I wrote this post for the O'Reilly Programming Blog. Here's an excerpt:
As a consultant, I’ve talked to a lot of startups who have “social” products. You could tell that the products were “social” because they had comment sections and sharing icons that let people post to Pinterest or Facebook.
As a consultant, I’ve talked to a lot of startups who have “social” products. You could tell that the products were “social” because they had comment sections and sharing icons that let people post to Pinterest or Facebook.
Of course, one of the things that the founders complain about is that too few users are actually making comments or sharing or doing anything remotely social with the product.
There’s a very simple reason for this: the founders have added features to their product that allow users to be social rather than encouraging them to be social.
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