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Re: Keep Your Startup Virtual

dcancel — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:28:14 -0000

Wow. You haven't even officially launched? Impressed.

Ha! That's exactly why I asked about the coworking. Feel the same way, not useful to me unless I'm looking to socialize. Now we know why most office places don't get any work done.

Thanks for the music tip, cool new find.

Re: Keep Your Startup Virtual

dcancel — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:49:02 -0000

Yet you've created a service that kicks ass. Which reminds me I need to install Skribit!

Do you find you like the group coworking thing?

Re: Keep Your Startup Virtual

dcancel — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:56:45 -0000

We got many things right at Lookery, didn't mean for it to come off that way.

:-)

Re: Why I'm going to get the Droid

dcancel — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:34:05 -0000

PLEASE post some details as you begin to use it!

I'm SO ready to leave to AT&T despite loving my iPhone.

Re: 10 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read

dcancel — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:46:40 -0000

Cool, will check it out. I've never run across it before.

Cheers,
David

Re: 10 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read

dcancel — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:44:00 -0000

Thanks Amber. I've never heard of the first and always wanted to read the second. Adding both to my reading list.

Re: 10 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read

dcancel — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:52:03 -0000

Hi Paul,

Great point, I'll do that. I posted this too quickly, should've spent time explaining "why".

By the way, huge loyal fan of your blog!
David

Re: 10 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read

dcancel — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:51:48 -0000

Glad you enjoyed it!

I would definitely add Steve Blank's book to the list.

Cheers,
David

Re: The new economy

dcancel — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:56:42 -0000

To achieve full nirvana state Facebook needs to also provide the monetization options used within the apps. Then its a closed-loop and ensures new money keeps coming into the system.

I.E:

Google Adwords+SEO Secrets+Google Adsense == Nirvana

Re: The inevitable showdown between Twitter and Twitter apps

dcancel — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:25:41 -0000

I saw this first hand with the Facebook App ecosystem. Please take a look at all those dead and dying Facebook apps when betting on a Twitter app.

There were some successes on the Facebook platform, mostly in the Social Gaming category. What I hope Facebook is learning firsthand with the Social Games apps is that it should've left the app system "open" and built a perfect "closed-loop" monetization platform like Google has been able to with Adwords/Adsense.

What Facebook should have done is built an ad platform that app developers could use to monetize their apps. Right now it's leaking all that money to 3rd parties and only capturing a small fraction of it via "Facebook Ads". If FB had a ad network for app developers it could've had all those apps buying ads on the current "Facebook Ads" platform to get installs/users and then monetized the new inventory created by those apps.

Pay Facebook to get traffic/installs of your app and then make money from Facebook on all that new traffic. A simple copy-n-paste of the Adwords/Adsense model.

Re: Paperless (Office) - Pretty Much There!

dcancel — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:27:57 -0000

Inspiring. I'm about 60% there, trying to get >90% in 2010.

Re: Dividing free and paid features in “freemium” products

dcancel — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:35:52 -0000

With my next startup I'm actually looking at flipping this model.

Give away the advanced version and charge for the simple version.

There are a just few examples of this "flipped" freemium model out there, at least that I can come up with.

Thanks for the great posts.

Re: Announcing: Ghostery for Firefox v2.0 featuring TrackerBlock

dcancel — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:47:21 -0000

Happy to do so. If you have an example page that contains the tracker we can take a look at it and see about adding it.

David

Re: Top 10 Web Bug Trackers on the Web

dcancel — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:28:31 -0000

Hi Joshua,

Thanks for stopping by and good question. I think you're looking at the data from a user-centric perspective, audience overlap.

This data is publisher-centric. I.e. amongst an overlapping publisher (websites) base what is the penetration rate of each bug. Implicit in that is the assumption that there will almost always be overlap.

So it breaks down to be the sum of # of unique sites that these 10 bugs were found on and the relative distribution of each.

Hope that helps.
;dc

Re: http://hadoop-timelines.appspot.com/timeline/1044

dcancel — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:28:58 -0000

This one looks really bad, look at all that waste.

Re: The beginning

dcancel — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:40:08 -0000

This is great. So happy you're doing this!

Your biggest fan,
DC

Re: Ghosts in the Real Estate Machines: Ghostery Reveals Website Trackers

dcancel — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:30:36 -0000

Thanks for writing about Ghostery!

If we can improve it any way please let us know.

Cheers,
David

Re: Ghostery v1.5 is here; announcing the Ghostery Directory!

dcancel — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:43:44 -0000

We just switched over to a new webserver. Hope everything is fine for you now.

Thanks,
David

Re: Now in German and Spanish! Version 1.4.0

dcancel — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:00:48 -0000

Thanks for letting me know. I'm testing this now to see if I can figure out why the locales aren't working.

Thanks again,
David

Re: Exits with VC and Angel Investors

dcancel — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:23:18 -0000

That's as good as it gets though. Although "loving strikes with this 2x4" does sound like poetry to me. ;-)

Re: Exits with VC and Angel Investors

dcancel — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:45:05 -0000

Curious about his book. If you pick it up please let me know what you think of it.

Re: 90% of your ideas suck

dcancel — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:33:32 -0000

;-)

Re: 90% of your ideas suck

dcancel — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:32:44 -0000

Ditto. I'm hoping I can get to 5% at some point (stretch goal).

Re: bijansabet.com | a tumblelog by Bijan Sabet | I can’t wait for the new Wilco album and their...

dcancel — Fri, 22 May 2009 09:23:13 -0000

Man I am so psyched for the new album. I'm going to their show in Lowell. Can't wait!

Re: Attention all NoScript users

dcancel — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:31:13 -0000

Wow Giorgio I really appreciate that!

And again thanks for posting here and I'm a big fan of your work.

Cheers,
David