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[wigglesforsquiggles]

new spreadsheet is being cooked up rn lads

[licenselesswriter]

1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 44. And if I could send more, I would.

Inspiration and Reading Asks:

1. How long ago did you start reading fanfiction? Writing fanfiction? Started reading when I was 12, started writing it, when I was 14, so reading, 19 years ago, and writing 17 years ago.

2. How do you spend your time when it comes to fanfiction? Are you primarily a fic reader, writer, or a perfect 50/50 split of both? I’m a 33.3% reader, 33.3% WIP machine, a 33.4% writer, and 100% mess, I usually spend my time doing an absurd amount of WIP that comes out of thin air, like, I can be eating an apple, boom, Bori WIP, a cup of coffee? Boom, Roro WIP, breathing? Boom, Lucaya WIP (that last one happens the most)

3. Are there any fics that inspired you to write what you do? It’s called Unfaithful (EN), it’s on fanfiction.net, and honestly, it’s so well written, that I had nausea 3 times while reading it, the pain was so palpable that I felt ill from it.

4. Link your three favorite fics right now. Right now, and in order 1 - Unfaithful (EN)  2 - Twenty Nights  3 - Perfect 

6. How do you find a new fic to read? Where do you primarily read fanfiction? Fanfiction or AO3, and have an excel doc with my favorite ships, then I go to the random number generator, putting 1 as the minimum and maximum the number of the last ship I added to the list, then hit random, and read about that ship, keep things fresh.

7. Do you prefer to read short fics or long fics? Both.

8. How often do you reblog/comment on fics that you like? When they are on Tumblr, a few times.

9. Tag 3 fic writers you think are underrated/unknown in the fandom/fanfiction community. I’m sorry, but I don’t know if they have Tumblr, so, amirmitchell, snowdrifts, and Onde Tu Esteves

10. What’s your favorite fandom, pairing, or character to read fic for? Fandom: Game of Thrones, love all those modern universe AU I have to say. Pairing: Lucaya (Not a surprise) Character: Lucas Friar, Portgas D. Ace, Roronoa Zoro, or Prince Zuko.

Fanfiction Writing Asks:

11. How do you come up with your fic titles? Coffee, food, and usually, Spotify, all that, sometimes, make my brain work into having titles about the things I want to write.

13. Do you outline your fics? How much of a headache would someone get if they just looked at an outline of yours without reading the fic? I do outlines, in 5 stages, so a pretty big one. 1 - I write in my notebook, what I want to write, like a general idea. 2 - Post it on my walls and door, to give the story some structure. 3 - Notebook outline the arch of the story. 4 - Outline every chapter on word. 5 - Reduce that chapter into mini arches to write faster.

14. Do you have a personal word minimum that you hold yourself too? Why or why not? I do (now), I usually don’t post anything that is less than 2900 words, Why? because we must not forget that writers not only write for people in the fandom, they mainly write for themselves, and I love to read something among that word count because that’s long enough to keep me on the hook.

16. Do you research for your fics? If so, how deep of a rabbit hole have you gone down by accident when researching? I do research for my fics, how deep? I can give indications for divorce paperwork in the state of New York, even if you want or not to go scorch the earth with the “fault” rule, I can give an appropriate value to an apartment or a house in New York, Texas, Nashville, and San Francisco, and I can do taxes on those states too, and I know more about how high school classes work in the US than in my country, even when I went to those classes, and I’m from Santiago, Chile, you know, in South America, like, the last country of South America

17. How obsessively do you sit and stare at your fic after you’ve just posted and wait for feedback? I don’t, once I finish writing something, I run away, and watch anime for a few hours, or work (Yeah, sometimes I write on my lunch hour)

18. Do you have a WIP that you keep telling yourself you’ll eventually get back to, but deep down you know that’s probably a lie? I do apologize to “The Games we Play” I have no idea how I outlined your 26 chapters, but I’m still on chapter 2, and I’m sorry.

19. Do you edit your fics after you write them, or do you prefer to just hit post and run (because it’s someone else’s problem now)? Sometimes I do because sometimes, I write things wrong.

20. What’s your favorite part about the fanfiction writing process? That happiness I get when I’m in the Zone, and I write something that makes me say “Fuck, that was good”

21. What’s your least favorite part about the fanfiction writing process? I call it “The Deep White”, also known as writer’s block.

23. What’s your absolute favorite trope to write? I don’t write it anymore, because I was banned from a forum for writing it, but I love to write a bad ending, like “Killing the main character that I make you love for 30 chapters in the end” ending. I’m evil, I know, sue me.

24. What’s a trope that you’d like to never hear about as long as you live, let alone write? The “Good girl trying to change the bad boy,” I hate, apologies, I DESPISE that trope, it’s not cool, first, to be with someone abusive, and second, to try to change someone because you think you’re so almighty that you will change him (or her)  because of love, bs, I SAID BS.

25. Do you listen to music as you write? If possible, link your writing playlist. I do, and of course, it’s named “Writing Shiet” because my brain can only process decent titles for fics (Says the guy who once named a fic “No Title”) Here’s the link 

26. What’s your biggest distraction when writing? Anime and Manga.

27. Do you like to give your readers some warning of what might be coming or just slap them in the face with content at random? I don’t usually do it, but when I do it, I do it cryptic, like “You might be surprised, but this, I called in the beginning.”

28. How do you deal with writing pressure (ie: pressure to update, negative comments, deadlines, etc)? I ignore it, If I can ignore good advice, ignore something that gives me more stress it’s an easy cake.

29. Have you ever written for an exchange or event of some kind? Which one(s)? Did you enjoy it? I did but didn’t submit, I wrote for 2019 fictoberfest on Tumblr, but never send a shit, I did enjoy it tho

30. Post a snippet from your current WIP without context - no more than 300 words. "Well, we're still not in Texas," he says, implying something not PG-13 at all. "My God, in what did I turn you?" Maya teases him before getting up and grab his hand, pulling him up. Lucas grins at her, "On," he replies, making Maya flirty hit his chest

31. Of the characters you write for, which is your favorite? Has that choice been swayed at all by your followers/readers’ reactions to certain ones? I love writing Lucas and Maya, and honestly don’t know if it helps me or not LOL.

32. Copy and paste your top three favorite lines/jokes/sentences you’ve ever written. What fics do they come from? 1 - From November to June CH3 A few hours later, Maya heard a knock on her door. She takes a peek through the magic eye on her door and saw Lucas. She grabs her phone and fastly texts him. She was able to hear the 'ding' of his phone, and spying through the magic eye she saw his reaction. "Ok, first of all, I'm not that, second, my mother is not that, and third, I'm not gonna put that there, that's fucking gross, and probably deadly if you consider the size of my hands." he defends himself. 2 - Ten Duel Commandments CH2 Maya smiles at him, "Since you're all Texan cowboy goody-good boy, I imagine you would relate more with the honorable Lord Stark," she teases him. "Says the woman who read three books in a row and texts me at four in the morning," he replies before pulling out his phone, "R+L=J," he teases her, reading her text. "That's private, asshole," Maya recriminates him. 3 - The One Who Stayed CH18 "Then, I have less... GET OFF ME FUCKER!" Maya screamed, punching the person who grabbed her arm, "Holy shit, Lucas." she says, looking at the person she just hit. "Noted, never approach to you by surprise." Lucas says on the floor, "Well, this makes me feel more confident about you being here alone." he says before start laughing.

