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Re: Looking to the Future of Discussion

Ryan Graves — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:53:58 -0000

DISQUS folks,
As I read the IntenseDebate/Automattic news I couldn't stop thinking about how this would affect you guys. The competition between 3rd party commenting services is a great thing. It means that all parties have to work their asses off to innovate, fix bugs, and LISTEN to the community. All three of which you guys are doing a great job of.

It will be important for all of these services to continually find ways to reach new audiences. Gary Vaynerchuck talked about building a personal brand at Web2.0expo in NYC and he said, "don't decide which services to use, use ALL of them". That is exactly the attitude I think you guys need to have. You have email down, I love how easy it is to contribute to a comment thread via email but what about if I want to use Friendfeed or FB or [ other service here ]? And that is just limiting the scope to text responses.

The Seesmic integration early was an awesome innovation. Now what about Jott? If I don't have access to my laptop but want to contribute to a text conversation how do I do it? What if I could vocally call in my comment or response? The web is increasingly MOBILE and increasingly LIVE. Keep those themes in mind and you'll be headed in the right direction.

Keep it up!

Re: SlideFail: Making fun of yourself: Ok. Getting your users to embarrass themselves in front of their own networks: Not cool.

Ryan Graves — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:41:19 -0000

Charlie,

I received the same email, I assumed it was on a Credit Crisis deck that I did for a Slideshare competition a while back. I got top 20 in the comp so I figured, sure maybe it got all the hits.

No reading your post I realize the the tweet I sent out just made me look like a fool! And, like you, I'm not that amused by the whole thing. Pretty fuckin lame actually.

Slideshare really blew this. I've always been a loyal supporter, now I have a bad taste in my mouth.
Take care.
Ryan

Re: Is the American Dream of home ownership all wrong for us?

Ryan Graves — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:46:14 -0000

I almost want to post this anonymously but I'll resist. What about the social benefit to having a partner, in my case a wife, when she likely will want "roots". This anchor to one spot for a chunk of my life seems inevitable. Can't one's career grow if you're willing to travel a bit but still have a "home base" to return too?

Phenom post Charlie, I'll be using the second to last paragraph in a blog post about investing coming up.
Thanks.

Re: Twitter is Testing Search Saved Searches on Twitter.com

Ryan Graves — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:24:20 -0000

Loic this is one of the functionality that we're really excited about in REACH. Luckily there is another level to ours that twitter hasn't done yet. Thanks for sharing this b/c I wasn't aware.

Re: Seesmic and video comments

Ryan Graves — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:31:41 -0000

What about video comments on your blog Bear? I had a quick question about the Seesmic/Disqus plug-in and thought you may be able to help.
Let me know. Thanks.

http://ryanagraves.com/blog/

Re: The Glue Community Gets What It Asks For

Ryan Graves — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:27:49 -0000

Steffan,

You never disappoint. This is a phenom post and reflection on the new GLUE. I've really enjoyed the new features. Just this weekend I was hunting for movies to see with the lady and found that using my friends (Fraser's) recommendations a movie was very helpful!

Keep it up. Hope all is well!

Re: Thomas Edison on recovery

Ryan Graves — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:03:09 -0000

Suisun, thanks so much. Where were you an IMLP?
Thanks so much for reading!

Re: YouTube - What Are Your Weaknesses? | SheenOnline

Ryan Graves — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:51:52 -0000

Rasheen- Phenomenal point here. It boils down to self awareness. Those who are not self aware will 1) not be able to improve themselves (to your point) and 2) not be able to improve those around them because they are unaware of how their actions affect others.
Solid vid post.
Check my blog if interested at http://ryanagraves.com

<abbr>Ryan Gravess last blog post..Google Chrome</abbr>

Re: Will Free Wifi in Exchange for Ads be Acceptable to Consumers?

Ryan Graves — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:34:19 -0000

I would definitely look at adds for free internet! I can't wait until there are mesh networks every where and internet is free everywhere! Its only a matter of time.

Re: New Media Douchebags « My Thoughts On Social Media

Ryan Graves — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:36:26 -0000

Hahahaha. I love it. Well worth reposting....

