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Online Payment Systems: The Missed Opportunity
For the past few years online advertising has been the de-facto monetization mechanism for online businesses that do not sell physical goods. As a result very few companies have actually focused on...
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Vote for my panel at SXSW 2010
Based on my experience at Zoosk, I have submitted a panel to SXSWi conference for next year titled “Throwing Your Shoestring At Being Platform Agnostic“. I am planning to talk about what it really...
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Building A Freemium Business On Someone Else’s Platform
A while back, i did a talk at Freemium Summit 2010 about building a business on someone else’s platform. It looks like it has made its way onto YouTube . Below I have embedded the first part of the...
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Reductionism and failure in understanding why social web products fail or...
Most of modern science is based on a reductionist framework and it’s no surprise that we, the students of this body of science, resort to reductionism in trying to explain almost anything. Reductionism...
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Hacking the box: how Socialbox came to be
A few months ago, Jeff (one of our rockstar engineers at Zoosk) had an idea: that our learnings from building Zoosk Messenger could be applied to chat on Facebook. After examining the capabilities and...
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If Legislation Were Software – The Case For Minimum Viable Law
Simply put, the United States legislature was created to acknowledge the many problems and issues faced by people from all walks of life, and come up with sensible solutions that address the needs of...
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The second coming of social: rise of the vertical networks
For a long time, Facebook has embodied what “social” meant to the web. And with its IPO only months away, some are already calling social ‘done’, focusing their attention on finding the next big...
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How G+ can use Facebook’s OpenGraph to win
It’s no secret that Google wants some of that social data that Facebook is keeping away from them in their data centers, so they can utilize it for ad targeting in addition to creating engagement with...
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Zoosk is finally moving offices!
Zoosk is moving on up! In the last year, we’ve more than doubled the size of our team – from around 50 to over 110. As a result, we’ve more than outgrown our office in the Financial District. Getting...
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Surprisingly low adoption of Native Facebook login on iOS6
When Apple announced integration of Facebook into the OS layer with release of iOS6, I was very excited about the opportunities this integration might bring to developers in terms of lowering friction...
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