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Re: Halloween recession thoughts

jonknight — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:45:01 -0000

hehheh, and let's keep calling great malware engineers 'hackers'.

Good stuff, Andy!

Re: Halloween recession thoughts

jonknight — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:37:30 -0000

Huge difference between hippies and the damnable 'flower power' asshats who took control of the country.

It's the damned flower children who grew up to take over the country. Even 'back in the day', it was easy to see the difference between the two groups. Flower power dickwads were just in it for the hedonistic pleasures. There was never any substance to those people.

Re: Introducing GetGlue.com

jonknight — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:10:50 -0000

I was showing Trish how you guys did the auto login with the addon and showing her I was a Surfer, finally! After 17 years of tooling around the net somebody finally gave me the respect I deserved!

Seriously, the direction you guys are heading is something of beauty to me. Maybe it doesn't get described that way very often, but understand I come from the "empower the people" mindset. Glue gets better and better at connecting people to the things they interact with on a physical level. The more they're connected to the things in everyday life, the more power they have over those things. I love it. It's beautiful.

Re: New Widget Tooltips

jonknight — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:43:58 -0000

I love this. I've been using these widgets for 2 years at Wordout. I've loved 'em since they were part of Blue Organizer. I loved 'em as Indigo. And now I love'm even more. AB seems never to be satisfied with creating the best, always coming up with something better. You guys rock!

Re: First Peek At Rough Drafts

jonknight — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:58:11 -0000

Fraser, I knew you would get it right away. That is exactly it.

Plus, both sides of Gimmee are free! I see lots of uses for this stuff - for instance, one of our first commercials is for a band who are just cutting their 1st cd. We've got some video from one of their live shows that we'll be using in a Gimmee commercial. But we're also giving the band name, referencing some shows they did recently, mentioning their cd and their website and the next upcoming show. Then we just add our 2-3 seconds at the end and voila!
That's a Gimmee!

Thanks for stopping by!

Re: First Peek At Rough Drafts

jonknight — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:50:47 -0000

Essentially, the Gimmee browser add-on is a tool that can be used to gather real-time purchasing interests from active consumers. Its operation is simple: Users are able to actually 'request' ad types (auto, books, vacation, etc) on any page that uses scripted advertising and those ad types are displayed on the user's screen. The page owner (blog, etc) still gets paid for impressions and clicks. No substitution of ad provider takes place. The add-on is totally transparent and legal. The only person exercising control is the one who owns the computer. Gimmee never collects any personally identifying information. An email address is not even required to use the add-on or use the Members site.

It’s hard to correlate interests with intents, but the logical way of looking at things is that if someone takes the time to ask for a particular type of ad, they are thinking about a purchase. With the data, we can apply statistical observations and recognize patterns and trends. As with any other type of statistical data, the bigger the sampling, the more accurate the analysis. The more accurate the possible analyses, the more valuable the data. Bigger, in this case, really is better. Concluding that line of thought, Gimmee needs to be used by as many people as possible as fast as possible. Viral growth is not an option, it’s a necessity. Millions of users would not be too many. Hundreds of millions would be best. The fastest, cheapest way to reach that many people is television marketing purchased at the regional and local level.

Enter the driving force behind all of it – the thing that will make nearly everyone (I hope) in the US eventually install the Gimmee add-on. Every active user of the add-on will have a chance to be on television, starring in our commercials. To get on TV all they have to do is create and upload a 30-second video in any format, to the Members’ site. Videos will be accessible and other Members will vote for the best. The best videos each month will be used in the following month’s television ads. That way, every member has the chance to get on TV, every month. That's what the Members Site is all about.

I'm not sure it would work in the dashboard of your truck. I suppose you could mount a netbook...

Re: My Political Philosophy

jonknight — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:40:24 -0000

'The argument for me is never about the nobility of the cause, but rather the role of the institution and the influence/power that will be handed to an inevitably corrupt organization.

You can’t guilt me with utopian ideals that never materialize or bribe me with a redistribution in my favor. I’m just not into handing more power over to the connected few.'

You've stated, very accurately, my views as well. Thanks.

Re: Users, customers, or audience - what do you call the people that visit your site?

jonknight — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:49:30 -0000

Ditto.

'Members' seems to encompass the entire group as well as each individual.

Re: To my first 10,000 blog subscribers: Thank you!

jonknight — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:45:33 -0000

Some blogs don't need to be read by so many. This one does.

I've done a couple of brick-n-mortar businesses locally - and that was enough to make me think I could do a web startup. Whole different animal...

Thanks, Andrew. You've steered me past at least a few (unobvious to me but not to you) obstacles that could have really messed things up. Your value to this community is starting to be reflected in your numbers, but your regular readers already knew... this place is priceless.

Re: Personalized GetGlue Homepages

jonknight — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:09:02 -0000

Thanks for asking!

Gimmee is a web browser add-on that gives you control over what kind of ads you see online. Should be ready for 1st release next month (fingers crossed, salt tossed, gypsy consulted...) You can check it out over at the Gimmee blog.

