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Re: JOE LAZARUS - Last.fm Tumblr Weekly Top Artists

joelaz — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:20:15 -0000

Cait, that usually happens when you listen to fewer than 5 artists the prior
week. Did you listen to more than 5 bands on Last.fm last week? What is
your Last.fm user name?

Re: Donor's Choose Conversion Rate

joelaz — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:39:07 -0000

Your conversion rate is good compared to a typical consumer ecommerce site. A brand name retailer will usually see conversion rates in the 3-6% range while a no-name site will typically be below 3% and the best retailers in the world see 10-15% (I used to work in marketing for JCrew.com, Walmart.com, eBay, and Yahoo! Shopping).

If you have access to an area of the giving page where you can add javascript code, you could use Google Analytics to track conversions. Google Analytics offers two ways to capture conversion events... either as "goals" or by opting into their full suite of "ecommerce tracking" features. Both take just a few minutes to set up, but you need access to the conversion page to insert the Analytics javascript, which might need to be done on Donor's Choose's end.

Re: JOE LAZARUS - Last.fm Tumblr Weekly Top Artists

joelaz — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:11:14 -0000

drudolph, you only listened to 3 bands last week on last.fm...

http://www.last.fm/user/drudolph/charts?chartty...

listen to 5 or more bands this week and the feed will work for you next
week.

Re: Summer Sessions, by Smog Films Beautiful surfing... - Joe Lazarus

joelaz — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:04:11 -0000

Thanks for making the video, Jean. It's fantastic.

Re: What's Your Tumblr Number? - Joe Lazarus

joelaz — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:09:19 -0000

yep, you're right. they must have fixed it today. i'll update the post. thanks!

Re: What's Your Tumblr Number? - Joe Lazarus

joelaz — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:13:09 -0000

Leon, that's pretty cool. Interesting data.

Re: James Brown & Pavarotti - Joe Lazarus

joelaz — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:13:19 -0000

Thanks for those other videos. I hadn't seen "Sunny" before.

Re: Tumblr SEO Traffic Tip - Joe Lazarus

joelaz — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:29:07 -0000

It depends on your theme. I don't know much HTML, but managed to figure it out on my site. Maybe you can ask a friend who knows HTML to look at your code.

Re: The Virgins - Rich Girls I saw these guys perform... - Joe Lazarus

joelaz — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:01:27 -0000

Yeah, they're great. I'm surprised I hadn't heard them before, but I'm glad
I found them.

Re: The (New) Gong Show

joelaz — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:38:36 -0000

Congrats on the switch. The Tumblr interface and template system is refreshingly simple compared to Wordpress, though I'm not sure the Google likes it more. Tumblr SEO has improved a lot over the last year, but I get the sense that it still lags behind an optimized Wordpress blog. Search traffic just isn't a major issue for me.

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

joelaz — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:34:48 -0000

I love these videos from the Storque. When I worked at eBay, my favorite part of the job was hearing stories about craftspeople making a living through the service. The Etsy sellers seem even more authentic and interesting. Bre Pettis' "how-to" series is also excellent.

Re: My top artists of the week aren't my top artists of the week

joelaz — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:14:03 -0000

Yep, I'm having the same issue. Only a small percentage of the music I'm listening to is scrobbled through Last.fm, so the top 5 list isn't reflective of my overall listening habits.

I've never tried these myself, but I think there are a few Rhapsody / Last.fm tools from third party developers that might help...

http://www.atlansky.com/dev/RhapsodyScrobbler.html
http://www.rhobbler.com/

Re: A Feature Request For Facebook

joelaz — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:13:03 -0000

The FriendFeed approach is pretty nice, though I'm not sure it would get much use on Facebook for me personally simply because so few of my Facebook friends are Twitter users. I imagine the Facebook / Twitter overlap is pretty low whereas the FriendFeed / Twitter overlap is quite high. It's probably a niche feature for Facebook, but I agree it would be nice to have.

I'd also like for Twitter to implement improved integration with Facebook on their end. Specifically, I'd like a better way to update Twitter automatically with my Facebook updates. I can do that today by importing my Facebook status RSS feed through TwitterFeed, but there's a several hour time delay which doesn't work well with real-time updates. Also, when I post an update to Twitter, I'd like a check box that lets me selectively choose which Twitter messages to share on Facebook.

Re: APRIL'S LOG OF SHIT SHE LIKES

joelaz — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:58:09 -0000

ah, sorry. that sucks. let me know if i can help with the job search. i
know a bunch of people looking to hire.

Re: APRIL'S LOG OF SHIT SHE LIKES

joelaz — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:53:05 -0000

haha. those are fun.

unemployed? i thought you worked for some music marketing company?

Re: Big news for Streampad!

joelaz — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:26:55 -0000

congrats dan! very cool. added some of the new features...

http://joelaz.com

Re: JOE LAZARUS - Last.fm Tumblr Weekly Top Artists

joelaz — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:06:14 -0000

vertigo25, you only listened to one band on last.fm last week...

http://www.last.fm/user/vertigo25/charts?chartt...

you have to listen to 5 or more bands the prior week in order for the top 5
list to work.

Re: JOE LAZARUS - Last.fm Tumblr Weekly Top Artists

joelaz — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:51:06 -0000

That link you sent works fine for me. I had no problem adding it to a test
Tumblr account I have. If you can't import it, you might want to contact
Tumblr.

Re: It's Time To Open Up The Feeds To Marketers

joelaz — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:38:17 -0000

The chance that you're interested in the same product / service at the same
time as a friend is really slim. More likely, you'll get spammed with
irrelevant ads (business ads shown to friends in school, women's clothing
ads shown to male friends, etc). It's far more effective to target people
based on their own behavior than on the behavior of their friends.
Furthermore, it's misleading to present an ad as an "endorsement" when the
friend hasn't expressly promoted the product / service to their friends,
which discourages people from sharing their interest data all together.
What's happening now on Facebook is people are opting out of the beacon
entirely because they don't want to spam friends with these deceptive
"endorsements". If Facebook flipped the model, people would be more willing
to share their activity streams and that data could be used to develop rich,
behavioral profiles for advertisers to target ads against.

Re: daryn's tumblelog - Spoon - Bring It On Home To Me Great cover of a...

joelaz — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:36:56 -0000

woah, that's quite a collection. thanks daryn!

congrats on the new job. sounds like a great gig.

Re: It's Time To Open Up The Feeds To Marketers

joelaz — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:16:18 -0000

Facebook's feed targeting is behavioral, but the ads you see are based on your friends behavior, not yours. That's backwards in my opinion. Facebook should flip their model. They should target ads related to the Visa Business Network to your friend who added that app, not to you.

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

joelaz — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:44:54 -0000

Great cover. I'm going to see MMJ tonight at the Greek in Berkeley. Can't wait.

Re: JOE LAZARUS - Last.fm Tumblr Weekly Top Artists

joelaz — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:13:09 -0000

I'm not sure how you got that URL, but it has a bunch of bad characters in
it. Try this instead...

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=b0d26...

Re: JOE LAZARUS - Last.fm Tumblr Weekly Top Artists

joelaz — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:15:13 -0000

What is the RSS url that you're using?

Re: JOE LAZARUS - Last.fm Tumblr Weekly Top Artists

joelaz — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:56:15 -0000

The Pipe is based on the data from this page:

http://www.last.fm/user/saikoindustries/charts?...

As you can see, you only listened to 3 bands last week through Last.fm. The
Top 5 list will only work if you listened to 5 or more artists the prior
week. Try it again next week.