Archive for the ‘Blog’ Category

Poor System Design

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Since I'm in the blogging mood and I've installed point-of-sale systems in the past, I thought this was a particularly bad system for its intended purpose. The last few times I've eaten at a specific deli (name omitted to protect some unfortunate systems analyst) here in Chapel Hill, the ...

Facebook Events

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Recently I took a dive into the Facebook API to see what information was available for group and event photos. As for my original intent, I learned about an undocumented feature in the facebook.photos.get method, which accepts a "gid" or "eid" value to return group and event photos respectively. ...

Writing

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

I've spent many hours writing in the last few weeks. One thing is sure, it happens much easier when you have something concrete to talk about. Here is my final project for INLS 490: Online Social Networks. It may be rough, but it's finished. Full PDF

Businesses and Social Capital

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

This fall I've been taking a class with Fred Stutzman, a PhD student at UNC, founder of ClaimID and a name to know in the online social networking community. Yesterday I gave a class presentation on businesses and the social networks that are built around their products. Looking ...

Galley

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

My review of "Everything is Miscellaneous" is now available in the latest issue of the SILS Galley. Check it out here.