January 2009
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November 2008
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Watchfinnally got around to putting this up (well we finnally just got it as well) - enjoy….
October 2008
3 posts
numbers are up (trending that way)
Numbers are continuing to go up (of course not near as fast as we would like.
September 2008
6 posts
Watchlike his movies Ashton Kutcher is now ruining online video with Blah Girls — the whole video is around a product placement — which is just bad - lets teach little girls/tweens/whatever to like bad joke/ celebrities / and poor product placement…
August 2008
17 posts
Watchthis is how to explain a product — well it helps that its a great product
user adoption - a vc value threshold
5K = curiosity 10K = something (possibly) worth looking into 20K = definite interest 100K+ = a potential business here the 20K is the threshold because that is the point when tertiary friends (i.e.. the third degree of separation) are starting to use the product…
Watcha draft run-through of our pres — please feel free to go crazy with feedback — we are holding back a few slides (model/rev/exit, comp landscape, market opp) for the q&a session (so those are in there dont worry)
Twitter for video...what do you think? →
Things for Consideration
People still want better olympics via twitter:
fredwilson @twittolympic is a good olympic feed to follow on twitter. suggestions for others?
Tumblr recently did a bunch of SEO. Some of the biggest changes include:
robots.txt files, eg: http://blog.kortina.net/sitemap1.xml
sitemaps, eg http://blog.kortina.net/sitemap1.xml
better urls, eg...
WatchAssorted site updates and outtakes from around the Schuylkill.
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/8/big-win-for-cabl... →
The Future of Radio ( and TV ) →
Tons of good slides in here. Much relevant info to snackfeed.
Facebook Connect Demo Site →
Everyone take a look and put on your thinking caps. This is something to think about for November, maybe.
“And now for the future stuff (which is actually built into the 1.6 update, but...”
– Verizon FiOS: How They’re Futurizing TV Faster Than AT&T and Big Cable (via mikehudack)
July 2008
22 posts
Right now, we’re seeing a proliferation of user-generated content on the web, but very few tools have helped tackle the problem of finding the video or blog post that you’ll find the most interesting. The broadcasting tools that many people use don’t work as well as filtering everything by your social network.
http://bit.ly/4Dg1EP
the elephant in the room →
Betting On Betas
“Watch for companies that will monetize experiences, community content, social search, augmented reality and mobile advertising. But beware of investments that are tailored spam or an invasion of privacy — or the monetization of snooping in general.”
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2015
“The problem is the technically savvy core community of users whose early embrace...”
– http://www.unionsquareventures.com/2008/07/meetup_the_orig.html
Thoughts on the Queue
I discussed Koppelman’s feedback about Snackfeed with CC a bit today. Although K may have still thinking youtube terms, CC said that he mentioned the netflix queue. This didn’t strike me as noteworthy until I was reflecting more on Snackfeed in the subway.
When I revisited the Netflix queue concept, I realized it was one of the things that was part of the initial smoothtube...
Notes from this weekend's convo w/CC:
* session() in php uses disk and is bad for horizontal scaling - done!
* javascript auto advance to next video in channel - done and I have used this feature already.
* popout player - I would love a popout player. The problem with video sites: either you lose the video you’re watching when you try to explore, or, the site is entirely in Flash and browsing sucks. Popup player is an...
Watchthree new features rolledout - improved feed view, swapped channels for watch page with six sections to browse from and added 30 day login (as per kortina)
“I am a 32 year old guy who finds Hulu to be excellent. I watch, on average, 1...”
– via the aforementioned Alley Insider post
Who is our market? →
WatchJust talking about a meeting we had, random thoughts.
Watcha long recap of the vc panel at dreamit from july 15th
“start with simple - follow with functionality”
– old UI axiom from forgotten collegue - remebered when speaker was hightlighting brightkite interface and how they just filled up all the realestate for no reason.
Watchjuly 15th
Early Feedback
CC and Jason are touching up some of the UI today, and we should have some of you testing out the current version of the site very soon. I’m going to be playing with the site over the course of this week and will be posting my feedback in the comments on this post.
As soon as you start playing with the site, please put any of your early thoughts on the site in the comments to this post.
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Watchwelcome to snackfeed tumblr log
