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Re: Facebook Events: A Double-Edged Sword

tedr — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:43:23 -0000

Great tips. thx

Re: tedr*tumblr: fromme-toyou: Grand Central Station I never...

tedr — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:53:19 -0000

That's why you had to stop and stare. You could see the stars in the constellations. I never guessed there was so much art around them

Re: New Speedway Boogie

tedr — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:31:49 -0000

I thought it was the best song on the cover album ....

Re: Worried about TedR - the michael galpert tumblelog

tedr — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:40:52 -0000

LOLz!

or maybe I should say RAWR!

Re: Age (and ARPPU) ain’t nothing but a number: Data on how age impacts social gaming monetization

tedr — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:56:26 -0000

Great post. Thx to Susan, Gambit & Andrew for posting.

I have not been able to gather enough data, but I have a suspicion that adults with children are curtaining their entertainment-related online spending due to the recession even though they haven't reduced their childrens' budgets.

If this is true and the economy rebounds on main street (whenever that is) I bet we'll see the overall spend of the 40+ crowd increase rapidly.

Re: Best Entrepreneurship/VC Tumblr Blogs

tedr — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:16:51 -0000

He! Thx. Wondered where all those followers came from. I'll try and be inspiring and sagacious .... oh look, pandas!

Re: Jay Parkhill

tedr — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:00:00 -0000

My untested idea for elevated bike and car lanes would be lanes w/ grating, not cement that ran overhead roughly covering the two center lanes of market st. They would be supported via telephone pole-like support that spanned across the whole of market street.

I have no idea how bikes would get up and down. I'm envisioning some slants off to side streets and stairs, but I doubt there could be very many of them. Maybe you'd get on around Octavia street while market street is still decending?

Re: Social design explosion: Polls, quizzes, reviews, forums, chat, blogs, videos, comments, oh my!

tedr — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:16:02 -0000

This has been a challenge/reality of ours since about the 2nd year. I'd add to the laundry list votingup/votingdown, questions/answers/advice, gifting, classifieds.

The challenge isn't adding the new features, it's finding the place to promote these new features. You run out of nav space, you run out of homepage space. Basically, you run out of attention. We try and remove low performing features whenever we can to reduce attention dilution. It's very easy to become yahoo and have more content than anyone can find. It's much harder to be wordpress and have just enough. (That's where the API/plugins architecture is so key)

Re: Jay Parkhill

tedr — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:50:57 -0000

Ya know. I think any sturdy fabric and a sewing machine would allow one to crank a ton of these out for <$10.

They won't be so stylish of course ;)

Re: Bit.ly + Google Analytics Campaign Builder Tool

tedr — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:50:49 -0000

Nice.

Re: Why metrics-driven startups overlook brand value

tedr — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:50:25 -0000

Very pertinent entry. You can get 100k uniques from digg in a day, but if less than 0.01% remember your site/service name what have you gained?

Thus we think it's very effective that our brands (Dogster, Catster, Snuzzy) come first, metrics and growth gets built on top of that. This is also a business strategy. It's at lot easier to monetize a brand and build upon that, than to monetize traffic and congeal it into a brand.

There are plenty of exceptions such as if you are a bottom feeder - and there's nothing wrong with that - but for that business to work you need to be the biggest whale in the ocean, not just a crafty catfish.

Re: tedr*tumblr: @mollybloom tipped me off that Marian Goodell ...

tedr — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:24:47 -0000

Thanks! I fyxed it ;)

Re: supersonic electronic

tedr — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:33:08 -0000

Your dads art is always stunning. I just want to reach out and grab it.

But do I see you do fine art too. (It's funny what happens when you click beyond the dashboard ;) I saw your post about getting a 300-like design gig so I figured you had mad skillz.

Anyway, I guess that's as far as this comment gets!

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

tedr — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:21:00 -0000

Wow. Bravo.

Couple thoughts:

* I think posts (the element behind RSS) would be the first stream. Even on webpage you'd read them as separate but consecutive. But that would be preceded by forums, chat rooms, IRC and mail lists, so maybe I'll leave that up to those that take these things to the mat to decide ;)

* I think we're seeing 2 distinct types of stream users. Those that want to hold the rope and those that watch it go by when they look at it. For lots of people twitter or facebook or flickr doesn't provide enough meaning if they follow too much. FriendFeed seems to be very binary, people love it or don't use, but rarely use just now and then.

