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Kevin Rose: How to Promote Your Web App
In this 11-minute interview we ask Kevin Rose, founder of digg and WeFollow five questions about web entrepreneurship. In case you don’t have time to watch the interview, we’ve summarized Kevin’s answers below. Feel free to share your answers to these questions in the comments below. We’d love to hear your perspective. What advice can you give [...]
Continue reading...Don’t Let Your Baby Die - How to use Social Capital to Market Your Web App
16. June 2009
There’s a worryingly high web app mortality rate right now. I think the primary cause is the lack of marketing knowledge and how to apply it to web apps. I spoke at FOWA Tour Leeds on this subject so I’m going to summarize the major points below for you. You can also watch the complete video [...]
Continue reading...Launch a Business, Not a Side Project
17. May 2009
I think we have a serious problem in our industry. I believe it generally started when Basecamp became quite successful and 37signals started to talk about their theories on the subject. Their basic mantra was “Don’t quit your day job to build a web app. Build it in your free time and use your day job [...]
Continue reading...How Should Companies Approach Twitter?
11. May 2009
While chatting with some buddies in Starbucks the other day an interesting question came up. Should a company tweet as itself on Twitter (ie @carsonified) or should the Twitter account be written from a more personal perspective (ie @ryancarson)? If the Twitter account is written from the company perspective then followers might expect certain things; updates [...]
Continue reading...How to Create an RSS-Enabled, Micro-Blog with Twitter
20. January 2009
Have you ever wanted to create a simple multi-person blog, but didn’t want to bother setting up an entire WordPress installation? If so then we’ve got just the answer. By combining Twitter Search, Atom feeds, hash-tags and PHP, you can create an RSS-enabled, micro-blog using Twitter and be up and running in less than 10 [...]
Continue reading...The Future of Social News
20. November 2008
In this video of Kevin’s presentation at the Future of Web App Expo London 2008, Kevin talks about the future of social news and digg. There are lots of interesting nuggets of information in this presentation. The Future of Web Apps returns to Miami, February 23-24 2009, with speakers including Michael Arrington, Daniel Burka, Jason Fried, [...]
Continue reading...Widgets and Plug-ins for Social Sites
14. January 2008
In this presentation, Matt Biddulph, CTO at Dopplr discusses how they worked with Facebook and also JavaScript (using JQuery) to create the social widgets and plug-ins that are essential to Dopplr’s make-up. Matt also spoke about other critical stages in the development of Dopplr - including how they used the internet as a platform, and how [...]
Continue reading...Measure Online Advertising with Google Analytics
16. October 2007
Google Analytics is a free web analytics application that is quickly becoming one of the most widely used web analytics tools around. A common misconception that many people have is that GA can only be used to track Google AdWords. That’s simply not true. GA can be used to track any online marketing activity. And [...]
Continue reading...Social Networks Aren't Products
4. September 2007
New social networking start-ups are proliferating, often targeted at such narrow markets as to seem implausible. Among them: JewTube, Fuzzster (pet enthusiasts), WeDigYoga (Yoga instructors in New York and L.A.), 18wheelsingles (truck drivers), and there is even Me.com, a Web app for creating other social networks. One need only look to Online [...]
Continue reading...Marketing: Why 50% Isn’t Good Enough
23. October 2006
Marketing is one of those words that more often than not, gives engineers hives. Use ‘marketing’ in a presentation at a technology conference and expect every subsequent word to be met with suspicion. I certainly don’t blame people for distrusting marketers. We have a long history of being smarmy and despicable. I spent the first part [...]
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