Archive for April, 2008
Posted on April 27, 2008. Filed under: J Weiss, Ruby on Rails, algorithms, patterns, slides | Tags: Java, meta-algorithm, O'Reilly |
I quit programming as a hobby in about 1996. That was when finally I noticed repetitions in my programming work — situations you ran into before, but for sure not ever since you learned this particular language. Today, you most likely would call them patterns. Patterns are quite popular today, but those days I was [...]
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Posted on April 26, 2008. Filed under: 43 Things, D Heinemeier-Hansson, LastFM, Ning, Twitter, Wikipedia, Xing, being utility, community, community building, core social framework functionality, crowdsourcing, customer care service, dedicated functionality, developing a social network, free culture projects, free software projects, gaining users, gathering a resource, providing sharp tools, social network, social platform, social platforms business plans, white-label social network | Tags: Asterisk, Asterisk@Home, cell phones, cliff hangers, global society, Mambo, The Long Tail, user base, userbase, win:loose, win:win |
I’ve been a bit shy — maybe too shy — to go on with my series of posts of prerequisites needed to launch a social network because my previous posting ended with a cliff hanger on “now we finally approach social networks”. Point is, my original notes on different kinds of communities were not as [...]
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Posted on April 24, 2008. Filed under: Asterisk, Asterisk@Home, CallWeaver, Fonality, Joomla!, Mambo, PBX In A Flash, Trixbox, community, community building, community management, free software projects, freedom to fork, gathering a resource, make a buck, market share, marketing, mistakes in dealing with a community, mistakes in dealing with page visitors, monetize free software, number of installs, snakeoil, tricking a community, user lock-in, userbase | Tags: Techdirt, forks, free software, GPL, trojan horse, funding, crowdsourcing, hassles in usage, lessons learned, brand, social interaction |
I just read the current topic on Slashdot — Why OpenSolaris Failed To Build a Community –, and originally, I wanted to post a short reply only. But as I look at other failed .. failing communities, such as Mambo, Asterisk, Trixbox, this became a bit longer. Therefore I prefer to put it as a post here.
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Posted on April 17, 2008. Filed under: J Kleske, M Pence, Netbeans, Ruby on Rails, S Swift, Twitter, entertainment, music, netlabels, programming languages, useful links | Tags: Aerotone, all-nighter, Düsseldorf, Medgadget.com, Netzpolitik.org, pl0g.de, videos |
I’m stranded in Duesseldorf at work, so instead of being home, in my bed and asleep, I’m sitting next to our frontend guru who’s still awake enough to get real work done. My next possible train goes at 4:31am, but taking it would be rather pointless — to get me awake in the morning, my [...]
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Posted on April 12, 2008. Filed under: being utility, crowdsourcing, gradual engagement, providing sharp tools, social network | Tags: content management system, privacy concerns, interaction design, tax liability, making friends, Mambo, Asterisk, Microsoft, Google Ads, 43 Things |
I had a lot of hope to get straight a whole week in a line of posts. Unfortunately, this week some person at work enforced some unrealistic task to be done. Therefore, I got tired to death on a daily basis, therefore going to bed ‘early’ and ’sleeping long’ (midnight to 7am) instead of continuing [...]
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Posted on April 8, 2008. Filed under: A List Apart, Blogger.com, GMail, Google, Wordpress.com, Xing, data breaches, distrust, personal data footprint, privacy, privacy concerns, social network, suggested reads, usability | Tags: Geni.com, privacy concerns, privacy risks, PrivacyRights.com, Privacy Rights, legal life, gradual engagement |
In my previous post, I introduced usability in general as a tool to lower the hurdles that might afflict random passers-by to become users of your service. Even more, usability provides you with chances to discern your service from alternative services, it’s relatively simple to implement and, once established, in your process of design and [...]
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Posted on April 7, 2008. Filed under: G Reynolds, Presentation Zen, accessibility, chances to learn, gaining users, hassles in usage, human computer interaction, information architecture, information visualization, lessons learned, mistakes in dealing with page visitors, navigability, rules of thumb, series of posts, suggested reads, usability, useful links | Tags: content management system, convincing the user, overloading perception, pitfalls in usability, visual perception |
In my previous article, Gaining users. Lessons learned from blogging., I looked into the question how to gather audience for a blog and what influences most whether people stay or leave. The conclusion I’ve taken so far is that whatever you offer, you need to win over people for whatever step you want them to [...]
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Posted on April 6, 2008. Filed under: 43 Things, advice, attention capturing, become well-known, blogging, competition, gaining users, lessons learned, mistakes in dealing with page visitors, providing benefit, respect, rules of thumb, series of posts, social interaction, story, user experience | Tags: 255 characters of link context, backlinks, blogging, Click Here links, contribution to the user experience, gaining audience, net-prominents, RSS feed delivery, search engine results, trackbacks |
This one is going to be a bit long, as I refer to my own experiences in blogging, how I approached increasing the number of readers, my failures and lessons learned. In the end, I come up with a conclusion that points back into the direction of usability and communities.
In 1999, I didn’t care much [...]
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Posted on April 5, 2008. Filed under: C Anderson, M Masnick, R Scoble, The Long Tail, market share, respect, user lock-in | Tags: Facebook, Techdirt, Grand Unified Theory On The Economics Of Free |
Yesterday, I opened three doors to the same thing — everything is free on the net — usability — you need sudden passers-by to become users –, but were a bit short in time, therefore abridged the issue a bit. Possibly a bit too much. Therefore I want to go more deep into it, now, and [...]
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Posted on April 4, 2008. Filed under: PR, charging users, customer care service, developing a social network, different grades of social networks, exposed to the public, hassles in usage, social interaction, usability | Tags: community evolving on a platform, cripple-ware, everything on the net is free, social land, social platform |
Last week, I discerned three kinds (or levels) of social networks: (1) basic log-in plus chance to collect fellow users in a contact list — (2) the same plus that every single user can create and maintain their own groups, including group functionality such as forum and event calendar — (3) improves privacy by opening [...]
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