Comments on: Asynchronous Requests http://blog.cbowns.com/2009/02/asynchronous-requests/ The Internet's dust bunnies Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:43:07 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Scott Jon Siegel http://blog.cbowns.com/2009/02/asynchronous-requests/comment-page-1/#comment-6776 Scott Jon Siegel Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:01:15 +0000 http://blog.cbowns.com/?p=378#comment-6776 <p>LinkedIn actually does this rather well. On the right sidebar of any contact there's a private info field. I like to think of it as their "back of the business card" -- where you've scribbled notes about when/how you met someone (and other extraneous details like whether or not they were an asshole but still possibly a good person to know).</p> <p>I wonder what Facebook's metrics are on the adoption rate of friend details. I imagine it's pretty low. Private info FTW.</p> LinkedIn actually does this rather well. On the right sidebar of any contact there’s a private info field. I like to think of it as their “back of the business card” — where you’ve scribbled notes about when/how you met someone (and other extraneous details like whether or not they were an asshole but still possibly a good person to know).

I wonder what Facebook’s metrics are on the adoption rate of friend details. I imagine it’s pretty low. Private info FTW.

]]> By: Anthony http://blog.cbowns.com/2009/02/asynchronous-requests/comment-page-1/#comment-6775 Anthony Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:52:45 +0000 http://blog.cbowns.com/?p=378#comment-6775 <p>I remember when Facebook was still in their getting-popular stage, they pushed the Friend Details feature pretty hard, but then as time went by, that feature was basically relegated to the back-burner in lieu of other features, like applications (which, btw, need to die). I doubt that anyone at Facebook is giving the friend details feature any significant attention.</p> I remember when Facebook was still in their getting-popular stage, they pushed the Friend Details feature pretty hard, but then as time went by, that feature was basically relegated to the back-burner in lieu of other features, like applications (which, btw, need to die). I doubt that anyone at Facebook is giving the friend details feature any significant attention.

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