33. What do you like writing better: one-shots or multi-chapter stuff? Multi-chapter, unless, it’s wedding fics because I love weddings.

34. How much of yourself and your life experiences do you put into your writing? What do you think your readers’ image of you is? None.

35. How much has writing fic changed your life? Not much, but has made me happier.

36. Are there any fics or fandoms you’re embarrassed to have written or been part of? The Glee Project Fandom.

37. Give an update on your current WIP - if you don’t have one, give a sneak peek to a title or idea that you have and would like to write. "Shawn called him, and he assures him that if you try something inappropriate, he has a shotgun," she adds, making Lucas's face go pale. "Well, guess like father, like son," he comments, making Maya show unexpected interest in his words.

38. What does your writing process look like? How chaotic is it on a scale of 1 (very tame) to 10 (you can’t handle this kind of chaos)? As I explained in the outline question, pretty tame if we count that I have my outline process numbered LOL.

39. What’s something about your writing that you pride yourself on? That I try to make it real, I try to make people feel something when they read.

41. What’s your most popular fic (with the most notes on Tumblr, most hits/kudos on ao3)? Tumblr? The One Who Stayed Fanfiction.net? Ten Duel Commandments

44. Rant about something writing-related. Please, let’s stop glorifying the “Bad Boy” character, he’s an asshole, allow me to explain, Bakugo, fucking asshole, he’s just a bully with an oversized ego, no, he’s not a tsundere, no, it’s not cute, that shit is abusive, and it really makes me want to punch people in their nose when the romanticize that bullshit.

Done

(Told ya I was bored)

[inkslingerharry]

this is another rant about my friend who i recently made a post about bc sometimes he does stuff and my petty self needs to vent about it

i went to start this off by saying that i genuinely do enjoy talking to and spending time with this friend, he just happens to do stuff that i find weird or he acts a certain way and it bothers me. again, he really is my friend, i do care about him, but every single person does something that we’re annoyed by lol

so a lot of the time whenever i ask him how he’s doing he responds with “i’m not sure yet” or “i don’t know” ya know something along those lines. well one time he said that and THEN he texts me “i don’t mean to change the topic, but [one of our other friends] isn’t feeling good and it would be good for you to reach out to her. i’m not trying to deflect my own issues but i don’t want her feeling poorly either” and i was like uhhhh ok like thanks for telling me and then he said “i know how i feel now. i feel fucking awful” and i was like oh uh why is that and he SAID “I really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really don’t like when my friends feel bad and the same for when I can’t do anything to help them” (that is 100% word for word i literally copied and pasted it) and i was like...... dude... i said something like “well like you said you can’t help it so i wouldn’t feel this bad about it, especially when people just need bad days” then he quickly changed the subject lskdjfa

and he changed it by asking what i was up to so i was like “just watching videos” and he was like “what videos?” like... we are just not on that level of me being like “here’s an exact title of video i’ve been watching” you know so i told him “just some youtube videos, not much” and THEN he says “Alright, I get it, I’ll take the hint, have your privacy.” like......... i literally put down my phone and sighed like i’m SORRY i didn’t feel comfortable enough to tell you i was watching “NYC cycling incidents compilation 6″ like idk what to tell you!!!!!!!!! and he’s done this before like he asked me what songs i’ve been listening to lately and i said something like “oh some new stuff i’ve found recently! stuff that i don’t really listen to tbh” and he was like “like what songs?” like...... normally i’m very happy sharing what music i’ve been listening to but!! (this will be another paragraph so i’m sorry) considering he doesn’t listen to the music i already recommend him i don’t understand why he cares!! and why does he need exact titles omg

okay this one has a death tw!!!!! so both him and i are ~mentally ill~ and we can relate on a lot of things that deal with that!! but sometimes... he takes it.. too far lol he jokes about death quite a bit and not in the typical sense like ‘omg i’m gonna die’ like... ‘i chose a history major bc if i can’t find a job to pay for everything i need to live i can just die slowly’ and it’s always super morbid and weird and kinda makes me uncomfortable especially bc he also jokes about my death :))))))) haha yeah!! fun!! like i told him that it sucks working but i kinda have to do it bc.. money!! it’s needed to survive!! and he went “Naw only if you plan to survive for any real length of time, death is cheap” and he always jokes about me dropping out of college and just making small jokes about me dying which isn’t the biggest deal for me personally but it’s also like... why are you saying that to your friend who has mental illnesses luv lol

he’s also lowkey stubborn? like sometimes when he’s not feeling well i suggest some activities to do as distractions and he shoots them all down so fast like i’ll suggest painting and he’s like “i can’t do that bc i have high standards for my painting and i know it’s going to be bad and i know i shouldn’t feel that way but i do” so i’m like... ok.... reading? and he comes up with another excuse and i’m like omg ok so taking a walk? and he has ANOTHER excuse so i’m like ok i understand wanting to sulk in your sadness but you have said that you wanted to get better but if you purposely do nothing about it why are you complaining about it to me :/

it’s also awkward holding a conversation with him bc he texts weirdly like... i’ve been making it more my language in these rants but the way he texts it’s not like “omg that’s hilarious” it’s like “Let’s see, right now I am doing nothing besides texting you and a few others. I am on a couch and not very active. For tonight, I plan to eat another meal today at some point, but other than that not much. And in life in general I have no idea but I’m gonna keeping for at least another 10-20 years and see how I feel then.” (that’s another copied and pasted text) like... he uses punctuation very carefully which puts me off and he phrases everything weirdly!!! and he says he wants to have a conversation with me when it’s good with his schedule and his “conversations” are just him interviewing me lol like he asks my favorite shows, movies, colors, books, but it doesn’t flow naturally, it’s just him going “what are your favorite movies?” and i answer and he goes “what is your favorite color?” like why are you interviewing me lol

okay about the music thing when i first met this friend he listened to ONE BAND..... ONE. when i asked him why he gave me a bullshit answer and he knows some classic, older songs, but VERY little. like idk why he didn’t know basic songs that are on everyone’s “classic hits” playlist SO i was like holy shit i’m making him a playlist of songs that he should know!! obviously it’s biased bc it’s songs i listen to and whatnot. i WRITE that shit out while also making it on spotify in case he makes an account or something. i make a key.. a LEGEND with different colors meaning different things i put fucking washi tape on that thing and i hand it to him and i can 100% tell he is not interested. but i give it to him anyway and WEEKS later (like over a month later) i ask him how much he has listened to and he said he didn’t listen to ANYTHING so i’m heartbroken like that fucking sucks to make a playlist for someone, introducing them to new music that you personally love and they literally don’t give a fuck lol so i went “...oh..” and bring out my phone bc i’m 1) pissed and 2) very sad that he did this and he can totally tell that i’m upset so he’s like “well... the list is in my room but i did take a picture of it so i can start listening to it” and i was like hmm ok and lowkey ignored him well i told my friend about this and she was APPALLED she was like “omg fuck that what’s the name of it” and i renamed it to her playlist on spotify and that was the only thing she listened to for weeks on end and she constantly complimented it so i love her omg and i can 100% guarantee that he has still not listened to all of it lol oh well!!!!

