Beyond Facebook: The Rise Of Interest-Based Social Networks
Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Jay Jamison, a Partner at BlueRun Ventures, who focuses on early stage mobile, consumer and enterprise investments. He also serves on the boards of AppCentral, AppRedeem, Foodspotting, and Thumb. You can follow Jay on Twitter @jay_jamison or read his blog at www.jayjamison.com. With the pending public offering of Facebook anticipated to be the largest tech IPO in history, it’s an interesting time to think about where we go from here. Some say “social is done,” Facebook is all the social media anyone would ever want or need. But while some may pronounce that Facebook is all the social we’d ever need, users clearly haven’t gotten the memo. The numbers tell the tale around users’ appetites for these new interest-based social networks. On Thumb, a community for instant opinions, user engagement has mushroomed in its short history. Interest-based social networks have a markedly different focus and approach than Facebook. Both.
Pinterest: How Do U.S. and UK Users Compare? [INFOGRAPHIC]
If you've spent any time on Pinterest, the hottest new social network since sliced bread, you might have noticed its popularity among certain demographics — namely, women who are into fashion, weddings, home decor and puppies. But some data compiled by Visual.ly sheds light on the interesting differences between U.S. and UK Pinterest users. Using anonymized, aggregated opt-in data from various Google products (including Toolbar and Analytics), DoubleClick Ad Planner has drawn some conclusions about pinners on both sides of the pond. SEE ALSO: 21 Must-Follow Pinterest Users Most compelling are the gender, wealth and interest differences between the two countries' users. Check out the visual breakdown below. Infographic courtesy of Visual.ly.
13 layout best practices for effective B2B Web sites
There are some fantastic Web site designers and developers out there, but few who really understand how to build a B2B Web site. Effective design and look/feel is important, but there are several layout and back-end requirements that make a successful B2B Web site perform well from day one. Here are several front-end and back-end recommendations for B2B Web sites. Front End: Back End: Google Analytics is table stakesInclude web visitor intelligence code from Loopfuse (free) or trial software from Optify or Hubspot so you can get better intelligence on what site visitors are doing, and where they’re fromIf you get the Optify or Hubspot trial, consider testing their lead scoring tools and generating alerts/lead assignments when prospects do certain activities that demonstrate near-term buying interestConsider Demandbase for real-time message customization based on which company or individual is visiting the page (this might be a more advanced feature to add later)Google+
Web design processes infographic
Here’s a cool new infographic. I particularly like it since it’s not the same-old, same-old format and it forces you to ask – do we get our design processes right? Update: I’ve changed the description from “great” to “cool” based on your feedback in the comments on this post and Twitter. The main criticism was the lack of iteration. via As well as showing the main activities to plan into a redesign project, it’s interesting since it shows circles by importance. I’m not sure the relative importance of activities looks right for projects I’ve been involved in. Thanks to David Hollings for alerting us to this via our LinkedIn Group. An Iterative design process view This is a textbook view from my Ebusiness and Ecommerce Management book. Conversion rate optimization (CRO) process This is the real-world view and is a process I think we can all learn from. Source: Craig’s recent Testing Year Slideshare.
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Using Page Speed
Installing PageSpeed Insights Running PageSpeed PageSpeed generates its results based on the state of the page at the time you run the tool. To ensure the most accurate results, you should wait until the page finishes loading before running Page Speed. Alternatively, enable the Automatically run at onload option to have PageSpeed automatically start the analysis after any page is properly loaded. To profile a page with PageSpeed: Start Firefox.Select Tools > Firebug > Open Firebug.In the Firebug window, select the PageSpeed tab.Navigate to the web page you want to analyze. Optionally, do any of the following:Expand any of the rules to see specific suggestions for improvement. Understanding PageSpeed performance scores For each rule, PageSpeed gives specific suggestions for improvement, and gives the page a "score" according to a heuristic that weighs a number of factors. Understanding per-rule scores Here's how to interpret the color-code scores: High priority. Understanding the total score
Find broken links on your site with Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM)
Find broken links on web sites Wikipedia article about Xenu's Link Sleuth Description Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) checks Web sites for broken links. Additional features: Simple, no-frills user-interfaceCan re-check broken links (useful for temporary network errors)Simple report format, can also be e-mailedExecutable file smaller than 1MBSupports SSL websites (" ")Partial testing of ftp, gopher and mail URLsDetects and reports redirected URLsSite Map Download System requirements: Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10, WININET.DLL required (included with Internet Explorer). To have peace of mind, I recommend that you are using an up-to-date anti-virus software on your computer (so do I!). Ok, I have read all that, I want to download! Join the Update Announcements mailing list at Yahoo Groups! You can also join the user group by sending an e-mail to xenu-usergroup-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. The address of this web page is 1. See here. 2.
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