Simon Willison’s Weblog

Four reasons why public Facebook status updates won’t kill Twitter. Mike Butcher highlights the importance of “follow” rather than “friend” in social software. 9th February 2009, 7:04 pm

Scribd. This appears to be social software for the huge population of people who can’t imagine creating anything without using Word. 25th April 2007, 7:22 pm

Digg to drop their global “top users” list. It’s fascinating how big an effect a simple feature like a top users list can have on the social behaviour of a site. 2nd February 2007, 6:03 pm

Friends, friendsters, and top 8: Writing community into being on social network sites. I finally got around to reading this. Fascinating; lots to digest. 24th December 2006, 7:32 pm