Why we like recommendations from friends

November 29, 2010

Chances are, you spent a lot of time talking with friends and family at your Thanksgiving gathering. There is not much to do before dinner, except watch football and chit-chat about recent happenings. Besides the weather, the next most neutral topics of discussion are food, movies, restaurants and products/shopping deals. My family members spent many [...]

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Building the Site I Want to Use

November 10, 2010

It’s been 5 years since I became an Entrepreneur. Today I’m building the site I want to use. It’s euphoric. It’s PopWatchers. I’ve asked my Mechanical Turk peeps how to describe the site. Here’s what they came up with: Real people finding simple things that made them happy. Got it. Love it. Post it! Found [...]

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Create a Better UX with Complete Strangers

October 22, 2010

Ever build a new site only to find that people don’t like it? If so, you’re painfully aware that it’s easy to develop features, but hard to please users. Matt Brezina, formerly of xobni.com, said he used to ask people about his email service at Starbucks and at train stops. Now you can get user [...]

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Positive Vibe at Affiliate Tax Hearing in Illinois – 9/29/2010

September 29, 2010

On this beautiful sunny Wednesday in downtown Chicago, a very productive investigative hearing was held on the Illinois Affiliate Tax Bill, Senate Bill 3353. About 70 Affiliate Network reps and Marketers were in attendance representing ShareASale, FatWallet, Groupon, Google, VigLink, CouponCabin and Mr Rebates. Tim Storm, Founder of FatWallet.com, and Brian Littleton, President of ShareASale.com, [...]

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Why does my site looks like my breakfast?

August 26, 2010

As I was spreading the peanut butter on the wrong side of the bread this morning, I thought, hmm… why does this Skippy jar look familiar? It’s because it looks just like my new site’s design, PopWatchers.com. My site and Honey Roasted Skippy Peanut Butter are twins separated at birth. Hey, wait a minute. This [...]

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My hour with Ben Huh

August 26, 2010

Ben Huh spoke informally at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco on May 5. About 40 attendees got to ask Ben questions about his super popular website business, the Cheezburger Network, which owns Icanhascheezburger and the FAIL blog. According to Quantcast, the Cheezburger Network’s blogs get 11.9M global visitors a month. Ben explained that [...]

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The 6 Top Soundbites of the Lean Startup Intensive

May 31, 2010

There were 8 hours of non-stop startup insights at the Lean Startup Intensive held Day 1 at the Web 2.0 Expo May 3-5. The strategies and business metrics presented were enough for a 2 year MBA program. These Lean Startup soundbites were the most retweeted: 1. If my iteration cycle is 1 week and yours [...]

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Common Word Checker powered by Wordnik.com’s API

May 20, 2010

Today we released a new one page site powered by Wordnik – All the words. This awesome tool is a Common Word Checker that helps writers choose common words for their blogs, emails and articles. Using a small vocabulary helps young readers, skimmers and non-native English readers grasp meaning more quickly. The idea for a [...]

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Why would you do one page sites?

May 3, 2010

One would ask why would we need to create another one paged web sites? For me answer is pretty simple – you can do really professionally only one thing at a time. The same goes to web-sites, if you are short in time you can polish one feature really good and make it really useful, [...]

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Name.ly, sincere.ly and thatis.me

April 30, 2010

Tired of adding Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social sites to your email signature? Try using Name.ly’s newly released services. Condense yourself in a simple trustworthy URL like michelle.thatis.me. Use catchy URLs owned by Name.ly as your all-in-one contact page. Imagine a signature like sincere.ly/madonna.

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