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Last Friday (or perhaps two Friday’s ago) Kyle and I sat down in the SparkSpace conference room and hashed out our strategy for the coming month and a half leading up to launch.
The following video and photo are results of this meeting. Talk about anti-stealth: this is a real peak into our decision-making process. If [...]

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I was really interested in Fred Wilson’s post today about the “Social Blogging” market, especially his chart about the blogging and social networking markets.
For regular readers of this blog, you may expect that when I hear the words “social” and “blogging” or “publishing” mashed together, I think about a concept I call “Social Knitting.”
Social Knitting [...]

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There are some things in life and business you can only learn by doing… or at least planning for.
So, it’s not a surprise that the latest web “revelation” I’ve had, which are oft-inspired by the process of building BricaBox, has come as Kyle and I have started to architect our premium features and billing system; [...]

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I’m really hearting the new updates Kyle pushed out on BricaBox this morning. He’s been working on a number of the features over the past few weeks — all of them features requested by our publishers and prospective publishers. His post about the release is here.
You can Digg the post here (and by “you can” [...]

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After my interview in nextNYers came out on Monday, I posted an “interview” with my pal and partner, BricaBox CTO Kyle Bragger.
In the “PS” of the post, I said,
I really do think we need to feature the “I write code” guys more. I know it’s “my job” to be a front man, but I think [...]

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Charlie went and poked the bear, so I’m going to have to add some fire to this furnace and poke back.
Charlie says he’s tired of the self-promoters packing the Silicon Alley 100: People’s Choice ballot box with votes. He singles out Richie Hecker and Hilary Rowland because, well, they’re on top.
But let’s list everyone else [...]

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I was recently featured in the nextNYers show, produced by my friends at For Your Imagination.
I wrote about it and reposted the video on the BricaBox Blog, so go there or to the nextNYers page to view it.
One thing that got cut from the interview (it happens, so it’s not a criticism) was me talking [...]

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I made fun of Yahoo!’s Kickstart app for allowing me to be user # 433. I really couldn’t believe that a Yahoo! product, for gosh sakes, could have that few users at the time I signed up (the first day of public beta). And in that post I said,
We expect to have that many [...]

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Yet another post inspired by a most excellent conversation going on within the nextNY community. The top half is important back story and theory, while the second half is the punch-line to validate the title of this post.
In a recent discussion on the nextNY listserv, Phil Dupré asked a “philosophical question:”
What is the distinct value [...]

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I just posted on the BricaBox Blog about a new feature/block called “Related Content.”
Here’s the gist of it:
As seen the case below, stats don’t lie. We implemented this block on the Silicon Alley 100 BricaBox; and, when you compare Charles Forman’s nomination against mine, you see that “People who nominated Charles Forman also nominated…” folks [...]

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