Web Biz Strategy

Recently I’ve been trying to encourage Facebook to reverse their trend of constantly degrading the FB user experience, and my method has been to try to get people to chime in and offer up user experience improvement suggestions. Here’s an easy but crucial user experience improvement for Facebook to implement: separate out Friends from Fans [...]

Over the past few months, Facebook has done a major update to their site interface, followed by a few smaller changes. Many of these updates have been broadly panned, Facebook groups have sprung up against the changes, and articles have been written criticizing the choices made by Facebook. Why such a negative reaction?  Poor User [...]

Nowadays it’s common to see “Follow Me On Twitter,” or “View My Profile on LinkedIn” buttons on people’s sites. On this site I’ve got those two buttons on the top right. Why? Commercial web sites have on-site ads for their own goods and services, non-profit organizations have calls to donate or volunteer, so why not [...]

We live in the networking age. That’s a good thing, especially in these difficult financial times, because it gives us all more opportunities and flexibility in business than we would have if networking through the web wasn’t so incredibly easy. Right now you may already have a half-dozen social web site accounts and are networking [...]