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Offered in Parsons graduate Design & Technology program, Internet Famous Class is dedicated to learning how to spread your work to the widest possible audience online. It's also the first algorithmically graded class in the history of academics.

Our Famotron software measures the online attention economy — view counts, blog links, social media activity, followers and their influence — and awards students their final letter grade. more...

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No, I Don’t Want to Be Your Friend

Web analytics pros Zaaz weigh in on everyone and their mother adding “social features” to their website:

One recent survey indicates 90% of businesses will add Web 2.0 features to their sites in the coming year…

There’s an assumption out there that people “want to connect” with each other online… but on sites offered by companies that aren’t in the business of connecting people online, in highly branded spaces in particular, this couldn’t be further from the truth.

It might be tempting to create, say, a discussion board for your customers. Don’t do it. It will fail.

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