ABOUT
Bokardo is the blog of Joshua Porter, a web designer/developer, researcher, and writer. I live in Newburyport, MA, USA.
Designing for the Social Web
Building a social web site or application? I wrote a book just for you!
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Greatest Hits
- Five Principles to Design By
- The Del.icio.us Lesson
- Designing for the Social Web: The Usage Lifecycle
- Facebook's Brilliant but Evil Design
- Digg's Design Dilemma (Part II)
- 7 Reasons Why Web Apps Fail
- 7 More Reasons Why Web Apps Fail
- Which Movie to Watch? An Overview of Recommendation Systems
- Ugliness, Social Design, and the MySpace Lesson
Upcoming Speaking Events
- Voices that Matter Conference
Nashville, TN / Jun 10-13, 2008 - North Shore Web Geeks Meetup
Newburyport, MA / June 19, 2008 - d.Construct
Brighton Dome, UK / Sep 4-5, 2008 - Web 2.0 Expo
New York, NY / Sep 16-19, 2008
LATEST POSTS
- Co-evolving
- Bill Gates upset with Windows Usability
- Social Design Patterns for Reputation Systems: An Interview with Yahoo’s Bryce Glass (Part II)
- Social Design Patterns for Reputation Systems: An Interview with Yahoo’s Bryce Glass (Part I)
- 5 ways to improve reputation systems
- Why You Shouldn’t be Afraid of Customer Reviews
- Learning 2.0: The Threat (and promise) of Social Interaction
- Free Books: Smashing Magazine Books Giveaway
- Speaking at 2008 d.Construct
- The growing importance of Design
Comments ( 8 Responses so far )
1. David Deangelo on February 8th, 2008 (Comment) #
I’ve never advertised on myspace before but I can’t imagine it to be very successful with normal banner ads.
2. dMix on February 9th, 2008 (Comment) #
People still use myspace?
As a web developer I’d say ignoring ads is about twice as easy then someone who doesnt understand the basic structure of a site and where ads most often are.
3. Daniel on February 10th, 2008 (Comment) #
I never much got into MySpace but from my experience with Facebook, when I actually notice an ad, the banner ads are absolutely terrible — almost no relevance whatsoever. I don’t understand how their ads can remain so poorly targeted for so long.
Their news feed ads do at least attract my attention, yet they are rarely relevant to me…
4. jive on February 11th, 2008 (Comment) #
With the way some myspace pages look, the ads are probably the least annoying part of the site. Strange huh?
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5. Susan on February 13th, 2008 (Comment) #
I have an experience, that only some freaks have sites on my space… At least I know one… And having ads on it… I can´t imagine it would be successful.
6. Julian Perera (Web Design Herts , UK ) on February 25th, 2008 (Comment) #
I think it’s a numbers game . Remember theses social networks (i.e My Space , Face book) as millions of users , most of them what to kill time ….so there must be certain amount of people who clicks on these anyway.
Otherwise why face book and my space worth so much ?
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