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wyfl

05/16/2011

What Your Friends Like

A few weeks ago I was inspired by HackNY (where students design/develop/launch an app in 24 hours) and decided to try and fix a recurring problem I’ve been having with Facebook.I often want to segment my Facebook friends based on what they like (places, bands etc) and message them individually. Instead of posting to my [...]

get-glue-logo-icon

03/21/2011

Get Glue and Atlantic Records Launch 3 Trey Songz Stickers

Last Monday, Atlantic Records launched our first campaign with entertainment check-in service Get Glue and Trey Songz. Get Glue helps fans tell their friends what they are watching, listening to, or reading and earn stickers for doing so. Fans who check-in to the Get Glue widget on Trey’s website, or through one of the Get [...]

atlantic

02/28/2011

Atlantic Records article on CNET News

Today, Greg Sandoval wrote an article on CNET about how Atlantic Records and our new Atlanticrecords.com strategy. The article focuses our use of the Atlantic archives, the relaunch of the AtlanticRecords.com website and how that site integrates with Facebook to customize the fan experience. Check out the full CNET article here.

atlantic

02/01/2011

Atlantic Records Relaunch

Late last night we pushed out a new version of AtlanticRecords.com along with our partners at Code and Theory. It’s been months in the making and we’re really excited to have a new design and a new voice online. Throughout the project the Atlantic Digital Media Team, WEA D2C team and the WEA Strategic Technology [...]

liveview

01/31/2011

LiveView – Stream iOS Comps from you Mac to your Device in Realtime

LiveView, a new project from NIcholas Zambetti allows you to broadcast your working iOS application designs from your Mac to your device for testing. You start off by installing the LiveView Screencaster on your Mac, and the free LiveView app on your iOS device. The Screencaster app is a simple window, shaped like an iPhone, [...]

cody

01/28/2011

CodySimpson.com Twitter Application Launch

Yesterday we launched a new section of the Cody Simpson website where fans can interact via Twitter with each other and with Cody. Fans can easily follow or read tweets from Cody, Cody’s team or other Cody fans with the ability to filter them by hashtag. Fans can also tweet, reply and retweet without ever [...]

atlantic

01/25/2011

Launching Mobile Websites for Artists

Last June we launched a group of mobile websites along with Adobe for their Flash 10.1 for mobile announcement. Since then Mike Mignano, Jackie Balzer and I have made frequent updates to the framework to give our artists the most feature rich and portable sites in the business. We’re now in the process of rolling [...]

atlantic

01/24/2011

The Connected Album (Team Tank Edition)

On December 14th we launched a new version of the connected album for Tank’s record “Now or Never”. Our goal is to reward fans who purchased the album, regardless of format or purchasing mechanism. Fans who register are given access to a special section of the Tank’s website, exclusive content and a badge to show [...]

bitly

01/13/2011

Bit.ly Bundles

At the end of 2010 Bit.ly rolled out a new feature called bundles. When clicking a bundle link users are sent to a splash page with a list of links they can choose from, instead of immediately being redirected to another website. This allows content managers to track aggregate traffic to the bundle, individual links [...]

blog post

12/13/2010

My abbreviated version of the Y-Combinator funding application

A few weeks ago the application for funding that Dropbox submitted to Y-Combinator (the VC firm that ended up funding them) was posted online. Nothing confidential was revealed, but is serves as a great example of how a successful startup thought through their product launch. While not all of the questions pertain to those of [...]

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