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Re: Twitter

Frasre — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:14:26 -0000

Yep, I scheduled 10:15 for my every-other-day "congrats" comment here. Great news. Great technology. Lots of possible business plans... Great investment. Good luck growing the company huge.

Re: AOL/Time Warner buys TACODA

Frasre — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:30:54 -0000

Congrats on the exit!

Were you a co-founder of Tacoda Brad? Fred's post makes it sound like you were...

Re: Twitter

Frasre — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:14:26 -0000

Yep, I scheduled 10:15 for my every-other-day "congrats" comment here. Great news. Great technology. Lots of possible business plans... Great investment. Good luck growing the company huge.

Re: AOL/Time Warner buys TACODA

Frasre — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:30:54 -0000

Congrats on the exit!

Were you a co-founder of Tacoda Brad? Fred's post makes it sound like you were...

Re: Google’s 10^100 (how many can you help?)

Frasre — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:23:01 -0000

The idea is audacious, but that's why I love it. Let's change the world. If only more big businesses took this same approach to social change.

Re: Trying Out A New Comment System

Frasre — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:36:04 -0000

Woah, now this will be interesting:

disqus = appears to be a Y Combinator start-up.
intense debate = a TechStars start-up.

Both have the same offering. Even the interface appears to be the same. Interesting coincidence to say the least. Will be fun to watch it play out :)

Re: Yesterday

Frasre — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:06:06 -0000

The Beastie Boys were the first group that I saw perform live. Beautiful. The only unfortunate thing was that they set such a high benchmark for all concerts since to measure up to :)

Re: Selling Too Soon

Frasre — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:05:33 -0000

Now that's a question I'd love answered! ..... Fred?

Re: New Comment System Feedback Please

Frasre — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:15:42 -0000

i vote to remove it (for now at least). lots of reasons, most of them mentioned... but I miss the ability to read the comment and hover over their name to know who it was ("oh, it's common-first-name from that site).... now I have to click and then hover to see that. Boo.

Re: New Comment System Feedback Please

Frasre — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:17:26 -0000

also don't like the comments split onto 2 pages. not too easy to follow a conversation if you forget to click over to the other pages :)

Re: Stars

Frasre — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:26:12 -0000

Great album and I'm anxiously looking forward to the new one from them. My favourite song on the album is One More Night...

[this, from a review for Set Yourself on Fire, always makes me laugh: “If you find me a recent album that towers higher with fodder so virtuosically managed and manipulated, I’ll give you 20 dollars and jump in a foreboding body of water from a height.”]

Re: Searching Outside.in

Frasre — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:32:22 -0000

Recently, coming into NYC late in the evening I found myself craving a burrito. Weird, maybe, but I absolutely needed one. Quick trip to outside.in... and I found a local place blogged burrito joint. Completely fulfilled my craving.

Re: I Love Amazon

Frasre — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:42:59 -0000

It doesn't get any better than that. It will be interesting to see how this plays out... bets on how the general consumer that purchases on itunes reacts?

Re: 30 Thoughts At 30,000 feet

Frasre — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:40:06 -0000

One of your best posts I've read in a while. Another "flag for Best of AVC".

Re: 30 Thoughts At 30,000 feet

Frasre — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:09:25 -0000

The dudes on the Freakonomics blog talked about this some time ago. If I remember correctly, a few times after landing he realized his laptop hadn't shut down and was on for the entire landing. For the next few flights he left it on, and nadda. I think it's some antiquated rule. At least we've recently done away with no electronics while taxiing.

Re: In Rainbows

Frasre — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:22:13 -0000

My pick is "All I Need".

I paid $0.00. Why? Because I haven't been a Radiohead fan since Ok Computer years ago but was intrigued to experience the process. The album is classic Radiohead, and I've now loaded up my playlist for the day with a bunch of their old albums. Don't think of it as them losing an album sale (I wouldn't have purchased it). Think of it as customer reclamation. To do that for a cost of $0.00 is a great deal for them.

