There are a lot of really awesome and well-made things being sold by creative businesses these days. Things you do not know you want until you see them, because you did not know they existed and wouldn’t have thought to search for them. Things that enrich your life because they have meaning for you (you ..
Posts by Sean Flannagan
Implicit Sharing
27 Feb 2012
Just a few months ago, numerous folks were writing about how Facebook’s seamless sharing was in fact ruining sharing. The criticisms were focused on the Open Graph news apps from Yahoo News, The Washington Post and others, which automatically share articles you read. Simply viewing a web page causes the sharing to happen, and because ..
Half-shopping
07 Feb 2012
Yesterday my Prismatic feed, which has somehow transmuted my Twitter account data into an unbelievably compelling news source, led me to a post by Ian Schafer on Pinterest, via a tweet by Arpan Podduturi. I think 60% of the stories in my feed lately are about Pinterest, so that wasn’t a surprise, but this ..
Noted: Grouped
31 Jan 2012
Paul Adams‘ book Grouped contains a lot of clear, rational sentences about human social behavior. They aren’t surprising sentences, but I don’t think anyone’s put all these insights in one place before in plain language. The insights are the result of years of research by many different people.
The book cuts through the ..
Sharing vs. Selling
22 Jan 2012
So if sharing online is about validation, what if the objects being shared are for sale, and you stand to benefit from their sale? Does money always ruin it?
There is a lot of sharing and curating going on of objects that are available for sale somewhere. See Svpply, Fancy, Pinterest, large swaths of ..
22 Dec 2011
Refavorited is a Tumblog (do people still say that?) where my favorites from Etsy, SoundCloud, YouTube, Flickr, Fancy, Twitter and Wikipedia go, automatically, via ifttt.
Etsy is not yet an official channel on ifttt (but is so ready), so I’m using my Etsy favorites RSS feed as a trigger. As for Wikipedia, ..
Etsy Book Picks:
07 Dec 2011
A Pinterest pinboard I can’t help but add to a few times a day, though Etsy Board Games is gaining momentum.
Alternate filtering in effect for followers here on Etsy.
No official API yet, but that hasn’t stopped Kellan.
Onboarding Inspiration
13 Nov 2011
I collect screenshots of details I come across and like, on the desktop or phone, in an “inspiration” folder on Dropbox. But I haven’t found a good way to capture great onboarding flows yet other than blogging about them.
Here are two standouts that kind of smacked me in the face.
