Comments on: In web we trust, but how much? http://www.notgeeklycorrect.com/english/2009/10/19/in-web-we-trust-but-how-much/ Blog of a freelance web developer Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:39:44 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Nicolas http://www.notgeeklycorrect.com/english/2009/10/19/in-web-we-trust-but-how-much/comment-page-1/#comment-424 Nicolas Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:32:53 +0000 http://www.notgeeklycorrect.com/?p=525#comment-424 Thanks for these points masukomi, there are some good points here that I need to work on :D Thanks for these points masukomi, there are some good points here that I need to work on :D

]]> By: masukomi http://www.notgeeklycorrect.com/english/2009/10/19/in-web-we-trust-but-how-much/comment-page-1/#comment-406 masukomi Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:36:43 +0000 http://www.notgeeklycorrect.com/?p=525#comment-406 For me it's usually just a matter of willingness to take the risk. Brand rep plays a huge part in this. If it's a new app without a rep, then I tend to fall back to how professional the site appears. Does it have really good design? Does it have a FAQ and other good docs? In short, have the developers obviously put a lot of time, effort and caring into its creation. I think it's simply not worth that kind of effort if your only goal is to screw users. Plus, with twitter, there's not a lot of value in screwing someone. Yeah you can post stuff that makes them look bad what else are they going to do. I mean, what personal information have I given twitter? My e-mail? That's not hard to find anyway. My web sites? Hullo, all available through google. My location? Potentially useful but if i were out to steal peoples location info for nefarious purposes i'd work on something that hooked into Loopt or FourSquare, or any of the other GPS location based apps. In short, make something that looks really professional visually, and appears to have had some non-trivial amount of time expended in its creation, along with good documentation to show me that you actually seem to care about what users think and want them to understand and use your service. Do that and, assuming your tool is something I'd find useful to begin with, I'll take a chance on it. There are way too many twitter oAuth apps out there that have zero documentation. not even a freaking about page that describes what exactly it does and why. Just some fancy front page with their widget on it, an assumption that it is totally self explanatory, and sign-up type button. grr. For me it’s usually just a matter of willingness to take the risk. Brand rep plays a huge part in this. If it’s a new app without a rep, then I tend to fall back to how professional the site appears. Does it have really good design? Does it have a FAQ and other good docs? In short, have the developers obviously put a lot of time, effort and caring into its creation. I think it’s simply not worth that kind of effort if your only goal is to screw users. Plus, with twitter, there’s not a lot of value in screwing someone. Yeah you can post stuff that makes them look bad what else are they going to do. I mean, what personal information have I given twitter? My e-mail? That’s not hard to find anyway. My web sites? Hullo, all available through google. My location? Potentially useful but if i were out to steal peoples location info for nefarious purposes i’d work on something that hooked into Loopt or FourSquare, or any of the other GPS location based apps.

In short, make something that looks really professional visually, and appears to have had some non-trivial amount of time expended in its creation, along with good documentation to show me that you actually seem to care about what users think and want them to understand and use your service. Do that and, assuming your tool is something I’d find useful to begin with, I’ll take a chance on it.

There are way too many twitter oAuth apps out there that have zero documentation. not even a freaking about page that describes what exactly it does and why. Just some fancy front page with their widget on it, an assumption that it is totally self explanatory, and sign-up type button. grr.

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