Category: twitter
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Domain harvesting and the Twitter long game in retrospect
Tricking people into seeing unexpected content and converting some of them into customers is a tale as old as the web. It was the perfect model for the takeover.
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“Where the people are”
Fortunately, on that day, I allowed a strong, simple idea to penetrate my big, beautiful wall of assumptions.
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In search of a digital town square
Ever since an infantile fascist billionaire (hereafter, the IFB) decided to turn Twitter over to the racially hostile anti-science set, folks who previously used that network daily to discuss and amplify topics they cared about…
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Twitter Blues
Before the present owner, I was a Twitter Blue customer, because I always pay for software—to support its creators and help prevent it from disappearing, as so many great websites and platforms have done over…
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“A $44 billion version of MySpace.”
My longtime friend and former collaborative partner Craig Hockenberry bids a dignified adieu to Twitterific, Twitter, and his mom … and calls for a standards-based universal timeline. — The Shit Show
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Design Kickoff Meetings
Posted here for posterity: Design kickoff meetings are like first dates that prepare you for an exciting relationship with a person who doesn’t exist.
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Two Kinds of People
There are two kinds of people: those who hold the door open for others, and those who walk through without thanking me.
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Usability Testing
Usability testing doesn’t reveal problems in your product so much as it uncovers arrogance in your thinking.
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140 Characters is a Joke
THERE IS ALWAYS more to the story than what we are told. I am not omniscient. It is better to light a single candle than to join a lynch mob. Other people’s behavior is not…
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Advanced web design links
FROM MY TWITTER STREAM of late: The Heads-Up Grid is an overlay grid for use during in-browser website development, built with HTML + CSS + JavaScript. http://t.co/EcgTkcD # Golden Grid System – a folding grid…
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Questions, Please: Jeffrey Zeldman’s Awesome Internet Design Panel today at SXSW Interactive
HEY, YOU WITH THE STARS in your eyes. Yes, you, the all too necessary SXSW Interactive attendee. Got questions about the present and future of web design and publishing for me or the illustrious panelists…
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The Twitters of Southby
20110312-NodeXL-Twitter-sxsw by Marc Smith. From: www.connectedaction.net. Connections among the Twitter users who recently mentioned sxsw when queried on March 12, 2011 scaled by numbers of followers. A larger version (zoom for details) is available here: www.flickr.com/photos/marc_smith/5521097041/sizes/o/.
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Anatomy of the Goodreads.com Friend Spam Dark Pattern
“Goodreads.com is social cataloging service for books. In this post you will see how they’ve used the friend spam dark pattern, but how they’ve also failed to make it go viral. This makes it interesting…
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Blue Beanie Day Haiku Contest – Win Prizes from Peachpit and A Book Apart
ATTENTION, web design geeks, contest fans, standards freaks, HTML5ophiles, CSSistas, grammarians, bookworms, UXers, designers, developers, and budding Haikuists. Can you do this? Do not tell me I Am source of your browser woes. Template validates.…
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