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Re: Twitter Lists: Categories and Conversations

whitneymcn — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:06:05 -0000

Excellent, glad you like it!

Kevin and I have talked through a couple of possible extensions. The
idea that Charlie O'Donnell mentioned in the comment you were replying
to is the most obvious: we decided to go with a straight "most recent"
for replies initially, but having some slots set aside for "most
frequently replied to" is pretty straightforward and makes a lot of
sense.

You're dead on that it should be reasonable to allow person X to
create a list of the people that person Y is replying to, since the
tweetstream is public anyway. It's less efficient in theory than just
having person X create the list themselves, but people don't always do
what you want them to. :-)

Kevin actually built something that may fit what you want for the link-
focused tweets: http://timelylinks.com. Does some nice stuff like
calling out links that have been tweeted by more than one of the
people that you follow, too.

The more customizable stuff (views filtered by number of times
favorited, topics, what have you) I think is really interesting, but
I'm still wrapping my head around some of the simpler possibilities
right now. :-)

Re: Twitter Lists: Categories and Conversations

joelaz — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:29:27 -0000

Nice! I love the idea of dynamically generated lists. It would be cool if the tool weren't specific to @ replies, but was more general... sort of like Smart Playlists for iTunes, where you could specify what criteria defines the list (@ replies, favorites, posts containing links, etc). Here's a comment I made on Fred's blog a few weeks ago about the concept...

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/10/the-cohort-anal...

Re: Twitter lists: Tagging humanity

joelaz — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:51:21 -0000

Yep, totally agree.

Re: JOE LAZARUS - Last.fm Tumblr Weekly Top Artists

joelaz — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:54:02 -0000

Try this one instead...

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=a40a4...

Sorry for the confusion.

Re: J. Tillman - Steel On Steel Photo by... - Joe Lazarus

joelaz — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:38:52 -0000

I didn't take the picture, but there might be more info if you click
the photographer's name.

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

fredwilson — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:42:21 -0000

dorsey, who runs our office, swears by sugar sweet sunshine

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

joelaz — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:10:20 -0000

Yum, those look tasty. Have you ever been to Sugar Sweet Sunshine Bakery in the Lower East Side? Much better than Magnolia in this guy's opinion. Homemade is always a good option, though.

Happy Halloween!

Re: JOE LAZARUS - Last.fm Tumblr Weekly Top Artists

joelaz — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:35:59 -0000

Hi David, the feed looks valid from my end...

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=cfc13...

The only thing I can think to tell you is to try contacting Tumblr or just
wait a while and try again. Sorry for the complications, but everything
seems to be working on this end.

Re: JOE LAZARUS - Last.fm Tumblr Weekly Top Artists

joelaz — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:04:59 -0000

The feed looks fine to me. You might want to contact Tumblr about the issue
or just try again later.

Re: JOE LAZARUS - Last.fm Tumblr Weekly Top Artists

sara — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:35:01 -0000

the customize page is telling me that it's not a valid feed.

Re: JOE LAZARUS - Last.fm Tumblr Weekly Top Artists

joelaz — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:33:40 -0000

Strange. Seems to be working now. Here's the RSS feed for your account
that you can plug into your Tumblr...

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=cfc13...

Re: JOE LAZARUS - Last.fm Tumblr Weekly Top Artists

sara — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:14:40 -0000

craquelure - but when i visit the page, it tells me it won't run YOUR username either.

Re: JOE LAZARUS - Last.fm Tumblr Weekly Top Artists

joelaz — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:56:01 -0000

What is your Last.fm user name?

Re: The Golden Triangle

fredwilson — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:15:07 -0000

A great example Joe. Thanks for sharing it

Re: The Golden Triangle

joelaz — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:39:39 -0000

Foursquare, Twitter mobile apps, Facebook mobile, and good examples. It's also interesting to see these trends applied to some areas outside of status updates and social networks. The other day, I bought a sweater from Gilt Groupe's iPhone app. The app pushed an alert to my phone letting me know that a sale just started. I was outside, but didn't want to miss out the great deals, so I browsed a bunch of stuff from my phone and bought a sweater at 75% off in just a few clicks. I thought the experience was so slick that I posted a Gilt invitation to my Twitter followers. At least one person clicked though and signed up, for which Gilt rewarded me with a $25 gift card for the social referral. Mobile, social, real-time shopping.

Re: The Cohort Analysis

fredwilson — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:39:39 -0000

That's exactly what twitter is doing. They create the lists api and the ecosystem develops all sorts of ways to crate them

Re: The Cohort Analysis

MikeyBB26 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:08:27 -0000

Great thoughts here Joe. Would love to hear any more ideas you'd be looking for; we'd be happy to incorporate into Twillist (http://alpha.twillist.com) ...feel free to email hello@twillist.com

Re: Sigur Rós - Svefn-g-englar Photo by Pétur Gauti - Joe Lazarus

steaner — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:59:36 -0000

Sure thing. Hope you'll like it.

Re: Sigur Rós - Svefn-g-englar Photo by Pétur Gauti - Joe Lazarus

joelaz — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:52:16 -0000

I haven't seen it yet... been meaning to watch it. Thanks for the
reminder!

Re: The Cohort Analysis

joelaz — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:52:35 -0000

I love the idea of a list generator app. I can picture a tool like Smart Playlists in iTunes that lets me mix and match criteria from my posts, the people I follow, or any searches to create self-updating lists of people or even particular posts. Some examples:

1) Posts from people I follow containing links

2) People retweeted or favorited 3+ times for the keywords 'new york', 'nyc', 'venture capital', or 'vc'.

3) Last 10 people @fredwilson replied to (which is a list that I could create even though I'm not Fred Wilson, based on Fred's public data)

Could make for a cool third-party app based on some of the new API calls.

Re: SoundCloud - SoundGrid now lets you export to...

joelaz — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:40:36 -0000

Thanks for the tip! I'll check it out.

Re: Why content sites are getting ripped off

cdixon — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:29:09 -0000

True. Tracking this would require an almost panoramic view of the web, and Google is indeed the best positioned.

Re: Why content sites are getting ripped off

joelaz — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:11:45 -0000

Interestingly, Google is probably best positioned today to close the loop between intent generation and harvesting. Through AdSense, Analytics, and DoubleClick, Google tracks a large portion of the sites we visit further up the funnel from search. For the advertisers using Analytics or AdWords conversion tracking, Google also tracks purchase transactions. Presumably, they could provide advertisers with some reports that indicate which content sites ultimately drove conversions and revenue, though there are some obvious privacy issues to work out. If I knew that people who visited the NY Times where later likely to buy on my site, I would increase my ad spend on that site. Google has most of the data to make that happen.

Re: JOE LAZARUS - Last.fm Tumblr Weekly Top Artists

radekkkkkkk — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:19:35 -0000

i realized it's actually working. thanks a bunch.

Re: JOE LAZARUS - Last.fm Tumblr Weekly Top Artists

joelaz — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:12:02 -0000

Try this URL when you import the feed into Tumblr...

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=cfc13...