March 2008
24 posts
“Murdoch, jolly pirate that he is, reportedly sent Sulzberger a handwritten note...”
– Howell Raines on Rupert Murdoch - Portfolio.com
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What I Learned From My Dad Who Taught Me How To... →
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conversational marketing experiment
In late December of 2008 I registered a domain and tossed up a landing page collecting email invitations. At the end of January, I had collected 2000 email addresses. All by writing a couple of blog comments and placing links on various social sites. Not spamming, but by having conversations within the community. The blog posts I left comments on were related to the subject matter of the...
“You can not build a *real* publishing business (as in tens of millions of...”
– Are ad networks for loser/weak publishers? | Jason Calacanis Great advice. I think there are actually three phases:
Super small (less than $1000/mo) Midsize ($1000/mo to $20000/mo) Large ($20000+/mo)
When I first transitioned from a subscription model to an advertising model for a site I...
not the first to market, competitor has traction? ...
You’d better have a hell of a marketing budget, because more features isn’t going to cut it. That’s the problem with most web 2.0 apps today. A different take on the same problem. Some are free. Some add more features. Some use less features. None of them were first, and hardly any have the marketing talent, or budget, necessary to compete against the established players. ...
payment gateways
If you’re looking for a payment gateway, go with Braintree Payment Solutions. They’re responsive and super developer friendly. Did I mention they also have a website that doesn’t look like it was built in 1998? And they blog. Yes, a credit card processor that blogs. Someone that gets it. At last.
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“It’s not really how you start. It’s not about a leg, it’s...”
30 days of spam
877 emails per day. 36 per hour. 1 every minute and a half.
To say the least, I’m thankful for hosted GMail.
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Need a way to befriend all of your followers on...
Checkout TwitterBack: https://github.com/jdg/jdg-mashups/tree/master/twitterback
A quick and easy way to befriend all of the people following you. Run it once a week or something like that to keep everyone synced up! :)
(UPDATE: new url)
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I'm a code hoarder.
I admit it. I’m a code hoarder. I have tens of thousands of lines written in past personal projects. Most of which never saw the light of day.
In the spirit of giving back, I’ll be publishing full projects, code snippets and anything else I have laying around piece by piece over the next few months.
First up, a few ‘mixers’.
Available...
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just a quick note: I did, however, have the best birthday weekend ever.
“A feature that anyone can add is not a sustainable differentiation. Since you...”
– More on Blogs, The Long Tail and Following vs Leading - Blog Maverick
Seth's Blog: Why bother having a resume? →
This is another example of the value an attention economy provides. Why bother with a resume when you can just Google someone? If they’ve done anything of note, it’s going to show up. If they haven’t, then why would you consider hiring them?
In the past, students joined all kinds of clubs and volunteered to help “perfect” their resume. Now, for certain kinds of...
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iphone behavior
An interesting observation: since purchasing my iPhone in, November? of 2007 I’ve moved away entirely from using Google Reader on my laptop. I now read RSS feeds throughout the day — when I wakeup I scan the headlines quickly, while waiting at stoplights, while waiting in the drive thru for food and right before going to sleep. All using the mobile version of Google Reader.
The...
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time tracking
So I just bought a copy of Stunt software’s “On the Job” time tracking app. It’s one of probably thousands out there, and the third that I’ve tried. What made me just stop looking and choose On the Job wasn’t any fancy features or the way it looked (and it does look good).
It was the power of persuasion and influence. 10 days ago my first trial ran out. A...
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I'm having a quarter-life crisis.
… and it’s kind of annoying. Today is my 25th birthday. It’s time for a few changes.
I’ve never done a good job of writing blog posts on a regular basis. Partly because it’s always been a hassle. Partly because I was never sure of what to write. Partly because I was afraid of what people would think about what I write.
So, let’s change that. Let’s...