Scoble?

Re: Sweetcron is looking like Sweetcrap « My Thoughts On Social Media

Ryan Graves — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:07:15 -0000

I have to say I disagree. I think that Yongfook created a great self hosted platform. The developer has stated that he was not trying to create another Wordpress-esk blog platform. Like you said this platform is super customizable which makes it a great technical project not a mainstream platform, exactly what the developer meant to create. I set it up for fun and it was very easy, and I'm happy with the result.
http://ryanagraves.com/sweetcron

Re: Scott Kelby’s Worldwide Photowalk

Ryan Graves — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:57:26 -0000

Justin- I love this shot of the school bus. It reminds me of a print I have over my bed (link below) of yellow cabs coming out of a black and white Time Square NYC. Phenomenal shot!

http://flickr.com/photos/ryangraves/2737664942/...

Check out my blog if interested: http://ryanagraves.com

Re: Don’t Bet Your Fortune on Facebook Apps

Ryan Graves — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:57:48 -0000

I agree with your bullishness on Facebook as a whole but the apps things is significantly diluted at this point. Quite frankly when the apps first came out it was HUGE. Everyone was spending hours a day on Facebook and every newspaper, podcast, and blog was praising Facebook. Even Microsoft bought in at a rate of 15 bil. But, now many of my friends have returned back to their original uses of Facebook, messaging, picture sharing and well, stocking.

Personally I think the apps aspect of Facebook is on its way down. It is to diluted and this maybe one situation where Facebook made the wrong decision to open up their platform completely. Keeping some control may have been the better move here. Only time will tell.

Re: Dancing like Matt

Ryan Graves — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:29:17 -0000

Saurabh I love the video...I've seen these videos of Matt before and you can't help but to smile when you see it! Good work. I found your blog via Fred Wilson's mybloglog and I'm glad I did...hope to see you around the web!

Re: New Blog Name?

Ryan Graves — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:25:37 -0000

What about:
blickr.com
slickr.com
bslickr.com
blakesamic.org/asm

Re: Where I Want to Visit

Ryan Graves — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:43:01 -0000

Make sure you get over to Ireland if you haven't. Dublin is a sweet city but if you can somehow get to see the south coast towns like Dingle you won't regret it.
I'm going to plan a trip in early 08 to come see ya bro.

Re: Brussels Days 1 and 2

Ryan Graves — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:07:54 -0000

This is a great post. Very creative. Keep blogging.

http://actionstalk.com

Re: Upcoming Travel Dates

Ryan Graves — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:41:56 -0000

What would you say if I were to tell you I'm going to come spend a couple weeks in Brussels? Maybe the first 2 weeks of December...would you like that? Does that sound nice?

Re: About

Ryan Graves — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:43:20 -0000

change your about page. people want to know who took all the sick pics.

Re: Best of the Web 2007

Ryan Graves — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:44:27 -0000

Samic, fantastic post. A very cumulative look at the web and some of the best new sites available. I agree across the board.
Do you mind if I guest post this on ActionsTalk?

Re: Super Euro Trip

Ryan Graves — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 03:05:04 -0000

Bro-
Do you think that everyone should do one crazy "Euro Trip" then take 1 or 2 city vacations? Or do you wish you'd never done such a packed trip and just spread it out more???

Re: About

Ryan Graves — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:56:08 -0000

Looks like you only have 2 readers...sorry bro.

Re: Milwaukee Sunset - After the Storm

Ryan Graves — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:02:41 -0000

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Re: Milwaukee Sunset - After the Storm

Ryan Graves — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:13:14 -0000

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Re: New Bike!

Ryan Graves — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:48:31 -0000

Sick, I'm buying one soon!

Re: Communication Segmentation with the iPhone

Ryan Graves — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:41:17 -0000

Blake - Awesome post! This is the kind of personal how to that more bloggers should move towards. Lifehacker just says what to do without giving personal examples and other bloggers just tell without showing. Solid combo and phenom post. I want to do this...but I need an iPhone!

Re: Mozilla’s Ubiquity - Bringing the Web Together

Ryan Graves — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:28:47 -0000

This is so simple...why is it sometime so difficult to just think..."what would be easy to use"?

