and over a thousand “friends” - but i hate how the site looks, works and exists. It is like the bastion of all i hate on the internet. Bad design, Bad usability and bad user relations. Myspace hates their users. They blame their [...]
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