I had an interesting design epiphany last week. Ever since twitter.com made the avatar prominent, everyone building a stream has realized that attaching a face (or personal representation) to an artifact makes it easier to scan, consume and recall information. It makes sense. So, last week, someone on Connect had an issue with some analytics [...]
Foursquare Also titled: “What I learned from FourSquare.” A few years back when we started exploring new technology, one of the ideas that seemed to stick with me was around gaming. The processes that made something enjoyable seemed to be an essential, yet elusive ingredient in business software. In truth, I felt there was something [...]
So, we had some downtime overnight, not sure anyone noticed. Rich and I decided to make a couple tweaks to make the blog load faster. I removed Google Friend Connect, which didn’t seem to do much beyond create a static network with some infrequent discussion. I expect future changes to GFC that might be interesting, [...]