Creating user incentives

I’ve recently spent a good amount of time looking at systems used to motivate users of consumer websites. Across the board, the systems that are most successful 1) have a social component 2) highlight relevant scores within user profile and 3) award points that have no actual or implied dollar value.

Facebook: Reach and Saturation by Country, Part III

I checked in on Facebook’s growth and added to the data set used in Part I and Part II. The data is a bit too big for a spreadsheet so I used iCharts to make a dynamic chart that allows for easy visibility. Use the slider on the side to zoom in on the other 90+ other countries. Notice that their global growth continues to accelerate.

Cool projects for kids

Subscriptions for healthy things are the new black.  We love our vegetable subscription and delivery service because quality veggies are something we want in our life but they are time consuming and difficult to source.  Along the same lines, a company recently launched bringing subscription service to hands-on projects for kids called the Project of the Month Club. 

Strive valiantly

It is not the critic who counts,
nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled,
or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly;
who errs and comes short again and again;
who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those timid souls
who know neither victory nor defeat.

-Theordore Roosevelt