Re: Gimmee Feedback

jonknight — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:42:25 -0000

We're working hard to get Gimmee released. Once it's ready, you'll be able to install the Gimmee add-on directly from the Gimmee website. Once the installation is complete, your account over at the Members' site will be waiting, and you'll be able to use all the features.

Right now, we're still shooting for our original target date of October 15th. Keep checking in, though - there may be sneak previews!

Re: Personalized GetGlue Homepages

jonknight — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:59:31 -0000

Gee, my friends have strange tastes in music....

This is the most impressive thing I've seen you guys do since Indigo. The look, the form and the function of it - this is a great advance for Glue. I especially like that I'm already signed in when I head over there. Planning on putting that little feature into Gimmee.

Oh, and it's chewy chips ahoy ftw.

Re: Mozilla’s NYC Add-on Meetup

jonknight — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:41:09 -0000

I hope so, thanks. It won't be long before I get out and about again. Warn the planet!

Re: Mozilla’s NYC Add-on Meetup

jonknight — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:06:35 -0000

I hate I missed that!

I don't suppose there's any video lying around?

Re: Depression…Shmepression…Buy and iPhone and Grab a Prozac Script.

jonknight — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:29:49 -0000

'Oh well. Goldman Sachs $gs is evil…yawn.'

Exactly where my sentiment has been heading. But depressed? Not close.

Angry? Sure, I'll go there. But also simply fascinated at what they have accomplished in the past 10 years. (I'll leave the particulars to your readers to remember.) Those guys have simply taken over.

Also I'm a bit excited. This has been, so far, the absolute worst economic period I've lived through. I KNOW this is a time for radical change, innovations in every area of society. I fully expect Goldman et al. to fail eventually, but in that failure I see so much opportunity for folks like me that I almost wish it would hurry.

History shows us that every severe economic downturn is immediately followed by world-changing products and services, generating the wealth that drives the eventual broad recovery.

Don't panic. Know where your towel is.

Re: Introducing Glue Suggestions

jonknight — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:33:37 -0000

I have never wanted to actually call on the phone to say "Great job!" until now.

That doesn't mean I'm gonna tap the phone, just that I gave it some serious consideration.

I love this latest Glue update. Freakin awesome.

Re: “Magic” in the air…..it’s SHOWTIME

jonknight — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:24:52 -0000

Late to the party (I was campin on yer lawn and overslept... I'm gettin too old for this hippie lifestyle)

- Happy birthday Andy.

Re: Where should I live? Help me decide

jonknight — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:21:30 -0000

Humidity in Raleigh is outrageous in the summer, but there is always Asheville!

Re: How Are We Signing Into This Blog?

jonknight — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:20:28 -0000

I rely on twitter nowadays to find your newest posts. Guess I joined the ex-RSS club... still subscribed, mind you. I just never seem to have the time for the reader anymore.

Still, I always just hit the Disqus button to login. Like Nigel, it's about convenience. For me, that's the big D (I like how fast it is, among other things), but for others it's going to be something else. I think it's nice there's a choice. Everybody gets what they think they want.

Re: Audience or Community

jonknight — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:13:32 -0000

Geez, it's standing room only in here....

(couldn't resist it, Chris. Get me a chair, would'ya?)

Re: Is There Such a Thing as Smart Money?

jonknight — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:48:26 -0000

It's all dumb money, just like all hammers are dumb. We all can pick up a hammer and maybe hang a picture on the wall, but some of us can use it to build the house containing that wall.

And the guys building the house? They smash their thumbs more than we will ever know... just like the guys trying to hang that damned picture.

Re: Digg Ads: Diggers Control How Much Advertisers Pay

jonknight — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:30:41 -0000

For more than a year I've been saying that users need to take control of internet marketing. This is a step in that direction, but it's seriously Not Enough.

As noted above in the comments, Digg is notorious for gaming their own system. I stopped going there sometime last year because of the gaming. Nevertheless, I think this is just great - in the end it's a win - win - win for the advertisers, for the website, and for the users.

Re: Digg Ads: Diggers Control How Much Advertisers Pay

jonknight — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:26:00 -0000

At this point the advertisers have no choice! They will comply.

Resistance is uhhh, useless.

Re: Zemanta now with SlideShare, 5min, Wikinvest, bigger images and 17.9% less fat

jonknight — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:53:41 -0000

You guys are great!

Re: Zemanta now with SlideShare, 5min, Wikinvest, bigger images and 17.9% less fat

jonknight — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:42:55 -0000

Dan,

As you know, I am a big and long standing fan of Zemanta - use it all the time. So please take this in the positive light that it's meant.

In a post about "Providing rich examples in blog posts", and especially with a sub-heading like "New rich objects in action", none of the examples are truly 'rich'. A picture of action is action that has been stopped, and is not in action any more.

Don't pauperize the post by providing pictures of the stuff in action. If these tools work in our blogs, then they'll work in yours as well! Would've taken practically no time at all to find and embed a few working examples.