7 Quick Thoughts

April 12th, 2006

1) Is anyone else excited to see that Fred appears to have his mojo back? Lots of great thoughts coming from him the past week and a bit.

2) Josh Kopelman discusses one of his firms themes: “We love investing in technologies and business models that are able to shrink existing markets. If your company can take $5 of revenue from a competitor for every $1 you earn – let’s talk!” So great.

3) Chartreuse is on fire. When does he: (i) join a network; (ii) create a network; or, (iii) start to pimp his content/sell everything

4) I wish there was an official (read: cool) way to notify someone that you’ve subscribed to their feed. I’ve had a few people send emails like “great posts. subscribed!” and it left a good taste in my mouth. I think some geek needs to develop a better way of informing the author, I’d embrace it.

5) Anyone worried that Chad died during the marathon and the recent posts were recorded while still alive to haunt us all like Hank the Angry Dwarf.

6) Does anyone else think that Kent Newsome is the James Brown of the blogosphere?

7) I’ve moved to Hamilton. Love the new neighbourhood but need furniture.

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    I'm training for the Toronto marathon, I think it's in Oct... anything before that and I'd probably die on km 34.

    You'll live 'til 220 but of course the gene therapy will have some kinks and you'll come out looking a lot like this.
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    I'm training for the Toronto marathon, I think it's in Oct... anything before that and I'd probably die on km 34. You'll live 'til 220 but of course the gene therapy will have some kinks and you'll come out looking a lot like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Joanriversjewe...rel="nofollow">this.
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    Of course I didn't die, I'm gonna live for at least another 220 years or so thanks to the advancements of gene therapy. By then I'll have run several marathons, possibly one or two on the moon.

    I ordered my pictures from the Marathon yesterday and will post them on my flickr account as soon as I get them. Until then you can see the pictures from my trip in the France set at

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/csakon/

    Fraser, I'm expecting a marathon out of you quite soon. I've set the bar at 3 hours and 47 minutes.
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    Of course I didn't die, I'm gonna live for at least another 220 years or so thanks to the advancements of gene therapy. By then I'll have run several marathons, possibly one or two on the moon. I ordered my pictures from the Marathon yesterday and will post them on my flickr account as soon as I get them. Until then you can see the pictures from my trip in the France set at http://www.flickr.com/photos/csakon/ Fraser, I'm expecting a marathon out of you quite soon. I've set the bar at 3 hours and 47 minutes.
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    I like the idea although I do think there would be a lot of publishers that wouldn't want it included as they would be inundated with e-mail. It definitely needs to be opt-in. Upon thinking about this further over the weekend and this morning I believe the idea could be easily accomplished/executed using FeedFlare. One could create a FeedFlare that would link to a feedback type of form (or even just a straight mailto link would work) on the site that would allow people to send notes once they subscribe. If anyone is interested I would be happy to whip up a Flare - I am no programmer but they are super easy to whip up. Just shoot me an e-mail (erico@feedburner.com).

    This is essentially why we developed Flare. It will allow publishers to do all kinds of great things within in their feeds and sites. Also, we now have a Flare catalogue which users can submit Flare to so that other users don't have to recreate the wheel. Great discussion guys! I never would've thought to use Flare for this purpose without it.
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    I like the idea although I do think there would be a lot of publishers that wouldn't want it included as they would be inundated with e-mail. It definitely needs to be opt-in. Upon thinking about this further over the weekend and this morning I believe the idea could be easily accomplished/executed using FeedFlare. One could create a FeedFlare that would link to a feedback type of form (or even just a straight mailto link would work) on the site that would allow people to send notes once they subscribe. If anyone is interested I would be happy to whip up a Flare - I am no programmer but they are super easy to whip up. Just shoot me an e-mail (erico@feedburner.com). This is essentially why we developed Flare. It will allow publishers to do all kinds of great things within in their feeds and sites. Also, we now have a Flare catalogue which users can submit Flare to so that other users don't have to recreate the wheel. Great discussion guys! I never would've thought to use Flare for this purpose without it.
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    What about if there was a button that you could put beside/below the Feedburner "subscribe to this feed" button that said something like "Let me know you've subscribed". When you click on it it pops up a dialogue box where you can enter your name / blog addy / a comment / etc. and then it gets sent to the authors email.

    I just know that the few readers who've left me an email with "great post. subscribed!" have made my day.

    If feedburner was to make it easier for people to pass that message along (theoretically increasing the occurance) it would indirectly increase my love affair with feedburner.
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    What about if there was a button that you could put beside/below the Feedburner "subscribe to this feed" button that said something like "Let me know you've subscribed". When you click on it it pops up a dialogue box where you can enter your name / blog addy / a comment / etc. and then it gets sent to the authors email. I just know that the few readers who've left me an email with "great post. subscribed!" have made my day. If feedburner was to make it easier for people to pass that message along (theoretically increasing the occurance) it would indirectly increase my love affair with feedburner.
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    That's my cue! Hi Matt, I am both the Eric of VentureWeek (yup, small world! - thank you again for your generous support) and the regular reader of Disruptive Thoughts Fraser is talking about. I too like the idea of some sort of automatic notification of subscription. It would create a bit more community around the feed.

    Right now we can't tell which of your subscriber base is new, which is the same and who left. This has to do with the way feeds work. There is no way cookie users within a feed and using IP addresses for identification is not accurate (since all of us are on a work IP and home IP during the day and the occasional s'bucks, etc.).

    I wonder how many publishers out there would like this service. This is something we should figure out. My only concern would be the subscribers privacy. I think a lot of people enjoy feeds since they are anonymous (not mention they a better way to consume content). You don't need to give up your e-mail address or anything personal making the feed completely spam free. However, this could be remedied by someone like us creating an e-mail address that the notification would come from and allowing users the ability to opt-in to the notification.

    Anyhow, very interesting idea. It is one we have been thinking about internally a lot. Please keep the ideas coming. We love hearing from our publisher base since we really want to provide what you guys need and want. Now that I have taken about half a page I think it is time to stop. :-) Take care!
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    That's my cue! Hi Matt, I am both the Eric of VentureWeek (yup, small world! - thank you again for your generous support) and the regular reader of Disruptive Thoughts Fraser is talking about. I too like the idea of some sort of automatic notification of subscription. It would create a bit more community around the feed. Right now we can't tell which of your subscriber base is new, which is the same and who left. This has to do with the way feeds work. There is no way cookie users within a feed and using IP addresses for identification is not accurate (since all of us are on a work IP and home IP during the day and the occasional s'bucks, etc.). I wonder how many publishers out there would like this service. This is something we should figure out. My only concern would be the subscribers privacy. I think a lot of people enjoy feeds since they are anonymous (not mention they a better way to consume content). You don't need to give up your e-mail address or anything personal making the feed completely spam free. However, this could be remedied by someone like us creating an e-mail address that the notification would come from and allowing users the ability to opt-in to the notification. Anyhow, very interesting idea. It is one we have been thinking about internally a lot. Please keep the ideas coming. We love hearing from our publisher base since we really want to provide what you guys need and want. Now that I have taken about half a page I think it is time to stop. :-) Take care!
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    Well, I know that at least one member of the feedburner team is a regular reader. Let's see if he has anything to say...
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    Well, I know that at least one member of the feedburner team is a regular reader. Let's see if he has anything to say...
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    I completely agree with you that it would be great to somehow ID subscribers - I've been thinking the same thing. This would be a great feature for Feedburner to add!
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    I completely agree with you that it would be great to somehow ID subscribers - I've been thinking the same thing. This would be a great feature for Feedburner to add!
 
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