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Re: Fun Friday: Office Art

jakelevine — Fri, 29 May 2015 10:03:08 -0000

Thanks for sharing it, Fred! Looks great

Re: Being Tim Devane - The Smart Syndicate

jakelevine — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 14:11:09 -0000

Both good points. I fall into this too, but generally I think this could benefit from some precise definitions: What do you mean when you say syndicate? Public solicitation to accredited investors? Public solicitation to non-accredited investors? Relaxed accreditation requirements?

Re: A VC: The Purity Of Angel Investing

jakelevine — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 15:49:44 -0000

I think I'm talking about something in between. I don't think angellist got it all right, but their syndicates hint at a better way to bring angel capital together - better and more scalable than personal relationships and email. Building an infrastructure for that, without the baggage of traditional VC, is exciting.

Re: A VC: The Purity Of Angel Investing

jakelevine — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 14:44:52 -0000

Per this comment (https://twitter.com/fredwil..., I'm interested to know why you think angels investing in groups, with a leader, necessarily corrupts the "purity" of angel investing.

Angel investors are in the business to make money, or else they aren't investors, they're philanthropists. What makes them different is the fact that they aren't beholden to a group of LPs, or a fund structure that requires a certain return in a certain amount of time. The problem is that the size of that return, and the time constraint on it, has nothing necessarily to do with the operating of a successful and sustainable startup business. The benefit of angels, in my mind, is that they can support a wider variety of outcomes.

So I don't understand why they can't continue to do so when they join together in ad hoc groups. As long as the formation of those groups don't require constraints on time and return, they remain "pure".

What excited me about your post, was the notion that we could make that purity scalable. Maybe you're suggesting that it can't scale?

Re: The Year We Broke the Internet - Esquire

jakelevine — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 14:35:00 -0000

I agree, kind of. Offline quality content has always been supported by crap, the difference is that online, we know it.

Re: Mindfulness and Authentic Leadership at Work

jakelevine — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 10:49:14 -0000

Re: I Used This BreakUpText App On A Bunch Of People I Know, And Man Does This App Suck At Breaking Up

jakelevine — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:40:04 -0000

This is amazing (I'm the joker that made the app). We need to get these breakup texts into the app.

Re: Digg Blog, Digg Reader Rollout (Update!)

jakelevine — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:48:47 -0000

yup! mark as unread is coming next week. looking into the other issue now.

Re: Digg Blog, Digg Reader Rollout (Update!)

jakelevine — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:48:10 -0000

thanks! logged

Re: Digg Blog, Digg Reader Rollout (Update!)

jakelevine — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:47:59 -0000

haha, good question. should be more obvious. here's the link: http://blog.digg.com/rss

Re: Digg Blog, Digg Reader Rollout (Update!)

jakelevine — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:47:22 -0000

Show only unread is far and away our most requested feature. Coming next week!

Re: Digg Blog, Digg Reader Rollout (Update!)

jakelevine — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:47:05 -0000

Hey Janos — Thanks for the feedback. View Only Unread is coming next week, and I'm getting your other suggestions into our roadmap as well.

Re: Digg Blog, Digg Reader Rollout (Update!)

jakelevine — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:46:20 -0000

Hey Chimel — Sorry about all this. We wanted to launch before Google Reader shut down so we had to make some tough choices about what to include in this beta version.

Mark as Unread and View Only Unread are both coming next week, and OPML Import/Export is soon to follow.

I'd love to hear any additional feedback or feature suggestions so @ me on Twitter or shoot us an email at reader@digg.com

Re: Digg Blog, Digg Reader Rollout (Update!)

jakelevine — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:44:19 -0000

Yes! This is our most requested feature. Coming next week.

Re: Digg Blog, Digg Reader Rollout

jakelevine — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 23:45:33 -0000

Fix coming momentarily.

Re: Digg Blog, Digg Reader Rollout

jakelevine — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 23:45:11 -0000

That won't be an issue. We hope to get everyone in some time tomorrow.

Android app coming in a few weeks!

Re: Digg Blog, Digg Reader Update!

jakelevine — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:25:40 -0000

Hi All — Someone's been lurking here offering invites to the beta, asking you to email him. His screen name is/was Sean Egn and it looks like a phishing scam. I've deleted the comments and blacklisted his IP. Please be wary!

Re: Interestingness

jakelevine — Wed, 29 May 2013 15:48:48 -0000

The word "consume" feels wrong. We don't consume greatness, we're inspired by it... we participate in it. And I don't think the greatness of any of these outliers would be possible independent of exogenous inspiration.

So perhaps one way to think about the trend you're sensing is that greater access to inspiration does, in the aggregate, lead to a deeper and more widespread exceptionalism?

The kid that feels closer to the exceptional athlete or musician — through any number or combination of the new media available to us — feels closer to exceptionalism itself. And it's that attainability that leads her to new heights.

Re: Nobody Knows That I Use These Apps

jakelevine — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:08:28 -0000

It's easy to track that a notification was sent. It's impossible to track whether or not it is "seen" unless the users clicks through it.

Re: Nobody Knows That I Use These Apps

jakelevine — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:55:51 -0000

Yep I think so. It'll be cool to see how that plays out.

Re: Nobody Knows That I Use These Apps

jakelevine — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:55:34 -0000

You're right. Those metrics are important when you're monetizing via ad impressions. But there are other ways to generate revenue — Dark Sky, for example, is a paid app.

Re: Don’t Learn How To Code, Learn How To Make Things

jakelevine — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:54:42 -0000

bleh. rdio api is glitchy. working now. sorry!

Re: Digg Blog, Thinking About Monetization

jakelevine — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:46:00 -0000

Hey Ed — So sorry about that! What's your email address? We just searched your name and couldn't find a ticket. I'm @jrlevine on Twitter if you want to ping me there.

Jake

Re: saying goodbye to betaworks

jakelevine — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:09:29 -0000

You rock

Re: What’s Next for News.me

jakelevine — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:03:58 -0000

Thanks Pramesh — just picking up where we left off with the new Digg. Looking forward to your thoughts on that product!