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Re: 30 Under 30 2009 - Foodzie Profile

robjohnson — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:02:57 -0000

mark it down - rob, emily, & nik are going to rule the world one day.

congrats guys :)

Re: Welcome to the real world!

robjohnson — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:05:26 -0000

and use laptops from the mid 80s?

Re: Lean Ecommerce with Magento - 25 Aug 2009

robjohnson — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:03:25 -0000

"all you have to do is decide what to do with the time you're given"

ah, it's that easy, eh? ;)

Re: Triple Bypass 2009 – A Modest Report

robjohnson — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:34:08 -0000

that was an epic ride! and wow, i've never been so miserable on my bike as those last 25 miles in the downpour from vail pass. big props to us for finishing :)

Re: Twitter Search This

robjohnson — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:47:54 -0000

brightkite!

Re: Traffic to this blog

robjohnson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:56:05 -0000

could this question be phrased as: how much traffic comes from tweets other than those from twitter.com/bijan? if we're trying to determine how much traffic comes from "passed links" isn't it better to exclude links immediately passed from the content creator? of course any traffic from retweets of @bijan should be included.

is there any good way to figure this out or is this kind of data stuck inside the twitter offices?

Re: Golden Gate Dirty Thirty Review

robjohnson — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:33:19 -0000

congrats dude. nice run. and great prep for the triple.

Re: beach week

robjohnson — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:28:09 -0000

ok, i'm really jealous. suggestion: one night go down to georgetown, walk along the boardwalk, and eat at rice paddy or one of the seafood restaurants on the boardwalk :)

Re: you cant discover without promotion.

robjohnson — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:38:05 -0000

micah - love your thoughts here.

i think that as the form of online media has shrunk and become easier (websites led to blogs which led to tweets which will lead to "favoriting") sharing small chunks of attention is prevalent. people share all the time about a good meal they are eating, a coffee shop they're visiting, a book they put on their kindle, etc.

the traditional "word of mouth" recommendations have come to the web and are supercharged by the inherent traits of online media - public, searchable, and easily spread. this is a much bigger change than it seems currently because it means that i will more and more rely on my friends' more frequent recommendations for things to read, purchase, listen to, & attend.

i think the end result is that the best strategy for marketing will no longer be to get as many people as possible to listen, but to get as many people as possible to share.

Re: Despite the Promise of Social Networks Local Businesses Strugle with Marketing ROI

robjohnson — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:18:26 -0000

hey tac - you should check out what's happening amongst a lot of the downtown retail stores in boulder. it's almost impossible to go to any store on pearl street now that doesn't have a twitter account. additionally there's a @downtownboulder account that is the center of it all.

it's been fascinating to watch these brick & mortar stores explore and figure out the value in twitter.

Re: 3 Years Later - I Don't Care Any More

robjohnson — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:08:55 -0000

meh. you'll come back. we'll be waiting for you.

it not the features (or lack thereof) that are interesting, it's the people and their ideas. twitter has been an amazing success because of their ability to encourage communities to thrive. that's what twitter does and is. twitter will remain a success utnil they seriously screw that up which is pretty hard to do at this point.

Re: Email Fail

robjohnson — Fri, 01 May 2009 09:46:33 -0000

if you stay in gmail for any period of time i highly encourage learning the keyboard shortcuts. they are from unix-based text editors and they really make the whole gmail experience faster, smoother, & better.

Re: 6 Twitter Search Services Compared

robjohnson — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:10:01 -0000

also, http://twitter.oneriot.com

interesting because it searches the media that people are sharing on twitter. so it's like performing a google search but limited only to the part of the web that people are sharing links to on twitter.

Re: Colorado Leeds School of Business Application

robjohnson — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:51:56 -0000

hey cu -

there are hundreds of people who gather monthly at the law school to discuss new emerging technology in the boulder/denver community. this gathering is exploding. it's just started an offshoot monthly meeting in denver. the boulder one "sells out" immediately after opening and now even the overflow rooms are full. it's a huge statement about the strength of the boulder tech community.

while this is the success of the entire boulder community, there are a handful of people whose work has had an outsized influence on creating this environment. if you were to build that list of people, every one of them would tell you to put andrew on there.

