Eric Paul Snowden is an artist and designer living in Brooklyn
Posts filed under social networking
01/20/2011
Pinterest.com – Visual Bookmarking Tool
Pinterest is a bookmarking tool, introduced to me by Jenny Bowskill, that operates like a visual pinboard – letting you save images you like and follow people who share your aesthetics. Users set up categories (known as boards) and pin images by clicking a browser plugin or bookmarklet. Unlike some visual collections, a link to [...]
11/25/2010
Atlantic Records and Thingfo – Gamification and Loyalty
This summer we launched online loyalty programs, powered by Thingfo, for three Atlantic artists – Circa Survive, Trey Songz and Shinedown. Fans of these artist can join their online street teams using existing Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube and Foursquare accounts and will accumulate points by interacting socially with these artists and their fans. Fans can [...]
11/15/2010
My Thoughts on Windows Phone 7
Full disclosure: I don’t like MOST of Microsoft’s products. I love my Xbox, but other than their console, I don’t think I have any Microsoft products in my house. I use a Mac, love my iPhone and use Hotmail as a spam dumpster. The Zune caught my interest a few years ago, and I admire [...]
10/08/2010
Packrati.us = Twitter + Delicious + Instapaper
I’ve tweeted about it, told everyone I know, and am now writing a blog post about it. That’s how great Packrati.us is. I’m not sure if I’m the standard use case for Twitter, but ultimately Twitter is a replacement for my RSS reader. Google Reader failed for me, it was all business, and Facebook is [...]
08/28/2010
Foursquare and Atlantic Records
Two months ago, we launched 10 mobile websites for Atlantic artists. We’ve added more sites to that roster and are launching some exciting new location specific features for fans on the go. Fans can check-in to Foursquare via our artist’s mobile (or desktop) websites on their phones. Each show has a unique Twitter hash tag [...]
08/26/2010
Who Should You Unfollow on Twitter?
There are dozens of sites that tell you who to follow, but the most useful Twitter tool I’ve found in months tells you who to unfollow. Manage Flitter analyzes the people you follow on Twitter and allows you to select and batch unfollow based on criteria you set. You can analyze who doesn’t follow you [...]
07/06/2010
Paramore.net Listed in the Top 35 Sites for Musicians
Today NetTuts listed Paramore.net as one of the best designed music websites. It was also great to see a fan recommend the 3OH!3 website. Congrats to Amy Stein who designed both of those sites, as well as my team at Atlantic and the web team at WMG. Check out the list here.
05/25/2010
3OH!3 Twitter Promo
Today we launched a social media campaign using Twitter to promote the preorder for the new 3OH!3 album Streets of Gold. Fans who tweet a link to the preorder page get their Twitter avatar displayed on the 3OH!3 homepage. Fans can Tweet as many times as they want, and only get pushed off the homepage [...]
04/29/2010
Usability Assessment of MySpace Apps Leaked
MySpace has never been know for its simplicity or usability. Fortunately for users they were trying to do something about it. Unfortunately for MySpace those documents leaked online. MySpace was seeing poor install and retention rates for their apps compared to Facebook and hired a usability team to make some web design and user experience [...]
04/15/2010
Twitter launches @anywhere
Yesterday Twitter launched it’s @anywhere service which makes integrating most Twitter functions as simple as adding a few lines of Javascript code. You can easily: Auto-link @usernames Create Hovercards for @usernames Create follow buttons that don’t require users to leave your site Add a “Tweet Box” which allows users to tweet without leaving your site [...]
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