Crossing Gaps

A Digital Storytelling Firm

Prologue

We see the world in terms of stories, we love them, so much that we make a living telling them. We help creative people (that's you) tell better stories using the web.

We think good ideas want to be online, and we help them get there. We create holistic strategies that combine design and development with marketing and monetization.

When you leave us, we want you to go with your own story to tell and a platform to tell it well.

Find Us

Steve Spalding

steve@crossinggaps.com


Quang Tran

quang@crossinggaps.com


Nathan Thompson

nate@crossinggaps.com


  • Bookends

    • Contact Us
    • Find Us Elsewhere
    • What We Can Do For You
    • Who You’ll Work With
  • What We're Saying

    • I really can’t get enough kinetic typog…
    • Design daily showcase #18: MICA - Maryla…
    • Jeff Jarvis on the future media. …
    • How I Spent A Million Bucks And Ended Up…
    • Design daily showcase #17: Australia 201…
  • What We Can Do

    • Web Design
    • Branding / Imaging
    • Social Media Strategy
    • Advertising Management
    • SEO
    • Education / Coaching
  • Things We've Made

    • How To Split An Atom
    • Really Great Stories
    • Social Media Job Wire
    • Gainesville's Best
    • My GAIN-NET
    • GatorNation Sports
    • PetStore Complete
    • Artist's Paid
  • RSS Light Reading

    • Smarter Bookmarks
    • Creativity, Uploading and Improving our Minds
    • When The Scientific Evidence Is Unwelcome, People Try To Reason It Away
    • Startup Lets Web Advertisers Bid for Your Attention
    • The Demise of the $200 Textbook
    • When Intuition And Math Probably Look Wrong
    • The Dangers Of Financial Illiteracy
    • Books Versus The Internet
    • MBAs Are In Intensive Care
    • The “Minority Report” Interface

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  • Quang Tran 10:51 pm on June 18, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Daily Short List, lists, social experiment (2), startup lessons (4), twitter

    Daily Short List #1

    1. The Real Lessons From Twitter (post) - Tony Stubblebine

    2. StartupLessonsLearned (blog) - Eric Ries, cofounder of IMVU

    3. Pearls Before Breakfast (post / video) - Gene Weingarten

    4. What causes success? / The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 4: The only thing that matters (post) - Marc Andreessen

    5. How to develop your customers like you develop your product (post) - Venture Hacks


    1.

    The features that mattered were defined by social interactions, and each user had their own customized set of features based on the social interactions that were important to them.

    3.

    If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing?

    4.

    And so you start to wonder — what correlates the most to success — team, product, or market? Or, more bluntly, what causes success? And, for those of us who are students of startup failure — what’s most dangerous: a bad team, a weak product, or a poor market?

    5.

    In a startup no facts exist inside the building, only opinions.

    – Steve Blank

     

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  • Quang Tran 7:13 pm on June 18, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: #iranelection (3), communication platform (3), social media (12), twitter

    Therein lies the uneasy truth: In a major international crisis, one of the prime channels of communication and news for individuals, media outlets, and governments alike is a 2-year-old start-up in San Francisco with 50 employees, no discernible business model, a history of technical instability, and a misinformation-related lawsuit on the table. This is a problem.”

    — Caroline McCarthy, CNET: With Iran crisis, Twitter’s youth is over (via mikehudack)

     
  • Quang Tran 7:05 pm on June 16, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Clay Shirky (3), communication platform (3), facebook (2), social media (12), twitter, ubiqutous

    Clay Shirky: How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history

    While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.

     
  • Quang Tran 6:52 pm on June 16, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: #iranelection (3), social media (12), twitter

    Twitterverse working to confuse Iranian censors

     
  • Quang Tran 1:38 am on June 15, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: #iranelection (3), democracy, social media (12), twitter, voice

    12 June 2009 - #iranelection

    15 June 2009

    high-res

     
  • Quang Tran 1:27 am on June 15, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: social media (12), twitter

    Twitter: an intuitive person’s paradise?

    To an intuitive person, the steady stream of emotional input that Twitter delivers is appealing and energising. To an intuitive and introverted person, the mass download of emotional introspection is not only appealing, it is deeply comforting and reassuring. It provides a shared experience and a connection that introverted and intuitive people do not often get a chance to enjoy. And it’s there all the time, whenever you want to tap in.

    - Danu Poyner

     
  • Quang Tran 4:55 am on June 12, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: building43 (3), Fred Wilson (2), quang's top 10 (3), social media (12), twitter, videos (7)

    Fred Wilson, the real-time investor.

     
  • Quang Tran 4:28 am on June 12, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: building43 (3), quang's top 10 (3), social media (12), Tony Hsieh, twitter, videos (7), zappos

    An inside look at zappos’ HQ

     
  • Quang Tran 5:06 am on June 5, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: customized newspaper, new media, twitter

    How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live

    Increasingly, the stories that come across our radar — news about a plane crash, a feisty Op-Ed, a gossip item — will arrive via the passed links of the people we follow. Instead of being built by some kind of artificially intelligent software algorithm, a customized newspaper will be compiled from all the articles being read that morning by your social network.

    - Steven Johnson (via)

     
  • Quang Tran 11:40 pm on June 4, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: distraction-based media, facebook (2), real-time web, social media (12), twitter

    Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook and the host of real-time-web feed services … are quintessentially distraction-based media; shallow on context and truncated into staccato bursts of conversation. These media play off of a very real psychological factor known as operant conditioning, the addictive need to return over and over in hopes of a reward… The dominant revenue model of the web today - the ad that urges a click - embeds distraction into interface design. The more clicks you take – the more Google makes in ad revenue (distraction pays).

    - Joshua-Michéle: The Real Time Web is a Beautiful Distraction

     

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