March 2011
4 posts
The Like button is huge, but it needs to be...
I can’t overstate the important of the embeddable Like button, whether it’s the Facebook button (it usually is), or some other type of combination. In this day and age where content is mostly free, it’s a way of paying the content creators; of saying “I appreciate this, give me more of it.” It’s crucial. But the Like button is confusing. Content creators want...
Project management is a little bit more than...
Picture it: the year 2000 on the beginning of the slide down the rough side the dot-com bubble. My boss, an obnoxious but insightful-in-retrospect Brit forwarded me a bunch of emails between a client and our company’s IT team and tasked me with “cleaning up the emails” for the client. After a rough, confused start in which the technical team basically refused to help me because...
The new Google Analytics: mostly cosmetic with one...
Let’s just get this out of the way first: I get excited by new Google Analytics features. Happy now? I’m a big geek. Lets move on. It came out of the blue today to hear that Google Analytics was going to release “version five” (I didn’t even know that there were versions) and was about to start testing. The official Analytics blog gave no details, but the Analytics...
What we've learned from the changes to Facebook's...
You may have already noticed or read that Facebook changed the way you post comments on threads on their site. Basically, they took away the submit button, meaning that when you hit return, it posts your comment. This doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me in that it seems that Facebook is trying to limit conversation, rather than encouraging it. Whatever the rationale, a few friends of...