[polhnitro]

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[fatherjerusalem]

all of them

God damn it, @imkait, I hate you so much.

1. Spotify, SoundCloud, or Pandora? Pandora is the only one I’ve ever had a paid account for, and the only one I ever will.2. is your room messy or clean? Messy, but like I can find where everything is. When it’s clean, I have no idea where to find anything.3. what color are your eyes? Hazel.4. do you like your name? why? I do not. Mostly because as a kid growing up, I would get made fun of for copying Bart Simpson (even though I was 10 when the Simpsons started), or kids would come up with the obvious nickname for me.5. what is your relationship status? Hahahahahahahhahahahaha. Oh, you were serious about that?6. describe your personality in 3 words or less: Toby Ziegler -Jewishness7. what color hair do you have? Brown8. what kind of car do you drive? color? None and no color.9. where do you shop? Like… for food? WinCo. For other stuff? Usually Amazon.10. how would you describe your style? Nonexistent. 11. favorite social media account: Tumblr, cuz that’s where I’ve met some really great people and made excellent friends, who don’t include @imkait who is horrible.12. what size bed do you have?  I actually sleep on a couch. I’ve had beds before, but man. A couch just feels more comfortable to me.13. any siblings? One. A three years younger brother.14. if you can live anywhere in the world where would it be? why? Not the United States, let me tell you, because Republicans are going to fucking kill us all.15. favorite snapchat filter? wat16. favorite makeup brand(s): wat17. how many times a week do you shower? I shower every day, because good hygiene. So… seven.18. favorite tv show? Like… now? I don’t know. I don’t know that I have a favorite one on now. Of all time? Veronica Mars, The West Wing, Friday Night Lights, and Chuck.19. shoe size? 12/13 depending on the shoe.20. how tall are you? 5′10″21. sandals or sneakers? Sneakers22. do you go to the gym? I walk past the gym on my way to Circle K. Does that count?23. describe your dream date: At this point? Literally anything. 24. how much money do you have in your wallet at the moment? At the moment? $0. But I just paid my half of the rent, and I don’t generally keep lots of cash on me, so…25. what color socks are you wearing? I almost never wear socks.26. how many pillows do you sleep with? Three under my head, one covering my head.27. do you have a job? what do you do? I am a research/marketing assistant. It basically means I google answers to questions for clients and post ads for their businesses.28. how many friends do you have? ONE LESS THAN I USED TO HAVE, LET ME TELL YOU THAT.29. whats the worst thing you have ever done? Like… today, or….? Sleeping with my girlfriend’s mom is pretty up there…30. whats your favorite candle scent? Vanilla. Yum.31. 3 favorite boy names: Alex, Logan, Mitth'raw'nuruodo32. 3 favorite girl names: Jaina, Veronica, Nynaeve33. favorite actor? Denzel’s amazing, so is Tom Hanks, David Tennant of course, and I like the Marvel Chris’.34. favorite actress? Kristen Bell, Emma Watson, Krysten Ritter, and I will admit that Olivia Munn came out of nowhere on the Newsroom and I was blown away by her.35. who is your celebrity crush? Kristen Bell, duh.36. favorite movie? The Crow, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Kingdom of Heaven (director’s cut), The Lord of the Rings trilogy.37. do you read a lot? whats your favorite book? Lord yes. Anything by Neil Gaiman, and the Wheel of Time series.38. money or brains? Brains.39. do you have a nickname? what is it? “Hey fuckface”40. how many times have you been to the hospital? Only… three times? I think?41. top 10 favorite songs: This is long enough already. I’ll just cheat and say the Hamilton cast recording.42. do you take any medications daily? Nope.43. what is your skin type? (oily, dry, etc): Skin-y.44. what is your biggest fear? That there’s 50+ more questions to this.45. how many kids do you want? Ideally? Right now? Definitely not ready for kids at all.46. whats your go to hair style? Just kind of… there.47. what type of house do you live in? (big, small, etc): An apartment, so… small.48. who is your role model? Norman Borlaug, Jackie Robinson, and Hillary Clinton49. what was the last compliment you received? God… have I ever received a compliment? 50. what was the last text you sent? *blows a raspberry and goes back to munching on his delicious macaroni and cheese*51. how old were you when you found out santa wasn’t real? SANTA ISN’T REAL?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?52. what is your dream car? The Angelmobile from Angel, but, like, if I could somehow turn it into a hybrid to save on gas… 53. opinion on smoking? Can I bum one?54. do you go to college?  Nope55. what is your dream job? Writer, or teacher if I can figure out how to be patient with people.56. would you rather live in rural areas or the suburbs? Up a god damned mountain.57. do you take shampoo and conditioner bottles from hotels? I don’t stay in hotels enough to have an opinion on this. But yes.58. do you have freckles? Nope.59. do you smile for pictures? Nope.60. how many pictures do you have on your phone? Um… I have a bunch that people send me, but pictures I take? Hardly any.61. have you ever peed in the woods? Yes. And if you say you haven’t, you’re a fucking liar.62. do you still watch cartoons? Yup, and I’m god damned proud of it too. Some cartoons today are amazing.63. do you prefer chicken nuggets from Wendy’s or McDonalds? McDonalds, clearly.64. Favorite dipping sauce? Honey or bbq.65. what do you wear to bed? Boxers66. have you ever won a spelling bee? Nope, but I helped my team come in second at a Knowledge Bowl in seventh grade….67. what are your hobbies? Reading, playing video games, filling out this fucking list.68. can you draw? Nope.69. do you play an instrument? Nope.70. what was the last concert you saw? Oh god… I don’t know. I don’t get to go to many concerts anymore. Maybe… Blink-182?71. tea or coffee? Coffee.72. Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts? We don’t have any Dunkin Donuts in my state, so… definitely Dunkin Donuts.73. do you want to get married? Why? You asking?74. what is your crush’s first and last initial? A.B.75. are you going to change your last name when you get married? If I get married, and she wants to keep her last name, I’d definitely consider it if that’s what she wanted.76. what color looks best on you? Black77. do you miss anyone right now? Yes78. do you sleep with your door open or closed? Closed, mostly because I like the cold and my roommate gets whiny if the temperature drops below 85F.79. do you believe in ghosts? No.80. what is your biggest pet peeve? Willful ignorance. 81. last person you called: My dad.82. favorite ice cream flavor? Mint chocolate chip or cookie dough or both combined.83. regular oreos or golden oreos? Triple double stuffed Oreos - they have a cookie, vanilla cream, cookie, chocolate cream, cookie. They’re delicious.84. chocolate or rainbow sprinkles? Rainbow sprinkles. Always.85. what shirt are you wearing? It’s… grey.86. what is your phone background? It’s a snowy road.87. are you outgoing or shy? Shy in real life, outgoing online.88. do you like it when people play with your hair? Eh, I guess. Depends on the person.89. do you like your neighbors? Generally. Not when they blare their fucking music though. Pricks.90. do you wash your face? at night? in the morning? Well, I shower in the morning, so….91. have you ever been high? Yup.92. have you ever been drunk? Yup.93. last thing you ate? Macaroni and cheese.94. favorite lyrics right now: “But we were only strangers cornered in a dark room/Projecting slides of cozy lives on the wall/In the dark I thought I saw you/Or was it nothing at all” 95. summer or winter? Winter - except for the snow.96. day or night?  Night97. dark, milk, or white chocolate? Dark. 98. favorite month?  March.99. what is your zodiac sign: Pisces100. who was the last person you cried in front of? I literally have no idea.

