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Re: Scotch School Launching and Raffle Giveaway

Jesse — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 15:56:34 -0000

I'd love too see something about Aurelia http://aurelia.io/

Re: How To Design The Best Blog Graphics With Free Tools And Design Theory

Jesse — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 11:23:19 -0000

Thanks, and idpinthat.com is still under active development so if you have any suggestions, send em over! :)

Re: How To Design The Best Blog Graphics With Free Tools And Design Theory

Jesse — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 10:52:40 -0000

If you've used Aviary, the search function is unique. Search for the perfect image and then edit it right in your browser.

Re: Manteresting, the “Pinterest” for Men | Cher Cabula's Mindbox

Jesse — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:54:37 -0000

One of the best walk-throughs for using Manteresting, thank you very much for putting this together :)

Jesse Michelsen
Manteresting Co-founder

Re: Manteresting - Pinterest Site For Men

Jesse — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:41:55 -0000

I'm always confused about the anger we get for creating an alternative space to share images but hey, it comes with the territory I guess. Thanks for being objective :)

Re: Manteresting - Pinterest Site For Men

Jesse — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 04:21:38 -0000

Hate obsession of women?

The founders of Manteresting (myself and my good friend) are two happily married guys in our early 20s, starting families, enjoying life and we don't hate much of anything. That's not healthy :)

We just wanted a place that was easier for us to find content we were interested in, without having to wade through hundreds of things we weren't all that interested in. That doesn't mean the content we weren't interested in was bad content, it just wasn't for us, regardless of who posted it. Ya know?

Re: Manteresting - Pinterest Site For Men

Jesse — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 04:17:15 -0000

See ya there my friend :)

Re: Manteresting - Pinterest Site For Men

Jesse — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 04:16:14 -0000

Yup :) exactly why we created Manteresting.

Re: Manteresting - Pinterest Site For Men

Jesse — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 04:11:48 -0000

(Manteresting cofounder here)

Awesome thoughts and I agree on a lot of points.

We never set out to actually compete with Pinterest. I doubt we ever will compete with them in all honesty, but we set out to fill a need we saw in the image bookmarking (ie Pinterest) market. A need we had ourselves, for a Pinterest that wasn't so one sided, where we'd be able to find more things we were interested in.

We weren't as into Pinterest as our wives because there just wasn't enough content for us to find there. Looking at my own boards isn't all that fun. I've seen them already, and they weren't getting much traction with the other members of Pinterest because 80% of the user base being women, my content didn't appeal to them. Part of social networking is having your content reshared, and sharing what you find from others to your own followers and that wasn't all that possible for a man on Pinterest in the earlier days or even today depending on what your own interests are and what your personal network is like.

I know my cofounder (happily married, awesome guy, his wife an avid Pinterest user), and I myself, do not dismiss Pinterest or any feminine content posted there as beneath us, and we actively encourage our users to be respectful in what they post, as much as we can encourage a group of almost 50,000 guys...

Pinterest is an amazing platform. It's being used in ways I doubt the founders ever thought it would be. If a guy feels he will find more content he is interested in on Pinterest, or will be able to connect with his friends/peers better on Pinterest..whatever the case may be, by all means, I hope he signs up and uses Pinterest. The same goes for Manteresting though as the communities are drastically different, the atmosphere as well as the content.

I won't get into the whole conventional beauty issue. It's a problem, absolutely. Is it Manteresting's responsibility? Yea in part it is, as it is for any individual, but like you said, conventional is conventional and that won't change overnight. We moderate content by our TOS and encourage our community to be good guys but can only do so much.

Thanks again for the thoughtful comment.

Re: Manteresting - Pinterest Site For Men

Jesse — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 03:46:44 -0000

I'll say this, under our TOS, content must be safe for work. No nudity. No nipples. No excessive side, under or traditional boob. No southern bits of any kind, male or female.

