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Re: How Much of Google’s Search Traffic is Left for Anyone But Themselves?

rschroed — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 14:06:12 -0000

Rand, would you include 'Siri Suggested Website' in the dark category? Have you seen any numbers on that? Personally, I seem to be using it more and more, but no idea if it's actually making a dent in user behavior.

Re: Jeff Bezos: Yes, it’s Apollo 11! Serial numbers confirm historic engine find

rschroed — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 19:28:40 -0000

Link? Where did he write this?

Re: The Broken Mobile App Model of Today

rschroed — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:57:32 -0000

Isn't "completely untenable" a little strong? Cook announced yesterday they've paid out $8B to developers to date.

Re: Facebook Could Be Worth $100 Billion, But Not For Display Advertising

rschroed — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:49:17 -0000

I think they've got a lot of potential revenue in display advertising — just not on facebook.com or their app. I can easily imagine a scenario where FB launches a display ad network and takes a bunch of revenue from DoubleClick/Adsense, et al. They've got a pretty rich profile for 1B people and what has got to be one of the largest retargeting cookie pools. How many product pages have the like button on them?

Re: Facebook’s business model

rschroed — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:12:14 -0000

Chris, aren't you discounting the vast amount of data the FB has for each user? As Dustin Curtis likes to say, google knows what you want to buy but FB knows who you are.

What if FB started a content ad network? How many advertisers would that kind of targeting appeal to? How big of a chunk could they carve out of the display ad business?

Re: Time to Shake Things Up Again!

rschroed — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:34:40 -0000

Glenn, why don't the emails have a link back to the listing?

Re: How the iPad Is Influencing Web Apps

rschroed — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:00:13 -0000

Also note that the Windowshop Chrome app is a Flex (flash) app and not HTML5.

Re: Capitol Hill Condo Market

rschroed — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 13:31:30 -0000

Anecdotally, it's pretty slow out there.

Our 1 bedroom unit in north capitol hill coop has been on the market for almost a month. We felt like we priced pretty aggressively ($290/sqft, which is what we paid in '05) but we haven't had too many people come by. Additionally, very few of the comparables I've been tracking have moved and there hasn't been too many new unti come on the market.

It'll be interesting to see the Sept numbers.

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I'll crosspost to CHS as well.

Re: Open Houses This Weekend

rschroed — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:28:07 -0000

Actually, I live just up the street from 1508 10th, and there usually is quite a bit of parking around there. I think there's only one other residential building on that block

Re: Off & Away takes wraps off new hotel room bidding service

rschroed — Mon, 24 May 2010 17:18:00 -0000

Scammy, sure. But let's be clear, it's high end luxury scammy ;)

Re: Off & Away takes wraps off new hotel room bidding service

rschroed — Mon, 24 May 2010 16:53:26 -0000

Unbelievable, they're gonna try Swoopo for Luxury Hotels!? Genius if works.

Re: “Near-Final Screenshots” or Wireframes?

rschroed — Thu, 13 May 2010 11:59:33 -0000

I certainly don't know how close these are to the final design, but they certainly match the shipping Zune UI pretty closely.

Re: Apple unveils iAd platform

rschroed — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:34:19 -0000

Some initial thoughts:

iAd is obviously a well thought out entry into the market. You get the sense that SJ would've preferred to keep ads off of his device altogether but he clearly saw where the market was going. I'd say his comments during the presentation we're directly targeted at google. "Search is not happening on phones" was one quote, and then there was to whole bit about the lack of emotional engagement & story telling in general when it comes to web advertising.

iAd is tailored to the type of advertising Apple itself does. Companies with large marketing budgets and the big ad agencies will love it.

But, one advantage that Google's platform has over iAds is the shear number of advertisers. It's so easy for any one to create an AdWords campaign. Two lines of text and a URL — any small business can do it. iAds simply won't be accessible to as large of any audience. Though I can imagine a cottage industry of HTML5 developer focusing on iAds will emerge.

From a developers point of view it really seems like a no brainer when it comes to choosing a platform. Unless you're heavily invested in other platforms (android) there doesn't seem much reason to go else where. And even then you may see people start with iAds and "port" their assets to other platforms

Re: The Seattle Startup Index for February/2010 with a Freebie

rschroed — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:57:17 -0000

re: "Whatever hasoffers.com is doing". Buying most of that traffic? (not that there's anything wrong with that! ;)

Re: Will You Pay for Hulu on the iPad? It May Be Your Only Choice.

rschroed — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:19:35 -0000

There's no way Hulu will release an HTML5 video player without copy protection of some type built in.

Re: Is Renting Fonts for a Website a Good Idea?

rschroed — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:27:19 -0000

I'm right with you on this one. I just feels odd to 'rent' fonts as you say. The people seem to like TypeKit though, I guess the market will decide. For me, a bigger issue would be for designers doing client work. It's just so much easier to pass through a one time cost to a client compared to a recurring cost.

Re: If there's a Twitter app bubble forming, when will it pop?

rschroed — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:39:37 -0000

I think it'll be tough to build a large business on top of twitter.

There's an outside chance something like oneriot takes off but it seems more likely that google, facebook or twitter itself takes the wins there.

I don't see any of the clients (tweetdeck, brizzly) ever gaining a big audience, though pro-tools like Cotweet have a chance.

That said, there's plenty of interesting projects being built on top of twitter these days. ( We had a great time building http://thesummarizer.com ) But they're just 'projects' not actually businesses.

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

rschroed — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:30:56 -0000

Got it. though on inspection some seem to have titles. For example when I view this in safari it recognizes the title element. feed://popwhy.evri.corp/popwhy-atom.xml

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does River2 not support atom?

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

rschroed — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:01:19 -0000

When feed titles don't show up in the feed list ( /river2/subscriptions ) is that a problem with my opml? the feed itself? river2?

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

rschroed — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:58:53 -0000

I finally got it working after a couple of laps (at one point the Menu item even disappeared!?)

thanks!

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

rschroed — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:34:25 -0000

When I do Tools > River2 > Import OPML I get the following error: Can’t call the script because the name “opmlImport” hasn’t been defined.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Re: TheSummarizer.com - The Hottest Topics On The Web | Visit thesummarizer.com

rschroed — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:55:58 -0000

Hey Roger, I'm one of the guys at Evri that worked on the Summarizer. Thanks for the write up! Glad you like it. The biggest feature we want to add is the ability to sign in to twitter via OAuth and get the summary for your stream. Let us know what else you'd like to see.

Re: Design Pattern: Multi-select

rschroed — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:03:13 -0000

The drop down gives you the additional benefit of being able to all (or at least many more) options at once — useful for browsing & picking from a list where the user may not be sure which is the right choice for them, business categories for example.

Side-by-sides are certainly more appropriate in some contexts though.

Re: Design Pattern: Multi-select

rschroed — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:16:27 -0000

Another option, that I've used in the past, is a standard drop down (select) menu with the option to dynamically add another item (drop down). This pattern takes up much less room and works well in cases where the user is just as likely to want only one or two items.

http://www.flickr.com/photo...

Re: There’s the More button now, but how do you get back?

rschroed — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:47:42 -0000

I've been working on this a bit recently too.

The ajax style 'more' is interesting in twitter's case because often there is no 'back' or at least it's changed quite a bit since the user was there.

search.twitter.com is a good example of this. They still use the < newer | older > pagination there. On a popular query the 'first' page often changes while you're viewing the second. Going 'back' can potentially skip over whole 'pages' of tweets.

One option would be to populate the browser's history as you extend the page's content with 'more'. 'Back' wouldn't change the the content at all, it'd just take back to the last piece of content before you clicked 'more'.