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I've been happy with AdKnowledge's Cubics platform. I tried one other provider though, who came recommended and saw pretty dismal performance. So I think results may vary...

Can I also say that I like how I don't tell people who in the panel helped them make the top 20 list?

For example, this is currently on the list of boys: http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP8383

Will Pete and Dennis fight over who got more votes?

I will never tell.

You know, I was actually thinking of this. What SxSW really needs is just a tiny bit of NLP to do a tag cloud for the panels. I think that could be used to perform the kind of experiment you describe.

And I wouldn't bias such a thing by predicting the outcome, but can we agree that the panelists on topics we're interested in will be appealing to us in some way? Maybe not physically all the time, but they will be attractive to us.

I guess all I'm saying is that the inverse is true. Someone's nature, and interests do come through in their appearance (book cover judging rules!), especially in a set of people already pre-selected for common interests like the sxsw crowd.

That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said about me. I'm tearing up a little :)

I agree the comment's valid. I also should go post this on Reddit... brb...

All good points, though your last one kind of negates the motivation I feel to implement your suggestions :)

I do mix up the order a bit to make sure people at the end don't get neglected. But people in the middle probably have fate set against them. Poor middle panelists :(

I'm very happy wasting the amount of time it took. ;)

I know, I know. I feel guilty already. I'm often torn between things I want to do because they seem exciting and controversial, and the effect it will have on people involved. I really hope I don't get any tear stained emails from panelists upset at this little project.

But to answer your question, I'm actually talking about the panels that were recommended to me by the system based on my choices. The best one, which I never would have found otherwise is this one: http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP5380

I'm super-excited!

And not to be too hand-wavey, but what if (I know this sounds crazy) there's actually a reciprocal effect here? What if there's a natural conceptual affinity between people who are attractive to each other? What if I only like the topics I like, because those are the ones the people I find attractive like? Or they like them because I do?

Thanks for this input. It's well thought out.

Honestly, part of putting the word 'girls' in the title was to counter my last attempt at promoting my SxSW data. That one was very legitimate and professional. And in some ways, I think the data is even more valuable. But that one failed because the headline wasn't 'sexy' enough (IMO).

Whereas this one is getting some good buzz. Unfortunately, even using a demeaning term can sometimes get attention. I try not to be objectifying, but I fall short some times. Hopefully no one will be too offended.

If there's enough data, I will definitely post a recap. Stay tuned.

Nice work! I like it a lot.

Haha. Good idea. I could scrape together their turn ons and turn offs too :) Maybe v2

Heheh. I like to think of it as me passing along all the suckering pretty girls do to all of us. I'm just the messenger. (that sounds dirtier than I intended)

Pretty People: http://hot-spot.me/sxsw.php

No Love: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2281104

While it doesn't seem like this has captured the zeitgeist, I have made a subtle improvement.

I updated it to list speakers' panels directly underneath their company. This eliminates a lot of clicking back and forth and makes the thing less annoying.

I don't think they have a policy on that, do they? I was moderating out obviously objectionable content. I actually had a pretty lengthy thread on my App Wall regarding the F U banners and I felt like the community thought it was better to let that stuff go than to be overly strict.

Ah, thanks very much for this advice. That would be great.

I did relaunch the app, but with all the violations disabled. I sent them a message explaining. I had users who were kind of desperate to get their content out of the app.

But maybe I should take even that down? What do you think?

I'm so impatient!

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Oooh. That does look good. I will look into it. Thanks!

I did want to find a cross platform product so I could unify support and tutorial information, but I can compromise on that.

That's really interesting. My recent viral app, Profile Banner, also utilizes tagging of photos without people. How long did it take before your app was banned?

Our NP just got accepted into Give Camp. They're telling us we're going to get a lot of support (if only for a weekend). http://givecamp.org/

FYI, ours is Remas: http://www.sendremas.org/

We're doing price comparison for sending money overseas. So obvious, but so needed.

Clickables:

My App: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=117320678334... http://apps.facebook.com/profile-banner/

Pixelmator: http://www.pixelmator.com/

Just a little something I whipped up to make it (a lot) easier to coordinate your five recently tagged images on the new FB profile. I didn't come up with the idea, but I made it so everyone can do it. Oh wait... was that dumb?

Thanks for this. Very appreciated. I miss him.

There are a lot of plugins for Open X offering additional functionality. A case could be made that as OSS, it's got the potential to face more challenges than DFP, though obviously offer some additional ones as well (like having to manage your own servers).

It sounds like the poster has a niche market he (or she) understands. In that situation, I don't think technology needs to be a selling point.

Very interesting question. Obviously a different situation, but I was also interested in this HN story today:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1926289

There is a never-ending flow of startup advice dealing with all sorts of business and technical hurdles we face. But some of these interpersonal issues are just as (if not more) impactful to the success of a good company.

I've seen situations like this one deteriorate into ousting and proxy battles and public opinion campaigns. And we all see it in the news from time to time.

Maybe this post is way lagged and it's from either M. Arrington or J. Calacanis?!

Is there a need for a startup support network for dealing with more personal issues?

There are a few articles touching on this, but they're more about individuals coming forward in these situations: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/24/nyregion/24bigcity.html http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4182/is_20010319/ai_... http://www.ajc.com/business/entrepreneur-group-fights-loneli...

Check out OpenX http://www.openx.org/

In addition to setting up your own private label network, you can buy and sell inventory on their exchange. This lets you appear bigger than you are. For example, if you are able to sign up a publisher in your niche, you can immediately start trafficking relevant ads to show him you're capable. You'll make more money attracting Advertisers in your niche to buy those impressions, but that's a chicken/egg problem that being part of an exchange helps with.

I've always thought there should be no cap on either salary, or glamour for advancing developers. We've all seen how a single person can drive the productivity of an entire organization. The career path promoting great developers into managers (and eventually CTOs) tends to take people out of something they're great at and put them into something they might not be so good at.

On the flip side, the best technical managers I've worked with were not very technical at all.

I did take the route of advancing into a CTO position. There were parts of it I really enjoyed, and parts of it I dreaded. Those overlapped predictably with the parts I was bad at...

I would do it again, for the right project. But with a much clearer understanding of which responsibilities I will take for myself, and what I which I will delegate.

My advice to you would be to focus on the parts of your job you love, and make sure you're getting the credit and rewards you deserve. If that means you're a Senior Developer for the next ten years, it should also mean you're getting profit sharing, an office (if you want one) and a recognized position as a driver of the company's future.

Is this the full impact? Presumably, they wouldn't leave it on if subscription revenue didn't outweigh that lost from advertising.

I'm pulling the shows from Oh My Rockness. If they recommend a show at those venues, they'll show up in the listings.

When I get some more time, I'll add all the venues in NY and personalize based on Facebook likes.

This has been Snap.com 's competitive advantage for years. I suppose Google gave them enough of a head start for them to make something of it if they were going to. Theirs is certainly more mature though. And they have a JS include you can place on your site to enable this sort of image preview on all external links.

Theirs customizes the preview type depending on the content. For example, links to stock information shows a little quote and graph preview.

This is pretty neat, but it seems like an advanced version of Google Docs Spreadsheets. I wonder if they'll roll these features into that. The OSS project is nice for confidential data, but I think a lot of people would use a hosted version. Anyone going to set one up?

I literally just did the same exercise as demonstrated in the second video, parsing a Wiki document (the list of world religions) from Wikipedia. But it took about 30 lines of PHP.

Maybe they'll add the ability to import a web page as a data source, and export the script that does the transformations as a python script?

Okay. I'm rambling...