So, I made it to DC for the Online News Association Conference. I’m in my hotel in Adams Morgan. It’s not the conference hotel, but one I got for cheap on hotwire.com. I can see why. It’s omni shoreham, sounds perfectly fine. But I’m sequestered in the “parkview” building, an old low rise hotel adjacent […]
We covered a lot of ground in class on Wed. An article from Smashing Magazine talked about How Simple Web Design Helps Your Business. It even mentioned a site that Sam talked about on our first day of class, Etsy. Main points, keep sites simple, no clutter, leave out unrelated products, reduce # of columns. […]
Came across this interview with Kathy Sierra while I was surfing around for other stuff. http://web20show.com/episodes/web20show-ep43-kathy_sierra . Kathy has some amazing ideas. She introduced this concept of “creating passionate users,” basically how do we help people feel good about their technology skills (or according to Sierra, how you get them to “kick ass”). She talks […]
I emailed these basic articles on Facebook to our faculty, thought I’d post here as well. These are just a few of the seminal pieces that set up the environment. News about Facebook comes out every day. Business Week Special Report on the Future of Social Networking – very comprehensive May 2008 Wired: How Mark […]
On Web Strategy, a post about Facebook’s new “Engagement Advertising” program. It’s based on an interview with Tim Kendall, Director of Monetization at Facebook (which, by the way, is the worst job title in the history of job titles; the word “monetization” always makes me cringe). What the new program does is allow for users […]
AOL is despertately trying to regain some of its online glory. It purchased Bebo a few months back, and this week announced that it is buying social aggregator SocialThing. SocialThing launched at SXSW. I remember hearing about, and one of my students presented it to the class. I liked its approach better than FriendFeed. We’ll […]