Comments on: dConstruct 2008: part two http://www.timandkathy.co.uk/journal/2008/09/10/dconstruct-2008-part-two/ Because every silver lining has a cloud. Or something. Sun, 01 Jan 2012 15:49:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: trafik iÅŸaretleri http://www.timandkathy.co.uk/journal/2008/09/10/dconstruct-2008-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-685 trafik iÅŸaretleri Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:18:55 +0000 http://www.timandkathy.co.uk/journal/?p=863#comment-685 I cannot understand why I should use del.icio.us or something similar. I have my Firefox bookmarks - that’s enough for me I cannot understand why I should use del.icio.us or something similar. I have my Firefox bookmarks – that’s enough for me

]]> By: magicroundabout http://www.timandkathy.co.uk/journal/2008/09/10/dconstruct-2008-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-657 magicroundabout Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:22:26 +0000 http://www.timandkathy.co.uk/journal/?p=863#comment-657 Interesting stuff...as a unofficial and part-time anthropologist who's also a computer scientist I find this stuff fascinating. From a user point of view, when I started making use of the social web, one thing that became important was my online identity. A lot of these services want you to have a name that's not an email address that's easily unique to you. And so, I have, occasionally, fallen into the Landing Page -> Sign Up -> WAIT A LONG TIME -> Create user widget cycle purely because I spot that a service MIGHT be interesting further down the line, and I want to reserve my name!!!! Does this lead to service full of users that aren't actually using the service? Or does that just put me on the same level as a 15-year old girl? Of course, Open ID standard should be changing all this, but an @reply on Twitter of the form "@blog.domain.net " just isn't as good. Just a thought. Looking forward to part 3! Interesting stuff…as a unofficial and part-time anthropologist who’s also a computer scientist I find this stuff fascinating.

From a user point of view, when I started making use of the social web, one thing that became important was my online identity. A lot of these services want you to have a name that’s not an email address that’s easily unique to you.

And so, I have, occasionally, fallen into the Landing Page -> Sign Up -> WAIT A LONG TIME -> Create user widget cycle purely because I spot that a service MIGHT be interesting further down the line, and I want to reserve my name!!!!

Does this lead to service full of users that aren’t actually using the service? Or does that just put me on the same level as a 15-year old girl?

Of course, Open ID standard should be changing all this, but an @reply on Twitter of the form “@blog.domain.net ” just isn’t as good.

Just a thought.

Looking forward to part 3!

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