[filipeteimuraz]

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The ability to use the product itself to get new visitors is one of the most exciting aspects of growth hacking. Pulling visitors into the top of your funnel is good, and so is pushing them in, but there is something magical about using the product itself to drive traffic. When done well, it can have a compounding effect which cannot be replicated with push and pull methods alone.

For instance, if you utilize the pull method of creating an infographic then you can expect to get traffic, but the inbound visitors to that infographic will decrease each day and eventually level out at a relatively low number. Compare that with some of the product tactics listed in this chapter. It’s possible, using the product itself, that each time someone comes to your site they bring their own network of relationships into your funnel as well. This is where the idea of viral loops come into play. If you are able to use a product tactic in such a way that for every visitor that enters your product, they bring along more than one other person into your product, then you’ve created a viral coefficient of over 1 (sometimes referred to as K). You’ve achieved exponential growth. You’ve gone viral.

However, I need to caution you at this point. Most products don’t go viral. If you are trying to growth hack a B2B enterprise product then I highly doubt that you will have a viral coefficient anywhere near 1. Not because you’re doing something wrong, but because it’s just hard to use these tactics in certain markets. Even if you have a consumer facing product virality is still extremely difficult.

So how should you view these tactics? If it really is that hard to get a K factor of 1+ then should you just scrap the product as a strategy for getting visitors? Absolutely not. Any K factor above 0 will positively impact all of your other marketing efforts, even if it never approaches the illustrious 1+. Let me explain.

If you have a K of .5, then this essentially means that for every one new visitor to your product they bring half a person into your funnel. 10 new visitors actually becomes 15. This isn’t virality because it doesn’t keep going up and to the right exponentially, but you’re still bringing new people in that wouldn’t have seen your product. Consider the pull method of creating an infographic in this light. If you bring 500 people into your product this month because of an infographic then this actually becomes 750 people with a K of .5. You’ve amplified a pull tactic by using a product tactic. That’s how to think about product tactics. They amplify anything that comes into your funnel.

A K factor of .5 also means that if you’re using the push tactic of purchasing ads then you can spend less to get a certain number of visitors because every 10 ad clicks becomes 15 visitors. Saving money is obviously a good thing, but this also allows you to pay more per click, and possibly outbid competitors. Remember what we said in the last chapter. Ads are just a business model competition and your product tactics, which amplify your product activity, strengthen the efficiency of your business model.

Network Invitations

We now live in a world where many people have already compiled their social networks in various places. We have a group of friends on Facebook. We follow people on Twitter. We are connected to business relationships on LinkedIn. We have a list of email addresses in Gmail. We have the phone numbers of friends and family in our mobile phones. The first product tactic that we’ll discuss for getting visitors hinges on our ability to use pre-existing, pre-defined, networks of relationships to our advantage.

Phone Contacts

If you are building a mobile app then you are basically a few clicks away from permission to message their entire phone book about your app. We don’t usually think of a phone book as a social network, but it might be our most intimate network of relationships. Umano, a new service that provides the ability to listen to popular online articles, utilizes this tactic. They prompt you to share with friends after using their service a couple of times, or you can do so from the settings menu (below). Notice how they preselect everyone for you, and you have to either manually deselect people or “unselect all.” This is a common practice for many of the network invitation tactics. It is also worth noting that you can call or text with access to a phone number, so this gives you a few options on how to message people once you’ve gained permission. There might also be email addresses associated with a phone number that you can also access.

Email Contacts

Another network which people have already developed, that we can use to our advantage, is their email contacts. This was much more popular a few years ago, but variations of it are still possible. LinkedIn allowed you to import your email addresses, which they would subsequently message, and this jump started their initial traffic.

Social Contracts

Besides phone books and email contacts, the third kind of network that we can leverage is social contacts. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, and more, are all networks where we’ve created a social graph. We have existing relationships which can be invited to a new product. It’s difficult to target every social network because people probably won’t give you access to all of them, but one can be enough. Focus also helps you make technical decisions about your own product. If you know that you are going to use Facebook as the primary social network for inviting new users into your product then this might cause you to use Facebook Connect as your product login. This means that it will be fewer clicks on the end user, and less friction, when you ask them to invite their Facebook friends later. Below is the example from the Facebook developer documentation of what a friend invitation screen looks like.

Social Sharing

Social sharing, as defined here, is not about explicitly inviting people into your product via their established connections or friends. This tactic is more about allowing anyone to talk about your product on their social network for whoever may be reading it. For instance, instead of asking someone to invite their Facebook friends to use your product, you instead allow them to easily post something to their Facebook feed about your product. If they have a public profile then this can be seen by anyone, not only their friends. The most prevalent example of this is seen in popular blogs. The Next Web prominently displays the ability to share each and every post with your social connections in various places.

Most social networks have code snippets that you can copy and paste into your product to make this kind of social sharing extremely easy. There are also solutions that combine all the popular social sharing options into a single interface.

Although it may not be obvious at first, another thing to keep in mind when implementing a social sharing strategy is to consider where your traffic naturally comes from. If you get most of your inbound traffic from Twitter, but you only allow people to share your product on Facebook then you are missing an easy opportunity. Make sure that people can share your product in the places that are most likely to bring you back more inbound visitors. This will have a compounding effect.

API Integrations

The next step, beyond social sharing, is to actually integrate your product with an existing social network at the API level. Instead of just asking them to share, you can actually bake sharing into the experience and make it happen in the background without forcing the user to give you permission each time. A great example of this is Spotify. It’s no secret that Spotify heavily used Facebook to grow their product, and they did so through an API integration. Once you login to Spotify using Facebook Connect and give Spotify the needed access, then your activity on their service is automatically published to your Facebook feed, and it’s also published inside of the Spotify app to anyone that you are connected with on Facebook. Below is a screenshot of the Spotify app, notifying me of new users who are also connected to me on Facebook, and another screenshot showing notifications within Facebook itself of my friend’s listening habits. These are done completely in the background, which creates frictionless sharing that can only really happen through an API integration.

Another example of this tactic is the Nike+ API integration with Path and Facebook. Everytime I go for a run and track it using the Nike+ app on my phone, then the data about my run is pushed to Path and Facebook, so that my friends can see my activity. Friends can even cheer me on from within Path or Facebook which will trigger an applause sound as I run. This is borderline genius. Below you can see my Nike+ app asking me to share on Path, and on the right you can see the results being published to my Path friends. Again, this it totally seamless. Once I set it up initially it does this automatically.

API integrations, despite their incredible upside, are not 100% stable. As certain products become extremely popular, and gain momentum on existing social network, then it is not entirely uncommon for exposure to be throttled. Facebook, for instance, has the incentive to give you access to their platform. This keeps them in a dominant position if many developers use them. However, Facebook does not have incentive to give you the complete social graph of their billion users. If you start to have too much success with an API integration then you can’t count on the rules staying the same for you.

On a similar note, API integrations are great as a way to growth hack your product, but the more you intertwine your product with a 3rd party service, the more at risk you are. Twitter is a great example of this. Many companies were built on the Twitter API, but then Twitter changed the number of API calls allowed. This left many Twitter clients without a backup plan. Use APIs to grow your product, but be wary that the API doesn’t become your product.

