Disqus - Friends of pretherford

Re: Why I Stopped Using Twitter

Danielle Morrill — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:46:06 -0000

I remember giving up my addiction to message boards, chat rooms, instant messaging, email mailing rings, land line phone numbers, and most recently to blogging on a regular basis.

I seems like this "giving up" is more of waiting for something better to come along. I tried out Twitter, and ultimately it felt like another place for me to put content in and rebuild my social graph.

I am waiting for a product that will be *less* work for me, not more. A product that will give me more than it takes. I know people have all sorts of ideas about what "web 3.0" means, but that's what it means to me - a web app that has all the social capability of 2.0 with the added benefit of giving me a call to action that I care about.

Re: WebMynd Could Change the Way You Bookmark Websites

Danielle Morrill — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:08:34 -0000

What I don't understand is what problem this is solving for the majority of people. I don't see why I need to "view my collection offline", because I'm never that cut off from the world, what with wifi being available pretty much everywhere and all.

Re: Kevin Rose Can't Keep Up With E-mail; Blaine Cook Can't Wait To Speak With a Human

Danielle Morrill — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:29:25 -0000

"Leah Culver of Pownce came up with a white pages service that uses SMS text messages to look up phone numbers."

Whrrl already does this, too. Text to 94775 with anything from "s in " to "s near " and get search results and with detailed information on places throughout the US. I was just in San Francisco and found a place to work from by searching "s free wifi near bush st, sf", and I only had to walk 2 blocks to get there!

Re: Kevin Rose Can't Keep Up With E-mail; Blaine Cook Can't Wait To Speak With a Human

Danielle Morrill — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:31:51 -0000

ack, I wrote stuff in brackets that looked too much like html.

You can send anything from "s business name in city" to "s cuisine type near street" to Whrrl at 94775 and get detailed information on places nearby (address, phone, street corner, ratings, and more cool stuff)

Re: Yahoo%26%23039%3Bs+%26quot%3BTwitter+For+Location%26quot%3B+Goes+Into+Private+Beta+With+Near+Zero%26nbsp%3BFunctionality

Danielle Morrill — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:18:45 -0000

I think they might have missed the bus on this.

http://www.whrrl.com

Re: Computer vs. Realtor: Computer Wins. Twice.

Danielle Morrill — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:14:06 -0000

The anonymous user experience for Redfin is what I love about it. We used Redfin to find our current home (Kirkland), and then went an found an agent to facilitate the purchase because we had to make it happen extremely fast and we're sure if we wanted to risk using a Redfin agent for that size of a transaction(looking back, it probably would have been fine). Having Redfin around gave us the negotiating power to have our agent cut her commission in half, and our agent actually told us that she uses Redfin and because it saves her time when buyers already know what they want.

We also have a condo on the market in Seattle, and we use Redfin to monitor the comparable sales in our building and surrounding buildings. This is much easier than getting a monthly email from our agent and gives us access to much more detailed data without needing the MLS.

I actually drive around and see Redfin real estate signs in front of houses here, which I think it really cool.

We've paid Redfin $0 to date, but gotten tons of value.

Re: Amazon Down For An Hour And Counting (Updated)

Danielle Morrill — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:45:39 -0000

I am getting redirected to their robots page, which gives me a pretty crappy user experience. The majority of people who see this page are going to be pretty annoyed (I would think).

"We're sorry!

You have been denied access to this feature because we believe you violated the terms, conditions, rules, guidelines or policies of our site in the past. If you believe we have taken this action in error, you may contact us at ad-help-us@amazon.com.

We apologize for the inconvenience."

Re: Before the App Store “Opens”, it has already made Apple $55,000

Danielle Morrill — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:17:13 -0000

I noticed that some of the free apps were showing number of downloads before, and now they are showing "0" (from what I can see on my iPhone).

Re: A Newbie’s Guide to Startup Compensation (or “Stock Options will Make Me Rich!”)

Danielle Morrill — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:00:22 -0000

Hi Tony, I found this post helpful and have already forwarded it to some of my friends. I am curious to hear your thoughts on the (diminishing?) value of receiving options as a company takes subsequent rounds of funding. I'm familiar with dilution (at least in principle), but haven't found many clear examples of how the math works.

