Link roundup for 8/20/08

By Ben Gross
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The 3 Loops of Designing for Audience: Gregor Hochmuth has a nice write up on the loops of audience interaction for engaging your audience in modern social web services. He uses specific examples with the Twitter messaging service, but his guidelines would apply to many services. His loops are: (1.) Users building a model of their audience (2.) Audiences giving feedback to the people who post content  (3.) Users giving feedback to the system about the people and content that are important to them.

HitMeLater: A Snooze Button For Your Email: TechCrunch has a brief review of an interesting service called HitMeLater. If you send an email to the HitMeLater service with the number of hours later you desire a reminder as the username, it will send you your message back that many hours later. You can also ask the service to mail you back on a specific day of the week. It is a simple but effective reminder system.

An Illustrated Guide to the Kaminsky DNS Vulnerability: Steve Friedl put together a long, but very readable and highly illustrated overview of the recent DNS vulnerability. It’s worth a look for anyone still trying to understand how the vulnerability works or its implications.

Published August 20, 2008