The site must be safe to browse at work and with a very small handful of volunteers (3 members}, my cofounder and I, we do our very best to keep the site clean. Anyone, registered or not, can report content to us, and we police the site as often as possible on our own.

We've also done our best to encourage the community to, if they must post pictures of women, keep them classy, clothed and beautiful. You'll see some of our encouragement hit the Popular page and stayed there (http://manteresting.com/pop... ). See spot #1 and spot #4.

Our community in general supports the TOS. We get more complaints about nudity than anything else and we are so grateful for the majority of our community standing behind our TOS and encouraging others to keep things clean too (many of our users have posted similar examples of safe and classy pictures of women and have encouraged the rest of the community, on their own, to keep things clean.)

The People section is just that, people. For guys, "People" includes Batman, Chuck Norris, Clint Eastwood and their favorite sexy celebrity. On a user generated content site, we do the best we can to keep the content clean. We tell members of Manteresting what they absolutely can't post via or TOS as well as via moderation/email when the TOS is violated, but we cannot decide for them what they do post.

I'm open to ideas though. How would you suggest we address the harmful viewpoint of women about what is important?

Re: Manteresting - Pinterest Site For Men

Jesse — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 03:20:46 -0000

The People section is just one category on the site and yes, it's heavy on the female side but you'll find the same type of content when visiting Pinterest Fitness or Photography sections. Is our People section vs those sections on Pinterest more offensive because guys posted the images instead of girls posting them?

This is user generated content, we don't control what goes up as long as it doesn't break TOS (Nudity, pornography) and yes, men tend to like the beautiful women but women do too right?

I'm not defending the stereotypes and won't get into how the media has created the perfect image that no real person can live up to, but it is what it is...

Re: Manteresting - Pinterest Site For Men

Jesse — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 03:15:05 -0000

Right on ;) thanks for the objective and thoughtful comment. You know, we've heard from so many ladies that joined the site that they were excited to find a similar Pinterest look and feel but with more diverse content, or more rough content, or more funny content. Exact words from one of our female members, "awesome to have found Manteresting, I'm so tired of the cupcakes and puppy dogs". We heard similar statements from handfuls of women when we first launched.

I still browse Pinterest from time to time but it's nice to have another perspective every now and again right? :)

Re: Manteresting - Pinterest Site For Men

Jesse — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:33:49 -0000

Hey, who doesn't love Lisa Frank ;)

Re: Manteresting - Pinterest Site For Men

Jesse — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:33:26 -0000

Manteresting Cofounder here, thought I'd chime in and give a little info as to why Manteresting exists. First, it was launched over a year ago when Pinterest was still 85% women. Since then, that percentage has come down a little but still remains mostly women.

The problem with 80% women is that yes, there may be interesting stuff on Pinterest for guys but wading through all the puppies and wedding dresses was painful -- for example JoAnn's Fabrics may carry wood glue but I wouldn't go there to get it. I'd go to Home Depot because trying to find the wood glue among all the fabric, scrap booking, crafts, isles of beads and glitter would be more time consuming than going to Home Depot where wood glue would be next to the wood in the lumber isle.

Manteresting isn't just about the content though, it's about the community. Like you pointed out, there is plenty of overlap of content between the two sites, but the community interactions around that content differ. Even the content shared by women (yes, we have about 20% ladies on the site, imagine that!) is interacted with differently than it would be on Pinterest which makes finding content that's important to guys easier.

We love Pinterest and don't intend to compete with them, we just wanted to create a place that was easier to find great male related content on. We've since explosive growth since day one (okay, day 9...) and generally get feedback that others like the idea and are happy to have a less 'fluffy' Pinterest, from both men and women.

As far as pushing boundaries, "you haven't seen nothin' yet!" We have lots of boundary pushing features in the works. We are an actively developed site with lots of ideas for the future.

Re: How To Drop Your Data Plan And Keep Using Your Smartphone - by Tim McCormick

Jesse — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:34:12 -0000

Exactly what I've got going. GrooveIP for VOIP+Google Voice, FreedomPop Photon for data. Works great. I use some Android data tracking apps to keep an eye on my plan and haven't exceeded the 500MB Free that FreedomPop gives.

