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Inclusive design is really just a name for the positive feeling I have about certain designs. Exclusive, then, describes the opposite feeling. I call design like that which is behind Facebook strikingly limited, for example. I’m astounded that Blogger is still in use as much as it is. In short, I basically can’t stand anything [...]
Some days ago TechCrunch acquired InviteShare, a new platform where members can share invitations to closed betas. Will the acquisition by InviteShare create a new test for those platforms?
Can TechCrunch Quick Start Platforms?
Michael Arrington and TC are a respected tandem in the tech scene, daily asked by many start-ups to feature their product. VCs read [...]
In May ‘07 last.fm integrated video clips. The video hype was little because there were hardly any clips and soon the Last.fm centered around the acquisition by CBS and the absence from the Day of Silence project.
Even today there is little video content: a quick search for the [UK] iTunes Top 10 Songs and Top [...]
Note from the editor: These next few days, we will be re-publishing note-worthy content from the Wisdump archive. This particular article was originally posted by Paul Scrivens on November 8th, 2006.
First it is pertinent to know Wikipedia’s definition of the Overjustification Effect.
The overjustification effect (also called the undermining effect) is the effect whereby giving someone [...]
Obviously we have established so far on Wisdump that social networking such as MySpace and Facebook hits off well. They are sites in which you can simply post up who you are and keep in touch with friends. Then, on MySpace for example, you can build fancy, custom, invalid, profile designs and basically create an [...]
MySpace has long been the dominant social networking tool with a huge numbers of users, endless news stories surrounding it’s use as well as mis-use, and almost becoming a buzz word itself. Those days are eroding as MySpace loses it’s news coverage, and begins to become more of an annoyance then [...]
The iSalient folks trust me with a review of their product so they have paid me megabucks through ReviewMe to provide my superior analysis to their survey software.
If you run a website or your company does then more times than not you would like to get into the head of your visitors. You can do [...]
With the huge ad company acquisitions happening over the past couple of weeks it seems some talk has gone back to who is going to acquire Facebook. If you have read any of the articles by Mark Zuckerberg or the VCs they don’t seem to plan on cashing out through acquisition. Instead there are continued [...]
The latest Guy Kawasaki (bonus points to anyone that can tell me a successful online venture backed by Guy) venture launched and it is called Truemors. In a nutshell anyone can post any type of information they want and it gets posted on the frontpage where people can award it points. Look at that again.
Anyone [...]
I’m sure you are well aware of the disaster that is Digg at this moment. There was a story Monday that posted a code for the HD-DVD encryption. Digg was asked to take the down the stories and apparently they prevented any further stories from reaching the homepage and have begun banning users. The problem [...]
