web
Luke Wroblewski’s blog about Facebook Design
Design at Facebook
http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?879
There are a lot of commonly appreciated points such as “Feedback is good. Get as much as you can and as early as possible. Helps save time.” and don’t fall in love with your design.
Some other more unique points:
“Writing front-end code ties design into the engineering culture of the company. Having a designer [...]
Twitter, Meme and Jaiku
Yahoo silently launched meme recently. It is pretty nice. But can it beat twitter?
Interesting enough, meme launch drew a lot of Chinese users’ interest in Google’s microblogging and they found Google acquired a twitter like microblogging service Jaiku in Oct 2007, when we were busy with yahoo answers. We even did not notice twitter at [...]
tweet using curl
curl -u username:password -d status=”140-char content” http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
If your password has special characters, try to escape them with backslashes.
Teenagers do not use Twitter
It is not news. NYTimes just published an article Who’s Driving Twitter’s Popularity? Not Teens.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/technology/internet/26twitter.html?_r=1
some interesting points
“Though Twitter’s founders originally conceived of the site as a way to stay in touch with acquaintances, it turns out that it is better for broadcasting ideas or questions and answers to the outside world or for marketing a [...]