Also, I've heard that companies often won't share your percentage of ownership with you. Is this what you've seen? How can this number be calculated?

Re: Kleiner Perkins launches a blog for the iPhone iFund

Danielle Morrill — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:36:40 -0000

@Tony - Yes, "a phone that is mobile" was the original point of the mobile phone, but now (at least for me) the point is that I want a computer in my pocket. The movement in this direction started long before the iPhone, with Blackberries and smart phones. I think people forget "the entire point of a mobile phone" because once greater utility is available its hard to look back - notice we're not yearning for buggywhips, radios, or VHS cassettes.

I certainly consume more content on my iPhone.

Re: Inaugural Group Meeting

Danielle Morrill — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:39:11 -0000

Hi, this sounds like an interesting event and a great addition for the local tech community. I've added it to the events calendar for Seattle 2.0.

You can see your event listing here: http://www.seattle20.com/ev...

I hope it goes well!

Re: Foodista Tries To Prove That More Cooks In the Kitchen Will Produce A Better Recipe

Danielle Morrill — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:47:06 -0000

I'm in love with the Big Oven iPhone app for recipes, but I'll have to give this a try. I think they're both Seattle upstarts.

Re: At the Whrrl launch party with 116 of my friends

Danielle Morrill — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:13:44 -0000

haha yeah, I think we got up to 200 a one point before it tapered off! Thanks for coming to the party and using the app.

Re: 6 Coolest Sites to Find New Tweeters

Danielle Morrill — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:06:25 -0000

Twittie Me front page doesn't look like it has been updated since late January... did it work for you?

Re: A new way to comment on Seattle 2.0

Danielle Morrill — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:09:33 -0000

Ummm Marcelo, can we please have video comments? :)

You very video-oriented friend,
Danielle

Re: Announcing StartupDay 2009 - The Conference for Pre-Entrepreneurs

Danielle Morrill — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:07:14 -0000

I just need to hurry up and be a founder, then I can join you. Next year? :)

Re: High School With Higher Stakes

Danielle Morrill — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:15:10 -0000

"Problems are never about people, they’re about principles."

Well said, and I'm with Marcelo -- I've missed your writing.

Re: Why the Seattle Startup Index Matter

Danielle Morrill — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:27:39 -0000

"Buy Seattle 2.0"... love the sound of that, haha.

Re: Tweeting About The Gov 2.0 Summit May Cause Serious Account Suspension

Danielle Morrill — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:03:27 -0000

I've got the same problem, we sent a tweet from @twilio about looking forward to the Gov 2.0 Expo (our CEO is there - @jeffiel, suspended too) and now that account and all the others which I updated from that IP address are shut down. I should note that this doesn't appear to be location based relative to Washington D.C., as I am tweeting from San Francisco.

I'm curious to see how we emerge as well, it isn't that there aren't plenty of other places to communicate, but it is a little crazy to watch some of the most influential people silenced in the name of controlling spam

Re: Calbucci rolls out new Twitter app

Danielle Morrill — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:50:57 -0000

congrats Marcelo - way to ship

Re: Intuit+To+Acquire+%28Former+TechCrunch50+Winner%29+Mint+For+%24170%26nbsp%3BMillion

Danielle Morrill — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:35:03 -0000

adding my congratulations here, great product and great people. Intuit is getting a bargain :)

Re: A Big Change on the Seattle Startup Index for August/2009

Danielle Morrill — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:56:18 -0000

I think they're out of LA

Re: WSFinder - A Wiki for open APIs

Danielle Morrill — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:03:27 -0000

RIP WSfinder apparently

Re: Nokia To Acquire UK Startup Dopplr

Danielle Morrill — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:08:02 -0000

Plazes users and Dopplr users seem to fit together nicely, I wonder if some of the other location services like Rummble, Whrrl, Loopt, etc. could also be targets?

Re: Marcelo’s next thing

Danielle Morrill — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:14:52 -0000

I think you should update that to successes: 1, failures: 1

Seattle 2.0 is already a success, and is going to be even more of one now that you've made this commitment