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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SWAT Summit: Advertising in social networks

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

The first ever SWAT Summit kicked off this last week in San Francisco. The aim of the conference was to help advertisers effectively enter and work with social networks.
Due to unfortunate scheduling, I was only able to make it for the last half of the one-day event (earlier in the day I was attending PSFK’s [...]

Tags: advertising, demographics, facebook, metrics, san francisco, social media, social networks, steve hall, swat summit

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Supernova 2008: Privacy and Security in the Network Age

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Day 2 of Supernova 2008 kicked off this week with a variety of panels to choose from. While many of the Web 2.0-ers were getting settled in the Open Flow Track, MC-ed by Tantek Çelik, , I joined the alternative crowd for the Privacy and Security in the Network Age panel.
The session started with the [...]

Tags: andrea matwyshyn, credit card companies, data portability, fran maier, gerard lewis, network, Privacy, security, social media bruce schneier, social networking, social networks, supernova, supernova2008

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