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Are you Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg?

by Matthew Stibbe on December 9, 2011

Steve Jobs obsessively tinkered and polished Apple’s products (and his yacht, apparently). Jonathan Ive said that Apple doesn’t do focus groups. As Jobs once remarked, before Henry Ford, if you asked people what they wanted they would have asked for a more efficient horse. Mark Zuckerberg built the first version of Facebook in a few [...]

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The half life of a Tweet

by Matthew Stibbe on November 3, 2011

Bitly looked at the half-life of 1,000 popular links and found a mean half life of 2.8 hours for a Tweet and 3.2 hours for Facebook post. (YouTube videos have a half life of 7.4 hours.) A half life in this context means “the amount of time at which this link will receive half of [...]

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Word bloat and privacy policies

by Matthew Stibbe on May 18, 2010

How many words do you need to say ‘we will protect your privacy’? Five if that is your real intention. However, if you want to make money, you need a lot more, as these graphics from the NY Times show. (Hat tip: Steve Clayton.)

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