andjosh.com
Your App Is Not Better Than An Open Protocol
http://www.andjosh.com/2015/02/15/using-open-protocols
Your App Is Not Better Than An Open Protocol. Open protocols power the web. They should be powering the interactions to your next application, too. RSS, SMS, plaintext-email, HTML5 - these are the easiest, fastest ways to get users into your system. Open protocols are the lowest barriers to entry. Your potential users already have them and know exactly how to use them! When Twitter was gathering steam back in 2009-10, it did so because tweeting was done via SMS. I made sure to include open protocols....
sourcingmonk.com
Why I don't like LinkedIn anymore
http://www.sourcingmonk.com/why-i-dont-like-linkedin
Why I don't like LinkedIn anymore. I know, I hate a lot, a real lot. Little disclaimer: this is pretty hateful. Anyway, here it goes. My eyes are bleeding @LinkedIn. Mdash; Willem Wijnans (@WillemWijnans) March 18, 2015. Yay another riddle (in comic sans 3). Wow what an awesome blogpost about technical recruiting. Number here) (catchy phrase) (linkedin 'influencer') = 0 content. Well you get my point, I can go on forever. The problem is that Linkedin is becoming a platform that is no longer used for prof...