I’ve been spending some time, as of late, thinking about how we, as a company, understand various social media platforms (namely Facebook, Twitter etc…). This process has involved looking at a number of factors:
What the social media platform is for (as defined by the creators)
What the social media platform is actually used for (as defined [...]
Many people are very familiar with Threadless however I wondered how many people are aware of a similar service called ‘My Soti’?
Its the essentially the same deal as Threadless although this is much more targeted to designers (in terms of creating content) so the quality of the designs is (I believe) much higher. As a [...]
Last year I interviewed Spencer over at Last.fm to gain some insights into how they have so completely nailed the concept of exportable functionality. Functionality that works as marketing. And product development. And product enhancement. Oh, and brand extensions. In fact Last.fm have seemingly managed to create a self-fulfilling eco-system out of making their data [...]
An interesting article by Bruce Schneier in the Guardian a few weeks ago on selecting secure passwords to thwart password guessing software. His key piece of advice is to take a sentence and turn it into a password. “Something like “This little piggy went to market” might become “tlpWENT2m”. And so this has had me [...]
The cold season is truly upon us. Ask anyone in the office - I’ve been ill for at least the last week (nothing life threatening, fear not!). If only i’d known about Flu Trends - Google’s latest beta site buggerhood. It tracks buzz around conversations where people discuss being ill and tracks this against location [...]