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

What is a word? An introduction to computational linguistics.