January 23, 2008
Who I Am
Mary Hodder founded Dabble.com, a social search site that helps people organize and playlist media they like, and discover great media through other's recommendations. Dabble has indexed millions of videos from around the web, from 1,000's of sites.
Prior to Dabble, she worked with large and small organizations as an information architect and interaction designer, creating algorithms, and conducting usability studies. She has worked with several web service companies with social media sites. Some of these companies are in open source, photo sharing and blog aggregation. She spent 10 months at Technorati in 2004, and completed a survey of the current state of research and development in academia in the area of New Media for the American Press Institute. She is a blogger at Napsterization (napsterization.org/stories/) and an original author at bIPlog (the first UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism blog, on the topic of intellectual property, security and privacy).
She completed her Masters at the School of Information Management and Systems at UC Berkeley in May, 2004 with a thesis focusing on live web search looking at blog data. She began her studies at SIMS in 2000 to pursue an understanding of digital media, at the intersection of information technology, the social and professional production of media, journalism, information architecture, intellectual property, privacy, and online communities. She continues to study system design with values, especially privacy for users.
Posted by Mary Hodder at January 23, 2008 11:13 AM