Comments on: facebook Fixes IT? http://www.libraryman.com/blog/2007/06/29/facebook-fixes-it/ Libraries, Community, Technology and PEZ Fri, 16 May 2008 03:18:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Libraryman http://www.libraryman.com/blog/2007/06/29/facebook-fixes-it/#comment-4897 Libraryman Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:58:48 +0000 http://www.libraryman.com/blog/2007/06/29/facebook-fixes-it/#comment-4897 Agreed, and I expected to get thoughtful, observant, and greatly welcome comments like yours. I concur with your observations, but if we could add the "equalizer" (in general concept, not in exact interface) to the facebook dev. platform apps and tweak profile and home page appearances as we wish, well then we would really be in business. I expect they'll keep working it till they get it right though and imagine there may even be two or three different types of "tweaking" interfaces to choose from at some point. It is the first time I'd seen an approach like this though and it is something I'd been thinking on pretty intently for the last couple of weeks (usually as I was drifting off to sleep). It's an exciting time... Agreed, and I expected to get thoughtful, observant, and greatly welcome comments like yours.

I concur with your observations, but if we could add the “equalizer” (in general concept, not in exact interface) to the facebook dev. platform apps and tweak profile and home page appearances as we wish, well then we would really be in business.

I expect they’ll keep working it till they get it right though and imagine there may even be two or three different types of “tweaking” interfaces to choose from at some point. It is the first time I’d seen an approach like this though and it is something I’d been thinking on pretty intently for the last couple of weeks (usually as I was drifting off to sleep).

It’s an exciting time…

]]> By: Kris http://www.libraryman.com/blog/2007/06/29/facebook-fixes-it/#comment-4896 Kris Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:17:50 +0000 http://www.libraryman.com/blog/2007/06/29/facebook-fixes-it/#comment-4896 Maybe a good step, but still far from perfect . . . one big problem off the bat: feedback. Whereas with sliders on a soundboard we can immediately hear the aural response to their movements, with Facebook's sliders we really have no way to immediately gauge their sensitivity, and thus can't calibrate our settings in a short span of time. (Even after I change the sliders, when I return home, nothing has changed -- presumably this will kick in over time.) Thus we're left to tweak over time -- and who really cares about their Facebook News Feed page enough to go back time and again? There needs to some quantitative measure involved. Or, better yet, a live preview. This gripe aside, nice concept. I think we need to put Norman in as a pinch runner at third. Maybe a good step, but still far from perfect . . . one big problem off the bat: feedback. Whereas with sliders on a soundboard we can immediately hear the aural response to their movements, with Facebook’s sliders we really have no way to immediately gauge their sensitivity, and thus can’t calibrate our settings in a short span of time. (Even after I change the sliders, when I return home, nothing has changed — presumably this will kick in over time.) Thus we’re left to tweak over time — and who really cares about their Facebook News Feed page enough to go back time and again? There needs to some quantitative measure involved. Or, better yet, a live preview.

This gripe aside, nice concept. I think we need to put Norman in as a pinch runner at third.

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