Articles
May 25th
Speed vs. Certainty in A/B Testing
May 12th
8 Tips for Crafting Metrics That Matter
May 11th
Building a Social Network, Island by Island
May 6th
What Verna Taught Me
May 5th
Notification Strategies for Social Networks
April 28th
Why hi5 Might Have an Edge on Facebook
April 24th
Behavior Adoption on Social Networks
April 15th
Almost Viral: A Hybrid Acquisition Strategy
April 9th
Social Applications are Social Networks
April 6th
Where the iTunes Store Fails: Community
January 19th
When in Rome: Newcomers on Facebook
December 10th, 2008
The $0.99 (App) Store
December 4th, 2008
The Dangers of Genetic Optimization
December 2nd, 2008
The Cult of the Product
November 18th, 2008
Three Myths of Viral Growth
November 12th, 2008
Statistical Analysis and A/B Testing
November 10th, 2008
Data Management, Facebook-style
October 29th, 2008
Obama, McCain, and Data-Driven Campaigning
October 27th, 2008
Hypothesis Testing: The Basics
October 20th, 2008
Scientific Product Development
October 14th, 2008
Implementing A/B Testing
October 6th, 2008
An Introduction to A/B Testing
October 1st, 2008
Data-Driven Development
June 16th, 2008
Erlang: A Generalized TCP Server
June 15th, 2008
Erlang: An Introduction to Records
June 9th, 2008
Erlang: A Generic Server Tutorial
May 25th, 2008
Politics and Tufte’s Lie Factor
May 21st, 2008
An EventMachine Tutorial
May 19th, 2008
Facebook Users Just Want Entertainment
May 15th, 2008
Facebook Bans Google Friend Connect
May 13th, 2008
Interview Questions: Database Indexes
May 12th, 2008
Powerset Launches. Verdict: Meh.
May 9th, 2008
How I Grow My Blog
May 7th, 2008
The State of the Platform: Update
May 6th, 2008
The State of the Facebook Platform
May 2nd, 2008
Network Programming in Erlang
May 1st, 2008
Help, Facebook’s Hacking Me!
April 30th, 2008
Interview Questions: Counting Bits
April 29th, 2008
Learning Erlang
April 25th, 2008
The Future is Discovery, not Just Search
April 17th, 2008
Interview Questions: Loops in Linked Lists
April 16th, 2008
The Best Facebook Ad Network
April 14th, 2008
Amazon, the Tech Company
April 11th, 2008
Interview Questions: When It’s Your Turn
April 8th, 2008
Easter Eggs in Facebook Chat
April 8th, 2008
Web 2.0 and Two-sided Markets
April 7th, 2008
Interview Questions: Shuffling an Array
April 5th, 2008
Decisions Without Data
April 3rd, 2008
Interview Questions: Two Bowling Balls
February 7th, 2008
Random Weighted Elements in PHP
November 7th, 2007
Memo to OpenSocial: It’s about distribution, stupid!
November 2nd, 2007
Graph Theory: Part III (Facebook)
August 2nd, 2007
Graph Theory: Part II (Linear Algebra)
August 1st, 2007
Rules of Thumb for Successful Facebook Applications
July 31st, 2007
Graph Theory: Part I (Introduction)
July 16th, 2007
Appaholic and Inside Facebook
July 11th, 2007
The Social Graph, Facebook, and Virality
June 21st, 2007
5 Ways to Improve the Digg App
June 21st, 2007
More Facebook Application Gotchas
June 19th, 2007
5 Facebook Application Gotchas
June 4th, 2007
An Introduction to FBML
May 17th, 2007
Designing Content-focused Websites
May 8th, 2007
Introduction to Dynamic Programming
May 5th, 2007
The Infection Puzzle
April 27th, 2007
Facebook job puzzles: Prime bits
April 19th, 2007
Facebook job puzzles: Korn Shell
April 10th, 2007
10 Tips for Optimizing MySQL Queries (That don’t suck)
April 4th, 2007