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	<title>SxDSalon: A group blog on social interaction design</title>
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		<title>Tags as collecting behavior</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first started curating the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library, I put &#8220;tags&#8221; near the top of my list of user interaction patterns to investigate. By that time, Yahoo! had already acquired several pioneers in the tagging realm, Flickr and Delicious, and there were some subtle distinctions in how they implemented the experience.
We got down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eleven tips on how to apply social interaction design thinking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the key social interaction design deliverables is the social interaction design requirements document. Like the market requirements document, this spec covers social needs and requirements. Social needs of the product, of users, and of course, t...]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sxdsalon.org/2010/03/10/eleven-tips-on-how-to-apply-social-interaction-design-thinking/</link>
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		<title>Social dynamics and agile social design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The launch of any new social tool is a moment of high anticipation and anxiety for any development team. Try as they might, through internal use and limited alpha testing, engineers and designers must hold their collective breath for what happens when ...]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sxdsalon.org/2010/03/09/social-dynamics-and-agile-social-design/</link>
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		<title>Diversity and social design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a post last week, Adrian Chan called out claims that competitive motivations are predominant in human nature.
One such quote comes from Louis Gray, writing on the need for more meaningful metrics than followers. &#8220;Humans have this innate sense of need to be ahead of all others, to measure themselves, and deliver some level of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sxdsalon.org/2010/03/08/diversity-and-social-design/</link>
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		<title>Identity, Privacy and Differences for Women Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately I have been thinking a lot about identity online and how things like age and gender affect how you approach projecting an online identity. Working with a startup that is creating opportunities for kids to be digital citizens with ownershop and accountability for their online identities made me wonder about what should be encouraged [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sxdsalon.org/2010/03/08/identity-privacy-and-differences-for-women-online/</link>
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		<title>The revival of groups in the age of the network</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent blog post, David Weinberger writes about how networks have surpassed groups in recent years, as ways of defining social connections online.  &#8220;In the past decade, we&#8217;ve gone from talking about social circles to social network. A circle draws lines around us. Networks draw lines among us.&#8221;  Social network messaging, where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sxdsalon.org/2010/03/03/the-revival-of-groups-in-the-age-of-the-network/</link>
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		<title>From followers and game mechanics to more valuable social functionality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some interesting perspectives appeared this week on game mechanics in social media and the corrupting devaluation of social systems, user experience, and metrics that seems to accompany follower counts, foursquare check-ins, and other numerical incenti...]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sxdsalon.org/2010/03/02/from-followers-and-game-mechanics-to-more-valuable-social-functionality/</link>
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		<title>When social search gets personal: ChatRoulette, Peerpong, Aardvark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of items in the news this week got me thinking about the social search space. But not from the usual angle. We have all heard about ChatRoulette by now, and of the random acts of human exhibitionism that take place there. Well, apparently some...]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sxdsalon.org/2010/02/26/when-social-search-gets-personal-chatroulette-peerpong-aardvark/</link>
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		<title>Learnings about web ratings systems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Wisdom of Crowds&#8221; is one of the driving principles of Web 2.0.   The idea, explored in James Surowiecki&#8217;s influential book, is that decisions made by large numbers of people together are better than decisions that would have been made by any one person or a small group.  This principle has powered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sxdsalon.org/2010/02/24/learnings-about-web-ratings-systems/</link>
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		<title>ChatRoulette, I&#8217;m watching you (watching me)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thus at bottom the message already no longer exists; it is the medium that imposes itself in its pure circulation ... the universe of communication ... leaves far behind it those relative analyses of the universe of the commodity. All functions abolish...]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.sxdsalon.org/2010/02/23/chatroulette-im-watching-you-watching-me/</link>
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