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Turning A Facebook App Into A Viral Hit

June 12th, 2008 No Comments

Last month, I wrote about Jia Shen’s approach to designing killer Facebook applications. He’s the co-founder of RockYou, the makers of SuperWall (2 million daily active users).
Today, I want to take Jia’s approach, and season it with some of my own thinking to see how we might redesign an existing Facebook app called “Nordsrtom [...]

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Posthumous brand endorsements

March 18th, 2008 1 Comment

Converse is producing a line of custom Kurt Cobain Chuck Taylors. I’m sure these shoes will sell with a hefty mark-up, and make Converse a pretty penny. But as a Nirvana lover, this bothers me.
Not to mention the negative impact to the converse brand could be significant, if loyal Nirvana lovers see this as diluting [...]

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