Joey Inc

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-21)

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:48:15 -0800

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-21):

The panic and pleasure of that first paycheck

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:07:44 -0800

Last Friday I received my first ever paycheck from Klout. After almost 18 months living out of my savings as we bootstrapped this company it was an exciting day. We have investors now, a real office and employees. We are officially a “real” company. After watching my bank account dwindle down to near zero it couldn’t have come soon enough.

While it’s awesome to see my personal bank account balance go up it’s terrifying to see our corporate balance drop. This is all in the financial model so this isn’t a surprise but I still don’t like it. I like watching numbers go up and now I need to find the right balance between exploring revenue opportunities and continuing to scale our our platform for the future.

Board Meeting 101 Slideshow (click to link)

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:54:31 -0800

Board Meeting 101 Slideshow (click to link):

hiten:

dcancel:

evanschumacher:

Board Meeting 101 Slideshow (click above to link to it)

No list of “do’s and don’ts” rather a board meeting template that i more or less use. i get asked a lot by folks for tips on how to put together a board deck so i figured i’d share one

Why should you care?

- experience - 10 years of startups x 10 board meetings per year = 100 board meetings with 8 or so world class vc’s

p.s. it’s early stage friendly

p.p.s - i’m sure i forgot tons of stuff

oh yeah, and if anyone knows how to embed a slideshare show in tumblr i’m all ears…grrr

Love it.

davehyndman: Social Distortion - Under My Thumb (Rolling...

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:43:49 -0800

davehyndman:

Social Distortion - Under My Thumb (Rolling Stones)

Man I love Social D! This is a killer cover … perfect intro.

2009 The Year in Sleeping

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:55:56 -0800

Places I slept at least one night in 2009:

New York City
Singapore
Bangkok
Ho Chi Minh
Los Angeles
Las Vegas
Austin
Seattle
San Jose
San Francisco
Pismo Beach

The list doesn’t look that crazy except for the fact that I actually lived in and rented apartments in New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco all in the same year. I also spent almost 6 weeks in Singapore.

tristn: via fuckyeah4chan

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:44:33 -0800

tristn:

via fuckyeah4chan

via www2.b3ta.com

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:22:06 -0800

via www2.b3ta.com

Twitter Lists - A spammers new best friend?

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:31:00 -0700

So I am one of the lucky guys who ended up with early access to the Twitter Lists functionality and so far I am loving it. Not necessarily from a functionality standpoint (it’s really bare bones but at Klout we are building some cool stuff to make it more useful) but from a data perspective. Everyone has always been obsessed with follower count (huge mistake in my opinion) but now the first thing you’ll notice with lists is that the count of lists you are on is displayed right next to your follower count.

Someone adding you to a list is way more meaningful then just a follow. Not sure yet if Twitter is going to email you when you are added to a list but it would be hard not to click through and see what lists you are on when that number increments. What happens though when a spammer creates a “50 People Who Should Visit My Online Pharmacy” or “People I Can Teach to Get Rich From the Comfort of their Home” list and adds you to it?

Almost every person I speak to who is relatively new Twitter asks “who are these people that are following me?”. A stat I once heard from the Twitter team is that a spammer lasts about 8 hours in their system (this was a while ago so I am sure it has improved greatly). It’s funny that I think lists were created to combat these spammers and improve the signal to noise ratio of Twitter. I do think lists will help in surfacing interesting content but I believe it adds a new channel for spammers to annoy the rest of us.

Are Twitter list going to encourage people to have multiple Twitter accounts?

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:20:00 -0700

For the last couple weeks I’ve been part of a lucky group of testers with access to Twitter’s new list functionality. In case you some how missed it, Twitter lists are going to allow any user to curate a list that any other user can then follow. The key here though is that when you follow a list you are not necessarily following each of the people on that list. The list themselves have a follower count and each user now will have a count of how many lists they are on.

Right now there are only a few people with access to the list functionality out there creating list but I already find myself looking a the list count of every user’s profile I visit. I believe that the count of lists people are on is going to quickly overtake follower count in terms of importance in most people’s eyes. I also believe that this change is going to have a big impact in how people use Twitter.

Once access to the list functionality goes public I believe that many people will create lists about the topics and companies they are passionate about. Some of these lists will grow very popular and being on these list will be quite prestigious. Once you know you are on an important list about a specific topic I think it’s going to be difficult to not think about how relevant each of your tweets are to that topic. While many will say that this is a good thing as it will cut the noise of people on Twitter talking about what they had for dinner, I worry that we’ll lose some of the intimacy the medium now creates.

