Comments on: Building Web Apps For Normal People

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By: peg perego duette stroller

peg perego duette stroller — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:11:25 +0000

If you want your app to appeal to the normal folks you need to somehow find a way to integrate it with oprah, twilight, snuggies.. etc

By: peg perego duette stroller

peg perego duette stroller — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:11:25 +0000

If you want your app to appeal to the normal folks you need to somehow find a way to integrate it with oprah, twilight, snuggies.. etc

By: web application development

web application development — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:59:48 +0000

Wow thanks for the interesting article. I had never thought about “normal” people, not geeks. I am an application developer by myself, but I am not getting so much orders from “normal” people. It is harder to work with them, because the app must be super simple and so on in order to fit their requirements. I would prefer to make those old traditional apps for geeks. However thanks for the great article indeed.

By: drop in grills

drop in grills — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:31:43 +0000

Now a days this web2.0 is very popular and all people are joining these websites for information sharing or information gathering or for building inbound links.

Now a days normal people can build their own applications or they will get in the internet ready made scripts they can install in the web server and start their own web application website.

By: nValeo

nValeo — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:14:31 +0000

You had tricked me on that title pretty catchy , well as our technology going progressive we must cope up with it, theres nothing wrong in being a techno geek.

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By: chiropractors marketing

chiropractors marketing — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:39:10 +0000

i'm caught up to that title nice one, very catchy indeed, well many people now a days are becoming online geek and joining the million people in the web 2.0 crowd many of them are getting benefits from it especially online marketers

By: kevinprentiss

kevinprentiss — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:29:36 +0000

Jason - My apologies, I wrote definitively and should have used qualifiers. I should have said: in my experience wall posts are the most popular communication form on FB. The obviousness of this to me might be due to my network.

I speak at colleges about technology, so much of my FB circle is a smattering of college students from 200 different schools. I polled a few and they too thought wall posts were tops, but I've never seen a study or numbers from FB.

Now that I think about it, I do think behavior is different with my tech circles and certainly in my age bracket (early 30's). They tend to be the ones sending longer private messages.

I talk to college students about "public" all the time. I'm very interested in the idea of privacy and whether or not college students see it differently (digital natives and what not). Your birthday party is right, it's just that students are very used to bridging capital in the 500 + range. So they have a much bigger room that still feels cozy to them.

When given tools to select private over public, most won't bother. (http://tinyurl.com/5cle9o) It's not just because they feel safe in the college network, myspace ran wild when the only privacy setting was pretending you were 14.

I think this change in perception is simply the marinating process you mention above, but I would argue we are getting more public, even for normal (if young) people.

By: Jschwa

Jschwa — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:50:11 +0000

Kevin,

I searched around and I cannot find a source that confirms that wall posts are the most popular form of communication in Facebook. Could you reply with a link?

Wall posts are public, and I do think that normal people like a little of that. However, wall posts also exist in obscurity beneath the social connections of Facebook. Even if you forget about profiles restricted to friends, when I make a post on someones wall, I am not publicly broadcasting to the world. I am talking to a very tiny community of people that have some connection to the persons wall I'm posting on. They have to come to that profile to see my post. It's similar to making a speech at that same persons birthday at a public bar. Sure anyone could potential hear what I have to say, but unless they somehow know the person I'm talking about, they won't.

At this point most accounts are only viewable by friends. Many probably allow their entire college or small geographic area to see their profile. When someone makes a wall post, there is a reasonable expectation that it won't be