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Re: Shake Shack Without the Wait

vacanti — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:37:46 -0000

Hopefully this post increased visibility and will get people to share more line lengths.

Re: Shake Shack Without the Wait

vacanti — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:34:22 -0000

Unfortunately, while the mob was active, there wasn't enough data to do a more rigorous analysis. Hopefully, the article helped increase publicity around the shake shack flash mob and we'll be able to collect more data

Re: Your Twitter Followers Aren't Real

vacanti — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:02:34 -0000

@Ru Great points. The vast majority of the non "real" followers were accounts that were created, had a few followers, never updated or last updated months ago. In other words, they were just people who tried out the site for a little bit and decided it wasn't for them.

Re: Your Twitter Followers Aren't Real

vacanti — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:59:20 -0000

@dalka

I did not look at long tail accounts but do agree that it would be an interesting analysis.

Re: Your Twitter Followers Aren't Real

vacanti — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:02:21 -0000

@TNVWBOY I think that's an excellent idea and one that shouldn't be too difficult to implement with the structured @ system of replies. Other stats you could look at are: retweets and click through rates on links shared through tweets

Re: Your Twitter Followers Aren't Real

vacanti — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:05:39 -0000

@adrigonzo I agree with your comments. It is asking a lot of people to constantly participate. The purpose of my analysis was to capture the reach of twitter messages. That is, when Scoble tweets, how many people actually read it. The only way to gauge that currently is to look at the number of followers but, as the analysis above indicates, those followers aren't reading those tweets.

By "real" I just mean followers that were actually reading that person's tweets.

Re: "Figure out what you want to do everyday for the rest of your life... and do that!"

vacanti — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:32:42 -0000

I loved this line: "This whole space is going to crash next year. It's going to be awesome! Huge opportunities, get ready."

Re: Twitter Isn’t for Normal People

vacanti — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:25:34 -0000

Couldn't agree more with this assessment. Perhaps instead of trying to get Twitter to become used by non-techies (which may never happen), they should focus on making the data currently being generated more useful to non-twitter users. http://election.twitter.com is one example but not a great one.

Re: War of the Worlds from a Martian Perspective

vacanti — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:38:18 -0000

Along these lines, I did a Twitter version of War of the Worlds: http://bit.ly/AAJWd

Re: Twitter's War of the Worlds

vacanti — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:34:51 -0000

I agree. Maybe it could play out similar to Mad Men where people act out the parts.

Re: Are Early Movie Reviews Rigged?

vacanti — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:13:38 -0000

Interesting point on movie reviews becoming less positive over time as the initial excitement wears down. On the question of picking, movie reviewers don't get to pick which movies they are the first critic to review, the studio does.

Re: This Shakeshack line is too long!

vacanti — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:08:51 -0000

I know exactly how that kid feels.

Re: Kevin Rose Picks His 104 Twitter Friends Very Carefully

vacanti — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:37:40 -0000

ha. I think that's the theme for all of twitter's users...

Re: You Decide Who Presents at the Next NY Tech Meetup

vacanti — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:32:13 -0000

Since I wrote the post, I don't think it would be fair to vote for specific demos so I'm casting a vote for all of them.

Re: Don't Shoot The Messenger

vacanti — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:16:05 -0000

I don't understand why people are saying that they saw this coming a year ago. Really? They saw the S&P falling 18% in one week, major centuries-old investment banks collapsing? What has happened in the last few weeks is significant and much more severe than the recession ReadWriteWeb and others had been expecting for the last few years. I commend VC's for sounding alarm bells to their portfolio companies as quickly as they did.

If ReadWriteWeb's Bernard Lunn and others had been expecting the dramatic events of the last few weeks, then they shouldn't have spent their time writing blog posts but instead investing in S&P shorts.

Re: Mullet Chat

vacanti — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:45:12 -0000

I recently had the opportunity to witness a wedding mullet with the added bonus of a mustache. I had seen one or two in captivity but never in the wild. I just followed him around providing whispered commentary to an imaginary audience.

Re: The Survival Matrix

vacanti — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:11:37 -0000

Fred,

Thanks to four years in finance, I quickly created the survival matrix with the improvements you wanted. Here's a link to the image: http://farm4.static.flickr....

Re: Fraser Presents Glue at NYC Tech Meetup

vacanti — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:48:37 -0000

Great job! Really liked how you positioned it in the beginning by pointing out that people don't visit vertical social networks.

Re: Fraser Presents Glue at NYC Tech Meetup

vacanti — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:03:18 -0000

It's tough, the 5 minutes is short but those initial questions provided great context for what you guys were doing while showing the need for it.

Glad to hear our Yipit marketing is paying off. I'll give you an update next time we see each other.

Re: Future of Movies

vacanti — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:44:16 -0000

One of the *big* costs to distributing a film is buying the prints (the actual film reels that get sent to each movie theater). If they switched to digital projectors in theaters, a huge chunk of the distribution costs would go away.

You'd think theaters would have digital projectors but they don't because the theaters refuse to pay for them (since all the benefit goes to the studios). So, you'd think the studios would get their act together but they hilariously can't agree on how much each studio will pay to install these digital projectors in theaters even though the overall industry would save a bundle on distribution costs.

Once digital projectors finally make it to theaters, an indy film can afford to get distributed across america without having to pay serious money to make film prints for each theater.

Re: NY Tech Meetup

vacanti — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:32:42 -0000

+1 for Nate. He was very helpful to us, Yipit, and I look forward to seeing what he can do with the NY tech meetup.

Re: Shake Shack Without the Wait

vacanti — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:11:27 -0000

I'm glad you think that because it means one less person in line at Shake Shack.

Re: Web 2.0 Was About Building Experiments, Not Businesses

vacanti — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:07:52 -0000

Interesting post! Web 2.0 companies should be focused on taking their user generated content and building revenue generating businesses around it (and not just display advertising). For a company like Yelp, it is able to use its user generated reviews to create a better local search engine. But, for a company like Facebook, it's much harder to turn pictures of friends into a revenue generating product. Not impossible, but certainly not immediately clear. There's also the freemium model but that's got more hair on it (competitor can come in and offer a free version, people are used to not paying).

Re: Two Hilarious CollegeHumor Videos

vacanti — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:37:53 -0000

The minesweeper preview is fantastic.

Re: Two Hilarious CollegeHumor Videos

vacanti — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:50:01 -0000

"calm down, it's never the first one"