John Whalen's ideas on User Experience, Social Media, and Persuasive Design from Washington, DC

But the most interesting thing Pleasants noted was that he recently heard (from his own source, apparently) that half of all users on Facebook now play social games. More impressively, 40% of total usage time on the service is spent on these games. That’s meaningful, of course, because “a huge amount the Internet is on [...]

Focus on Pillbox Has API – drive traffic to it Pillbox by phone – queries pillbox by speaking – created by student at GWU – created it in 3 weeks There’s an IM version of it tool iPhone Pill Discovery App – someone scraped our data and made the app PharmvilleRx – prescribe meds, does [...]

Gov Social Media fantasy: Open Data; ????; Passion!   < really??? No, so we need to see what people are really interested in and passionate about You hear more the more you’ve learned about music, or see more if stargazer  High resolution means deeper dive.  Must find a way to enable “kicking ass & higher res” [...]

Senator Kate Lundy @katelundy Australian government – seeing a lot in UK, US, and Canada Pillars: Democratizing data, make information publicly available in useful open format.  Attitude and practice needed. (GovHack) Citizen-Centric Services: always up-to-date.  Not obscured by org-chart of gov.  Give personal detail based on personal info they are willing to provide. Participatory Government: [...]