Article Archive for June 2010
When Zynga launched Treasure Isle, I wrote about the economies of scale that enabled them to drive nearly 17,000,000 monthly active users in the game’s first 18 days… staggering figures. Zynga’s latest game, Frontierville, is …
Strangely lost in last week’s iPhone 4 hype was Facebook’s announcement of their “Open Graph Search Engine”. It is very young and therefore inelegant – but it is significant move that Google likely is worried …
The best feature of Apple’s iOS4 update that is overshadowed by background applications, folders, etc? Apple now enables calendar event creation contextually and within email exchanges. When a date and time are written in an …
This weekend, your local Golfsmith will be hosting Nike’s National Golf Day – which features Nike product demos, discounts, etc. But Facebook fans of both Nike Golf and Golfsmith get the VIP treatment with a …
In their weekend article “San Francisco sees influx of tech incubators“, The San Francisco Chronicle’s Carlyn Said visited Pier 38 (home of Dogpatch Labs San Francisco) to study these emerging workspaces and communities.
You probably don’t think of Rubio’s (the fish taco fast food chain) as a leader in web / mobile innovation… but the below example is well done and really should be more widely adopted.
Background: after …
Two of the core tenets of web design is “don’t make users think” and “manage to focus users’ attention” (see great list at Smashing Magazine). In short – this means that every pixel should be …
In advance of the US Open at Pebble Beach this Thursday – Sunday, Nike has taken to Facebook to reveal their sponsored golfer’s daily outfits. Each golfer has a page within their “Athlete Apparel: 2010 …
Facebook recently started taking applications for beta testers of their new questions products (TechCrunch coverage here). The application itself is interesting in that it is far more thorough than the standard name & email process. …
Earlier this week Zynga launched their newest game Frontierville – it already has 1.3m monthly actives and 450k fans. While Frontierville’s gameplay inherits many of the best practices of its siblings, its domain behavior doesn’t. …
If there is a voice for mobile growth, Mary Meeker is it.
And she has 50+ slides of charts and data to prove her bullishness.
Below is the latest version of her Internet Trends deck (updated …
