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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks?

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6 Key Principles For Inducing Customers To Buy Today

Startup Professionals Musings

Today’s customer buying dynamics are all about “user experience,” according to Brian Solis, in his classic book “ What’s the Future of Business? ”. When uncertain of what to do next, social proof kicks in to see what others are doing, or have done. Social psychology in general deals with how individuals relate to one another.

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How to Make Mobile eCommerce Convert: What???s Effective In Mobile Design Right Now

ConversionXL

This is the second of a two-part series on mobile conversion. In the first part , we described the most common usability mistakes made in mobile commerce sites and apps, and how to fix them. In this part, well discuss the frontiers of mobile commerce: trends were seeing in user tests that may fundamentally change eCommerce.

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Rapid Iteration for Mobile App Development

Startup Lessons Learned

She’s the founder and Creative Director at Xanadu, a mobile strategy and design consultancy helping to guide app developers to success in a rapidly-changing, often chaotic mobile ecosystem. This is a great distinction; so how can a mobile app developer know which of these is their particular problem?

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6 Elements of Customer Psychology Drive Buy Decisions

Startup Professionals Musings

Today’s customer buying dynamics are all about “user experience,” according to Brian Solis, in his classic book “ What’s the Future of Business? ”. When uncertain of what to do next, social proof kicks in to see what others are doing, or have done. Social psychology in general deals with how individuals relate to one another.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

And while the App Internet is currently more powerful than the Mobile Internet it has fundamental flaws. ” He says that since storage & processing are growing at a much more rapid rate than the network we’ll be at a point where not having apps on devices will greatly under utilize the power of the devices in our hands.

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Widbook Offers Access To Thousands Of e-Books

YoungUpstarts

Reading e-books on mobile devices have become the norm, but while e-book reading applications are a dime to a dozen, those that offer free access to tons of free literature, not so much. The application enables free access to all ebooks on the global social network, which has some 120,000 members.