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Title:

Throwing Your Shoestring At Being Platform Agnostic

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Organizer:
Shayan Zadeh, Zoosk
Description:
Facebook, Open Social, iPhone, Android, a destination site. How can a startup afford to have products on multiple channels and not get stuck maintaining 10 different products and code bases? The founder of Zoosk will present how it built a platform agnostic product and their key learnings along the way.
Questions
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  1. What does it really mean to have a platform agnostic product?
  2. What are the major questions to consider in selecting platforms for your product?
  3. What are the benefits of creating a platform agnostic product?
  4. What are the challenges with creating a platform agnostic product?
  5. What are the cultural considerations you need to be mindful of with each platform?
  6. How can you quickly customize your product for each product without writing new code?
  7. How can you connect your users, across platforms, to create one brand community?
  8. If Zoosk could create a platform-agnostic product all over again, what would it do differently?
Level:
Intermediate
Category:
Back-End Programming / Databases, Case Study, Mobile Applications, Open Source, Web Apps / Widgets
Type:
Solo
Event:
Interactive 2010
on 17/8/09
Shayan has taken Zoosk.com from nothing to 40 million unique user profiles and over 16M monthly unique active. Zoosk is a brilliant, rare success story; one of first, few start-ups that have figure out how to effectively monetize social networks. Additionally, Zoosk is considered as one of the first forays into Web 3.0, delivering content to the user regardless of their identity or domain.

This talk is a MUST see.
on 17/8/09
No one in the social media space should miss this! Zoosk's Jedi Master, Shayan Zadeh, is gonna show you how it's done.
Audrey Shedivy
on 17/8/09
Very relevant topic. Considering how quickly and effectively Zoosk built a platform-agnostic product, this session will be a valuable one to attend during SXSWi 2010.
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