ConversionXL

APRIL 23, 2019

Attaching a photo to a persona helps us imagine a real person we’re building the site for: User personas are an essential part of developing an information architecture. Start building your information architecture with metadata, scenarios, pages. Figure out the metadata. Metadata is information about information.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. I normally recommend you just store this directory on your master database, but you could use a standalone vertical shard (or even a key-based partition!) This type of vertical partitioning sharding scheme wont work in most cases.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 18, 2013

Additionally, most large developers hit our radar at some point via their API usage. Here’s why: Verticalized content needs context not just collections. Prediction: they’ll struggle because video discovery just isn’t a venture scale business. Horizontal content needs to solve search not just browse or curation.

Video 98

Video Curation Startup Metadata 98

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Consider variations of metadata. The system would choose the appropriate group for each situation (mobile device held vertically, wide screen TV, spoken aloud, user preference, whatever comes next). But our messy habits result in confusion for the designer or developer who inherits your work. Take page titles.

Mobile 101

Mobile HTML Flash Software Review 101