Adam Loving's Blog — Seattle social web developer and marketing hacker

Twitter Growth Statistics

November 26, 2009

I find it fascinating that Twitter’s growth has come to a stop. For a brief period this spring Twitter’s growth was exponential and unstoppable. However this month they actually had slightly fewer unique visitors to the twitter.com website than last month. I think growth will inevitably resume, but I don’t think Twitter will ever be [...]

Aligning Community Features to Customer Motivations

October 5, 2009

A successful online community must meet the needs and motivations of the visitors, not just the host. This blog post discusses some customer motivations and features to meet those motivations.

Gist Power Tip: Export Facebook Page Fans

September 28, 2009

This post describes how to export Facebook Page Fans and import them into Gist, a Social CRM tool.

Viral App Distribution with Google Wave

May 30, 2009

Amidst all of the coverage of Google Wave this week, I have not seen mention of its significance for software application distribution. In short, waves come with optional code content (like attachments) that run inline with the user’s approval. The first time a user sees an extension or robot connected to a wave, they “install” [...]

5 Reasons Why Twibes are Better than Hashtags

May 11, 2009

Twibes Twitter groups help people with common interests find each other on Twitter. The first question an experienced Twitter user will ask when seeing Twibes is “Why do we need Twitter groups when we have hashtags?” Before Twibes, the best way to communicate about a certain topic was to use hashtags. Hashtags are words prefixed [...]

CSS Link Color Sample Code

February 10, 2009

Here is the CSS required to change the color of a link. If you are trying to figure out how to use CSS to change link color, this is the code you’ll need.

Quotes from Seth Godin’s “Tribes”

January 3, 2009

My favorite quotes from Seth Godin’s book “Tribes”

Rails ActiveRecord Tips

December 24, 2008

After using ActiveRecord for a while, some questions keep coming up when performing operations that are more complicated than the standard create, read, update, delete.

Mac Software Recommendations

November 28, 2008

I’m making one final pass at cleaning off my hard drive this morning before installing OS X Leopard. As part of the process, I’m making sure I have license keys for all the software I’ve purchased over the last year or so. Here is a list of the software I have purchased that I recommend. [...]

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