Apr 29, 2009
I generally hate surveys, despise filling out forms, and avoid signing up for anything I know I won’t use at least once a day or that isn’t mission critical.
I just finished an hour session, teaching Hunch.com about me. Hunch is a consumer web application looking to help users make up their minds. In their words, “Hunch helps you make decisions and gets smarter the more you use it.” So I answered a vast array of cleverly compiled and seemingly never-ending questions. Throughout this process, I noticed something…I didn’t find myself in a huge rush to get to the payoff.
Apr 28, 2009
How old were you when you got your first computer? Maybe you tapped your fingers alongside a crackling dial-up modem or played “Rescue the Kitten” to refine your grade school typing skills? Cherished memories, indeed. Now I know people who secure a gmail address for babies still in the womb.
Apr 24, 2009
User backlash has become a predictable reaction to redesigns of Facebook. Polls show that 94% of people disapprove of recent changes to the site layout, rejecting the ‘stream and filter’ system.
It seems, as Robert Scoble puts it, that Facebook has “pissed off its users” with each reinvention it undertakes. Back in 2006, the introduction of a newsfeed sparked major outcry, with users petitioning and boycotting the changes. Today, people are just as furious: a disgruntled mob – one million strong – has pressured Facebook into bringing back some ‘old’ design and user experience features.
Why are people so upset?
Apr 13, 2009
Go humans go. This ad greeted me Monday morning as I exited the subway in DUMBO. It found me in Chinatown too. I was intrigued and a bit startled. I assumed it was part of a larger campaign, but this was the first I’d seen. Go humans go…to me, it had Martian undertones. And that Quaker man! He hasn’t changed much over the years.
Apr 07, 2009
Suppose a SlideShare presentation you uploaded six months ago suddenly receives 90,000 views. Overnight. Accompanying this massive spike in activity is an email from SlideShare encouraging you to tweet, blog and flaunt your success. Gleefully, you follow SlideShare’s recommendation and tweet the proudest 140 characters you’ve typed in a month. That tweet might look something like this:
Apparently, I’m a SlideShare rockstar! My presentation on Slideshare has been getting a lot of views! Consider me “#bestofslideshare.”
Now suppose the date to be April 1st.
You’ve been had.
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