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 …

In May of 2008 I wrote that statistics – specifically around referrals and influencers – could be a sizeable business model for Twitter.

After a few days of usage, a handful of thoughts of Google Instant:
1. It’s a technical feat: fast, inteliigent, and useful.

Two weeks ago, Facebook rolled out their new Places product; and, to drive user awareness and adoption, they prominently promoted it within their mobile application and web experience.

When Facebook launched Facebook Places, I wrote about how they boldly and centrally promoted their new feature.

It is always difficult to tell when Facebook is testing new features / formats because they roll out so many variations to differrent user segments.

A few weeks ago, I wrote about YouTube’s terrific mobile promotion of their new html5 experience.
Here is an even better, more eye-catching promotion by Facebook for the new Facebook Places product. As background, to …

No real news here – unless you are a huge Doodle Jump fan (one of the highest selling iphone apps of all time – and one of the biggest time sinks of all time).

Thanks to the iPad, I have been on a documentary kick: both Netflix and iTunes make it easy to access interesting content that I otherwise wouldn’t think to watch. Combined with the iPad’s portability, consuming …

A little over a year ago, I wrote about Facebook’s new vanity URLs and the immediate SEO boost that ensued.