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To bold text you surround that text with asterisks. Like this* GEEKY ALERT! Italicize? Put underscores around the text. Strikeout? Put hyphens around it.* Really? The most trivial markdown syntax is for the Geeks only? I don't want to live in that world; that sounds like a nightmare of truly incompetent users.
In the end, if your mom doesn't understand the internet, she'll go to what she hears is popular and not what's simple. And if the hipsters join the bandwagon many people will follow independently of wether they understand it or not (I find this to be especially true for twitter, where a lot of people I know joined because a lot of others were using it, but they never really understood the service).
I read an interview with a record executive a long time ago and he answered the question, "How do you find the next big thing?" "That's pretty easy," he said, "I just look for something that parents will hate." That this is a successful strategy is self-evident. (American) kids want to differentiate themselves from their parents and will pay money to do so. They'll probably latch on in some form to anything as long a…
Ugly or not, it will happen. Since human time is limited, a smart social strategy is all about identifying the right "circle" of people you want to join, and then performing activities that increase the chances of your interacting with people from that circle while reducing the chances of your interacting with people from outside.
What this means is that even when your social site is small (compared to say Facebook), if you have all the right people in it (meaning people with high social favorability factor), you will succeed.
Some people make the mistake of assuming that the larger their site is, the better off they are. It's not only about quantity, but also about quality. Low quality eventually leads to decline in quantity by driving people away. That's what happened to MySpace and what will happen to Facebook.
for me Google+ is missing key features, like a decent messaging system, and events ... it's also lacking a feature to link up with similar interest groups ... On first impression, i'm not really convinced
hmmm, i don't know if scobleizer is a benefit to a product or the kiss of death ... for me Google+ is missing key features, like a decent messaging system, and events ... it's also lacking a feature to link up with similar interest groups ... On first impression, i'm not really convinced
Well they do have gmail, google talk/chat and hangouts. Is another messaging system really needed?
_and events_
This I think I agree on, and is something I've been thinking about as wel.
How do you bold and italicize on Facebook? I'm not aware of the ability. Personally I think having a Word interface for a textarea is pretty darn geeky. Using Markdown or some other markup language is better solution since those who don't know just won't use it.
Facebook Notes support simple HTML. You can't use bold or italics anywhere else, to my knowledge.
I read an interview with a record executive a long time ago and he answered the question, "How do you find the next big thing?" "That's pretty easy," he said, "I just look for something that parents will hate." That this is a successful strategy is self-evident. (American) kids want to differentiate themselves from their parents and will pay money to do so. They'll probably latch on in some form to anything as long a…
Quoting Joshua Ellis's piece on the grim meathook future:
> Feeding poor people is useful tech,
> but it’s not very sexy
> and it won’t get you on the cover of Wired.
> Talk about it too much
> and you sound like an earnest hippie.
> So nobody wants to do that.
> They want to make cell phones
> that can scan your personal measurements
> and send them real-time
> to potential sex partners.
> Because, you know,
> the fucking Japanese teenagers love it,
> and Japanese teenagers
> are clearly the smartest people on the planet.
The full text is at http://zenarchery.com/?page_id=1180. It's short. Read it.