This document discusses using social features to optimize apps and services. It provides examples of companies like Amazon, Foursquare, Quora, Instagram, and Pinterest that have successfully used a social graph to increase sales and engagement. General tips are given such as using Facebook and Twitter, making sure share buttons work properly, and developing for mobile first. Trends mentioned include social features being added to solitary activities, social impacting the real world through companies like AirBnB, and content being consumed in short snippets.
18. USE IT OR LOSE IT
Doing social? Use Facebook and
Twitter, try out new services
Make sure your share buttons
work the way they should
Not developing for mobile 鍖rst?
Probably a mistake.
19. PLAY NICE WITHTHE BIG
GUYS
The arrival of Facebooks Open
Graph has created a new breed of
supercharged startups. [..] SocialCam
added 20 million users in just two
weeks after it joined the club.
TheVerge
20. NEVER LAUNCH EMPTY
Amazon without books?
Facebook without people?
Reddit without links?
Build a starting data set and
keep adding to it; disguise
how small it is
21. TRICKINGTHE USERS
Nir Eyal,The Desire Engine
How to get the users to use our service
more
Excellent intro to brain hacking
Only for the light side of the force
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23. TRENDS
Social everything: solitary activities turning into group ones
Social is changing real world:AirBnB, Prevoz.org, ZipCar
Social enterprise: almost 90% of Fortune 500,Yammer
Gami鍖cation: making boring stuff fun
Content snacking: average time in app = 1 minute