Finding Yourself Through Your Favorites
Japanese Tumblr users are “addicted to reblogging,” ffffolks on FFFFOUND are defining themselves by the images they find, and Etsians are hearting more items than ever. I’m discovering more about...
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The Sun Rises in the East
Etsy’s Treasury is something I’ve been fascinated by for a while. It’s an ever-changing, member-curated shopping gallery with some unique constraints. Treasury lists only live for 48 hours. Each list...
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Article 7
If you start from successful startups, you find they often behaved like nonprofits. And if you start from ideas for nonprofits, you find they’d often make good startups. –from a Paul Graham classic...
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Implicit Sharing
Just a few months ago, numerous folks were writing about how Facebook’s seamless sharing was in fact ruining sharing. The criticisms were focused on the Open Graph news apps from Yahoo News, The...
View ArticleThe Discovery Problem
There are a lot of really awesome and well-made things being sold by creative businesses these days. Things you do not know you want until you see them, because you did not know they existed and...
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The New Wanelo
It’s generally considered pretty risky to rewrite, redesign, rebuild, rebrand and relaunch a service that’s just started to take off among users, but it’s working out nicely at Wanelo. And we like it...
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My Wanelo Feed Erupted with Goodness Last Night
This natural event occurred because we began surfacing the individual shops behind the hundreds of thousands of products from Etsy that have been posted to Wanelo by members. Members who had been...
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The Company Your Company Keeps
If you have an app or web service out there with a rapidly increasing number of people using it, one of the most interesting things in the world for you is how people talk about it. Wanelo has a lot of...
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The Discovery of Fascinating Objects
The Flickr iPhone app is the most addictive app on my phone at the moment after Wanelo. The kind of app I’ll start using and then blissfully ignore text messages and the outside world until I get my...
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So You Want to Sell Products On the Internet
Great! It’s getting dramatically easier to do so every few months, and the playing field keeps getting leveled. There’s also a rapidly evolving set of best practices worth paying attention to, whether...
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Search Datamob
Lauren got the search functionality for Datamob up and running, making the site about 1,000 times more useful. Adjustments are in progress but you can subscribe to feeds of search results. Recent...
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Summer Remix
A personal announcement: After more than four years immersed in all things web-, blog- and ecommerce-related at the 92nd Street Y (new look/season/brand launching Thursday)—a place I love and have had...
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