Right now I would say about 40% of my followers are close friends that care about what I did on the weekend or if I had a safe flight. I don’t want to ignore them or miss the small things going on in their life. At the same time, I love technology and the start up world and want to have a voice in that space. I am starting to wonder if I am going to end up needing multiple twitter accounts to accomplish both goals? It’s not necessarily that big of a deal to manage multiple Twitter accounts and in the end it might not be a bad thing as it could make following me (or anyone for that matter) a more pleasant experience if you could pick which slice of their life you you want to engage with. It will be interesting to see what changes and mutations this new feature introduces into the way we all use Twitter.

Crunchy Taco This is my new jam. Only question is who gets this...

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:00:24 -0700

Crunchy Taco

This is my new jam. Only question is who gets this for their ring tone when they call me?

I’ll admit it, I can be a bit of a procrastinator but this...

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:12:00 -0700

I’ll admit it, I can be a bit of a procrastinator but this blew my mind today. It’s September 25th and your just getting rid of that Christmas tree?

"If you have data — flaunt it! Releasing some interesting piece of data, ideally something..."

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:02:57 -0700

“If you have data — flaunt it! Releasing some interesting piece of data, ideally something unexpected, is a wonderful way to attract attention.”

- Flaunting 101 by Getty Images via Daylife

Flaunt Your Data (PR 2.0) - Continuations

Rafer sez:
This goes double for analytics companies, for whom the process is more repeatable. All graphs and charts in your reports should offer embed code so that your users can easily blog their _live or snapshotted_ results in a way that provides you branding, backlinks, and JS tracking opportunities.

(via rafer)

This kills me. We have so much cool data and I feel like we are only showing a small % of it on Klout. This is about to change though.

newspeedwayboogie: Soulsavers - You Will Miss Me When I...

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:03:58 -0700

newspeedwayboogie:

Soulsavers - You Will Miss Me When I Burn

Mark Lanegan & Co doing a ridonkulous cover of the old Palace Brothers (Will Oldham) tune. As good as it gets.

AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:11:53 -0700

AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com

"If you knew which of your followers had clout, you could invest more time and energy in personal..."

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:28:11 -0700

“If you knew which of your followers had clout, you could invest more time and energy in personal attention. If we knew where big ideas were starting, that would be neat, and even more useful would be understanding who the key people were in bringing those new ideas to the rest of the world. Back in the old days, we had no idea, so we defaulted to big newspapers, or magazines or the TV networks. But now we know. We just need to surface the data in a way that is useful.”

- Seth’s Blog: Clout (via hiten)

Rafer sez:
Hence Klout.

(via rafer)

It was a mixture of excitement and confusion this morning as I worked through my feed reader and stumbled on Seth’s post. How come he was talking about us and why did he spell our name wrong? Then I realized he wasn’t really talking about us directly but it was still awesome.

This is what Klout is all about.

mikehudack: dpstyles: Awesome. @grellan spies a guy who snuck...

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:52:51 -0700

mikehudack:

dpstyles:

Awesome. @grellan spies a guy who snuck an Xbox, router, etc. into NY Public Library to play Halo off the free wifi. http://flic.kr/p/6SLkh4

This guy brought a monitor, Xbox, wi-fi router, external HD, earphones with mouthpiece and a controller (disguised under a NY Post, no less).

He proceeded to play Quake/Halo/Call of Duty…some nerd fighter game while yelling out instructions to his “teammates”.

Took him 20 minutes to set it all up. Took him 2 minutes to get kicked out.

This should unlock some sort of Xbox achievement. This guy is my hero.

I miss the LES. nevver: ” … the Manhattan Bridge, looming like...

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:32:10 -0700

I miss the LES.

nevver:

” … the Manhattan Bridge, looming like an apparition.” Ephemeral New York

I like moving

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:06:13 -0700

Think I just found an apartment in San Francisco today. I am getting close to being able to check all the most famous US cities off the list.

Las Vegas
Miami
Los Angeles
NYC
San Francisco

At some point I need to live in Chicago and Boston and I will pretty much have things covered.

Video

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:07:59 -0700

peterwknox: Change We Can Believe In

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:18:42 -0700

peterwknox:

Change We Can Believe In