Also, try giving DISQUS commenting system a try, I really think that it improves blog commenting and its easy to install!

Re: Complete Blog Redesign Tonight

Ryan Graves — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:11:05 -0000

Looks awesome. I would definitely use DISQUS and I would keep the font title, it looks sweet as is.
Well done.

Re: Pance: Kevin Rose’s Newest Startup

Ryan Graves — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:42:35 -0000

Is this serious? I'm slow I guess and I'm really not sure if this is serious?

Re: Venture Capital Firms

Ryan Graves — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:29:10 -0000

Thanks so much for posting my slides. I hope it helps out your blog and driving traffic!

Re: Venture Capital Firms

Ryan Graves — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:55:18 -0000

Thanks so much for embedding my slides on Startups in the Financial Crisis! I hope that you enjoy and that it helps to drive traffic!
Thx

Re: Quote of the Day

Ryan Graves — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:35:20 -0000

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Re: Question of the week

Ryan Graves — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:55:10 -0000

This pact really bothers me! I can only think of one situation in my life that I had the opportunity to make it and I passed it by. My sister was competing against me and my other sister. She was down because she couldn't ever win. I decided not to let her when because if someone let me when something, it really wasn't a win, and it would probably feel worse than a loss.

Re: Path to Becoming a VC

Ryan Graves — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:53:33 -0000

Solid post Mark. Glad you decided to re-write/re-post it!

Re: Crazy Egg tells you what your users are doing

Ryan Graves — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:51:55 -0000

I went to the Crazy Egg website and couldn't figure out how to get the 5 free trial? Any advice?

Re: Carsonified Golden Ticket Post, and help send me to the other cold, foggy city

Ryan Graves — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:54:25 -0000

Willy Wonka is probably the last comparison I would've thought to make. Well done very creative and good luck with the comp!

Re: Financial crisis, startup opportunity. NYC developers, join a startup!

Ryan Graves — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:58:52 -0000

So- Is this going to make it ridiculously tough for those who want to get into a startup job but aren't coming from the NYC finance world? Do we think that the startup positions will be flooded with financial crisis "left-overs"?

Time will tell. Kopelman's site is awesome by the way. I love well timed/positions sites like that.

Great post!

Re: Should you work for a startup? Here’s 9 reasons why I do.

Ryan Graves — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:43:53 -0000

As someone in a huge corp you're not making it easy for me to stay...

Thanks.

Re: 2009/02/04/twitter-facebook-geolocation/

Ryan Graves — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:38:26 -0000

I think you'll be hard pressed to see Twitter going in this direction. They do platform well. They've focused on dependability and I think they're finally there. They will leave the Tweet__(insertnamehere)__.com applications figure out which features will be most popular.

However, I agree with FB, where the hell are they, definitely late to the race but they may launch a version that blows these other "cheezy" ones out of the water.

Great post.

Re: 2009/02/05/lastfm-vs-slacker/

Ryan Graves — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:13:17 -0000

Jenn- I totally agree. Last.fm takes the cake here for sure. Slacker also seems a bit to main stream, and you know those web folks don't adopt mainstream to easy.

Great post.

Re: Lollapalooza 2008!

Ryan Graves — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:08:22 -0000

What is recommended action plan around getting tickets for such a sick show/s. Last year I scalped and it worked out great but I don't want to get down there an end up spending $200. Can we poll the audience and get a best practice?
Thanks SayNo.

Re: Back to the basics for Weezer?

Ryan Graves — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:48:59 -0000

Green album: 4.5/5 - show some respect.

Beverly Hills song: 0/5 - Weezer needs to show some self respect!

Re: Antidotes by Foals - Album Review

Ryan Graves — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:42:55 -0000

I think that getting excited about an album is fine...

Sometimes when you first hear a sound/band/album you wanna rate it 10/10 just because of the way you first react to it. Music forces a response and thats one of the best parts of music. A persons judgment of an album may change from day to day...in my opinion thats ok.

