Stripe’s Okay Email Unsubscribe UX

Stripe has a nice user experience for unsubscribing from their marketing and onboarding emails. This is called “Manage your Stripe email preferences” The Good Unsubscribe from allThere are subject specific choices, with a single “unsubscribe from all” link at the top. Clicking unsubscribe from all does not require a second click, it just submits the… Continue reading Stripe’s Okay Email Unsubscribe UX

When Business and Personal Life Collides – New Facebook Privacy Settings and the Status of Tiger Woods' Endorsement Contracts

Exactly what counts as private personal details has been a major theme underlying discussion in new media and old media in the past few weeks.  Here are two interesting examples of how business and people’s personal details are colliding right now. New Media: Facebook’s Privacy Settings Updates Facebook has made major changes to how it… Continue reading When Business and Personal Life Collides – New Facebook Privacy Settings and the Status of Tiger Woods' Endorsement Contracts

Strong Conversational Variation via Gmail Yields Interesting Contextual Advertisements

I was emailing with a friend of mine in an exchange over some travel plans and the coming holiday.  Normally, I block all advertisements in Firefox using Adblock, but I had whitelisted Gmail for some reason recently and so I was seeing the contextual advertising displayed on the right side of the web page. Since… Continue reading Strong Conversational Variation via Gmail Yields Interesting Contextual Advertisements

Developing within iPhone NDA Muffle aka The Cone of Silence

 Neutrinos just wrapped its second iPhone application, it is a 20 questions trivia game called iQ.  It is great step from our first app, TipTotaler.  For iQ, I took on the user interface design for the application in addition to my normal website design and marketing. The amount of graphic design and image handling… Continue reading Developing within iPhone NDA Muffle aka The Cone of Silence

iPhone Developer Resource: Preview Application Icon 3D Effect

My friend Dave Peixotto is in charge of coding and software repository work on our iPhone application development.  I am in charge of the marketing and business aspects of our software company, Neutrinos, LLC. One of my tasks with the release of our recently submitted iPhone application, TipTotaler was to select an icon for our… Continue reading iPhone Developer Resource: Preview Application Icon 3D Effect

Fair-Weather Leaks Serve as a Strategic Method of Media Control

Ryan Grim at The Politico wrote an article about the political leaks in Washington D.C. that also offers insight into how and why leaks happen just about everywhere, from bands to business to family secrets. The article separates the types of leaks into three categories: the malevolent, the benevolent and the accidental. Grim’s article includes… Continue reading Fair-Weather Leaks Serve as a Strategic Method of Media Control

Radiohead Is The Answer

I have a lot of catching up to do since moving to Boston but this is perhaps one of the most exciting and important things to happen in the music industry since Napster was released. A Time article included a quote from an American producer that reads as follows: That’s the interesting part of all… Continue reading Radiohead Is The Answer

Advertising For Peanuts

Just a quick post to advertise for Advertise For Peanuts. This site features creative advertising spots of a viral nature. This type of copy is the future of advertising as the 60 second commercial aimed at broadcasting gets fast-forwarded or deleted in the increasingly on-demand nature of content consumption. Forcing users to watch commercials, i.e.… Continue reading Advertising For Peanuts

Viral Reactionary Content Creation and Personal Equity – Web User's Rights in Web 2.0

There has been nothing short of an uproar regarding the recent changes to Tribe.net’s design and interface. Longtime users of the site began viral reactionary content creation which is making effective use of community building to voice discord with the direction of a website. The changes were rolled out on January 18th and the response… Continue reading Viral Reactionary Content Creation and Personal Equity – Web User's Rights in Web 2.0