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Dear readers, I have moved to Substack and I will be writing here from now on:
👉 andrewchen.substack.com
In the meantime, I will leave andrewchen.com up for posterity. Enjoy!

Quick tinkering on my blog

I just tinkered around with my blog a little bit to expose some of my "back catalog" of content that I’ve written over the last couple months. For those of you who have my blog on your feed reader, click here to check it out.

The most substantial change was to expose a bunch of previous essays that might be new to some people. It’s on the left sidebar, underneath my new picture ;-)

Here’s the list of previous blog entries:

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How should app developers look at OpenSocial?

Profile on Max Levchin @ Slide

Things that used to be cool that are no longer cool

Ad networks: Winner-take-all or Everyone-wins?

Who’s right? Panel-based measurement versus raw server logs

Invite targeting on Facebook gets standardized out

WSJ article describing the difficulty of monetizing UGC

Photos from Day 1 of CommunityNext conference

Couple quotes on Facebook in Wired, Fortune, and NYT

5 things that make your social network monetize like crap

New Diner Dash: Entrenched casual game companies versus new casual MMOs

CommunityNext almost sold out! Also, what can social network platforms learn from desktop platforms?

5 differences between a NY ad conference and a SF web 2.0 conference

Out to NYC for Advertising Week

Blog on vertical ad networks

Great article on different types of “Platforms”

Yahoo’s Mash: Analysis of viral marketing technique

Fun article on Club Penguin

Social network convergence and private/public networks

Possibly the worst naming guide ever

Wall Street Reading List

Coming back from Austin

Out of town at Austin Game Developers Conference

Viral marketing is not a marketing strategy

A math nerd’s perspective of the world – Here’s a couple book recommendations

Reward schedules in HotOrNot

Are people like lab rats? Using reward schedules to drive engagement

Facebook quote in the LAST issue of Business 2.0

Congratulations to Nabeel + Conduit Labs

10% discount for the next 48 hours

CommunityNext: Platform – 2 days, 20+ speakers, top 100 Facebook developers, and over 300 attendees

Wanna bet? In 1 year, will Facebook be bigger? Or will MySpace?

Fun Phishing quiz

What’s your viral loop? Understanding the engine of adoption

Oh “SNAP” = Social Network Application

I have some pownce invites…

10% discount for registration in the next 24 hours, to the CommunityNext Viral Marketing conference

The new web paradigm for 2007?

How do you tell the difference between old Google employees and new ones?