Powered By Links

One of the first examples of product growth hacking actually used the powered by link tactic. When Hotmail first came out they did something that was simple, but which would drastically change their trajectory. They included a link at the bottom of emails that were sent using their service that said “Get your free email at Hotmail.” A viral loop was born.

This tactic is still being used to this day. A modern example is found in services that allow you to embed a popup on your website for various reasons. Widgets of any kind are good candidates for these powered by links.

Incentives

Certain products lend themselves easily to creating incentives for users to bring new people into the product. The classic example of this is Dropbox. They have a number of incentives that they offer users for various actions that they can take. This tactic works especially well if you have something which is of low cost to you, but of high value to users. In Dropbox’s case, they use storage space like a currency because the exchange rate is in their favor. Storage is not that expensive, but getting new users is very valuable to them. The user is in the opposite situation. Storage space is valuable to them, and their contacts don’t seem that valuable. This makes for a perfect storm.

It’s worth cautioning that many startups, in an attempt to imitate Dropbox, have been frustrated with their inability to pull off the incentive tactic. Their product might not have much intrinsically to offer their users as incentives. Also, notice that Dropbox goes beyond just giving away storage for friend invitations, but they also give away storage for actions that will help you understand their product. Educated users churn less.

Organic Viral Growth

As much as technology within the product can spread the product, there is something that can be even more effective, organic word of mouth. Organic word of mouth is when someone shares your product, online or offline, in ways that you didn’t orchestrate. They are compelled to tell people whether you incentivized them or not. Organic communication can’t be measured, and it can’t be controlled, but it can be a force that propels your product forward. You can’t make someone share your product organically with their coworkers or friends and family, but you can do certain things to make it more probable. These types of products all tend to spread organically:

Simple

Beautiful

Pain relieving

Products that make people look cool

Emotional

Fun

Unique

Surprising

You can’t be all these things, but you must be one of these things, or you probably don’t have a chance of spreading organically.

http://www.quicksprout.com/viral-hacking/ Read more here - http://review-and-bonuss.blogspot.com/2019/04/viral-hacking-to-get-hypergrowth.html

[wellthatwasterrifying]

100 questions with 100 answers

One time in 2012 I answered all of these questions and I wanted to redo them because it felt fun to see what all had changed 

http://wellthatwasterrifying.tumblr.com/post/24306127834/100-answers-to-100-questions

The old one. ^^^^

The new one vvvv

1) Put your iTunes on shuffle. Give me the first 6 songs that pop up.

  Honestly I don’t use iTunes very much anymore. I use a lot of spotify but here’s iTunes

“Who’d have known”- Lilly Allen

“Forever” - Youngblood Hawke

“A Poetice Retelling Of An Unfortunate Seduction“ - Bright Eyes

“Shot of Love” - AC/DC

“Something in the Way You Are” Kimbra

This feels silly because I haven’t listened to most of these in years

2) If you could meet anyone on this earth, who would it be?

  I’ll keep it with Brendon Urie. /shrug

3) Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 23, give me line 17.

  “Like Gansey, he had studied the ley lines for years”

4) What do you think about most?

Lately I think a lot about the future and what I want from it. Are the choices now leading to the future I have imagined or will what I’ve imagined change drastically in the next few years? Are the decisions I’m making now good enough? Of course they are.  

5) What does your latest text message from someone else say?

 Oh it’s much less academic than what I had in 2012, almost shamefully so. 

“I can ask him tomorrow but we are good with pretty much anytime Friday”

6) Do you sleep with ____ or without ______  on?

  I sleep with music on or without the TV backlight on.

7) What’s your strangest talent?

  Honest to god I can’t think of one. But I think that speaks more to my lack of being able to think on the spot than my lack of a strange talent. 

8) Girls…. (finish the sentence); Boys…. (finish the sentence)

 Girls are hurricanes; boys are sea shores. 

9) Ever had a poem or song written about you?

 Yeah I have. Good times.

10) When is the last time you played the air guitar?

 Probably the last time I answered this. LIE. It was when I was thinking of ideas for a bar.

11) Do you have any strange phobias?

I still don’t think I have anything that I’d call a phobia, but I’m not fond of speaking in front of large groups.

12) Ever stuck a foreign object up your nose?

 Most likely

13) What’s your religion?

 I’m a Christian. Baptist. Southern Baptist. Only in the sense that I was raised that way, it doesn’t really impact my life or sway any decision that I make anymore. I don’t believe that there is some omnipotent being controlling or judging every decision we make. 

14) If you are outside, what are you most likely doing?

  Lately it has been studying because there’s a super nice little court yard area outside of the pharmacy building that I really enjoying sitting at

15) Do you prefer to be behind the camera or in front of it?

 I prefer to be behind the camera. Forever behind the camera.

16) Simple but extremely complex. Favorite band?

  I don’t have a specific favorite anymore. I’d still probably say Say Anything out of reflexive habit, but overall I don’t listen to any one particular artist anymore.

17) What was the last lie you told?

  "It was only 3 scoops.“

18) Do you believe in karma?

 Yeah. Yeah I do.

19) What does your URL mean?

  There was one time my tumblr post started getting posted on my twitter account which my mom followed. So she sent me this text message about how my account must have been hacked because it was not a “teresa’s daughter” post. That was a terrifying moment. 

20) What is your greatest weakness; your greatest strength?

 I’d say my greatest weakness is my inability to believe in myself sometimes, I put myself down instead of realizing that I am actually pretty amazing. My greatest strength though is realizing other peoples strengths and pushing them to utilize them to their greatest potential.

21) Who is your celebrity crush?

 BREEENDON URIE [told you he would be back again][and again]

22) Have you ever gone skinny dipping?

  shhhhhhh

23) How do you vent your anger?

  I don’t have a great way to vent my anger anymore.  I used to write it down, but now I just internalize it until it bubbles over. Like I said not a great way. I’m working on changing it into “talking” about  my feelings.

24) Do you have a collection of anything?

 A collection? Not unless the sheer amount of books I’m trying to amass is considered a collection.  lmao I’m still collecting books. 

25) Do you prefer talking on the phone or video chatting online?

 I prefer talking on the phone

26) Are you happy with the person you’ve become?

  I am really happy with the person I’ve become. I do still have a lot of things to work on but it would be boring if I weren’t a work in progress.

27) What’s a sound you hate; sound you love?

 I haaaaaate the sound of Jenny doing flea bites. Drives me crazy. I love sleepy voice.

28) What’s your biggest "what if”?

 What if I had realized I was holding onto the wrong thing sooner

29) Do you believe in ghosts? How about aliens?

  It’s possible

30) Stick your right arm out; what do you touch first? Do the same with your left arm.

  Both touched the arm of the chair. Because I’m in an arm chair.

31) Smell the air. What do you smell?

   The smell of some vaguely gross carpet that is in the process of being fixed. 

32) What’s the worst place you have ever been to?

 The farm my sister was on all those years ago. Still true. 

33) Choose East Coast or West Coast?

 East Coast, but I’ve never been on West Coast.

34) Most attractive singer of your opposite gender?

 BRENDON URIE [and again]

35) To you, what is the meaning of life?

