August 2010
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Bosch DIY - House of Bosch →
House of Bosch represents something I suggested book publishers should do in a talk I gave to TOC08, embrace the web based DIY community and use the content they had locked up in their books. Now here is Bosch, using this approach to support the use of their tools (and sell a few more) in making things for your house.
July 2010
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Mining the Social Web - O'Reilly Media →
Mining the Social Web - O’Reilly Media: looks like a fascinating book, just out as a Rough Cut, a really good fit with chapters 11, 16 and 17 in my own book.
June 2010
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Conversation on Protocols vs APIs and RESTfulness
Kevin Marks (@kevinmarks) 03/06/2010 07:10 @progrium @joshfraser the subscription
is a verb, but sending the updates to the webhook is very restful,
especially with @ciberch’s
deleteJeff Lindsay (@progrium) 03/06/2010
07:06 @joshfraser
PuSH has hub.mode which is basically a verb. Like xmlrpc, etc. Real
RESTful protocols are AtomPub and maybe
WebDAV.Josh Fraser (@joshfraser)...
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Time to stop showing clients static design visuals →
Time to stop showing clients static design visuals |:
Demonstrating our designs to clients as XHTML/CSS pages rather than as static Photoshop or Fireworks has streamlined our workflow and helped us to set and manage a client’s expectations better than ever before.
While static visuals are useful for conveying look-and-feel, they are less than useful in conveying how a page will look and function...
April 2010
5 posts
Facebook's Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline |...
Facebook’s Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline | Electronic Frontier Foundation: “Viewed together, the successive policies tell a clear story. Facebook originally earned its core base of users by offering them simple and powerful controls over their personal information. As Facebook grew larger and became more important, it could have chosen to maintain or improve those controls....
What Publishers Today Can Learn from Allen Lane:...
What Publishers Today Can Learn from Allen Lane: Fearlessness: “We should learn not only from other content industries, but from the digital support structures that have grown up around them.
To take one, the musical ecosystem comprising services such as Last.fm, Hype Machine, Songkick, Soundcloud and Bandcamp has few parallels in literature, as yet.
These services surround the artistic...
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“I suspect that top users of a social site understand it better than the creators”
– http://twitter.com/rashmi/status/12650705987
Jeffrey Zeldman - Stop chasing followers
Stop chasing followers: ”
The internet is not a numbers game. It’s about dialog, persuasion, and influence.
Following doesn’t mean paying attention. You don’t want numbers on Twitter, not really. What you want is to follow and be followed by human beings who care about issues you care about.
This thing we make together. This thing is about hearts and minds, not eyeballs. Especially not...
Avoid Member Backlashes to Change by Fostering...
Avoid Member Backlashes to Change by Fostering Prelashes » Dogster Inc. Company Blog: “Over the years we’ve made all the mistakes you can make in regards to releasing new code that makes existing users unhappy. It’s so easy to do as you’ve convinced yourself the changes are the brave new future and the current code base is garbage, convinced yourself so much that you’ve forgotten to...
March 2010
7 posts
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xAuth and perhaps the need for socializing...
xAuth and perhaps the need for socializing application security and trust - mehack: “In February we sent out an e-mail entitled ‘What’s up with OAuth?’ where we announced xAuth — our username and password for OAuth token exchange mechanism. Hands down, developers love it. They hated the UX / context penalty involved with OAuth, especially associated with mobile and...
FactoryCity » The social agent
FactoryCity » The social agent: “Late last fall, from late November through December, I worked with Mozilla Labs to envision what the future of a more social browser might look like. Working with the team, I produced a series of mockups and written pieces that were designed to first layout a future scenario for what I call ‘pop computing’ — an era when computing is cheap, abundant, and...
A quote from Michal Migurski
A quote from Michal Migurski: “ We’ve got a rule of thumb inside Stamen that issue names must read like imperatives: ‘improve variable names’, ‘delete blah functionality’, ‘fix broken jimmy-jammers’, etc. Nothing focuses the mind of the reporter like being asked to specify what exactly they’d like to see done, and it’s much easier for a developer to scan a list with actual tasks right in the...
LukeW | Web App Masters: A Simple Ladder of...
A Simple Ladder of Engagement:
Mark Trammell outlined Twitter’s approach to helping new and one-time users become loyal repeaters by discussing the company’s focus on A Simple Ladder of Engagement. The engagement ladder: curious, casual, committed –this is Twitter’s framework for thinking about how new Twitter users engage with the service.
(Via LukeW.)
Twitter / Luke Wroblewski: The first 2-3 things...
Twitter / Luke Wroblewski: “The first 2-3 things people do on your product should make it obvious what your product will do for them.”
Simple clear advice, but easy to lose sight of when in the midst of it.
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LukeW | "Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion...
LukeW | “Mad Libs” Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40%: “A while ago, I came across a unique registration form built by Jeremy Keith for his audio sharing site, Huffduffer. Though it asked people the same questions found in typical sign-up forms, the Huffduffer registration form did so in a narrative format. It presented input fields to people as blanks within sentences (Mad...
Notes on building the social web
I’m going to use this tumblelog to post notes on the things I would have put in my book if I was writing it now, think of these as notes for a possible future edition.