Re: In Rainbows

Frasre — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:51:26 -0000

I buy a lot of music, happily. I also love live music. Music is a big part of my life. I wouldn't have bought this album, even for $1. Just wasn't interested. I checked it out because of the way it was distributed. I probably should go back and pay some amount, and probably will, but I think the larger point is that the marginal cost of distributing it to me approached zero, and they've won back a fan, will now make money from my transaction, and will benefit from my positive word of mouth.

Re: Favoriting Music

Frasre — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:58:27 -0000

I used to add songs I loved to an iTunes playlist dubbed "The List". I put it on yesterday and realized I haven't updated it in 6 months. I went to bed wishing that there was a smart playlist that created dynamic playlists similar to the way you wish they were broadcast in your lifestream... Include songs that have been played: over the long-term W amount, over the past 3 months X amount, over the past 1 month Y amount , and over the past week Z amount. Where W > X > Y > Z.

It captures my "favourites" accurately, doesn't force me to add the Sir Duke song I bought last week but have listened to 20 times since, and filters for time properly.

Re: My Listening Habits This Year

Frasre — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:55:50 -0000

very cool. know what I always thought would be interesting? some service, whether implicitly or not - most likely a combination of the two, that displayed the progression of your music interests as certain flavours advanced and influenced a deeper interest into a genre.

a band that I like now - let's say of Montreal - has a sound that I wouldn't have liked 2 years ago, but walking down a path of less-severe, yet similar sounding, bands led me to love their distinct flavour. It would be a cool to have a map of those progressions. Maybe a mash-up of last.fm's data synthesized against pandora's analysis of the sound of a band, outputted into a mind-map type display.

Re: Auto Smartlinks

Frasre — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:14:30 -0000

Hi Jer979, it works for Amazon Associate links, there was a small bug associated with the Amazon link in your posts. If you check now you'll see that the link for Citizen Marketers is working well and is correctly linked to your Amazon ID (jeremysblog-20). Let me know if you observe anything else that's odd, and thanks for installing the new SmartLinks.

Re: Auto Smartlinks

Frasre — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:20:49 -0000

Hi Dan, sorry to hear that the BlueOrganizer plugin gets in your way when you right-click in the browser. The options for the right-click menu are automatically populated based on analysis of your browsing habits.

If you'd like to edit the content that appears in the menu when you right-click you can manually edit the list of options presented - to include just your favorite sites - from within the "My Sites" tab in the BlueOrganizer options.

If you need some help with this please drop me a line and I can walk you through the process. And give some thought to installing the new SmartLinks on your TypePad blog - there's a 1-click installation that's simple and then SmartLinks are automatically inserted into your blog posts for links to supported sites.

Re: Auto Smartlinks

Frasre — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:21:51 -0000

One additional thing: the "play" triangle icon for inline mp3 playing is the del.icio.us play tagger. You can find the script here: http://del.icio.us/help/playtagger

Re: Auto Smartlinks

Frasre — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:41:41 -0000

Hi Jeremy, I dropped you a more comprehensive note via your web form.

Like Fred said, something must have gone wrong - AdaptiveBlue maintains your amazon affiliate ID.

You can read about setting up your Amazon, Google, and Ebay affiliates with SmartLinks here: http://blog.adaptiveblue.com/?p=711 and drop me a note if you have any questions.

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

Frasre — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:53:58 -0000

As a newly minted Knick fan I too hope he's gone.

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

Frasre — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:52:08 -0000

eyes at the camera (sometimes). it makes it feel personal. in studying tumblr self pics I find that the subtle change can make a big difference (it's a cool phenomenon, and is interesting in an not-so-easy-to-explain way) and the two can be used to convey a different sort of picture.

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

Frasre — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:23:48 -0000

that's the way

Re: Top 10 Records of 2007 – Number 5

Frasre — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:21:48 -0000

I think that Operation may be one of my top 3 songs of the year. Loved (loved) that track.

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

Frasre — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:44:09 -0000

I sense a new addiction coming on. Thank you Fred (and Fred). Just buying the EP from Amazon's music service.

Re: Vampire Weekend Is Most The Blogged Band Right Now

Frasre — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:12:28 -0000

And across the web, they're the 8th most clicked artist SmartLink right now - definitely a hot band!