 I think the meaning of life is to find as many of the moments that make you feel like exploding from happiness, that bubble up from the inside and pour over. 

36) Define Art.

 Emotional outlet for those who can express themselves through a medium. Damn. I was smart in 2012. What happened!

37) Do you believe in luck?

  A lot of where I am now feels like luck

38) What’s the weather like right now?

 I wanna say overcast and maybe drizzling

39) What time is it?

  11:02pm

40) Do you drive? If so, have you ever crashed?

  I do drive and yes I’ve crashed. whoop whoop.

41) What was the last book you read?

  The Raven King, again.

42) Do you like the smell of gasoline?

  Not very much but I do like the smell of it on someones clothes after they’ve been messing with a car or something. 

43) Do you have any nicknames?

  I do. The kids at work call me Aims and sadly the people at school call me Boose because I was trying to tell them my last name is said like rice but I shorted out and told them it sounds like juice. So I’m forever known as Boose.

44) What was the last movie you saw?

  Venom

45) What’s the worst injury you’ve ever had?

 I accidently cut my hand on a pocket knife and had to receive stitches. I was only like 6 though, so that’s no big deal. Still the worst

46) Have you ever caught a butterfly?

 Are there people who haven’t done this? Like not having caught a firefly, sure, but a butterfly??

47) Do you have any obsessions right now?

 BOTW

48) What’s your sexual orientation?

 Straight. Honestly probably Bi.

49) Ever had a rumor spread about you?

   Yeah but I can’t remember what it was anymore

50) Do you believe in magic?

Only in a young girls heart.

51) Do you tend to hold grudges against people who have done you wrong?

Not intentionally. I seem to have gained some unhealthy habits from my parents and may have accidentally gained their ability to have a hard time letting things go. But not for everything. Right?????

52) What is your astrological sign?

 Sagittarius! I’d hope this was the same, except there was that scare where they talked about adding another sign and that would have changed mine.

53) Do you save money or spend it?

 Save it. Mostly.

54) What’s the last thing you purchased?

 It has been a few days since I’ve bought anything…gas?

55)  Love or lust?

 Sometimes I think lust would be more fun, but love is more worthwhile.

56) In a relationship?

yeeeeeees (but I want to know who I was dating in 2012??? Zach??? noooo Matt????)(was that you matt???)

57) How many relationships have you had?

7?

58) Can you touch your nose with your tongue?

 No. No I cannot.

59) Where were you yesterday?

I went to my parents for family day/jackson’s birthday.

60) Is there anything pink within 10 feet of you?

  Gummy worms

61) Are you wearing socks right now?

 yesh

62) What’s your favorite animal?

 Dogs. I really think they might be my favorite. I feel so guilty not changing this to cats because blueberry is the light of my liiiiiife. 

63) What is your secret weapon to get someone to like you?

  I notice little things about them

64) Where is your best friend?

  At her home.

65) Spit or swallow?(;

 HA. Wouldn’t you like to know!

66) What is your heritage?

 Dutch on my dads side and Irish on my moms. (supposedly)

67) What were you doing last night at 12 AM?

Laying in bed debating whether or not I should sleep.

68) What do you think is Satan’s last name?

[                                      ]  Did I even type anything here in 2012?? I tried to copy and paste and now I’m thinking I was playing a trick on myself.

69) Be honest. Ever gotten yourself off?

This is like the butterfly question. Hasn’t everyone?

70) Are you the kind of friend you would want to have as a friend?

 Sometimes, but I also know I’m a bit odd.

71) You are walking down the street on your way to work. There is a dog drowning in the canal on the side of the street. Your boss has told you if you are late one more time you get fired. What do you do?

LMFAO. I wish you knew my boss now. I’d save the dog. Thomas can suck it.

72) You are at the doctor’s office and she has just informed you that you have approximately one month to live. a) Do you tell anyone/everyone you are going to die? b) What do you do with your remaining days? c) Would you be afraid?

A) I wouldn’t make it public but I would tell my core.

B) I’d spend as much time as I could with the people I love because that’s what this is about for me.

C) yes

73) You can only have one of these things; trust or love.

 Trust.

74) What’s a song that always makes you happy when you hear it?

Stonewallin’ by Jane Decker(?)

75) What are the last four digits in your cell phone number?

 2259. This wasn’t true in 2012. What was I doing???

76) In your opinion, what makes a great relationship?

 I think it’s communication and trust. Knowing that they’re there for you and vice versa. 

77) How can I win your heart?

 Listen to what I have to say

78) Can insanity bring on more creativity?

 Depends on how insane you are

79) What is the single best decision you have made in your life so far?

 To go after what I want and not look back. I will climb this damn mountain. 

80) What size shoes do you wear?

8.5 I think…

81) What would you want to be written on your tombstone?

 “She was…”----this is actually still fine because right now all i can think is “She tried...”

82) What is your favorite word?

  incorrigible

83) Give me the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word; heart.

 felt

84) What is a saying you say a lot?

 This is true. Awwwww man. 6 years later and I still say this a lot. How do people put up with that?!

85) What’s the last song you listened to?

  Them Dirty Bones - Mike Waters

86) Basic question; what’s your favorite color/colors?

 Red!

87) What is your current desktop picture?

  Hipster shit.

88) If you could press a button and make anyone in the world instantaneously explode, who would it be?

 There isn’t anyone I would kill…

89) What would be a question you’d be afraid to tell the truth on?

 Why

90) One night you wake up because you heard a noise. You turn on the light to find that you are surrounded by MUMMIES. The mummies aren’t really doing anything, they’re just standing around your bed. What do you do?

SCREAM my head off. Or panic and have a heart attack. 

91) You accidentally eat some radioactive vegetables. They were good, and what’s even cooler is that they endow you with the super-power of your choice! What is that power?

   Teleportation without having to have visited the place before.

92) You can re-live any point of time in your life. The time-span can only be a half-hour, though. What half-hour of your past would you like to experience again?

  That one.

93) You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be?

 blogger. or that one time in the parking lot at UGA where I felt like the world was falling apart again.

94) You have the opportunity to sleep with the music-celebrity of your choice. Who would it be?

 BRENDON URIE [again again]

95) You just got a free plane ticket to anywhere. You have to depart right now. Where are you gonna go?

  Iceland

96) Do you have any relatives in jail?

 Yes

97) Have you ever thrown up in the car?

No, but I almost did once instead I threw up in a CVS parking lot which felt fitting

98) Ever been on a plane?

 YES

99) If the whole world were listening to you right now, what would you say?

  get a grip

100) Give me your top 5 favorite blogs on Tumblr.

sheissuffering

Cooncomic

thatoneismine

burgertv

done

I don’t know. I’d say I only have two favorites

[nathaliesreflectivejournal]

Analysing inscribed assumptions about humans, interaction, and computers

Image borrowed from https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Spotify_logo_with_text.svg/500px-Spotify_logo_with_text.svg.png 

This text will discuss what assumptions about humans, interactions, technology and design philosophies are inscribed in the music streaming application Spotify.

