January 2010
16 posts
Techcrunch just deleted all comments older than...
Seems like Techcrunch just wiped every single comment older than 1/24/2010.
My guess is that this has something to do with them getting hacked two days in a row.
So if you find an old Techcrunch article, dated 1/23/2010 or older…and it has 0 comments…now you know why.
Google hates Survey.io - 32% drop in SE traffic
So I’ve been reading Venture Hacks lately, and there was a post about how you can use surveys to find out what your users think. Good idea right?
So I install the Survey.io javascript snippet…and sit back and relax.
And BOOM, my Google traffic takes a huge hit. 32% drop in traffic overnight(went down from 531 to 364) just from installing a little widget.
Granted my traffic is pretty...
Apple releases the tablet.
So today is when Apple releases the tablet.
Whether it’ll be called the iPad or iSlate or iTablet, it doesn’t really matter. Same goes double for features…as the iPhone showed us, any missing features will be provided by the thousands of developers at Apple’s beck and call.
The ONLY thing that matters is the price. Price it too high, and the revolution is over before it...
The startup culture is filled with people with ADD
It seems like the startup culture is filled with people with ADD.
They come out with a project, see little or no traction the first few weeks-month, ..and then abandon it to go work on something else.
Everyone needs to take a moment and realize that there is no such thing as overnight success. Putting out a project, getting covered in TC, getting millions in VC, and then becoming a top 1,000 web...
HN needs to post new stories on the front page to...
If you know Hacker News, you know that it’s a pretty big programmer/startup site.
But it seems like noone views the new tab(i.e. in the example below, not a single one of those stories got an upvote…even after 27 minutes.(this was in the middle of the day too)
What I think HN needs is to post the latest submissions on the front page(like reddit). That way every new story gets the...
Make me shave my head
I’ve noticed that you guys really step up whenever we have a special number to hit. For example, when we were aiming for 2,000 Qs by our 2 month anniversary - you’ve stepped up and made that happen.
We now have 971 Facebook Fans, and 1582 twitter followers…and the site had 35K visits last month. So it’s time to get us another bump.
Remember, questions are the lifeblood of...
Promoting on forums is a huge waste of time
So you think you are going to market your new site by posting on forums? Hit up a few dozen big sites? A site with 100,000 users…you gotta get a few sales/users out of it. Right? WRONG!
Here is the dirty little secret. Most forums are dead. Sure they may say they have 100,000-400,000 users. But in reality 99% of those have stopped coming. You gotta realize that forums has been around for a...
Site statistics for month #2.(35K Visitors, Top...
So it’s now been 2 months since I launched Style Guidance.
So here is the report for month #2. I’m comparing November 18th-December 17th numbers to December 18th-January 17th numbers.
Visitors: 11.6K —> 35K(up 202%)
Returning Visitors: 2,773 —> 7,491(up 170%)
Daily Visitors: ~700—>1.2K (note, the ~700# was in the middle of a big promotion, the 1.2K# is...
Did I just catch Techcrunch astroturfing?
So I’m reading Techcrunch, and what do I see?
A story titled: Buy and Sell Proprietary Knowledge Through GenApple.
Interesting…right? So I click to read…and what do I find?
People are continually looking for new pieces of information. We go to school, read articles on a variety of subjects, have free websites such as Wikipedia, and use search answer engines such as Aardvark...
My typical day running a startup
Info: Style Guidance is basically a Q&A site for fashion and style. So basically style questions, social shopping and decision help. If you are a techie, you’ll probably hate our current design, but you aren’t the target audience(and yes we are already working on a redesign)
My day begins at 10 am, and ends at 2:30 am. That’s 16.5 hours, of being up.
For those 16.5 hours...
Good for Google
Here at Style Guidance, we’d like to take a moment to applaud Google and its threat to leave China as a response to recent hacking attempts.
It’s not every day, you see a big company put ethics above profits. And they are losing money over this, as usual Wall Street doesn’t fail to disappoint.(GOOG is down 1%).
And sure a lot of people will say “blah blah Google was...
The Crunchies are the Kid's Choice Awards of the...
So the latest Crunchies just ended yesterday, and as usual everyone is pissed. How the hell did THEY win?
You can probably say that for every winner(except Dropbox), but the biggest I’ve seen, are in regards to “Best social app: Zynga’s Farmville” and “Best CEO: Marc Pincus of Zynga”….I mean here we have a company that Techcrunch spent over a month...
Your guide to fact checking website traffic claims
Every now and then I see a story, where the reporter just repeats the traffic numbers that were given to them by the company.
You even have to deal with this when you market your site….I even had to deal with this myself, when I was promoting Style Guidance. About 1 in 5 blogs that we contacted, would get back to us trying to get us to pay $250-$500 for posts. Now that’s just not...
2 Months Since we entered private beta.
Just so I don’t lose the date. This is just a reminder to myself, that we entered private beta on November 4th. So today marks a 2 month anniversary.
What bloggers need is a union.
I was reading the article about how bloggers need to protect their sources even from gov’t subpoenas. And what bloggers need is a union/association.
Just a disclaimer, I don’t count myself as a blogger, this blog is just a way to bs a little about general things, and once in a while give updates about the site. So consider this a post from an unbiased position.
Anyways, bloggers and...
Why do people continue to sack ride twitter?
I just read Vivek’s post on Techcrunch titled Twitter and Me! Why It’s The Only Social Media Tool I Use. and I figured, I’d give my two cents.
Twitter sucks. There is too much noise, too little quality, and if you are a business, the engagement time is non-existent. Putting all your eggs in that one basket is insane. You gotta diversify.
But for now let’s focus on twitter....