First Impressions and Last Logins

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

There’s a saying along the lines of  “the amount someone spends talking about themselves is inversely proportional to how interesting they are”. Beyond first dates and keynote presentations, this opinion directly affects social network services.
Users drop off at an accelerated rate from accessing/signing up for a new site to actually using it. Even if the [...]

Tags: content, first impressions, flickr, pownce, social networks, User Experience, user interface, uxp

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Twitter: Dating and Death

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

(I’ve been horrible at keeping up with a blogging routine lately, but that’s a subject for a later post.) I was recently asked over email what I thought could be a potential “Twitter killer” as well as an interesting way Twitter is being used. Thought I’d share my off-the-top-of-my-head response:
Potential Twitter killer:
Lack of community
Twitter as [...]

Tags: community, dating, flickr, location, twitter

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Twitter refuses to uphold Terms of Service

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Update 3: Please see my follow-up post about Twitter’s response.
I started using Twitter in March 2007, just before their SXSW explosion. Not surprisingly, I instantly became addicted and since then have used the service for everything from personal to professional.
Overall, Twitter is a great platform to connect with friends and co-workers and it felt [...]

Tags: abuse, Community Management, cyberbullying, cyberstalking, flickr, harassment, terms of service, tos, twitter

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