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Mike Schinkel started following the question "Search only the title of the listing?" in HEYCRAIG.
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Mike Schinkel replied on September 23, 2009 20:26 to the question "Should I be afraid to ask about Pricing?" in Expectnation:
Hi Ed,
Thanks for the response.
As someone heavily involved in the Atlanta web startup scene, I've paid a lot of attention to web startups and gotten to the point that I have a tinge of distrust for companies that don't publish their pricing. Not saying I distrust you, I know you are well known and O'Reilly is highly respected but it does leave me with an uneasy feeling.
As for what my needs are, I potentially have several ways I might be able to use it but without being able to peruse a price list and contemplate my potential usage I'm unlikely to end up using this service. I need to get a clear picture of how I might use it in my own mind before talking to a sales person.
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Mike Schinkel replied on September 13, 2009 04:38 to the idea "Safari should have a 'Reopen last closed tab' command" in Apple:
Agree completely. I far more often need to reopen a tab than reopen a window. What were they thinking?!? -
Mike Schinkel asked a question in Expectnation on April 11, 2009 03:13:
Should I be afraid to ask about Pricing?What is your pricing, and why don't you publish pricing on your website? -
Mike Schinkel started following the question "how on earth do i send a twitpic from my iphone? tutorial???" in TwitPic.
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Mike Schinkel replied on November 30, 2008 09:32 to the idea "Ideas to improve your algorithms, services" in Mr. Tweet:
Hey, thanks for the quick reply. I think you understood exactly the crux of my wants on this. A bunch of us local startup-oriented entrepreneurs were discussing this problem exactly but none of us really want to tackle that problem so glad you are looking at it.
I get your point on the geo data...really wishing it could be better. Wondering if someone could layer that info on top of Twitter. Hmmm... =) -
Mike Schinkel shared an idea in Mr. Tweet on November 30, 2008 08:40:
Ideas to improve your algorithms, servicesI like the idea of Mr. Tweet but think your algorithms need to improve. For example, I'm really not interested in following someone who follows 1000+ people and especially not interested in those that follow 10,000+ people. I want to know who the people that I follow are following and especially want to know who the people I reply to are replying to.
It's a bit like PageRank; if someone follows 100 people and are active then I become 1 of 100 if they follow me. If they follow 10,000 people then I become 1 of 10,000 when they follow me.
Further if 100 people follow them (and they are active) then they are more likely to interact with me than if they have 10,000 people following them.
Another thing to look at would be how many of their followers reply to them?
Another thing I'd like is for you to discount the people with a following/follower ratio of more than 10 (i.e. if they follow 1000 people and less than 100 people them, they are a spammer and are insignificant.) This could be a sliding scale, i.e. if they follow 5x as many as they have followers it would be worse than a 1-to-1 but not as bad as someone with 10x. After 10x, they should be discounted entirely AND you shouldn't even run their statics for them; you should tell them to get real and come back later.
Also I'm really interested in a local geography so I'd like to see people who live within 50 or 100 miles of me first.
I'm basically trying to leverage my network to learn who else I want to follow, but since I use Twitter to build relationships I have no interested in following Twitter "rock stars" because I can't really build a relationship with them because their attentions are so divided.