Re: New Smartlink Icons

Frasre — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:51:55 -0000

Glad you like them :) Not only are they simple to install but SmartLinks aren't inserted in the post unless we recognize the object. This means they'll only appear when they can deliver benefit to you and your readers.

We had a friend of the company, Anne, nicely describe the benefit of SmartLinks as "reaching across the Internet to pull everything together about the object" and making it all available directly from the site. I thought that was a nice way to put it.

Pairing that with the concept of 'exploding the link' is, as you say, a big deal.

If anyone has any questions on this or would like some help setting it up on their site drop me a note: fraserkelton at the gmail.com

Re: New Smartlink Icons

Frasre — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:07:16 -0000

By the way - I should also add that when you install SmartLinks you get a stats dashboard. It shows not only the objects that are most popular on your site but also includes the Web Wide Popularity Dashboard that allows you to discover the most popular items online.

Re: Comments or Discussions?

Frasre — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:37:14 -0000

When I think of my favorite blogs over the years I rarely recall the posts. It's all about the discussion. Chartreuse's site is the perfect example of this. Sometimes I wonder what Seth's site would be like if he enabled comments.

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

Frasre — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:41:08 -0000

4,015 posts
1 author
Thousands of voices

Re: Delicious

Frasre — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:05:01 -0000

uniques may be growing normally through those other channels but I wonder what's happening to engagement/usage. I definitely bookmark a lot less to delicious than I used to (many other channels for saving/sharing content - tumblr, facebook, twitter, ...). I suspect you do as well as do many other long-time users of the service.

would be interesting to see a graph of bookmarks/week over time

Re: Hitting The Reset Button

Frasre — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:17:13 -0000

A great call to that old friend to recount hilarious stories. A long drive on the highway with the window down and music up. A brutally long run.

Or, what I just did - a trip home to surround yourself with family, friends and familiarity.

Re: Wannabes vs. Thinktheyares

Frasre — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:19:49 -0000

Well said! I wannabe a better wannabe. That should be on everyone's to-do list. Thanks for the inspiration.

Re: Twitter's business model (Scripting News)

Frasre — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:48:46 -0000

There's been an interesting discussion over the past few weeks on our (AdaptiveBlue's) blog about what's most critical for a start-up to deliver first - good code, utility, end-user value, etc.

It's a good back and forth between a number of people discussing the merits of distribution, value proposition, code, etc. Twitter, and more specifically your point Dave, is referenced a few times. Worth the read: http://blog.adaptiveblue.com/?p=765#comment-92904

Re: Open Source Product Management: Which Call To Action Is Clearer

Frasre — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:46:05 -0000

(hey, no letting other people's comment bias your response! :) you're reading a blog, you see this cool looking thing in the sidebar and you want it; other comments are nowhere to be seen)

Re: Wrapping up the Week

Frasre — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:11:57 -0000

You're welcome Jon. I hope the new users appreciate being highlighted and getting a bit of new traffic to their site.

I have a 13" TV in the place that I'm subrenting; maybe I'll hold off on seeing the movie until I find a better way to enjoy flicks.

Re: AdaptiveBlue’s Open House

Frasre — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:54:14 -0000

Do comments work? I should have also added that there will be a surprise out-of-town guest appearance. As if you needed any more incentive.

Re: AdaptiveBlue’s Open House

Frasre — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:28:33 -0000

Adam, where are you located again? How many opportunities will you have to debate face-to-face with a group like this? I saw how much you spent on Lincoln Park... consider this an investment!

Re: AdaptiveBlue’s Open House

Frasre — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:31:19 -0000

Hint: think of pokaroo (or is that a Canadian thing?)

Re: AdaptiveBlue’s Open House

Frasre — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:10:37 -0000

lol. that had me laughing for a few minutes. subtle. clever. kuddos.

it appears that my bad spelling led you down a bad path. check out this link: http://tinyurl.com/4lluum

Re: The Wesabe Firefox Uploader

Frasre — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:44:00 -0000

Great work! Solved a (minor) point of friction that caused (major) headaches when managing my finances through wesabe.

Issue though: it created duplicate accounts. So now I have two identical visa accounts, savings accounts, etc.

