Perfect Market recently had our Chinese New Year’s celebration here at Perfect Market to honor Year of the Black Water Dragon. We are particularly excited about the Year of the Dragon because the we feel that Perfect Market has a lot in common with the Dragon:
No SQL databases are no longer a joke, shrouded in the corner of hype terms and prototype implementers. More specifically, MongoDB is one such NoSQL database leading the way; by moving from the hobbyist space to running production systems for the world's largest infrastructures. This year at the MongoDB 2012 conference in Los Angeles, the Perfect Market engineers got the run down on what's new, what's coming and how it's being used today. If you haven't yet evaluated a NoSQL database solution to solve performance and scaling problems of your current infrastructure, now is the time.
Terry Kawaja's LUMAscape attempted to map the infrastructure of companies participating in the space between Marketers and Publishers. Perfect Market CEO Julie Schoenfeld presents a simplified version of the LUMAscape by focusing on the 6 major functions involved in the display ad value chain. Watch the video to learn more about these functions and how this perspective explains the strategies of leading Internet companies such as Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, AOL and Facebook.
If you’ve followed any tech news outlets this week, you’ve probably seen that Google released a new product called Search, Plus Your World. If you haven’t seen it yet, the short version is that Google began mixing more pages into your search results that were shared (or +1’ed) by people you’re connected with. Google has shown some customized results for years, but they were the exception rather than the rule – the majority of search results were picked by the almighty Algorithm.
The holidays are a time for reflection and stock taking. Over the past year I have had several constants in my life and I would like to take a minute to express my gratitude to them.
My Team
The Perfect Market team is the template for what all effective teams must be. Hard working, goal oriented, results driven, non-quitters, caring about each other, honest and filled with strong character. The best of the best.
When it comes to software design, success or failure can be entirely dictated by ease of use and simplicity of design. Just like with real life face-to-face interactions, first impressions are lasting impressions. Wowing your customers with design, simplicity, intelligence, and speed is critical in driving usability and adoption of your product.
Often when people talk about product design, they think color palette, fonts, and page layout. However, product design extends far beyond that and tackles much more complex matters in order to address a host of use cases and scenarios.
Let’s take a seemingly simple task like creating a new member for a web-based application. What are some things that need to be taken into consideration when working through the design?
In his recent column on Wired (“The Future of Advertising”), Felix Salmon, a wonderful reporter and blogger, especially on economic issues, suggests that he wants to “push back a bit against some of the unexamined assumptions” which he encounters “most of the time when I meet online-media people.” Funny thing is that in examining these assumptions, Salmon reveals some of his own assumptions that are worth examining.
In this video, Tim Ruder talks about a simple approach to site metrics for news publishers that has very powerful uses. At the heart of this approach, is thinking of page views as the outcome of site reader behaviors. By doing this you can unlock and focus on the underlying drivers of site growth: audience size, return frequency of use and depth of use. This model for online news sites can be further refined with simple segmentation models that are available in standard site metric packages.
The Boston Globe’s new HTML5 Responsive Design launched on BostonGlobe.com in preparation for their paywall strategy, and it has the industry abuzz about the death of apps and the future of the web as a place where you can get a more consistent, great experience, no matter what device you use to access it.
The Boston Globe this week implemented a paywall on their www.bostonglobe.com site, the exclusive outlet for content written for the Boston Globe newspaper. The company delved into two new areas in launching a dedicated site for the Boston Globe. First, they implemented a new design and technical approach called responsive publishing. The concept of responsive publishing is that a website should adapt to any browser, device or window size and still look great. Having browsed the Boston Globe site over the last few days on multiple devices, it definitely lives up to this promise. The site looks great. (Jay Budzik, our CTO, is going to be commenting on the technical approach to responsive publishing, so check back.)
03 February 2012 By Perfect Market
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