I’ve stumbled across this compelling presentation exploring the complexities of online social networks by Paul Adams of the Google UX team. His wide-ranging presentation explores how online social networks tend to flatten real-life social ones.   In real-life we have different groups of friends, from those from college to work to family. Most of the time, these groups are kept distinct from each other, and tend to mix at fixed

Dr Siva Vaidhyanathan was briefly in Vancouver for a talk about his forthcoming book, The Googlization of Everything. To him, Googlization is the process of the world being processed, rendered and represented by Google. He argues this is problematic, given Google’s mission to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible. His concern is that Google’s focus on satisfying the consumer is “fabulous for shopping, but we make a

Here are the top news and information online properties in Canada for March 2008, according to comScore Media Metrix, in terms of unique visitors. Google sites – 22,436,000 Microsoft sites – 22,341,000 Yahoo! sites -16,215,000 Wikipedia sites – 11,222,000 AOL – 10,123,000 Canoe Network – 8,391,000 Fox Interactive Media – 7,769, 000 The Weather Network – 7,717,000 CTVglobemedia – 7,655,000 CNET Networks – 7,197,000 New York Times Digital – 7,056,000