Before computers could track eye movements, conversate with a human, or predict the weather in two weeks, they were big calculators that were operated by people manually switching cables to change calculating programs for scientific and military purposes. At this time, no one could predict that computers would have such a big impact on our everyday lives as they have today. Today, computers are everywhere. The music streaming application Spotify is one thing about technology that has become essential to me in my everyday life. I listen to music every day through this application. I relate it much to a record store, a physical location where we go to search for music by browsing through the records sorted alphabetically or by genre in boxes alongside the walls. Except Spotify is not something physical but a digital service that is always accessible, has an almost infinite music library and automatizes many things for us as users.

Music streaming applications make it possible for us to do the same thing from our home as we used to do in a record store. There is no longer a need to search through all CD:s to find a specific one or manually put a CD in a CD-player. Instead, we can just tell Spotify to do those things for us with a few clicks on a computer mouse. We no longer need to wait to listen to a song until we have the record in our hands. Since albums don’t need to be physical items anymore, we don’t need to store them so that they take up space in our home, which also means they can’t break or get lost. Design seems to strive to make things easier for us. But why do we strive for simplicity? Humans have such impressive bodies and intelligent brains that need stimulation by solving problems. What if we would embrace that more in design? Maybe we would have to pass a quiz to be able to listen to a new album on Spotify or dance nonstop to continue hearing a song. We seem to have become too fond of making things simple for our own best as we consciously opt out things that would actually do us good. To get the exercise our bodies need, it would probably have done us good to get out of the sofa and take that walk to the record store as well.

Does it make any difference regarding our experience with music to hold it in our hands from streaming it? Do we need a physical connection with something as abstract as music? I think that Spotify and other music streaming applications affect our experience of finding new music. Perhaps they could make us less appreciative of music in the sense that it is now so accessible to us. My parents use to say that when they were young they longed for a record so much that when they finally got it in their hands it was a holy moment, and they listened to all of the songs in one session. As I mentioned earlier, the music library we can browse through in Spotify is almost infinite, and we have direct access to all of it. With this, I mean that before music streaming applications and mobile CD-players, I think that we listened to music more carefully than we do today. Now it is often a supplement to something else, something we have in the background while running, painting, doing dishes, studying, or doing some other activity.

The human interaction with Spotify mainly consists of conscious interactions where we typically have a clear goal with what we want to do – like play a song or create a playlist. It is not a very bodily interaction, we use our hands to move sliders and press buttons on a screen but we don’t feel as one with the artefact. It’s not something we wear, it’s a 2-dimensional window on a screen that we look at from time to time. It is not an extension of our body in the way a pencil would be to draw. Spotify is rather a place to search for and store music as well as create and manage playlists. But I would argue that it is not the interaction itself that is essential with Spotify, but what happens after the interaction is made that really has value to the user. It is likely the moment when the user is no longer interacting with the application, but interacting, or engaging, with the music as a result from the interaction that the application makes sense to them. Since songs are audibly perceived, visually encountering their name or watching what songs are included in a playlist is probably not as valuable to the user as listening to them.

Even though the interaction with Spotify happens between one person and the application, I would argue that we are not necessarily individual beings when using it. There could also be a social aspect to it. Spotify offers us the possibility to share music with others, either by listening to music together in the same room or sharing playlists so that we can listen to music together even though we are physically not in the same place. This very fact may also contribute to the reduction of face-to-face contact with other people. We no longer borrow records from friends, we just send them a link. Visits to the record stores could be social settings where people met to talk about music, but today these meetings happen online via chats and forums. How important is the physical face-to-face contact with people? Even if we’re listening to the same song as we are chatting or talking to each other via social media, we are, in the end, sitting by ourselves in different locations. What we get out of those conversations are just representations of human thoughts in text, sound or images. Humans are highly social creatures which means that we need contact with other people. If contact via those mediums is enough to fill that need depends on what “social” really means. But I really do think that we need physical contact with other people to be healthy in our bodies and minds.

I think different users interact with Spotify in different ways. I want to listen to music that fits my current mood. If I am happy – I want to listen to happy music, and if I’m concentrated – I want to listen to music that helps me concentrate even better. But I know some people that listen to music that fits the mood they want to be in. If they are sad – they listen to happy music to become happy. Other people don’t relate music to feelings but rather want to find and listen to music they find sounding good. For these people, the application might work as a magnifying glass to explore the huge music library. For me, Spotify is also a tool to create. I find putting together playlists much similar to putting together a collage of beautiful images or a series of video clips that become a short film. I can’t really affect how things look in the application, but Spotify lets me manipulate the content in my playlists. I can browse between and pick materials, or songs, just the way I would pick colors for a painting. I pick the ones I want to work with and place them in my playlist, which will have a theme and often represent one certain mood or feeling. At any time, I can copy-paste the content and change the order of the songs the way I want to, just like I could do with a collage of images.

Spotify could be seen as a machine in the sense that it can’t think or act by itself, it needs instructions and commands to follow. It will run as long as it is not interrupted. It can be turned on and it can be turned off. Though, it also contains qualities that could be considered to be more human than machine. Spotify has a music recommendation algorithm that tries to predict what songs you would like to hear by analysing what we previously have listened to and finding similar or related music. A machine would typically not care about this. Maybe we have included this human quality to create a feeling of closeness to the application, to make us feel that it knows us. This could be compared to humans communicating with each other about music – we often know what kind of music our friends listen to which makes us able to suggest new music to them that they actually like. I think this algorithm adds another value of Spotify. It is the only thing we are not in direct control over in the application regarding the music we listen to. It keeps it interesting. We don’t have to put in any effort in finding new music, because the application already “knows” what we like and serves us new music accordingly.

One challenge with this is that the application doesn’t understand context. It will only know that we might want to listen to a certain song at some time. What would happen if it could recommend that song at the exact time we would want to hear it? I think this intertwining of human and mechanical qualities is quite uncomfortable. We can conversate with machines by interacting with them, and conversations don’t require emotions which could trick us into thinking machines could be like us. But as much as machines can look human and behave like they understand us, they will never do because they lack empathy.

In interactions with physical objects like hammering a nail, the nail in the wall is an immediate reaction of the movement of swinging the hammer. But the interaction with digital services like Spotify is a process where an input answers an output that go between the two dimensions of the physical and the digital world. Still, the interaction with Spotify seems seamless. It feels like an immediate reaction from the application when clicking on the song I want to hear and it starts playing directly. It is even faster than putting on a CD on a CD-player. The only time I stop and realise that it actually is a digital service I am dealing with is when the internet connection breaks and I suddenly can’t continue playing the music. Spotify assumes that we have an Internet connection (unless we have downloaded playlists to offline mode), which is a restriction with the application compared to listening on a CD-player. Spotify also assumes that users have a device with the application installed to be able to use it, and to gain access to most of the functionality they need to be prepared to pay a monthly fee.  

Spotify is an example of how much technology depend on screens today. Without a screen, it would be very hard to use any functionality in Spotify like navigate through playlists or search for a song. The application exists within the screen. But what does that mean? We have a visual encounter with the user interface when interacting with it, but we only see so much of the application. Behind all that there is a lot of back-end coding that really “IS��� the application. Since there would not be any visuals, audio or interaction without the “hidden” code behind it all, is what we see and interact with a façade, as a try by the designer to make it easier for us to exchange information with the service? Or would there not be the same product at all without an intertwined relationship between these two parts? If we look back in the history of computer design, screens were added to display information to operate the computer more easily, which again leads us back to that design in fact does reach for simplicity.

