http://www.webbmedia.net/2008/03/29/unpopular-comment-with-a-confession/ Thoughts on digital media, communication, education, and technology Sat, 17 May 2008 01:07:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.webbmedia.net/2008/03/29/unpopular-comment-with-a-confession/#comment-58261 admin Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:32:21 +0000 http://www.webbmedia.net/2008/03/29/unpopular-comment-with-a-confession/#comment-58261 Were you linking to gmail though? Is it a consequence of several designs? By that I mean, gmail adds every contact you've ever had to your address book for convenience and diigo lets you link to every contact in your address book. I am definitely sympathetic to feeling betrayed by having every contact emailed. I also like that you have positioned it as a design issue, although then again, everything can be be boiled down to a design issue. Somewhere in my post I was going to say that the easiest end-user response is to not link to email information, which I think I forgot to cover, but I did mention the allure of participating. It's just so easy to put in that email username and password. So easy that I might even do it again. Were you linking to gmail though? Is it a consequence of several designs? By that I mean, gmail adds every contact you’ve ever had to your address book for convenience and diigo lets you link to every contact in your address book. I am definitely sympathetic to feeling betrayed by having every contact emailed. I also like that you have positioned it as a design issue, although then again, everything can be be boiled down to a design issue. Somewhere in my post I was going to say that the easiest end-user response is to not link to email information, which I think I forgot to cover, but I did mention the allure of participating. It’s just so easy to put in that email username and password. So easy that I might even do it again.

]]> http://www.webbmedia.net/2008/03/29/unpopular-comment-with-a-confession/#comment-58260 Dean Shareski Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:23:45 +0000 http://www.webbmedia.net/2008/03/29/unpopular-comment-with-a-confession/#comment-58260 I actually like the ability to see how many of your contacts are using a service. In the case of Diigo, I don't think they intend anything nasty but it certainly is a way for them to subversively get their product out there. Even with Facebook at least they make a self contained scrolling box for both those who are on Facebook and then invite those that aren't. You can see it easily. With Diigo, the list goes on forever so unless you scroll down, you don't know that all your contacts are checked to be invited. Majorly poor design. I actually like the ability to see how many of your contacts are using a service. In the case of Diigo, I don’t think they intend anything nasty but it certainly is a way for them to subversively get their product out there. Even with Facebook at least they make a self contained scrolling box for both those who are on Facebook and then invite those that aren’t. You can see it easily. With Diigo, the list goes on forever so unless you scroll down, you don’t know that all your contacts are checked to be invited. Majorly poor design.

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