Social product development. Five Twitter slideshows you need to see. Slideshare is one of the more useful startups launched in the past few years, as it means you can view slideshows without having to attend events.
It is Youtube for Keynote and Powerpoint. I've just viewed a compelling / amusing 26-slide presentation on 'Twitter party theory' by Poke creative director Iain Tait, and thought I'd share it with you, along with four others that I've enjoyed recently. Trauma centers prep for surge in augmented reality apps. Do You Know Who’s on Twitter? Twitter has experienced explosive growth in 2009.
According to “An In-Depth Look Inside the Twitter World,” from Sysomos, 72.5% of all Twitter users joined the service in the first five months of this year. Who are they? More than one-half of all Twitter users (53%) are women, and the majority are young. Among users who disclose their age, 66% are under 25, and another 15% are ages 25 to 29. Most Twitter users are quiet: 85.37% tweet less than once per day. Real-Time Social Media Monitoring. Adometry: Better metrics, better results. Functioning Form - Design at Facebook. Today at their headquarters in Palo Alto, Facebook’s design team walked through their philosophy and approach to designing for a quarter billion users. In particular, they emphasized the importance of writing code, sharing designs early and often, being involved with a project from start to finish, and not falling in love with your work.
Making sure designers are technical enough to write code came up a lot. The Facebook design team works on product design, marketing, UI patterns, branding, and front-end code. The team consists of 15 product designers, 5 user interface engineers, 5 user experience researchers, 4 communication designers, and 1 content strategist. 25 designers in a company of 1,000. Nokia (Officially) Enters the Laptop Game With Booklet 3G. We've heard many rumors and announcements of a Nokia laptop - the Finnish mobile giant has, so far, stayed out of this market - but now it's truly official, pictures, specifications and all.
Its name? Booklet 3G. Why is it interesting? Well, when the largest manufacturer of mobile phones enters a completely different market for the first time, it's definitely more than just another netbook. With ongoing rumors about an Apple tablet/netbook, Nokia may be trying to set itself as a player in this space before the competition does. Gethuman.com - customer service help, contact info, complaints, My Name is E. Directory: 100 technology experts on Twitter. One the most important -- and most difficult -- things to do when you first start using Twitter is to develop a good list of people to follow.
You can check your friends' lists of followers, watch for interesting people that come up in @replies, and look for personalities and brands who promote their Twitter addresses. But, it can take several months to build up a good list. For technology professionals, I'm going to give you a big head start. This is part three of my three-part series on Twitter. Here are links to the other two parts: Below is a list of 100 technology experts who are active on Twitter. Still, even if you choose to follow everyone on my list, I'd encourage you to regularly cull the list of people you follow.
For more insights on technology, you can also follow my Twitter stream: @JasonHiner. Pubsubhubbub - Project Hosting on Google Code. How to Manage Twitter. At the time of this writing, I have over 91,000 Twitter followers.
No, I don’t read every word they type. Seth's Blog: Willfully ignorant vs. aggressively skeptical. Best Promotion of Social Media Efforts by a Big Brand: And the W. I've spent a few columns this week looking at innovative usages of social media by big brands. Along the way, I've noticed many companies fail to fully capitalize on these efforts--they are not promoting their Facebook, Twitter, iPhone apps and other alternative platforms to their loyal customers as much as they could. Considering everyone and their parents is on Facebook and/or has an iPhone (except mine--mom and dad: we have to do something about this), companies are safe to promote these efforts broadly to their current customer base.
Netscape and RSS. The Evolution of Blogging. Dave Winer’s ability to peer into the future is uncanny.
He was talking about a river of news long before the current activity streams became popular. He was evangelizing RSS long before there were blogs. Quid Pro No. Managing UI Complexity. Posted: August 10th, 2009 | Author: Brandon Walkin | Filed under: Design | Comments Off Interface complexity is an issue every designer wrestles with when designing a reasonably sophisticated application.
A complex interface can reduce user effectiveness, increase the learning curve of the application, and cause users to feel intimidated and overwhelmed. I’ve spent the past year redesigning a particularly complex application with my primary focus being on reducing complexity. In this article, I’ll go over some of the issues surrounding complexity and techniques that can be used to manage it.
Progressive Disclosure Progressive disclosure is the most popular means of managing complexity. Quite a bit of care needs to be put into the progressive disclosure hierarchy and the mechanisms used for disclosure. There are inconsistent ways of accessing common functionality. How I Learned To Quit The iPhone And Love Google Voice. At the end of July I declared my intention to quit the iPhone and AT&T, port my mobile phone number to Google Voice and use any mobile device that I pleased (or lots of them at once) in the future.
Like others, I will no longer blindly follow all things Apple. Today I’m pleased to report a status update on those efforts: complete. This Is Quite Possibly The Spotify Cap Table. Hot European music startup Spotify is back in the news today.
On August 4 we broke the news that the big music labels have secretly been shareholders in the company since 2008, and that they paid roughly the same price for their preferred stock as venture capital investors Northzone Ventures and Creandum paid last year. Now, though, Swedish news site ComputerSweden is reporting that those music labels actually got their stock for free. “Sony BMG, Universal Music, Warner Music, EMI and Merlin…bought at the time in to Spotify – for a pittance. Savings.com Makes Coupons More Social; Jason Calacanis Joins Boa. YC-Funded Directed Edge Sees A Post-Search Web Where Recommendat. “Whoever manages to change the nature of content display on the Web from a search problem to a recommender problem will reap tremendous rewards.
CMA Industry InSite Continues with "Th. For Companies, a Tweet in Time Can Avert PR Mess. Shopping for $1,000 Shoes? There’s an App for That - Bits Blog - A Few Fun Facts About Location-Based Services. Why Generation X Has the Leaders We Need Now - Tammy Erickson - By Tammy Erickson | 10:58 AM July 19, 2009.
Being Peter Kim: Reflections on Social Business. The Top 50 Entrepreneur Geek Blogs Of The Year. 12) Gizmodo URL: Gizmodo is a blog about gadgets and technology. Started in 2002, Gizmodo has grown to be Gawker Media's largest blog, bringing in upwards of 100 million page views a month in traffic. Tracking Google Product Search traffic. If you’re an ecommerce site, chances are that product comparison sites are an important source of traffic for you. Recently I had a customer ask about Google Product Search, and how to distinguish traffic from there from regular old Google organic searches. 5 is the new 10. The App Store is a tough place to do business. In addition to the countless hours I’ve spent overseeing the development of the App Cubby apps, I’ve also spent a ton of time poring over the App Store charts, experimenting with pricing and marketing, and studying accounts from other developers. I’ve managed to create some great apps and build a successful little business while swimming upstream in the App Store, but I’m finally willing to concede that for most apps, the price ceiling is now $5.
With the average price in the App Store now at $1.39 for games and $2.58 for all apps, the App Store is killing the value perception of mobile software shoppers. Top Brands Engaged Online via Social Media : MarketingProfs. Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com » News. Artist statistics, analytics and dashboards are multiplying like. What’s Your 5 Runs? - The Rypple Effect. The Dirty Little Secret of Apple’s App Store.
Earlier today, the guys from Skyhook Wireless sent me their latest location-aware applications report. The first thing I noticed was a sharp decline in the number of location-aware apps during the months of May and June 2009. Hacks - Music Hack Day. Teenager causes City sensation with research on media: report in. Music Week - Tinchy Stryder goes interactive on new video. The “Must-Have” Tool Kit of Social Media Citizen. Facebook's Revenue Breakdown. S Playground.