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A Slight Design Refresh and a Bit on NoFilmSchool’s (Social Media) Traffic

06.29.10 @ 4:02PM Tags : design, facebook, meta, sharing, socialmedia, twitter

You may notice things look a little different around here today (if everything looks the same, you might have to hold Shift and click your “refresh” button). Note there are no major aesthetic changes — I switched the titling and typography (I was always more of a sans-serif kind of guy, whatever that means), and there are now Twitter, Facebook, and StumbleUpon badges on single posts. I’ve also created a NoFilmSchool Facebook Page, which now has a home in the sidebar. Many of these changes have been driven by a look inside the analytics of this site, so let’s look at NoFilmSchool’s recent stats: More »

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What is the Facebook Like button really about?

05.12.10 @ 12:30PM Tags : facebook, sales

A lot of people are talking about Facebook and the social network’s usurpation of our formerly private data. Facebook’s personalization is now opt-out instead of opt-in, and this has irked many. Some of the ways this change affects us are subtle — you “like” something instead of becoming a “fan,” and now your friends’ Facebook pages are littered with more “so-and-so likes” posts — but what the Like button is really about, I think, is e-commerce. More »