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Ryan Sholin

Day: June 1, 2009

  • How Important are Avatars? – Bokardo

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    Joshua Porter on the importance of avatars in social applications: “Trust is a crucial byproduct of avatars that we can leverage in design. In one of my current consulting projects we’re working on what you might call “time to first known avatar”. That is, we are trying to speed up the time it takes for…

  • Dean Singleton on the plight of the major metro

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    [UPDATE: Predictably, this was the wrong day to bring this up.] I get the feeling people think of MediaNews* CEO (and AP chairman) Dean Singleton as some sort of billionaire boogeyman, the last guy in the world you’d want buying your news organization, but his take on why newspapers in major metro markets are failing…