The switch from record stores to music streaming application has given music legs. Now, we can carry our music library with us and listen to it anywhere. It has become mobile. The music library is no longer constant and predetermined by the record store owner, it’s up to each listener to create their own library. It can also be changed whenever wanted, it can be sorted by genre one day, the next day by date added, and the third by song name. Spotify is flexible and lets each user personalize their library the way they like.

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Is IOS 7 the Best OS Platform That Apple Has Created?

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Is IOS 7 the Best OS Platform That Apple Has Created?

The latest updates using Apple have created a lot of hype within the technology market. The statement of iOS 7 has created the frenzy amongst technology users international over. Google too has introduced updates associated with its working device. However, there are lots of factors that one requires considering if they’re to purchase the brand new Smartphone. It isn’t always only about the brand new era but additionally about the excellent platform that any tool has to offer.

Let us try and apprehend these two OSs and find out which one is higher:

User interface

Apple has introduced a total platform rehash to its vintage look replacing it with a new-look in its iOS 7. The Control Center, for example, seems translucent, and it permits precise navigation and swipes through the bottom of an iDevice. You can effortlessly get right of entry to numerous functions, features, media controls and display screen settings. You can even access various apps on your lock display screen. However, when we evaluate it with the Android platform, it appears to be pretty comparable in functionality with recognizing to tweets, e-mail messages, sports activities rankings and plenty greater.

It seems that Apple has created more significant of a neat appearance with the whole lot stacked nicely including notifications and home screen menu. But Android is new complex.

Multitasking capability

Apple added the ability of cellular multitasking currently, but it also appears to efficaciously run a couple of apps without consuming an excessive amount of battery strength. Your iPhone can without difficulty understand how an app will affect the battery and adapts to it accordingly. It analyzes how it can allocate battery power in keeping with apps. The Android OS maintains any app going for walks at the historical past of your tool, therefore, ingesting RAM. Unless you’ve got quit an app, it’ll preserve jogging even if it is for a long time. This suggests that the Android has but to increase a smart gadget for battery conservation.

Mapping capability

When it comes to Maps and Mapping, Apple has received pretty lots of poor remarks from its customers. Still, Apple has no longer released any cutting-edge plans or talked about enhancing it. The 3-D maps and search feature for its OS X Mavericks is all that we understand about. Nonetheless, the multi-device technique with maps is something to comprehend. You can find a location, store it and get right of entry to it from across all your iDevices.

Google has taken Maps to the following level giving users an smooth generation platform to perform and get in conjunction with. The first-rate a part of Google Maps is its accuracy of geographic places according to navigation. This is vital while a consumer wishes to turn-via-turn guidelines in any given place. Android is commendable on this appreciated.

Browser Features

The latest developments inside the Safari browser provide you with a lovely full-screen view. This again appears to be an idea from Google Chrome that has been long in the past incorporated using Google. In Android OS the quest bar is hidden, it could be revealed with a swipe. The tab view to is followed using Apple. Here once more it seems that Android is a winner as Apple appears to have merely copied it.

Voice Assistance

Siri via Apple is the most pointed out voice assistant. A voice assistant appears to be a need nowadays in Smartphones. Siri enables you to toggle controls associated with Bluetooth and other settings. Its integration with social media like Twitter, Bing, and Wikipedia is appreciable. The introduction of ‘in-car’ gadget is but any other interesting addition as a way to help a motive force to live eyes unfastened from the device. Apart from the ‘in-automobile’ software program, Android has all of it. In this category, it appears each is identical. Right from getting baseball ratings, to movie schedules and journey instances, you have got all of it on voice command.

Streaming tune

The streaming music provider provided with the aid of each is slightly distinct. The iTunes Radio is quite similar to Pandora; whereas Google offers you All Access with services similar to Spotify. However, with Google’s All Access, you have the liberty to create stations based on the selection of your songs or artist. This way you may music into your favorite tune and album with no trouble. This function isn’t always found in iTunes as you could most capable tap to purchase the song.

Again it appears that evidently, Android wins this class as everybody enjoys custom designed music libraries and music streaming.

Conclusion

While there are still talks about the present day updates from Google however if assets are to be believed there are greater to come back. Additional features and consumer-pleasant features are some of the additions that Google is set to introduce. However, it’s miles your choice whether you want to pick out iOS or Android because each has its set of advantages and drawbacks.

As a senior tech assist engineer at Qresolve.Com Brandon Malcolm Smith has been offering on-line tech guide to worldwide clients for problems related to laptops, desktops, Mac and devices which include iPods, drugs, iPhones and extra. Moreover, he is an avid writer of articles and blogs that are aimed to assist Internet users. His areas of pastimes consist of PC help, tech support, emerging technology, and recognition on tech aid scams. Looking for the Best Text Message App for Android? Here’s What You Need to Know

Smartphones are taken into consideration as one of the pleasant-promoting gadgets in recent times. According to eMarketer.Com, a rate of 4.55 billion human beings Global is expected to use cellular phones in this year. Moreover, a new file conducted by the same research enterprise talks approximately international cell telephone customers for 2014’s forecast and similar estimates. They stated that between 2013 and 2017, mobile phone penetration will rise from sixty-one.1 to 69.4 percent of the common populace.

Another look at carried out with the aid of Business Insider says that one in every five human beings inside the global owns a smartphone. It is also predicted that 20 percentage will very own computers, at the same time as 22 proportion of the population will personal smartphones, which is bigger charge as compared to a different mobile tool. This is proof that cellular penetration substantially impacts the technological behavior of the arena. It is likewise the purpose why different mobile apps have been developed to have a tendency to the desires of mobile clients.

There are specific apps inside the marketplace it is intended for either entertainment or trendy needs. If you are a tech savvy person who is fond of using social platforms, you may truly need an application it is intended for sending messages online. You may additionally use instant messaging programs or cellular messaging app that lets you speak 24 hours an afternoon, seven days every week.

Smartphones might also are available in closed working systems, but the maximum accessible are Android and iOs. You might also locate an array of applications that declare to be the “first-class text messaging app” for Android and Apple. As a cellular person, this title would possibly confuse you. Here are some tips on what you need to look for a dependable app with the intention to match your wishes:

All-in-one Messenger

You might also have signed up for a variety of unbiased chat offerings like Google Hangouts, Yahoo Messenger, Facebook Messenger, Fring, and extra. However, it may be a problem to log-in in a majority of these bills one after the other directly to speak to the humans to your contacts list.

You may also use an app that capabilities unified messaging if you want to be easier to log-in to personal money owed and structures using just the use of one machine.

With functions suitable for your needs

The features of the text messaging software you’re seeking out have to be beneficial to your communique needs. Does it offer audio- and video- enabled chats? Can it help you send fax messages? Does it assist you to manipulate your electronic mail? How about institution chats and online video conferencing? You should renowned this stuff mainly if it will be fantastic to your business or private use.

Integration of different networks

The first-rate textual content messaging app for Android and Apple have to permit the customers to integrate their social networks for a much broader connection of contacts. It ought to additionally allow phone integration so that you can call to mobile and PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) phones.

Why search for various apps when you may find all those features in just one application? Whether you’re the use of a laptop or mobile tool with a reliable internet access, the features of this free textual content messaging app lets in it to turn right into a landline, cell smartphone, fax, and others.