Re: Return of the glow sticks

Ryan Graves — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:09:31 -0000

Dude- Glad to hear that you're going to pick it back up with SayNo. When are you going to start posting the mixes? That shit will blow up!!!

Re: boxee blog » CES video pitches

Ryan Graves — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:03:48 -0000

#3 - Nate's pitch.

Re: Gary Vaynerchuk - You can have both….Jobs. Way to many people out...

Ryan Graves — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:46:20 -0000

Gary- This is the truth, I have a full time gig and I run ActionsTalk on the side. If you're not doing it all, you're not doing enough!
Great thought.
http://actionstalk.com

Re: Gary Vaynerchuk - Giving a Presentation vs. Working the room Brands...

Ryan Graves — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:35:06 -0000

AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME.

It's very similar to flirting with a girl. Small, focused, and intimate attention will work. Being the boisterous guy screaming to a crown...no game.

Good work Gary...you're ActionsTalk episode is hitting the presses early next week.

Re: The Art of Letting Bad Things Happen (and Weapons of Mass Distraction)

Ryan Graves — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:18:29 -0000

This is a very strong point. Not getting caught up in the every small issue will save a person a great deal of drama and stress. However, Tim has a different lifestyle than most of us. There are very valid arguments here but sometimes I find the points in Tim's book are a bit unrealistic.

Re: Tweet to Beat: Let Me Up the Ante (Plus: Vietnam School Video and Pics)

Ryan Graves — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:18:47 -0000

I'm diggin that you not only are doing adventurous things with your life, but doing adventurous and noble things with your cash.

Much respect Tim.

Cheers,
Ryan

Re: The Psychology of Automation: Building a Bulletproof Personal-Finance System

Ryan Graves — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:09:26 -0000

I bought Ramit's book and have been taking some of the steps suggested towards automation.
If no money is saved over what I was already saving I will still be happy with the decision to follow Ramit's suggestions. The reason is that when you automate you allow yourself to achieve a peace of mind that will lead to increased productivity and confidence in your financial situation that manually transferring savings just will not allow.

Great post Tim.

Cheers,
Ryan

Re: The Psychology of Automation: Building a Bulletproof Personal-Finance System

Ryan Graves — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:15:01 -0000

Meant to say nice Ramit :)
Yes I did read the post, haha.

Re: How to Use Chopsticks - Become an Expert in 90 Seconds

Ryan Graves — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:25:28 -0000

I had a 'how to use chopsticks' post planned from my travels in Shanghai last month, guess I'll skip that one now :)
Nice work Tim.

Cheers,
Ryan

Re: A Roadmap for Community Organization and Mobilization - Harvey Milk

Ryan Graves — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:24:07 -0000

Wow- That's awesome. I'm definitely going to try and catch 'Milk' can I find it online?

Re: Dancing like Matt

Ryan Graves — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:29:17 -0000

Re: Get a Brightkite sticker, Viddler Tshirt and sticker!

Ryan Graves — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:39:17 -0000

[viddler id-b5c806ea]

I'm gonna help grow the Viddler community in Milwaukee! Help me help you get the support of the upper midwesterners.

Great idea for the contest. Keep it coming!

Re: Get a Brightkite sticker, Viddler Tshirt and sticker!

Ryan Graves — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:29:09 -0000

Colin, I assume you'll make the announcement via comment here on the blog?

Re: Get a Brightkite sticker, Viddler Tshirt and sticker!

Ryan Graves — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:54:28 -0000

So did Chris Hadley win? I didn't see...

Re: Get a Brightkite sticker, Viddler Tshirt and sticker!

Ryan Graves — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:37:08 -0000

Awesome! Can't wait for my Viddler T!!! Thanks Colin!

Re: 50 Online Applications and Sites to Consider

Ryan Graves — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:49:23 -0000

How do you use all of these tool?

http://ryanagraves.com/07/18/2008/how-i-use-web...

