Patrick Breitenbach's dashboard

A comment on the problem "Gowalla Icons Look Bad in Facebook News Feed" in Gowalla:

Those games are different. If Gowalla (or FourSquare) fulfill their promise, half of your newsfeed is going to be location check-ins. – Patrick Breitenbach, on October 26, 2009 22:27

A comment on the problem "Gowalla Icons Look Bad in Facebook News Feed" in Gowalla:

Do you have 100s of friends posting those things multiple times per day?? I'd poke my eyeballs out if I saw Mafia Wars in my newsfeed more than 5 times a day. – Patrick Breitenbach, on October 26, 2009 22:23

A comment on the problem "Gowalla Icons Look Bad in Facebook News Feed" in Gowalla:

Because Facebook is the primary way that people are finding out about Gowalla! And users are actively refraining from posting to Facebook and following Gowalla users solely because of the icon size! – Patrick Breitenbach, on October 26, 2009 20:58

A comment on the question "Where are the instructions?" in Gowalla:

I think a 5 paragraph summary would suffice and isn't too much to ask. We're in a race here with FourSquare and can't afford to fall further behind. – Patrick Breitenbach, on October 26, 2009 00:30

Patrick Breitenbach replied on October 26, 2009 00:22 to the problem "Gowalla Icons Look Bad in Facebook News Feed" in Gowalla:

They look great but are *WAY* too big. Please, please, please make them smaller ASAP! I guarantee that this is hurting Gowalla up-take. You need to fix this very soon.

Patrick Breitenbach shared an idea in Gowalla on October 25, 2009 03:08:

Ideas to help up-take

1) needs to be easier to connect to Facebook. once you connect on the web site, shouldn't that be sufficient? why do i have to also connect on my iphone?

2) icons in facebook newsfeed are too large. they are so obnoxious that i would consider turning Facebook off solely for that reason.

3) the "game" needs further explanation

4) is there a way to invite via facebook?

Patrick Breitenbach replied on October 14, 2009 16:30 to the question "Whats the easiest way to control another person's computer?" in Yuuguu:

But can I control the customer's screen?

Patrick Breitenbach replied on October 13, 2009 15:00 to the question "Whats the easiest way to control another person's computer?" in Yuuguu:

OK, thanks everyone. For it to be usable, it would need to be at least as easy as GoToMeeting where I can have a customer go to a URL, fill in a 6 digit code and that's about it.

Patrick Breitenbach replied on October 12, 2009 22:25 to the question "Whats the easiest way to control another person's computer?" in Yuuguu:

Sure, some sort of "download" is generally necessary but the other services seem to make that happen in a much more seamless way, whether or not it's a Flash widget, Java Applet, or binary download. Is YuuGuu planning on supporting that type of approach?

Patrick Breitenbach replied on February 13, 2009 19:18 to the question "AdWords and Eventbrite" in Eventbrite:

At this point we do not currently support AdWords conversion tracking. We have heard this request and do plan to support that as well as Google Analytics. I'm not sure of the timing but hopefully in the next few months.