Social Networking: Class lines and burnout
Danah Boyd has a really good look at the social divisions that are emerging in the use of Facebook and MySpace: The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other “good” kids are now going to Facebook....
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Web Walker 1.9
Teddy Banks, writing for Design Observer, shares some commentary on Olia Lialina’s newest article: Vernacular Web 2. The article is a great read on it’s own, and as Banks tells us, should be a must...
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New Teens website
Last week, after quite a bit of work, the re-designed teens site went live: (larger screenshot) In discussing what a new site might be like with Witt, Christi and WACTAC, we came to the conclusion that...
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Opening up the social network
Building on the success of Google Gadgets (which allow developers to make small web “applets” suitable for embedding on any webpage), Google has just launched their OpenSocial API. Basically they’ve...
View ArticleWeb 2.0: it still matters
Just when you were starting to think we should be retiring the term “Web 2.0″, Nina Simon of Museum 2.0 comes along to remind us that we’ve largely forgotten what it really means. It is not, for...
View ArticleAbout time: flickr finally does video
Resolving one of the great mysteries of the web 2.0, Flickr has added video capabilities! Finally, the best photo sharing site on the web has what iPhoto could do two years ago, and what YouTube has...
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Facebook app for My Yard Our Message
Tuesday I posted some of the technical details for My Yard Our Message. Since then, I’ve been working on putting together a Facebook App to let people show the signs on their profiles. It is done, or...
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Enabling users to share content to social media sites
Last week we made a small change to our online calendar, adding social media sharing features. This means it is easier for readers of our online calendar to tell their friends and contacts about...
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Give us your tubes, your tweets, your faces and your flick(r)s
We just made a small addition to the Walker website: a social media page. In case you didn’t know, the Walker is on Flickr, Twitter, FaceBook, and YouTube. The Walker has actually been in those spaces...
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Secrets of a Museum Social Media Manager
Two or so years ago, Kristina Fong, the Walker’s Marketing and Audience Research Coordinator, was handed the keys of the Walker’s social media accounts and, ultimately, a new title: Digital Marketing...
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