Re: The Wesabe Firefox Uploader

Frasre — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:54:00 -0000

Hrm... and since I downloaded from my banks "transactions since last download"... I now have an account with 2+ months of tagged and organized transactions and then.... a duplicate account with 2+ transactions that have not been tagged or organized.

Re: The Wesabe Firefox Uploader

Frasre — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:12:31 -0000

Bing bang boom. That's the type of response that generates infected fans of a service :)

I've created a key and summarized the issue in an email... good luck obi-wons.

Re: The Wesabe Firefox Uploader

Frasre — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:55:18 -0000

Thanks for fixing my issue re. double accounts. Turns out that it was partly my goof - I selected 'different' institutions when I set-up the u/l and then the firefox extension (i.e. "President's Choice Financial" and "President's Choice Financial (English)"... or whatever).

Accounts have been merged and fixed now - thanks for the prompt response.

One request now though: under the accounts in the firefox extension there are two options: upload now & remove from list... how about a third one: "rerecord download process"? That way we can be comfortable that the account is the same, but we can address recording issues.

[I'm nervous to delete the one account to rerecord the process for fear of account duplication!]

Re: The Semantic Web’s biggest problem

Frasre — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:10:38 -0000

"Let’s face it — the biggest problem with the Semantic Web is that it’s as boring as dry toast"

Couldn't agree with you more on this Mathew, although I think you're being polite by comparing it to dry toast. No individual - outside of those who are active in the Semantic Web community - is interested in the plumbing. It's what the plumbing can enable and deliver that will be exciting. The 'magic', so to speak.

I suspect that the magic isn't going to come from semantic search but will come from contextual browsing - understanding the users context and presenting them with (personalized) next steps to directly access relevant and meaningful information.

Re: The Semantic Web’s biggest problem

Frasre — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:36:15 -0000

Both of these posts, made me laugh. Mathew, great response.

Re: Why do we like to collect music?

Frasre — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:30:20 -0000

From what I've heard from many music fans, the cultural attachment to possessing music (probably the same trait that in the extreme drives one to collect 3 gazillion songs) has been the major impediment to music dial-tone.

It's not a question of whether they'd hoard if they had access, but that they're resisting streaming because they hoard.

Re: tomwillerer . tumblr . com

Frasre — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:18:07 -0000

Hi Tom,

I hope this wasn't a metaphor for widget producers as well and that you didn't kick our butt by removing our products from your site :) I noticed from our server records that you installed either SmartLinks or a SmartLink Widget and I stopped by to see how it all went. But it looks like you kicked our butt!

'm just wondering if there's any specific reason you took them down so quickly? We're trying to provide maximum benefit for our users so understanding why someone didn't like them is enlightening!

Also, if there's any help I can provide so that you'll keep using our product - let me know! I'd love to keep them on a slickly designed site such as yours.

Best,

Fraser

Re: BMW's GINA

Frasre — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:31:28 -0000

awesome, thanks for sharing this. did you read umair's post exploring how to save detroit? a few comments talked about similar things to the trend that you point out.

Re: Rachel is BUYING Google

Frasre — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:33:58 -0000

Mini-Lindy. Yes, shameful that that's the best I could come up with.

Re: The Power of Blogging…RICK’s Job Offer

Frasre — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:55:21 -0000

I'd consider this offer long and hard.

Re: Does John Madden Watch Wallstrip?

Frasre — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:11:41 -0000

I was hoping someone would make the joke about a plane to catch.

Should have asked him why Madden 2001 sucked so much.

Re: Gmail’s New “Custom Time” Feature Opens The Floodgates to Time Stamp Manipulation

Frasre — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:27:26 -0000

Steffan, I think you should look at the calendar again ;)

@Fraser - Way to comment 5 minutes after I posted! Sorry for not approving the comment until April 2. So the April fools Gmail Rant experiment wasn't that great of a success. Bummer. Only 1 comment (other than yours) and a spike to 111 unique visitors - not exactly my best day. People were not fooled at all - in fact, I don't even have any significant outgoing stats to the Gmail Custom Time page. People weren't even curious. They knew about it, dismissed it and moved right on. I did get one additional subscriber and a twitter follower though. hahah. I'll post the stats in an hour or so.

