Archives for July, 2009
Data, Information, Medium, Message
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Being a Small Post on a Large Topic What you put in your Web app dashboard is different from what you put in your emails, and different from what you put in your SMS messages or mobile app dashboard, and rightly so; if McLuhan had his act at all together, we can be confident that [...]
User Inactivity: One Reason and Another
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Last week Fred Wilson posted The Difference Between Total Users and Active Users, which proposed that web services focus on active users rather than obsessing over the many, many inactive user accounts that litter every even slightly successful service. He noted that: It is not a problem for a service to have a large group [...]
Follower Count: Pageviews 2.0
Monday, July 13th, 2009
On the Hype Machine’s Twitter Music Chart The Hype Machine crew recently released a Twitter Music Chart. First off, it’s pretty excellent: We monitor Twitter for links pointing to tracks on the Hype Machine. We then give each of those tweets a number of points based on the number of followers (and the ratio of [...]
