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Re: How Capital One’s Credit Tracker Tool Educates Customers

stevenloi — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 14:18:35 -0000

I guess "mobile" means iPad.

Re: The Favorite Button On Twitter

stevenloi — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 11:58:14 -0000

very much agree! I've been using Favorites since the very beginning (2007) but use it a much different way than Fred. It was more for self consumption. As I treat Twitter as an information network, my favorites generally fall in the insightful/interesting tweets category. A lot will contain links in which I just feed the /favorites URL into a reader like Flipboard.

Re: The Favorite Button On Twitter

stevenloi — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 11:52:54 -0000

In the earlier days when Twitter favorites were less used, I used them exclusively as a reminder or if the tweet was insightful. Some would include links and I would feed that URL to Flipboard to consume the articles. It was for self consumption.

I think the gesture has evolved to how you use it, Fred. Probably because there isn't any other gesture to provide that kind of signal back to the author of the tweet. (Replies work to an extent, but it clutters the timeline so I suspect more and more the favorite gesture is used for acknowledgement.)

I wish there is a better way to separate the two. I value the first more but see the importance of the second as well.

Re: Recipe: A/B testing with KISSMetrics and the split gem

stevenloi — Wed, 01 May 2013 11:09:29 -0000

FYI - link broken. Correct link back to the "when" to A/B test: http://playbook.thoughtbot....

Re: Matt Barnes Was “Stuck” with Lakers

stevenloi — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:41:54 -0000

This is not slamming the Lakers. This is truth to how players have been under-utilized.

Re: http://richman.tumblr.com/post/6192732719

stevenloi — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:20:27 -0000

where is this?!

Re: http://eatokonomi.tumblr.com/post/3689743109

stevenloi — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:02:08 -0000

Agreed. But, great _service_ establishes the connection w/ the product and the paying customer.

Re: How I Screwed Yasser Arafat out of $2mm

stevenloi — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 02:11:15 -0000

Love your honesty James!

Re: eBay + Paypal + Facebook Connect = Group Gift-Buying

stevenloi — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 03:11:51 -0000

_could_be brilliant. but would use it?

Re: eBay + Paypal + Facebook Connect = Group Gift-Buying

stevenloi — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 03:09:43 -0000

Wait, not to be too negative. But, I'm not sure this is "real innovation." This concept has been tried multiple times. Since I've only really been involved with web industry since 2006, I can point to at least four different companies that started this concept once Facebook opened their platform up. The total value prop that EBay is doing now were exactly what these startups tried to do three years ago.

Gift _giving_ and gift _collaboration_, from what I learned, won't be drivers of adoption of this concept. Hence, the other startups flamed out. It works for social goods and non-profits but it has yet to work for pure group gifting. It'll need more of an incentive to really drive users to set up these gift giving events and for friends to contribute. Gift giving just isn't a primary driver of mass user action.

Re: Screw the super angels, we need a super user collusion table at Bin-38

stevenloi — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:44:08 -0000

twitter.com/stevenloi plancast.com/stevenloi only 153 though. :)

Re: The BBM Social Platform

stevenloi — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 05:40:53 -0000

I think one thing that has always been a huge hurdle with BBM is having to manually enter in BB friends' BBM ID. No one remember these strings and remains too restrictive. It's great you guys plan to open up 28M potential users, but if I don't even know which of my social circle has BBM, this feature won't work as well as it can.

Re: How A Stress Balloon Led To Ownership Stakes In Bit.ly, TweetDeck, StockTwits, LifeLock And Other Companies – With Howard Lindzon

stevenloi — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:07:14 -0000

Disclosure: I may have a bias as I have taken a Spiritual Gangster long sleeve and a Stocktwits hat from Howard. :)

Re: How A Stress Balloon Led To Ownership Stakes In Bit.ly, TweetDeck, StockTwits, LifeLock And Other Companies – With Howard Lindzon

stevenloi — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:05:49 -0000

Great interview! Great insight and wisdom that Howard shared. Thanks Andrew and Howard.

I truly think Howard's the best sales/marketing/business driver of products in the social web -- especially over the topic on how to get "social leverage." Watching him pump up and get excited about Wallstrip, pick fights with Mike Arrington and Jason, trash Twitter and then pump Twitter/Stocktwits, community engagement... amazing craft.

Been following and reading about Howard since the early Wallstrip days (as he knows).

Re: All Things Chill | Over My Dead Body.

stevenloi — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:58:36 -0000

Flash is the culprit of memory hogs and browser crashes. I'm fine with HTML5 and the continual improvements there as an alternative. :)

A year from now, will you be saying the same thing, but substituting iPhone for "iPhone and iPad"? :D

Re: Automated summaries and excerpts

stevenloi — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:19:48 -0000

I can'tbelieve I missed this comment.

To all joshua-go readers, if you like his thoughts here, find out more about his thoughts here at: twitter.com/joshuago :)

Re: Personal Finance Site Mint.com Acquired for $170mm

stevenloi — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:22:31 -0000

Great post and indeed, an awesome win for performance-based online customer acquisition. Besides BillShrink, can you think of any more startups that are using this approach -- building a trusted brand and service that will yield returning and loyal users?

Re: A few thoughts on foursquare’s seed financing…

stevenloi — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:28:25 -0000

Congrats on the financing!

Re: My Muses for Brainstorming Startup Ideas | Sachin Rekhi

stevenloi — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:55:27 -0000

Congrats and good luck with your new gig at Trinity!

- Steve (just another guy working in a mid-sized startup with greater aspirations in my future.)

Re: obscurely famous

stevenloi — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:43:32 -0000

This is awesome. But, my grip: taking longer notes, I like using Wordpad. Word too heavy. And no autosaves, kills me.

Re: My automobile's cooling system and its plastic parts

stevenloi — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:24:16 -0000

At first, I was going to say this post should be filed under Auto 101. But, reading it again, it's better filed under Auto 001. :P

Glad you got the putter to the shop in one piece and got it fixed -- I can only imagine how pricey it is relative to reseller value.

Re: The trouble with budget surpluses

stevenloi — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:44:48 -0000

I wanted to comment on your Java post. But, Disqus isn't on that post? What's up with that?

Re: Jotting notes.

stevenloi — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:31:04 -0000

I like your caption better.

Re: The trouble with budget surpluses

stevenloi — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:34:18 -0000

So no new MBNZ then? :(

Re: The Secret History of Silicon Valley (next Thurs, Nov 20)

stevenloi — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:42:15 -0000

hey andrew. I don't think that link to register works. is it rsvp there?