Disqus - Latest Comments for Steve

Re: Cue that song from Augustana

Steve — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:30:34 -0000

Good job on getting a spot! I didn't think other web entrepreneur guys existed in and around UC Davis so it great to know you. Good luck with everything.

- Steve

Re: Trying Out A New Comment System

Steve — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:16:48 -0000

There with YCombinator.

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

Steve — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:42:54 -0000

Nice investment, Fred! These games are addicting...

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

Steve — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:25:17 -0000

Fred,

I love Tumblr. I'm addicted to this. It connects "me" in the most ways -- Twitter, Wordpress, my blackberry, quick photo uploads, easy edit functions, function dedicated to quotes... and I'm not even use all of its capabilities. Awesome. Perhaps comments could have been included. Then again, I think comments only look great when you have a loyal following like yourself. It looks scant and unmotivating to have a page full of entries without any comments. Like mine. :)

Steve

Re: The Really Really Viral Game

Steve — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:27:01 -0000

I think I can tell you one of those sites... do I get 33 cents for my effort? The blue line is www.youporn.com.

Get me for my address... ;)

Re: The Really Really Viral Game

Steve — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:30:30 -0000

Bronze line traffic is Digg... 0.67... You're making me work hard.

Re: Rob Go's Tumblelog

Steve — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:03:40 -0000

Rob - I think you can control your settings if you don't wish to receive any Flixster updates (assuming that's on Facebook?).

Re: Enough with civility: confronting line cutters and queue jumpers

Steve — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:09:58 -0000

I thought I was going to get a non-tech jargon blog post again. But, of course, you had to throw one educational piece in there with the SEO reference. Classic Josh that I know.

Imagine how much more relief and fun it would have been if Jade and I were there with you and Sophia. I know I would have acted on your behalf. If someone is trying to cheat the system, we have to be there to make sure justice and fairness is served.

Re: FriendFeed, Twitter, and the best places to “hang out” online | Charles Hudson's Weblog

Steve — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:26:04 -0000

Hi Charles,

I don't remember when I stumbled on your blog but I enjoyed your posts enough that I am a RSS subscriber of yours. :) Anyhow, I figured I add in my two cents on this topic.

I end up wasting my time on Tumblr, Twitter, and my Google Reader. Tumblr because it's the easiest way to blog/upload a picture, video, link/reblog someone else's post, and finally a stream feed of all the interesting things the folks I follow post. Twitter because I get latest updates (I leave Snitter, the desktop application for Twitter on) and it's fun. Finally, Google Reader to stay up to date on the latest news in the web space. It's also my way of getting free data whenever I'm lucky enough to have bloggers write about the industry that my team is building our startup idea around. (I read ESPN, too. But that's another story).

In regards to #1, what you can do is install a comment system Disqus or Intense Debate on your Wordpress to better manage your comments. It's like a social network for your comments. It might be good to check out. :)

Best,

Steve

P.S. Disqus was started by two UCD lads -- the college I graduated from -- so I am bias to recommend their product. heh heh.

Re: Does the Blackberry Need a Better Browser? | Charles Hudson's Weblog

Steve — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:27:12 -0000

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2007/10/03/black...

The next Blackberry 9XXX. :)

Re: Money 2.0 - Aspirin or Vitamins?

Steve — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:23:35 -0000

Great post, Charles. I'm a big believer Money 2.0 will succeed. The reassurance that startups must offer when asking for this private data from users is the same level of protection that banks and credit card companies use to handling online banking. If you're a user of online banking, my take is you'll eventually migrate over to one of those startup services. For those that don't trust the web can't be won. They will continue to balance their checkbooks with their handwritten checks and take their checks directly to the teller. Sites like Mint will only get better and they offer things the desktop apps can only dream of. And obvious business model is genious.

That said, I think the same will be done to "social investing." As much as innovation knock down the barriers to music and traditional media, I'm hopeful that sites like Zecco, Covestor (they are more social investing than personal finance), and CakeFinancial will open the door to much more transparency in this space. Their services will open the door to a much needed educational aspect that young professionals lack from their college education.

Re: Covestor joins the ranks of funded investment sites

Steve — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:15:37 -0000

There are a few facts on this article that I think might be incorrect:

1 - This is their second round of funding. They had an angel round (reportedly $1M) in which USV were one of the investing groups.
2 - Spark Capital is a NYC based VC firm. The third firm to participate is a European investment firm Amadeus Capital (as well as some other individuals like Howard Lindzon)

Covestor was actually the first company of the bunch to get off the ground (of the three). I hope this will help open the doors for startups working in this related space.

