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Re: SXSW PanelPicker

seanpower — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 17:17:20 -0000

Totally worth it. This presentation is a must-see for anyone interested in the intersection of music and technology. It's got my vote.

Re: Enterprise sales leadership arrives at Little Bird with hire of Jessica Rickson

seanpower — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 12:20:08 -0000

Congrats, Little Bird team! You've a great product, and are clearly putting a great team together. I'm excited to see where the future takes the company.

Re: Sed posuere consectetur est

seanpower — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 03:26:21 -0000

I couldn't agree more.

Re: http://blog.hipmunk.com/post/8438924563

seanpower — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:22:59 -0000

Seattle's got a bunch of excellent spots in Chinatown. the neighborhood is sketchy though, but there's a massive supermarket (forget the name) nearby that has 209384023984 kinds of sake though. it's worth the trip ;)

Re: Futuristic Location Platform Geoloqi Will Live, Lands Funding

seanpower — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:39:37 -0000

I'd like to echo Lenny's sentiment. I'm super stoked for Amber and Aaron. I'm confident that they'll knock it out of the park.

Re: Sean Power Joins Cheezburger as Data Scientist

seanpower — Fri, 27 May 2011 16:50:35 -0000

Thanks Ben! It's a great little detour, but I'll be around Montreal quite a bit. Pretty much as often as I am now ;)

Re: Dealing with Bullies or Why I Don’t Organize Many Events

seanpower — Mon, 16 May 2011 17:29:35 -0000

Andrew, that sucks to hear. Sounds like this guy is so selfishly centered on himself that he'll stop at nothing to destroy something that he's been asked not to be a part of. You're doing nothing wrong in asking a community member not to be involved. As part of the organizing committee, these are the unfortunate parts that you need to deal with, and have jurisdiction over.
This guy, on the other hand, is clearly wayyyyyyyyy over the top when it comes to his decisions. He's having an emotional reaction to something that seems like a logical outcome of his past behavior.

Unfortunately, you can't back down now, or you'll be sending him a message that this type of behavior is "OK" when it isn't.

Sucks you have to deal with this though. Tell the guy to back off on my behalf :)

Re: Runnin' Scared - Tony Ortega - Sean Power: Live Takedown of a Laptop Thief Going Down RIGHT NOW (Or Hoax?)

seanpower — Fri, 13 May 2011 02:36:07 -0000

I'll be glad to talk to anyone about it tomorrow. I just wanted my laptop back, that's all :). There's lots of people (many from news orgs) who will happily vouch for me when they wake up.

Re: New FB Comment System Analytics: Comparing TechCrunch.com Before and After The Switch

seanpower — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:23:39 -0000

nom nom :)

Re: New FB Comment System Analytics: Comparing TechCrunch.com Before and After The Switch

seanpower — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:53:33 -0000

Indeed. that's why we gave numbers in both cases - with and without outliers. It's also important to note that this is for a week's worth of data. To get truly meaningful numbers, it would be important to trend this over a few weeks (before and after).

Re: New FB Comment System Analytics: Comparing TechCrunch.com Before and After The Switch

seanpower — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:05:45 -0000

We purposefully tried to shy away from subjective ranking of comments. Besides, TC, Scoble and others have done a great job of covering that side of FB comments. It's hard for me to make a blanket "yes, comments are better / worse" statement without having the data to back it up. I get the feeling that FB comments will eliminate outlying comments in favor of more consistent conversations. In other words - less 4chan, more Quora. This statement is not based on data and simply are simply gut feeling-driven.

Re: New FB Comment System Analytics: Comparing TechCrunch.com Before and After The Switch

seanpower — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:02:00 -0000

yeah, i really think there's a baking period that we haven't yet reached. Over time, I get the feeling that we'll see people conforming to this behavior much like they did with the news feed changes and so on. But again - time will tell.

Re: My thoughts on the 2010 Web Analytics Association Board of Directors Vote

seanpower — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:47:53 -0000

Hey John,

It's a good problem to have, I guess :). Good luck to you too!

Re: An Introduction to Pitching Investors

seanpower — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:03:59 -0000

Ben, sounds like a Google Website Optimizer test waiting to happen :)

Re: TWIS#9- This Week in SaaS – Hire me edition!

seanpower — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:35:07 -0000

Thanks for the mention, Justin. @acroll and I appreciate it :)

Re: Lean analytics: Questions VCs should ask (and you’d better answer)

seanpower — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:35:56 -0000

Thanks David. Alistair is the brains and author behind this post.

I'll let Alistair scoop this one up :)

Re: registering your username on many social media sites: the pros and cons

seanpower — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:59:21 -0000

Thanks Randall! Like I said in the article, sprawl can be insanely hard
to manage. Though you may get a little SEO bump - if being on many
sites doesn't directly relate to saving money, making revenue or
increasing customer satisfaction (ie - you're going to be there to
answer all the time), I think it can be more harmful than good.

Hope this helps!

Re: Web 2.0 EXPO 2009 Hightlights

seanpower — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:58:01 -0000

Debbie,

Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad that you enjoyed our session! We'll be sure to upload our slideshow early this week (as soon as I can find decent bandwidth) and announce it on our Twitter feed.

Thanks again!

Re: Could You Help Me With a Project

seanpower — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:38:41 -0000

Saw it, loved it, ending rocked, would buy the book. ;)

Re: Product Managers in Startups: What’s their Role?

seanpower — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:46:51 -0000

It's essential. A good PM needs to be in touch with clients more than most, if not all people in their startups. They need to be able to steer the ship in the right direction, while the CEO concentrates on funding, business development and so on. A killer team is a CEO and PM that knows how to communicate, and a PM and a dev team that know how to work together. I'm in complete agreement.

Re: Proof that speeding up websites improves online business

seanpower — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:02:23 -0000

Thanks for the kind words, Nick. We're glad you liked the article. We're huge fans of independent benchmarks that show actionable results - everybody wins that way.

Personally, I'm a big fan of Zeus. A number of years ago, while working at Coradiant, I led an Interoperability Lab. I had the task of testing network taps and their behaviors under situations of extreme load. Coradiant owns the findings, but it turned out that Zeus could handle the most amount of load with the least amount of setup.

I've been a fan ever since.

Thanks again for stopping by.

Re: The Adobe and Omniture Acquisition: Some Predictions

seanpower — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:32:09 -0000

Yep, you're right. Google could be a contender. I think Microsoft is the more likely of the two, given the failed Gatineau project, ex-Macromedia/Adobe executives at Microsoft, and the different markets that Microsoft is hoping to push Silverlight in.

Re: Testing the new Disqus comment system

seanpower — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:07:53 -0000

We installed the same on our blog. Disque rocks :)

Re: The Adobe and Omniture Acquisition: Some Predictions

seanpower — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:56:27 -0000

Great point. Alex Yoder clearly talks about the independence factor on his blog. I suspect it will play a big role in upcoming deals.

Re: An Open Letter To All TechCrunch50 2009 Startups: The TC Bump, What It Really Means and How To Navigate It

seanpower — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:02:55 -0000

Aw, J-F! You're way too nice :). Cheers!