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January 27th, 2008
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Twitter a story, a ballad, a novel ?
January 26th, 2008
A very interesting thought came up last night when I was getting back home form work and listening to Tom Merrit, Molly Wood & Leo Laporte on CNET’s Buzz out Loud podcast. The folks on the podcast discussed how novels in SMS lingo is rave in Japan and then tossed up a concept wherein Twitter can be used (by one or more users) to serially micro-blog a novel. The challenge of course is that every sentence of your can only contain 160 characters. I find this entire concept rather cool and am willing to give this a shot. For one, it helps me find a creative vent to my energies and also helps because while I have always wanted to write a book, I dont quite have the patience for that
Looks like BOL crew have started something off. Keep checking it and if you want to micro-blog a story with me leave a comment here
Product design – Commonsense
January 12th, 2008
Neat bits of advice here :
- Don’t make users login with an Account number – names are simple & easy to remember
- Don’t enforce complex passwords requirements – unless you have confidential data stored
- Don’t make them confirm their email address – just to get started … there is enough time for that
- Don’t make them ‘Opt out’ form being spammed – that is pure evil !
All you Product Managers & Developers out there … take it easy folks and make it easy for your users to use your site !
The top 4 things you should never do to your users : Codeulate.
Will Scrabulous be saved ?
January 12th, 2008
Perhaps this was meant to happen, Hasbro, the makers of the wildly popular board game Scrabble has sent out a notice to the 2 brothers in Calcutta, India who have created a hot online version of the game called ‘Scrabulous‘ which boats of thousands of devoted users in Facebook
I for one, am a big fan of Scrabulous and perhaps this is one of the few reasons why I continue to visit Facebook, coz after a point in time one gets truly sick of getting sheep thrown at them, vampires and Flixster movies
Hope there is a last minute deal that can make all of the Scrabulous fans and the folks who made the app happy
One a related note, if you dig Scrabble, you’ll enjoy this video
FORTUNE: Techland Will someone please start a Facebook group to save Scrabulous? «
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