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Marissa Mayer flexes Google’s imagination muscle

May 29, 2008 – 9:06 am

When you focus on the things people use every day, you solve big problems.

iGoogle gadgets are a new form of advertising.
The orginary and the every day.
Occam’s razor for logic: the simplest answer is probably right.
The Google homepage. Sergey created the original homepage. What inspired him to make it plain?
“We didn’t have a webmaster. And [...]

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Cathy Brooks sneaks up on me

April 24, 2008 – 2:09 pm

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Comparing social platforms

April 23, 2008 – 7:33 am

Comparing Social Platforms

Dave Morin, Facebook
Allen Hurff, MySpace
Jessica Alter, Bebo
Patrock Chanezon, Google (Open Social)
David Recordon
Justin Smith, Inside Facebook

Dave: Making changes to the Facebook profile. It’s a core part of the user’s identity. Throughout the last year with the launch of the Platform, we have had many points of integration.
These new changes are focused on the actions [...]

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SNAP Summit 2.0 notes

March 25, 2008 – 11:27 am

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SNAP Summit II
March 25, 2008
Commonwealth Club, SF, Calif., USA
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9:30
Effective Social Interface Design
Josh Porter; Founder, Bokardo: Social Web Design
Teaching us about del.icio.us, and digg.
10:00
PANEL: Methods of Boosting User Engagement
* MODERATOR: Dave McClure; Blogger, 500hats.com
* Rajat Paharia; CEO, Bunchball
* Siqi Chen; Co-Founder, Friends [...]

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