Re: The Centsible Life Android app

Jesse — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:58:38 -0000

I'm just glad I could help, I hope your readers enjoy the app!

Re: REVIEW: USAA Checking and Savings Account

Jesse — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 03:05:08 -0000

As a huge fan of USAA myself, I wanted to point out that USAA is no longer only military. They opened up to civilians in 2010 and civilians can reap almost all the benefits of USAA without any military family! The only things you can't use without military family are the insurance products (and the deposit from home with the app :(

Re: New Staff Writer: Please Welcome Khaleef Crumbley!

Jesse — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:52:38 -0000

Very cool! You are both great writers and I look forward to seeing what you two can come up with together!

Re: Personal Finance Round-Up: What’s Your Emergency Fund Look Like?

Jesse — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:39:34 -0000

Thanks Brad, keep up the good work :)

Re: 11 Unique & Creative Wedding Gift Ideas on a Cheap Budget

Jesse — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:14:26 -0000

The wedding pictures are an awesome idea. My wife is a photographer, but the weddings we have attended since she started doing photography professionally already had photographers hired so we took photos, and between the wedding and reception, touched them up, got them developed at a one hour photo and put them in some nice frames we picked up that same day. So we gave them fresh pictures from the very day, it was pretty cool to hear how surprised they were, especially since they didn't get the pictures from the photographer they hired for a month.

Re: REDIRECT: Personal Finance Roundup: Boosting Your Income

Jesse — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:06:35 -0000

A very welcomed topic right now, thanks for including me here!

Re: There and Back Again [Day 30 – 30 Days to Creating Irresistible Presence]

Jesse — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:46:54 -0000

Well that is a surprise! Congrats on the new member of the family.

When I joined this series, I really had no idea what it was about. I didn't know what to expect and just went with the flow. It's been an amazing journey and I had to take a break from getting into the discussions in the later posts because I was busy integrating what I learned into my life. I've learned so much about my self through all of this and my career , although in a very early stage has taken off this 30 days. I owe a lot of thanks for that success to this, to you for starting it and to your amazing list of authors during the 30 days. You have my loyalty as a new member of the tribe, Chief.

Re: There and Back Again [Day 30 – 30 Days to Creating Irresistible Presence]

Jesse — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:46:54 -0000

Well that is a surprise! Congrats on the new member of the family.

When I joined this series, I really had no idea what it was about. I didn't know what to expect and just went with the flow. It's been an amazing journey and I had to take a break from getting into the discussions in the later posts because I was busy integrating what I learned into my life. I've learned so much about my self through all of this and my career , although in a very early stage has taken off this 30 days. I owe a lot of thanks for that success to this, to you for starting it and to your amazing list of authors during the 30 days. You have my loyalty as a new member of the tribe, Chief.

Re: Help A Reader: What To Do When You’re Upside Down On Your Mortgage?

Jesse — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:01:53 -0000

Number 5 is the kicker for me. I can't understand how anyone could just turn their back on a promise they made to another, even if that other is a nasty ol' bank. I am currenty upside-down in TWO mortgages and the thought of walking away never crossed my mind. I wasn't buying the house for a quick turnaround so either way I will be waiting for at least five years, and by then my hopes are that the market will level off and I will have some equity. Either way, it's not right to walk away from a mortgage regardless of the worth of the home.

Re: The Greatest Gift You Can Give a Mentor [Day 21 – 30 Days to Creating Irresistible Presence]

Jesse — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:10:57 -0000

Hmm that is really interesting to think about. I've been trying to get help from a couple people I admire and it hasn't exactly worked out. I think the problem is, although I do follow their advice (not given directly to me) and glean what I can from their actions, I never tell them about it! I simply ask for more, and I see now that is one sided. I do offer that "if you need anything let me know" kind of deal, but they never take me up on it. This post is a real eye opener!