Re: Cue that song from Augustana

Steve — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 04:30:34 -0000

Good job on getting a spot! I didn't think other web entrepreneur guys existed in and around UC Davis so it great to know you. Good luck with everything.

- Steve

Re: LinkedIn Worth $500 Million?

Steve — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:04:31 -0000

This has me thinking about the post that Fred Wilson wrote regarding fixing the IPO problem. He mentioned about the creation of a secondary market for private companies (namely startups) to allow entrepreneurs/employees/investors to sell/buy their stock. (http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/04/we-need-a-new...) Facebook and LinkedIn's news about these liquidity opportunities perhaps could pave way for this idea.

Re: BREAKING: Lotto App Receives $250K in Funding

Steve — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:57:28 -0000

Surprising. Of all the wondering ideas out there and applications built, I guess whichever ones that see gold first gets the funding.

Re: Valleywag Gets it Wrong

Steve — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:30:06 -0000

Nick-

http://www.facebookwidgets.com/p/Valleywag-Gets...

Re: 5 things that make your social network monetize like crap

Steve — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:01:41 -0000

Hi Andrew,

My team over here in Davis, CA are interested in attending. I was on a response from Noah regarding questions about the Facebook application contest. By the time he responded and I checked, the discount for buying three or more tickets. For a small team over here, any way you can cut us a break? We should be eligible for the discount since we're bringing more than three folks over...

Thanks,

Steve

Re: Quick thought on blindly copying Facebook features

Steve — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:52:15 -0000

Hey Andrew,

Just wanted to drop my first comments on your blog after subscribing to your blog for some time now. :) It's interesting you bring up this point. Heck, I think the crowd your speaking to includes my team and I because we're in the process of building our product. (Not to mention it's also becoming a norm for all social networks to be doing this now...) It's important to have a "Newsfeed" type feature for sites that will make your user experience better. Facebook's system is great because while the feed is personalized, there's a sense of discovery and pleasant surprises. It compliments the user's experience while logged into Facebook. I'm not so sure I get the same vibes with many of the "other" sites. (MySpace and LinkedIn come to mind.)

Steve

Re: 2007/07/24/fbfactory/

Steve — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:24:06 -0000

Not to rain on anyone's parade, but is it newsworthy? Three Facebook applications built to get profiled.

I enjoy the articles, though. Mashable typically pump out articles a little faster than the rest of the Web 2.0 blogs. The content is slim, but nonetheless, the apps get what they want -- some publicity on a blog in hopes everyone will flock to their app.

Re: 2007/10/24/facebook-blackberry/

Steve — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:08:02 -0000

I just downloaded it onto my Blackberry. It's missing one core function -- it doesn't allow to check my inbox messages! While the application looks and feels very slick, that's a needed component that they are missing!

On a side note, the ability to upload photos, tag it, and stick it in an album was very nice.

- Steve

Re: 2008/01/22/zecco-new-president/

Steve — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:27:47 -0000

mrshl:

If you were to look up ETFC on Google Finance (or any other portal), you would notice a downward scope over the past year. They had tons of write downs because of the subprime woes and are strapped for cash. There are rumors about them going bankrupt (but the vibe is that another company would gobble them up before they would go bankrupt). Either way, once the new broke about how terrible their balance sheet was, there were articles written that some users took their money out of EFTC and moved it to other, more healthy brokerages.

I love to this model to be proven effective. I will keep an eye on this.

Re: 2008/01/29/fantasy-sports-matrix/

Steve — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:28:23 -0000

Too many things on here. A bit too general for me. Good work, though.

Re: 2008/02/25/cake-financial-facebook-app/

Steve — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:49:52 -0000

This is neat. Actually, this might be more appealing than their current site right now. However, there are still limitations with these "investment networks." You don't _LEARN_. So I guess if you're already comfortable in investing and believe in all your abilities, using a Cake or Covestor will be neat to prod about your success and fish for ideas. Ultimately, it doesn't give you the educational value add, though.

Re: Seth Sternberg of Meebo

Steve — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:54:40 -0000

Hi there,

I actually found out about this event a while back when I wanted to write my recap about Sun's Mashup event. So I thank you b/c I found this event to be very insightful and full of energetic, eager, young folks (probably b/c of the potential of getting connections for their own little startups?). Your recap was exactly along the lines of mine -- posted as a page on my blog. I attended Seth's for first session and then the Hot Markets one.

Anyhow, hope you keep up the writing -- your events listing is great for someone like me not in the area.

Best,

Steve