<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/46f27798-5e5a-489d-9610-99cf7a3a5aae/6A6F0FBC-0F8E-413C-B638-2100EB1E510A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_software_best_practices.php" href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_software_best_practices.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.readwriteweb.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_software_best_practices.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.readwriteweb.com/img/9E5CAB46-2E39-4355-965A-4A8D453C4A92" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_software_best_practices.php"><P> Social software is a whole new world in many ways and people everywhere are trying to figure out how to design effective and compelling applications. I offer for your consideration today three recent attempts to articulate social software design best practices. Let's discuss. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_software_best_practices.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.readwriteweb.com/img/4D1EC458-0927-42C4-AEDB-4814F6B48BDE" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_software_best_practices.php"><P> The recommendations include things like "focus on the 30-second experience; before distracting the user with expert features or sending invites, slow down and give the user a simpler taste of what your application is about." That's good advice that a lot of startups could benefit from considering. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_software_best_practices.php"><P> <IMG vspace="5" hspace="5" align="right" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/factoryjoeshot.jpg" />Factory Joe, also know as Chris Messina of San Francisco consultancy <A href="http://citizenagency.org">CitizenAgency<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.4/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A> when he takes his cape off, maintains <A href="http://flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe">an excellent collection of screenshots on Flickr<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.4/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A>. He saves all kinds of good examples of contemporary interface design in the social software world. I point people to it all the time, now you can too. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6A6F0FBC-0F8E-413C-B638-2100EB1E510A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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