* Asynchronous connections are much more (adult) human like. Thanks for that insight.

* You just made me think handheld computers have really blow the doors off the page-based paradigm and
that we're a lot closer to an always-on Internet experience then is generally believed ;)

Thanks for the deep thoughts.

Re: The end of Geocities

tedr — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:46:48 -0000

Thanks for sharing this. Our industry is great at describing the stunning highlights and reticent to recall the lowlights. I really valued reading your and Fred's entries on this part of your career and lives.

Re: 3 key ideas from a recent Freemium dinner conversation

tedr — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:55:36 -0000

Some other points I also considered highlights:

* The higher the price point, the less churn/drop-off amongst subscribers.
* Offer users a 30-day free version of the premium right next to offer to join free service. Put the two free offers side by side so people a) know they are making the choice for the premium version, b) less likely to be concerned about a 'catch'
* Offer a money back guarantee period once payment starts.
* On the consumer side do not overlook the emotional motivation to subscribing. Whether it to feel a part of the club, to show your elevated commitment, or to keep moving up the kicking-ass ladder (see Kathy Sierra) subscribing to even utility services such as LinkedIn can have a very strong emotional component.

@matthew: surveying is critical but you have to discount people's stated interest in paying for services by 50% to 75%. It's been our experience that people are 2x to 4x more likely to say they would pay for something when asked in a survey than when confronted with having to take their credit card out.

Re: Too Much Nick

tedr — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:05:40 -0000

Congrats on the deal!!1!!

Re: Bay Area entrepreneurs that I’m following on Twitter

tedr — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:49:47 -0000

Thanks Andrew. I'm just trying to keep up with you ;) Seriously, you're part of the reason I chose to focus more on posting value and knowledge instead of where I was having drinks with friends (well I made a private account for posting the latter ;)

I've written my heart and brain out in our company blog (blog.dogster.com plug plug) and think it's at 175 RSS readers. Twitter gives me 3500 followers and I don't even have to spellcheck. Wicked.

Re: We Dont Need to be Noisy to Create Noise

tedr — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:14:46 -0000

I feel ya. There's a guaranteed outgrowth of people around those doing something new and interesting, specifically in tech. These people drawn to the new people working on new things can sense what is happening and want to protect it from everyone else. I think they do this because since they can't make it themselves, they have to be ever-so-guarded of it when it's near them. For them it might leave and they'll be left empty handed.

But the doer doesn't care, because the doer will make something else. The doer will always be at the center of the community, and the rest will always be trying to find their role in the community and protect it.

I'm sure I'm speaking far too vaguely for this to be fact, but I bet you know what I'm saying ;)

And I feel you. Nothing worse than putting your heart into something and feeling it being co-opted underneath your feet.

Re: If Kekrops was President, these 4 things would be...

tedr — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:51:44 -0000

Verrrrrry interesting!

Re: http://blog.wreckandsalvage.com/post/71721831

tedr — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:25:56 -0000

Tumblr's new 'X Favorites' link reminded this the below could be my favorite tumblr post ever.

J.A. is a piece of raw lamb that deserve skewering.

http://iammattjordan.tumblr.com/post/68872620/j...

Re: New Speedway Boogie

tedr — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:59:31 -0000

Profoundly concur.

My tumblr profile photo is actually Lou from a show in Paris '74

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMsGvYzedjA

Must have watched that 20 times when I first found it.

Re: The Micah Minute or A Minute With Micah

tedr — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:44:26 -0000

I vote Micah Minute ;)

Re: Where’s My SEO From Twitter?

tedr — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:39:19 -0000

Nick,

I follow you exactly. I even think your idea is realistic - twitter does know who is worthy or not - but I bet the payoff for them to do it (and deal with all the spam abuse tactics) would make it very difficult for the them to prioritize.

But it is a shame that all these highly credible link authority events happen that are ignored.

However, the whispers are that googlebot doesn't ingore nofollow links in it's quest for every page on the Internet. The further speculation is that for certain sites they know to be pretty credible, such as wikipedia, they may even be adding that link to their authority ranking. So it's conceivable they are already doing it for twitter ... but that latter part is mostly conjecture.

Re: Dogster retains bite post downturn as revenue rolls in

tedr — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:41:04 -0000

@Joe He! Please do watch ;)