Productivity in Software - Lessons from Facebook?
October 10th, 2007
Nat Torkington writes about the effects data flows are having on him. I also find that once every 2-3 months I suddenly notice there are many sources of information I’m not really reading any more, and so I have a purge.
He makes a point about Facebook which I find interesting. With some customisation, it is possible to tailor what you see and what you don’t (yes, you can turn off the stuff you’re not interested in). As such, we’re able to tailor how we spend our time on Facebook to make it useful for us. That doesn’t mean we spend any more time on Facebook, it just makes that time more productive.
What if all applications were able to work like that? What if we took the “News Feed” concept of Facebook and dropped it into the front page of all our applications and then allowed the user to specify what they wanted to see more or less of, and allow them to tailor the productivity?
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