March 2009
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Company Brands Really Becoming Identities
photo by G3K
Brands
Companies have already been building brands with personalities. Now companies are giving identities via various social media tools such as social networking sites, blogs and twitter (eg. comcastcares).
Brand identity is the intended unified characteristics that form the brand.
Social networks giving brands identities
Myspace & Facebook
Bands have been embracing...
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Web Usability presentation
For my Communication Graphics course, we had to pick a book and topic to give a presentation. I chose the book “Don’t Make Me Think!” by Krug and the topic of Web UI design.
(See read the full post for presentation)
In the first half of the presentation, I go over some of the points made by Steve Krug. He takes the user’s perspective when visiting a website. ...
The Elements of Social Architecture →
A great article about the elements social architecture by Christina Wodtke.
Posted at A List Apart on March 3, 2009.
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Facebook Redesign
note: you may not have gotten the new design, I believe they are rolling it out google-style (some users at a time)
Changes
real-Time streaming
My favorite change to the homepage is real-time streaming of updates. This AJAX goodness now auto-updates the stream without us stalkers having to repeatedly press ‘refresh’. What real-time does is allows us to waste less time trying...
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Top Facebook Games Based on Player Reward
Here is the list of top social games based on rewards. I added the active monthly user numbers, rating and type of reward.
*note: some ratings weren’t available (probably due to not enough ratings) and the numbers are from March 9th, 2009.
It’s interesting to see that the top game according to Inside Social Games rewards money, but does not have even close to the number of...
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Facebook Relationship Management: does it increase...
Facebook Data Team did some research on relationship management through Facebook, which was used in the article “Primates on Facebook” in the Economist.
The question being: is Facebook increasing the size of people’s personal networks?
Social networks provide a means of relationship management through passive engagement, a one-way communication of observing activity in...