I'm actually surprised LinkedIn's widget doesn't say "X people viewed your profile in the past Y days" while constantly modifying Y so X can change without actually changing... since that's one of the many shitty attention whore things they do with email alerts.
If people are clicking your profile at least daily, yes. If you're not particularly "engaged" on Linkedin (I have an account but virtually never use it or update it) then not so much. It is the unengaged ones LinkedIn is targetting with this (because the engaged ones don't need to be tricked into going to the site).
As guptaneil said you don't want X to be 0. Also, by playing with Y even when X wouldn't be 0 you can trick people into thinking there is activity that doesn't exist:
Spam Email Day1: "3 people clicked your profile in the past 5 days!"
Spam Email Day2: "10 people clicked your profile in the past 15 days!"
Meanwhile there's been no change, 10 people have clicked your profile in the past 15 days and 3 people have clicked in the past 6 days, but the 10 number looks bigger thus maybe you'll click to see why the sudden uptick.
Excuse me for being rude but what makes these worse than the iOS 7 notifications? If you actually take 2 factor seriously the notification screen is worthless.
Am I the only one who doesn't really consider iOS's widgets to be actual widgets? At least on Android I can "do" something with the widget. Example: GMail or email widget....I can read through my inbox; calendar...I can see my next events. The iOS widgets just create a shortcut for me to need to open the full app.
Exactly. A much better example would be to look at what James Thompson is doing with PCalc; the notification widget is a companion calculator to the main app.
http://www.pcalc.com/iphone/index.html
To be fair to Duolingo, if you enable daily goals then your remaining points for the day are shown. Not spectacularly useful perhaps, but not comically useless either.
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[ 7.3 ms ] story [ 58.8 ms ] threadAs guptaneil said you don't want X to be 0. Also, by playing with Y even when X wouldn't be 0 you can trick people into thinking there is activity that doesn't exist:
Spam Email Day1: "3 people clicked your profile in the past 5 days!"
Spam Email Day2: "10 people clicked your profile in the past 15 days!"
Meanwhile there's been no change, 10 people have clicked your profile in the past 15 days and 3 people have clicked in the past 6 days, but the 10 number looks bigger thus maybe you'll click to see why the sudden uptick.