Tag Archives: Online Communities

Why Not To Use Stock Graphics On Your Startup

April 8, 2009 – 5:20 pm

I really love stock sites like iStockPhoto.  I’ve purchased almost a hundred images.
During SXSW, an article was published about Twitter’s main homepage image being stock, with some pretty heavy faux outrage about how this is bad.  Horrible, off topic headline.  First off, the author doesn’t differentiate between spec and stock.  Stock = 100 people can [...]

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Colorado Leeds School of Business Application

April 1, 2009 – 2:26 pm

I’m applying to the Colorado Leeds School of Business for grad school.  I think they are fantastic.  As part of the application, they request you submit something creative:
At Leeds we live and work in one of the most entrepreneurial communities in the country and we foster an environment where creative people spur economic growth [...]

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Interesting Trends In Celebrity Twitter Accounts

March 30, 2009 – 10:54 pm

I was interested tonight in a tweet by @TheEllenShow trying to push to 500,000 followers on twitter.
Wow, half a million.  Really impressive.
But wait.  The account has only been active since August of 2008.  Roughly, that is adding 2000 people a day.
So I poked around a bit.  Interesting findings.

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TwitSpace: A Twitter UI Improvement That Ruined It

January 25, 2009 – 4:37 pm

Something has been unusual about Twitter in the last two months.  I couldn’t quite pin it, but it seemed there was a mass increase of spammers or people that have spammer like behavior.
It all started with a UI change.  Or so I think.
About 2 months ago Twitter changed the order of your Follower list. It [...]

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