Tag Archives | social media

Myspace, A Place For CAPTCHAs

Posted on August 14, 2008 in social media, usability

Using MySpace these days, you come across more CAPTCHAs than you do content. It’s frustrating “solving” these all the time, and sometimes downright ridiculous. In the words of my former boss, Harley Manning, “You can’t annoy someone into liking your brand.”

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Some Thoughts on MySpace’s Redesign

Posted on June 18, 2008 in social media, usability

MySpace is rolling out their new re-design, as of yesterday, which the brilliant folks at Adaptive Path played a large part in. I’m always impressed by their work, but I was surprised by the screenshots of the redesign I saw on Valleywag who notes: “When Fox Interactive began interviewing Web designers for the job last [...]

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Turning A Facebook App Into A Viral Hit

Posted on June 12, 2008 in advertising and marketing, social media, word-of-mouth

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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