Comments on: PayPerPost Buys Zookoda – Maybe I Got The Jump On Techcrunch

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:36:32 +0000

I could already offer custom feeds based on a mixture of tags, that a user selects with an nice Ajax interface, it is all built into UTW.

But I don’t offer it ;)

The more feed options you give people, the more confused they get, plus that little feed counter would go down instead of up.

Plus if I added more feeds, Technorati would get extremely confused, and think I was spamming them. I could easily have 1000 links in Technorati, all based on internal feeds linking to myself.

By: Lord Matt

Lord Matt — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:14:43 +0000

I don’t know about Aggregated Feeds I’m after pre:split feeds. Take all your feeds, separate them into separate items and build new feeds based on given params like tags, categories, keywords etc.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:01:08 +0000

Very cool pet!

I’ll have to check that out, sounds neat!

By: Court

Court — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:56:19 +0000

Nice work Andy, I can’t believe that you’ve only had 7 diggs so far. It goes to show that Digg is rigged.

By: VC Dan

VC Dan — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:15:14 +0000

You tempted me with your email…but I resisted. Maybe one of these days you’ll catch me in a moment of weakness. Great investigative reporting to connect the dots!

Also, thanks for the feedback for improvement. I particularly liked the comment subscription angle.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:07:39 +0000

Just because I worked it out well in advance doesn’t mean I get the scoop, that is the way marketing goes, and I have no grudges at all about it.

Dan’s confirmation email came after the post was on Techcrunch, and I would do exactly the same if the roles were reversed. There is a big difference between 800+ subscribers and 1000 visitors a day, and a site with 350K+ subscribers.

Also significant was that this was over a weekend

I still think my analysis of the situation is much better than Mike Arrington’s though ;)

I actually wonder how many weeks this has been in the works. It is quite possible something was fairly solid as much as a month ago.

By: digitalnomad

digitalnomad — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:56:16 +0000

Glad to see you get this scoop Andy. You should be deserving of any traffic for being so perceptive.

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Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:31:09 +0000

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