Sep 28
The J shaped Distribution of Product ReviewsNan Hu, Paul A Pavlou, and Jie Zhang wrote about J shaped distribution curves for product reviews in ACM. I found it interesting because it cuts across behavioral economics, technology, statistics and visual communication. For some time now, I’ve been interested in how companies can (or already do?!) positively or negatively use user generated content [...]
Sep 28
RaptI have been evangelizing this book, Rapt, recently in small circles of friends. Like Stumbling on Happiness, it’s not a self-help book, it deals more with cognition, attention, and social psych than anything. I thought I’d take the time to post my interesting curations from the book since they are highly related to BettrAt. – [...]
Sep 23
The Microsoft Courier looks nicevia huffpo I guess they’re down but not out. They certainly don’t show you much, but check this out: The Courier user experience presented here is almost the exact opposite of what everyone expects the Apple tablet to be, a kung fu eagle claw to Apple’s tiger style. It’s complex: Two screens, a mashup of [...]
Sep 23
What I’d do if I were Pandora – [Part 2]Okay, as promised, here’s my Pandora makeover. Don’t get scared off by the red text. Pretend this is an undergraduate design critique or something. Here are some things that Pandora might do to truly improve the experience for users and garner more revenue to boot. First, let’s take a look at the current state of [...]
Sep 23
Made some configuration changes, blog address and RSS readersJust an FYI, if you read this in an RSS reader instead of live at yakshaving.net, please point your RSS reader to this link, I made some configuration changes. http://feeds.feedburner.com/yakshavingnet Also, please point bookmarks you’ve previously used directly to yakshaving.net, not http://bhoopathy.net/wordpess Thanks
