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Re: The Donors Choose Threepeat Is Complete

lawrence — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:43:37 -0000

There is a lot of feet on the street fund raising / activism here in San Francisco. For the most part, it bums me out how clueless they are about the online communities and tools around them that could greatly help their causes. They want me to digest a project, agree to contribute, and break out my check book all while standing on the street.

Donor's Choose is the nextgen version of this sort of activism. You read about the project (from among several), learn about the recipients, and even get to interact with the people - I was thanked twice for my donation by the teacher who was looking to raise money for a projector. Of course there is stuff like Twitter and FB integration.

Good stuff. Have a great meetup!

Re: Is Blog Reading Mainstream?

fredwilson — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:35:44 -0000

I got that one right, thankfully and in this one case, it was my inability to use an RSS reader (never have been able to use one despite trying dozens of times) that helped me out

Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

Fraser — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:14:45 -0000

@Lawrence, you are spot on. This is actually going to be the topic for the opening keynote at this years Add-on-Con.

Re: Glue: From Browser Plugin To Web Service

lawrence — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:43:18 -0000

A few years ago it looked like the destination site might go away - that toolbars, widgets, and apps might be the web startup of the future.

It hasn't.

I think the arguments for having a strong home base to work in concert with your distributed spokes are stronger than ever.

This is a smart move by Glue.

Re: Is Blog Reading Mainstream?

lawrence — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:49:40 -0000

Blogs continue to surge while RSS readers become marginalized / unnecessary. I didn't see that coming - a few years ago i would have guessed that blog readership would pull rss readers into the mainstream. Search and social seem to have picked up the slack.

Re: Just Try It Out

lawrence — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:39:54 -0000

They are early and likely getting bombed with traffic so they may have turned some stuff off, but some obvious things that aren't there yet or not working: 1) sharing on other services / Twitter / FB integration is either broken or not built yet; 2) finding friends is not there yet; 3) no obvious way to toggle between everyone / my friends view; 4) outbound invitations is either poorly integrated or not there yet. Despite these product gaps, my guess is that they are seeing some astonishing engagement numbers to attract such blue chip investors so early.

Re: The Blog Where Everybody Knows Your Name

lawrence — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:30:37 -0000

hmmm... checkins can apply to more than just places. I'm with you on that one.

Re: http://www.borthwick.com/weblog/2009/04/19/699/

billV23 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:16:54 -0000

I agree that is very exciting to think about, even if it is a little bit hard to grasp. Being able to wrap your mind around it with the whole picture remaining clear is the trick. I'm going to have to read through it a few more times myself. free money for bills?

Re: Don't Forget About Email

lawrence — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:54:04 -0000

I wish we had known about you a few months ago - parsing emails for post-able content is not trivial.

Re: Don't Forget About Email

isaacsaldana — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:30:10 -0000

This is a great point. We allow companies to point a domain or subdomain to our servers, and we automatically parse all their emails and post them to a web form. This prevents companies from having to setup their email server and develop a parse application to support what you just mentioned. To find out more about the parse API please go here http://wiki.sendgrid.com/doku.php?id=parse_api

Re: Don't Forget About Email

lawrence — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:33:52 -0000

And even beyond the newsletter and sharing aspects of email that Fred mentions, there is also the content posting potential.

notifications-xxx@disqus.com (content moderation)
post@posterous.com (blog posts)
mobile@facebook.com (mms photos)
reviews@rateitall.com (reviews of anything) (shameless plug)

Re: Ten Characteristics of Great Companies

lawrence — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:55:44 -0000

I have always liked the concept of employees that act like founders.

Re: What We Can Learn From Mess

GaryWolf — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:29:49 -0000

thanks!!
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Magazine home: www.wired.com
Current project: www.quantifiedself.org

Re: What We Can Learn From Mess

lawrence — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:47:57 -0000

Gary, I thought your article was brilliant. Craigslist is both frustrating and awe inspiring. You capture this confusing phenomenon perfectly. If and when they are beaten, it won't be because of feature creep or overreach.

Re: Disqus Forks Into Two Products, Launches Revamped Real-Time Comment System

lawrence — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:25:03 -0000

Is this is a test run for Disqus for all of TechCrunch?

Re: Couldery Shouldery

lawrence — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:48:00 -0000

Scott, thank you for the post.

Re: Disqus V3 Is Live On This Blog

avcion — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:36:42 -0000

Email may be old school... but its one that still works! How else would companies like Blackberry make money!?

Re: Disqus V3 Is Live On This Blog

fredwilson — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:16:28 -0000

Good work. Its a great feature. I asked for it when they were building disqus during YC

Re: Disqus V3 Is Live On This Blog

lawrence — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:06:22 -0000

And we just copied this feature this week! Email is old school, but it still has legs.

http://www.rateitall.com/wt-email-reviews-faq.aspx

Re: 5 Easy Social Media Wins for Small Businesses

lawrence — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:44:46 -0000

Nice summary Samir.

Here's another free tool for local businesses to increase their exposure:

http://www.rateitall.com/promote

Re: 5 Easy Social Media Wins for Small Businesses

lawrence — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:43:45 -0000

Howard, here's a restaurant in SF that uses FB Connect:

http://thecornersf.com/

Neat, because you can see the faces of the patrons... mixes online and offline community.

Re: Why Comments Matter

fredwilson — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:46:59 -0000

Don't worry. I'm gonna delete the dups (or quints)

Re: Why Comments Matter

lawrence — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:09:17 -0000

I think he's *sneakily* trying to set a comment record on his post about comments. Sorry, but there will need to be an asterisk if this post sets the all time comment record for AVC.

Re: Calling All Bloggers: Blippr Launches Blipbacks Network!

cheald — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:10:43 -0000

Exactly. We figure that if we have a system set up that's mutually beneficial, everyone stands to win. :)

Re: Calling All Bloggers: Blippr Launches Blipbacks Network!

lawrence — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:59:44 -0000

This seems like a pretty good idea - reward folks for integrating your stuff.