Re: Celebrating seven years of blogging

Ryan Graves — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:35:21 -0000

I've just hit 6 months with my blog. I've enjoyed the learning process and enjoyed the discipline of writing and following a great start-up market. Blogging and bloggers can be annoiying if all they do is bitch, but a blog like scobleizer, GigaOm, TechCrunch, and other are awesome. I follow similar topics with my own insite. I encourage you to subscribe to my RSS and or del.icio.us (mark as favorite using whatever tool you like) my site and comeback often.

http://actionstalk.com

Re: Let’s cry for the poor fragmented, underreported startups

Ryan Graves — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:49:01 -0000

I think that these companies are pre-launch and their company sites are of limited importance.
Lets take a little walk back to the first versions of Scobleizer.com, thinking about that how are you going to judge these site?
Come on Scoble, give'm a chance.

Re: If you are laid off, here’s how to socially network

Ryan Graves — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:31:18 -0000

My sister is a perfect example. She was laid off 3-4 months back and starting hitting the social web hard. Picked up her blogging and tweeting, continued to meet for informational interviews and network hard. Then she got a job as the PR department for a high profile wealth manager in San Diego, Ray Lucia.

She's bloggin at http://taylorgraves.wordpress.com and really kicking ass. This is a super tough thing to have happen to someone recently out of college but by embracing the web and not running from what happened she learned a ton and came out on top with a great gig.

The social web is real and its valuable. Great post Scoble.

I'm @ryangraves on Twitter.

Re: “Trackur Trumps Google;” Adds New Features for Same Low Price!

Ryan Graves — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:20:39 -0000

Seems like a pretty valuable tool but is it worth spending money on when you can get almost the same thing with Google alerts?

Most of the sites I saw when I searched my name "Ryan Graves" I already had seen for the Google alert that I have set up.

It did find a few links back to http://ryanagraves.com that I wasn't aware of. I'm doing the 14 day trial so I'll let you know!

Ryan Graves's last blog post..The Great Village #1: Ground Zero

Re: Why Facebook’s Conceding the Redesign Battle to Win the War

Ryan Graves — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:55:40 -0000

I think that Facebook is definitely going in the right direction. However, this time it seems as though they've copied Twitter a bit to closely and need to identify their own still before they are done with this iteration.

I completely agree with them moving towards a model that will fill the bank account. This will keep them around and thus continuing to iterate. Always a good thing.

I think you're on the right track here Andy. Facebook should be sensitive but not submissive to their users.

Nice post.

Ryan Graves's last blog post..Can Copycat-ing be a successful growth strategy?

Re: Meet Friendbook, FaceFeed, or whatever… I can't tell the difference anymore

Ryan Graves — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:55:54 -0000

Its an interesting argument here. I guess its different for those who joined FB when in college (not sure if you did or not) but all my FB friends are college buddies who post pictures I don't really want the world to see, I might be intoxicated. However on FF I follow big name bloggers, entrepreneurs, and social media guys...much different crowd and much different content.

check out my blog if interested: http://ryanagraves.com

Re: About Ross Hill

Ryan Graves — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:55:04 -0000

Ross- Thanks for checking out following on Twitter! Check out my blog at http://ryanagraves.com I totally agree with many of tips on how to get subscribers.
Love to chat sometime about your projects or program.
hit me up graves.ryan[at]gmail.com
Talk to you soon. Cheers.

Re: Irish Web Awards to Shake Things Up

Ryan Graves — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:44:50 -0000

First, Ireland is probably my favorite country. Second, I love that this site exists and is encouraging a strong Irish web community.
I'll definitely be following to see what events are going on and if I can plan yet another trip I'll be looking for an event to attend.
Check out my blog if interested: http://ryanagraves.com

Re: Record trading day

Ryan Graves — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:12:49 -0000

Thanks for following me on Twitter. Check out my blog at http://ryanagraves.com
I love that your bloggin your experiences as a day trader. Gives me a peak into the life~!

Re: Internet Explorer is Bull; Switch Browsers Now

Ryan Graves — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:57:22 -0000

Make sure you now mention Google Chrome! Its a super fast browser and although not perfect you may like it because of its speed.

Also, thanks for checkin out my blog today. Hope you liked what you read!

Re: On the Fly (Washington, DC)

Ryan Graves — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:56:19 -0000

Dan- Great show!
Now I'm starving! See ya around.