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- iPhone Notes: Kathy Sierra at SXSW
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At this year’s SXSW I didn’t feel like pulling out my laptop to take notes. Instead, I mastered the iPhone keyboard and jotted down some quick notes from the more interesting sessions. Here are my notes from Kathy Sierra’s excellent talk on helping your users kick ass.
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- The Threadless Store: Taking the User Experience Off the Screen.
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Often when people speak of social media they are referring to a web based software that facilitate socializing-sort-of-behavior of people like Facebook, Twitter, or the more obvious MySpace. While these services continue to scale up to accommodate more users and more features without generating a profit, Threadless an online clothing company, has been profiting off their cult following. Enough profit that the company recently transformed from a ‘click-and-order’ to a ‘click-and-mortar’ operation. I paid a visit to their first physical store in Chicago, IL..
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- How Facebook Messed Up. (in 2006)
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Today UIE posted a new podcast “The Book Of Face” with Phoenix’s own Robert Hoekman Jr.. The show discussed how facebook has been pretty good at “pissing their users off” and made mention of the whole newsfeed debacle. Back in September of 2006 Facebook first released the daily feed feature and as a result it caused a lot of ruckus. Shortly after the backlash came to be - I wrote a public note on Facebook about the entire situation. It was titled “Why newsfeeds are actually good and how Facebook messed up.” So here it is reposted again today on my blog: