Articles in Social Media
There’s lots of innovation currently around persistant headers, footers, and bars. I wrote about Quora’s notification ‘panel’ last week. You can also check out Apture (which I had been testing), Meebo, Wibya, etc.
The Social Network movie opens today (Yes: I loved it) and advertisements are appearing across the web.
Gilt Group has rolled out their new group-buying / coupon site Gilt City to six cities (New York, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami and Chicago). With it comes the Gilt City iPhone app.
There isn’t …
Last night I saw a screening of The Social Network and it lived up to the hype / great reviews (100% on RottenTomatoes.com). The movie was well done, well acted, fun, and actually very inspiring …
I have written about the design of promotion and notification units several times – pointing at examples from Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc.
Facebook’s news feed is crowded (and more crowded with each passing day).
Consequently, visuals play a big role is drawing attention and driving clicks / conversions. This includes feed pictures, profile pictures, thumbnails, etc. With Facebook’s …
Yesterday I wrote about the evolving importance of Facebook’s “Like Graph”. And today related news appeared from Facebook in a blog post named Discover Facebook Pages
In essence, Facebook has rolled out a more substantial way …
You might have noticed that Facebook profiles now include a “Likes” box below the “Friends” box. It includes a count and list of which pages each user likes:
In May of 2008 I wrote that statistics – specifically around referrals and influencers – could be a sizeable business model for Twitter.
Earlier today rumors / news broke of Facebook building a phone (more thoughts to come). See TechCrunch, AlleyInsider, Gizmodo, etc.
Traveling this week, I checked into Boston’s Logan Airport on Foursquare. I noticed that a special ‘local offer’ existed. Hoping it was discounted Dunkin Donuts coffee, I took a look and uncovered one of that …
Facebook has put a lot of effort into driving more ‘friendships’ through their Friend Finder tool. And Twitter has had great success with their new, excellent “Who to Follow” tool.
