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Re: URDB - Longest Distance Moonwalked

Sky — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:22:20 -0000

Re: URDB - Longest Distance Moonwalked

joshmchugh — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:50:19 -0000

How much of that is technically moonwalk?

Re: Facebook Page Frenzy Due Today: URLs Available to All

joshmchugh — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:23:07 -0000

Agreed - super-douchey move by FB to jack the number from 25 to 100 in the last few hours before opening the gates.

Re: Owen Thomas moves from Valley gossip job to NBC, gets minions

joshmchugh — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:10:54 -0000

Congrats, Owen!

Tiger Beat grow a pair and claim your comment.

Re: Status Update: Plaxo and Facebook are now in an “Open Relationship”

joshmchugh — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:11:22 -0000

Absolutely agree with Dick here. The major detraction from the utility of Plaxo was the duplication of connections I had already made on Facebook and, to some degree, LinkedIn.

Bravo.

Re: Semester 2 Is Live!

joshmchugh — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:25:10 -0000

Thanks man - glad to have you aboard.

Re: http://luckyshirt.tumblr.com/post/86430363

joshmchugh — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:29:51 -0000

Safety announcement: do not attempt to eat lengthwise.

Re: The Rising Power Of Social Media As A Traffic Driver

joshmchugh — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:53:31 -0000

In the entertainment biz, Twitter is proving to be a hugely effective generator of traffic. Better yet, it's highly time-specific. For the launch of the second season of one of my company's web series, Dorm Life, we had widely announced a March 2 date, but subsequently struck a deal with MySpace giving them a 48-hour exclusive head start on posting Dorm Life episodes.

On March 1, a day into the MySpace exclusive period, we noticed that traffic was barely trickling into the MySpace channel. So we sent out a tweet on the @dormlife channel, containing a link to the first episode of the season on MySpace.

We used Bit.ly to compress the link. The compression is nice, but the real value is in Bit.ly's tracking and analytics capabilities. An hour later, we could see that 20% of those who had received the tweet had clicked through to the video. 48 hours later, 90% had clicked through. 3 days after the tweet went out, clickthroughs on the link had all but died out, but the final result was that 94% of the Dorm Life fans who got the tweet clicked through.

Since we began interacting with our audience via Twitter, we've found that the show's Twitter community has generated a ratio of views per community member (2:1) that is double the ratio (1:1) the show's Facebook-based community has generated. No doubt there's a lot of overlap between the two, but the point is that for us, Twitter messages are twice as effective in getting fans to check out episodes.

TV Week's Daisy Whitney mentioned it in a piece yesterday: http://bit.ly/TVwDL

Re: Radar connects with Flickr for photos and comments

joshmchugh — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:11:50 -0000

Right on Radar! Really good move.

Re: Reed, please.

joshmchugh — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:25:12 -0000

Awesome.
A guy at the SF farmers' market was doing the same a while back, and wrote a real nice one for my boy Finn.

Re: betaworks - When people go into a meeting they have two goals:...

tweetip — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:11:08 -0000

"Could large groups of animals function together as a single entity with distributed intelligence? Did evolution work through such groups, selecting at the group level rather than the individual?"

We're wondering - would evolution favor 10 min thought or long thought now? The implications might be staggering. Oh! Stand? That's so, like, druid... http://tweetip.us/lk4u1

Re: betaworks - When people go into a meeting they have two goals:...

joshmchugh — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:50:56 -0000

That's how the Druids used to roll, I think. But I definitely want to invest in any company made up of people who can stand up for 9 days straight - that's some serious discipline.

Re: MegaWTF!

joshmchugh — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:11:57 -0000

Oh my gosh - it just hit me: Frank Chu got major funding and has become a global telecommunications mogul!

Re: Google Friend Connect: Making your Plaxo account Useful all over the Social Web

dagga — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:22:11 -0000

Thankyou

Re: Google Friend Connect: Making your Plaxo account Useful all over the Social Web

joshmchugh — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:27:21 -0000

Congrats Dagga on finding the date of the Rapture. Is that the same thing as The Singularity?

Re: The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Samantha Power Rejoins Team Obama

joshmchugh — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:12:12 -0000

Right on Sam!

Re: OpenID Support, Please

joshmchugh — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:02:04 -0000

Definitely in favor as well. IntenseDebate is getting a lot of love in the last couple of days from the OpenID establishment because Change.gov uses their comment system and it allows openid logins.

Re: URDB - Most Burps In One Minute

joshmchugh — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:42:29 -0000

Amen.

Re: The Universal Record Database - The definitive site for human achievement

joshmchugh — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:18:13 -0000

That is amazing. I'm embedding that right away...

Re: The Universal Record Database The definitive site for human achievement, regardless of discipline or category

joshmchugh — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:11:03 -0000

Yes - we need proof - or at least witness testimony, place and date info, etc.

Also, possibly not fair if you're rocking one of those newfangled wide-mouth Coors cans.

Re: The Universal Record Database - The definitive site for human achievement

drollman — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:21:44 -0000

What do others think? Should "teeth whistling" and "lip whistling" be split into separate categories?

RE: adding "in a sandstorm". Since I submitted the record without the variable, I think it should stay that way. Otherwise, we enter a slippery slope area, ie. if someone beats "Most Times Whistling 'Happy Birthday' In A Minute In A Sandstorm", I could just add "While Wearing A Hat" or "While Sporting A Mustache".

I think records should be retitled only when the community suggests it, like if people think I should reclassify my whistle as a "tooth whistle". The record setter shouldn't be allowed to reclassify their own record simply if it's in danger.

That said, if a record gets beaten, can someone resubmit their record in a totally different category? Could I send this video in again and claim "Longest Time Standing In A Dust Storm Wearing Goggles"?

Re: The Universal Record Database - The definitive site for human achievement

joshmchugh — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:09:08 -0000

Teeth-whistler! That's got to be a different category than lip-whistling. It won't last vs. lip-whistler aces, but will probably go down as all-time when adding "in a sandstorm" to the record's description.

Re: NYT Ethicist Randy Cohen on urban automotive ethics

joshmchugh — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:59:20 -0000

Seesmic video reply from Disqus.

Re: Illumenix Becomes TubeMogul InPlay

tubemogul — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:09:25 -0000

Eeek! Thanks for the correction (I think I was caffeine-deprived when I wrote that).

Re: Illumenix Becomes TubeMogul InPlay

joshmchugh — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:01:48 -0000

Congrats - looks like a great move and Illumenix has awesome capabilities.

I'm hoping, however, that you meant to say "The value of Illumenix’s brain-trust of executives and engineers can’t be overstated," not understated.