Re: We Dont Need to be Noisy to Create Noise

robjohnson — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:24:28 -0000

guys - please no techcrunch-like wars here. I think both of you have a point and both of you are very important leaders to the boulder ""community"". I think micah recognizes that there's a bit of irony in that by writing about this very thing, he's drawing attention to himself. he did write that he could see some people saying he's hypocritical.

and while I think it's hardly worth a piss storm, his point that simply excelling is a more powerful way to promote a community than a concerted blog campaign is true.

Re: We Dont Need to be Noisy to Create Noise

robjohnson — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:11:32 -0000

I agree with you jeffrey. I hope that none of us have the goal of simply trying to make boulder a more attractive community. my goal is to make eventvue succeed. micah's goal is to see lijit succeed. and if community develops here as that happens (like it has already) then I'll happily report & celebrate that when appropriate. but community building for the sake of community building is just not that meaningful. and I think that was part of your point.

Re: We Dont Need to be Noisy to Create Noise

robjohnson — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:09:00 -0000

I hear what you're saying about things tending towards the promoters more than the community, but I think you might be taking this a bit far. Is it really all that damaging to recognize that there is something unique and good about the people and shared innovation in Boulder and want to tell others about it?

Re: ::the Big Picture::

robjohnson — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:12:06 -0000

impressive.

on another note, check out timespeople.nytimes.com. I'm on a crusade to get my friends who read nyt to join me there and recommend the interesting stuff I should read...

Re: Explaining our Approach to Conferences in 2009

robjohnson — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:27:22 -0000

my 2 cents - conferences are worth attending and sponsoring where you can make the one-on-one conversations happen that influence thought leaders and potential customers in your industry.

I still remember when you guys sponsored defrag and alex gave a presentation on the attention economy and the implicit web. I and a lot of other people walked out of that with the sense that somewhere in alex's brain (and in the growth of adaptive blue) was what the future of the web could look like.

it is definitely hard to quantify that value to you guys, but I'd argue it was immensely valuable all the same.

(and of course, thanks for the mention for what we're doing with EventVue!)

Re: TwitSpace: A Twitter UI Improvement That Ruined It

robjohnson — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:18:57 -0000

yep - twitter is at the same stage that blogs were a few years ago. initially it was a small, tight circle of friends posting crap - snide remarks, jokes, pointless thoughts, etc. and then a lot of people showed up and some people started watching their followers count grow and they began to think about influence, brand, and other self-focused nonsense. add services like qwitter, twittergrader, and the like and now you have people who are "celebrities" (with all the triviality that brings).

gone are the tweets that invited people to join you for lunch at old chicago. gone are the tweets that took a friendly jab at local startup founders. there's too much at stake now. you have to think about your "audience".

as for me, I miss the old version of twitter and its intimate carelessness. so for now, I'm using brightkite more for sharing stuff with friends. brightkite may eventually succumb to the same forces of course, and when that happens I'll probably feel the same.

Re: $170 Million for a Party?

robjohnson — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:52:59 -0000

just so you know it's not just me -- from my twitter stream --

"one of the galvanizing elements of Obama's election is the underlying message that anything is possible. there is no better proof" - @arinewman

"yep. tomorrow crank it up america" - @zackperry

"I loved the overall tone of Obama's speech. If he can deliver on that, we'll be just fine" -@fredwilson

is it worth it to be inspired as a country again? is it worth it to be optimistic again?

yes, yes, & yes.

Re: $170 Million for a Party?

robjohnson — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:44:53 -0000

gonna totally disagree with you here howard -- at this moment in our country's history, what price can you put on inspiration? in fact, how else can you have any kind of macroeconomic effect other than to inspire?

so if the question is - is it worth it to celebrate for this moment what America can acccomplish, what America has accomplished, and be reminded of the promise that our history stands for, then YES it IS worth it. every penny.

if this is just a party to you, then you're missing the moment of a generation.

Re: Trust Me, I Speak Good

robjohnson — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:25:15 -0000

ok, ok...you write about conferences, and I of course will comment :)

I think you'll enjoy most the conferences that really are becoming communities. It will completely fit your style. To that end, defrag is great and I expect glue will be as well. the guys at 360conferences also seem to have a lot of good stuff happening.

yes, they're all our customers, and yes, we love them.

Re: ::half-priced burgers::

robjohnson — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:21:16 -0000

mmm...posts like this make me miss charleston. i'm warning you now -- one picture of kaminsky's and I'm unfollowing you

Re: 6 Reasons Why I Unfollowed You on Twitter

robjohnson — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:37:26 -0000

ahh...the let's not offend someone's twitter ego solution.