Re: Are Web 2.0 startups wasting their time with Web 2.0 early adopters?

Frasre — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:16:41 -0000

The notion of a high-tech early-adopter has been fractured, which compounds the problem. Gone are the days when a group can follow the Christensen playbook to achieve adoption amongst early-adopters and use them to traverse into the bigger markets.

We live in interesting times.

Re: HighCallingBlogs Meet AdaptiveBlue

Frasre — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:16:12 -0000

Hello from AdaptiveBlue! It's a pleasure to meet you HighCallingBlogs - hopefully our friendship grows beyond just idle chit chat about the weather (click the link attached to my name to see our views on users vs. friends)

Marcus, if you ever need help with our products or have some feedback (we love feedback) please feel free to drop me an email.

If you want help setting up a sidebar widget for specific blogs I'd be happy to walk you through the process.

Anyway, hope you're well and looking forward to a long and healthy friendship :)

Re: HighCallingBlogs Meet AdaptiveBlue

Frasre — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:40:11 -0000

Hi L.L. Barkat, what you're seeing in the post are actually two of our products: SmartLinks and then SmartLink Widgets.

SmartLinks are a blog plug-in that automatically analyzes links and understands when links are about objects: music, movies, books, etc. When the link is about an object it pulls the best information for the object from around the web directly to the website making it available for the reader.

In Marcus' post above he included a link to Amazon and our plug-in recognized that it was actually a link to a book and has pulled together the best information about the specific book directly to the page (click on the blue SmartLink icon next to the link)

The second product is the SmartLink Widget, which can be made for a number of objects and displayed on sidebars. Each item in the widget includes a SmartLink so that readers can instantly find out more information about the item. So in the example of the b5 media widget, readers can click on the SmartLink for a specific blog and instantly find out all about the blog - title, description, author, etc.

Cool stuff, no? Let me know if I can help with anything!

Re: 2007/08/23/adaptiveblue-smartlinks/

Frasre — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:57:44 -0000

Hi Kristen, nice write-up of the various services offered by Adaptive Blue.

Here's a question for you: why didn't you include a smart link within the post rather than (or in addition to) providing screen shots of one?

Re: Blog Comment Systems Galore

Frasre — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:40:11 -0000

I think that disqus is from Y Combinator... it will be fun to watch the two start-ups compete (one techstar, one y combinator).

I was on the same page as you thinking that one was just a skinned version of the other. Weird.

Re: Blog Comment Systems Galore

Frasre — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:40:11 -0000

Re: The serverless Internet company

Frasre — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:42:03 -0000

Over a million downloads of BlueOrganizer, plus the recent launch of SmartLinks for blogs and SmartLink Widgets for Top Lists... and still not a single server.

AdaptiveBlue is a serverless company.

Re: Why Do They Call It The Windy City?

Frasre — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:19:41 -0000

Looking forward to listening to this. See you in a few days.

Re: WordPress Plugins Set no.2

Frasre — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:53:01 -0000

Alright Dan! Thanks for the coverage - we love when people share kind words about what we're building.

One additional thing that many of your readers may find interesting is our widget gallery:

www.adaptiveblue.com/widgets_auto.html

There are over 50 top list widgets that can be monetized via up-to 6 affiliate IDs. They update via RSS automatically, always pulling fresh content onto the page.

Drop me a line if anyone ever has questions!

Fraser
AdaptiveBlue

Re: Get Glue… Socialize Online Shopping… All The Time!

Frasre — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:52:45 -0000

Thank you for sharing such positive things about Glue. In the week since we've launched the response has been very positive. We're glad to have so many intelligent people trying it out and providing some feedback.

If I can answer any questions please do let me know!

Re: AOL/Time Warner buys TACODA

Frasre — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:30:54 -0000

Congrats on the exit!

Were you a co-founder of Tacoda Brad? Fred's post makes it sound like you were...

Re: Twitter

Frasre — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 22:14:26 -0000

Yep, I scheduled 10:15 for my every-other-day "congrats" comment here. Great news. Great technology. Lots of possible business plans... Great investment. Good luck growing the company huge.