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Doing Things that “Do Scale”

bpma ProductHub

Whether it’s testing product-market fit, marketing messaging or innovation options, teams can be creative as they fine tune their business model. For example, InsightSquared, a Boston-based revenue analytics company, launched in 2010 to help…

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

To give some perspective, there were about 300 million smartphones sold in 2010. And then there’s messaging. Consider WhatsApp, founded in 2009 and now hosting more than 65 billion messages every day. In China, WeChat, which launched in 2011, sends about 45 billion messages every day. There are about 3.2

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5 Social Platform Predictions for 2010

Sachin Rekhi

I wanted to put out my 5 social platform predictions for 2010, as I think we are poised to see another exciting year of innovation. We will start to think of Twitter as a micro-messaging protocol just as we think of existing communication protocols like SMS and IM. Look for this to launch in 2010.

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Deceptive Patterns in UX: How to Recognize and Avoid Them

UX Planet

Artificial Scarcity: The website might also show messages like “Only 2 items left at this price!” These messages are often not based on real stock levels or time constraints but are designed to make the user feel like they must act immediately or miss out. or “Sale ends in 1 hour!”

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Paving the Cow Path and Other Stories by Simon Cross

Mind the Product

In 2010 Lessin printed out his Facebook profile – it was 15m long – because he recognised that the idea that you could see the story of someone’s life was very powerful. The first version of the product, Memories, shipped late 2010, and it’s now known as Timeline. Everything we get done is done through influence” asserts Cross.

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Dark Patterns: The Dark Side of UX

UX Planet

Here’s the story: Back in early 2010, LinkedIn introduced a new feature called “Add to network” on its website. Instead of a simple email saying, “Let’s connect on LinkedIn,” users’ contacts received multiple follow-up emails, giving the impression that the messages came directly from the users themselves.

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How To Build an Instagram-like App in Five Steps

The Product Coalition

Instagram’s key features Instagram began in 2010 as a photo-sharing platform. If we consider Instagram as a messenger , it is easy to find the following options: user profile; the ability to send audio, text message, emoji, and stickers; deleting or unsending a message; blocking unwanted followers.