Needed Improvements on Facebook Notifications
June 18, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
More discussion recently with a variety of my contacts and friends about some needed changes related to Facebook. The specific topic at hand revolves around the notifications received from all of your friends. Some you’re interested in and some you’re not. How do you effectively manage that information. Some improvements to the functionality of Facebook may be what’s needed.
I wrote recently about how Facebook could use some organization of how your "friends" are arranged. If we think about it, labeling all of our contacts the generic "friend" in Facebook isn’t a very accurate representation of the levels of relationships …read more
Location Based Alarms and Notifications
March 20, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
A discussion was raised again today about the usefulness and validity of a location based alarm system. Most alarms that we think of our based on a specific time of day. The challenge with that type of alarm is your location, or context of your day may not have been what you planned for it to have been at that time.
What would really be helpful is to be reminded of something you needed to do when you were at a specific location, regardless of what time it was. For instance, the next time I’m around the corner of 71st and …read more




