YouTube Presidential Address & Funny Pets

President-elect Obama’s weekly radio address as YouTube video wasn’t the most exciting video out there, and it has comments turned off (probably appropriate, unfortunately), but it was interesting to see what YouTube had as related videos at the end.

Related Videos

I wonder if some people who watch the “Crazy cat attacking spuds dog” get the presidential radio address as a related video?

Posted on 11/19/08 | no comments | Filed Under: Tags: ,

Facebook causes

members 2,080 donated $30

That’s almost 1.5 cents per person. Facebook’s Causes app seems to be highlighting a lot of half-hearted support for this cause. It’s an interesting design problem. Certainly the intent was not to show how superficial support for a cause can be, but some very basic data reveals this problem to everyone.

It reminds me of an online vote for officers in an organization I belong to several years ago. The election was not contested yet some voters did not vote for one of the candidates. The online voting system emailed the results to the group and it caused a bit of a problem because it showed the vote count rather than just the winners. Sometimes a little bit of obfuscation makes everyone happier.

Posted on 10/31/08 | no comments | Filed Under:

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