July 2011
4 posts
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Google+ can merge longform content with statuses,...
Ezra Klein (one of my favorite follows on Twitter) posted some thoughts about Google+ vs Twitter, giving the nod to Google+. It’s really not too surprising. He’s a political writer and, as such, he’ll want to be able to expand on his thoughts. Google+ gives him the space he needs for his thoughts and have conversations on it in one interface. Twitter just lets him post something...
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Google Circles breaks two simple rules: simple...
There are two rule-type ways of thinking on processes and usability that I’ve come to believe very strongly in. The first rule is this: the more steps involved in a task, the higher the desire of the user has to be to finish it. The second rule: if people aren’t interested in learning something or lack incentive to learn it, they won’t learn it, regardless of intelligence....
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Why Google+'s Circles doesn't fix anything
One of the biggest advantages of social media-style communication is the ability for your audience to choose itself rather than for you to assume interests and choose the audience yourself, likely leaving out people that would be interested.
Anyone who’s started a blog knows the surprise in finding that the people who read it religiously are the people you never would have thought would be...
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Why I moved back to Blogger from Posterous
You may have noticed (you definitely did not notice) that the layout of this site changed and it might even be noticeable that I changed back to Blogger. Why commit this SEO suicide and bombard my subscribers with old posts? Well, besides the laundry list of pros and cons, I can sum it up in a word: javascript. Posterous doesn’t allow javascript in their templates, which I know makes sense...
