So says tweetvalue.com, which is one of many sites in the Twitter ecosystem. Yet I’d ask– how did it calculate the $286 and how do I go about redeeming that money? What’s my profile worth? As of March 22nd, I have 1,233 followers on Twitter and 188 updates. Perhaps a follower is worth about 20 […]
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There was once a study where psychologists showed subjects a series of pictures, asking them to rate how attractive the people in the pictures were. Unknown to the subjects, they sometimes saw two of the same person– the difference being that one picture would be digitally manipulated to increase pupil dilation. The impact? The picture
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The beauty of sites like Hotwire and Priceline is that you can get a discounted price provided you are flexible about times, locations, and brands. In general, we have had a great experience booking hotels and run most of our conference business through them. This one time, we booked a 4-star hotel in Santa Clara
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One of our co-founders, Dean Mao, won another coding competition, this time with WeekendApps on the OpenSocial platform. He doesn’t like publicity, but I thought I’d mention this feat anyway. He won a pass to the Google IO conference, 1 million banner ad impressions, and some conversations from two private equity guys who want to
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If you have a tripod, which of the legs is most important? Of course, they are all equally important– if you take any one of them away, the item being supported collapses. The same is true in hiring. Do you want smart folks, trustworthy folks, or hard-working folks? How about hiring an absolute genius who
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Pubmatic released a report covering the massive drop– Q408 average CPMs are at 26 cents. Before folks claim economic peril, let’s consider a few other factors. The mix of inventory for ad networks has shifted dramatically to social, which has historically terrible CPMs. From a weighted average perspective, it’s hard to say exactly the impact,
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Yodle and Ambassador, both out of NYC, were featured in a Kelsey Group press release. Yodle was founded by a friend of a friend of mine and just raised $10MM. And ReachLocal’s $300MM valuation is insane. Funny that these guys, Orange Soda, Webvisible, LocalLaunch, Marchex, and other folks are getting into the local advertising game,
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Lee Scott in his annual address to the National Retail Federation, noted that in the latest focus group of young shoppers, “Every one of them had given something up, and they were talking about how good they felt about doing that.” Thus, he doesn’t see a rebound in sales any time soon. Look at your
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I first heard of Yodle about 4 years ago, back when it was called NatPal, by Nathaniel Stevens out of UPenn, a friend of Brad Twohig, who is our joint friend. Since then, I’ve seen the company grow from a few dozen clients to a reported 5,000, bring in a CEO (Court Cunningham), and a
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CNN.com reported a story where Larry Flynt and some other porn executives are asking Congress for a bailout. I suppose the folks making free porn are losing their shirts, literally? If the adult industry, one of the largest and most lucrative segments of internet traffic, is asking for a handout, then things must really be
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