briancray

Wow... never looked into MixPanel -- you know, it may be just what I need! Thanks for pointing it out adatta02

If you put code in the code, it will capture user actions (such as clicks) prior to loading all resources. If it's at the bottom of the </body> and the user clicks a link, you may not capture that click. Thus, giving you inaccurate analytics.

Very cool! I didn't know about that

A/B tests don't cover everything that entales the user experience design profession. It's about a strategic user-centered process from the beginning of the design. To build a product and then revise without first considering the users throughtfully is a waste of resources and time.

Every programmer doesn't necessarily know networking. Similarly, and even moreso, every user experience designer doesn't have the skillset for graphic design. I see a user experience designer as analytical and a graphic designer as creative.

Yea I'm more of the UX research type of guy =)

I think if you don't have somebody fighting for the user, the front end will be a reflection of the complexities of development and won't be a reflection of the user's behavior and needs.

I think a UX person ensures that development is a strategic process centered around the user, which in the end creates better products that people use and want.

Are their many people who know user experience design and graphic design? I admit they exist, but they are a rare bread.

Obviously that is optimal, but I'd say if you are a startup you should get funding that will help you get the right people on your team instead of a jack of all trades.

That is a side effect of this strategy, but I figured I'd add my own to the bunch to give people more choice.

The broad text chunks are certainly a problem, but recent studies have proven that longer line lengths promote faster reading: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200509/line_length_and...

Not sure what you mean?

Good point about user-generated content, and I'd say that this still fits under content aggregators because the content sharing is usually topic-specific and driven by information. The exception to this rule are things like Facebook and Twitter where there is peer-to-peer communication only.

It's true that Web 2.0 as a buzzword can get tiring, but can we agree that there is a shift to conversational media vs. one-way media? There has to be some name to identify that shift, and Web 2.0 seems to be the word of choice for now.

Well, one of my apps, Nearby Tweets, fits into the Content Aggregator model

lol

Thanks for the suggestion Ryan--you're right. article updated

Hehe. You aren't alone in your thinking and enough people have shown great arguments against that statement. I've removed it in hopes that people focus on the article rather than the final statement =)

Thanks for your feedback

Very good arguments! Twitter certainly has too many mult-level/affiliate marketers and spammers. I've noticed that on Facebook, too, I'm afraid. But on Twitter they can simply start following you. That's probably why they're more noticable. On Facebook connection has to be a two-way agreement.

On the Oprah point: Oprah was a very recent event. Not sure it's had a long enough time to make an impact. And adoption of Twitter has gone up significantly since that spot.

I'm only trying to draw from experience.

His analogy compares two completely unrelated things. Twitter and Facebook are both social media platforms for connecting, building networks, and sharing information.

Facebook is hitting majority adoption while Twitter is stealing the early adopters. They are simply in separate places on the adoption curve.

LOL. Although your comment provides no insightful value to this discussion, I will admit you're funny.

true, although openid can be confusing for non-tech users. Google IDs are more accepted by the common crowd methinks

Argue what? I'm not denying that I use social media as part of my inbound marketing strategy. But I engage with the people that comment. Besides, I spend my time writing what I feel are important blog entries. I'd say I do my part for the community I'm a part of.

"The main reason to save things to delicious is for memory. Sharing is secondary. And getting on the front page or popular were a distant third."

I think the first and second reasons apply to bookmarkers, and the third applies to publishers. For publishers, the primary reason is the front page IMHO.

"So stuff that goes beyond "please bookmark us" - that's what those buttons do - seems dangerous to me. Especially since actual users have the extension or bookmarklets installed and do not need the site buttons."

I can understand this sensitivity. If you look on my blog, I have a simple link that says "bookmark everywhere." But my popular delicious content is no longer rewarded with a front page link.

"I'd seen an enormous amount of shady behavior in and around this so perhaps I am oversensitive. At one point I was spending half my day, every day, dealing with spam on delicious."

Spam sucks hardcore ass. What else can I say?

Would you say that every blog that promotes delicious bookmarking is spamming? That's what I see you implying. If so, you are implicating nearly every popular blog that exists today.

On my blog I explore everything that has to do with designing, developing, and marketing websites. Internet marketing is an important part of an effective website.

Regarding your implication that I don't address the user's needs, one of my blog's primary topics is user experience design. Under that you'll find such posts as "Online community best practices: Reward your top users," "Web form usability: Better form submission feedback with jQuery," and "3 eye tracking studies that influenced my latest redesign." So to imply that I'm not concerned about what my users want or creating good content, you've been mislead.

Good content is important. And so is finding audiences for that good content. You need both. Good content and good traffic.

lol. Did you read the article? It's from a publisher's perspective, not a bookmarker's.

Just FYI: Neither Digg nor Reddit are only used to boost traffic either. Apparently social media marketing is off your radar.

Agreed. I enjoyed that delicious.com was a place I could find articles related to a subject, not the site itself (if that makes sense).

delicious.com is not a stitch of what it was.

Agreed. From a bookmarker's perspective, I love /popular/tag filtering

Yea those big popups are annoying! The only good one is AddToAny.com, which looks at the user's history to only show the ones that the user has visited. :)

For the details of an individual bookmark, see the API http://delicious.com/help/api and look for this headline: https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/get?