Monthly Archives: March 2010

All We Had Was a Stick and a Button – now too much complication

In talks today someone pointed out that the social media services we use are getting far too complicated. There are too many options, customizations, themes, features and controls that sometimes make the actual tool an avoidance.  Simplicity drives usage.  Twitter is a great example since it just works everywhere and people understand 140 characters. The…

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Twitter opts your privacy in automatically

Twitter recently made a change in how it allows people to find you when they are attempting to add friends.  They can search by phone number or email address, as shown in the screenshot here: The problem is, this is only seen when you log in via the web interface.  For new users, this is…

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