uxmelina

Dear Facebook,

Thank you very much for releasing what may be the most obvious addition to your nicotine-like product. I’m not sure why the early April release of your chat client took over four years to make, but I’m sure glad that it’s out. I can now talk to all my 400+ friends in ONE web based client (everyone loves efficiency), and have yet another tool to convince my “I’m not signing up for Facebook just to be different and socially separated” friends to join.

I’m also a fan of the UI, it’s very similar to Google’s chat client in Gmail. Clearly, collecting staff from down the road was a smart move! Way to go! The UI is clean, and doesn’t interfere with my stalking social networking experience. The mini feed updates in the chat window also gives me a better connection to the person I’m chatting with, I instantly feel like we are co-browsing Facebook, something we could never *really* do before <3.

Thanks again,

Melina McLarty

I haven’t bought my own domain name, I don’t post on a daily basis, I prefer conversation over comments, I love my friends more then my followers, I don’t care about my page rank, I don’t live for the blog-o-sphere, I rarely check my blog stats, I choose human interaction over computer interaction, I may be separated by six degrees but connected closely to more then 6 people. This is me right now maybe not tomorrow…stay tuned.

I thought I should post that, since I’ve clearly been neglecting this “blog” since I’ve been busy with things in my “life-o-sphere”. Here are the highlights:

1. I got a job for the summer! I’m working as an Interaction Designer for VMware in Palo Alto, CA. I’m very excited about moving there!

2. The OLPC project is coming along nicely. I will post some stuff here soon.

3. The Disney project (and the OLPC project) has me bogged down learning flash, if you have any great links to tutorials please share.

4. Explorations, an event I help plan and organize with other 100 volunteers and 1200 visitors was a great success! The event invited the public to the University to encourage technical careers to kids in grade 6, 7, and 8!