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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One size does NOT fit all

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Recently, there has been a rash of one-size-fits-all services that aim to provide a solution to “managing” various sites like Twitter, Pownce, Tumblr, Jaiku and Facebook all at once. As with most of my rants, they begin on Twitter and then trickle their way into a blog post – and if you’ve seen some of [...]

Tags: cross posting, double posting, facebook, hellotxt, jaiku, mahalo share, Microblogging, non-proprietary crush, ping.fm, pownce, qik, tumblr, twhirl, twitter

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