Category Archives: how to

How to launch an online platform

Posted on December 12, 2007 by

I attended the Bebo developer platform announcement this morning in San Francisco. The announcement seemed to go down very well based on immediate response, though only time will tell if the expected impact is achieved. It’s clear that a formula … Continue reading →

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How to fix building construction bureaucracy

Posted on May 31, 2007 by

Sometimes I forget to step outside of our little bubble here and see how people use or in fact don’t use the Internet. When I get that chance I often wonder if anything I’m doing in my career actually matters … Continue reading →

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How to layer postproduction visuals in a screencast

Posted on March 5, 2007 by

Jeremy Zawodny and I produced another screencast last week, a look inside Pipes with Pasha Sadri and Ed Ho. The Pipes guys shared their insights while we asked a few questions and recorded the screen and the audio. I’ve been … Continue reading →

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A community site without a community

Posted on January 3, 2007 by

Taking a little time at home last week gave me a chance to play around with one of my experiments that was nearly at its end. FlipBait is a simple Pligg/MediaWiki site that pokes fun at the dotcom golddiggers out … Continue reading →

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Preview of the del.icio.us publisher api

Posted on December 19, 2006 by

I just posted a short screencast on the YDN blog of the cool new publisher api coming from del.icio.us soon. I’ve also embedded the video below. Lots of interesting possibilities with this new service, for sure. Embed video:

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How to offer simple RSS badges for your users

Posted on November 25, 2006 by

The key breakthrough that made it possible for YouTube to ride on MySpace’s heavy traffic coattails into its current state as a mass media service is the concept of widgets, often called badges in related contexts. Although offering widgets or … Continue reading →

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How we made the BBAuth screencast

Posted on October 5, 2006 by

The news that seemed to get overlooked by the amazingness that became Hack Day was the release of a login API, BBAuth, or Browser-based Authentication. This new service allows any web site or web application to identify a user who … Continue reading →

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