Growth

37signals is a Hit

by jiyanwei • June 1, 2007

37signals is a small development shop based out of Chicago that a former v-Fluence colleague of mine told me about several years ago.  They build collaborative software that places a premium on simplicity and usability – two of my favorite things.  I was laying in bed leafing through Time Magazine last night when I stumbled […]


Getting started with social media

by jiyanwei • April 16, 2007

Enter Social Media In September 2006, Hitwise, an online marketing research firm, reported that the majority of traffic to online music retailer, HMV.co.uk, was referred from MySpace, a social networking Web site.  This traffic surpassed searches from two of the most popular search engines, MSN UK and Yahoo! UK.  The event was a milestone because […]