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About Me
I'm Ryan Spoon. I live in San Francisco and have spent my career on the web. I founded beRecruited.com (acquired in 2007) and spent 2003-2007 at eBay (internet marketing, social media & leading Kijiji.com). I am now at Widgetbox.com and running InGameNow on the side with a collection of friends.
Email: rspoon @ gmail.com
Twitter: @berecruited
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »
I subscribe to ESPN's Insider service... and I've written many times about why. Today, while listening to my favorite radio show (The Thundering Herd), I noticed that ESPN started pushing ads ... Read more..Driving Engagement By Delivering Relevant Emails (Attention Apple, iTunes!)
Saturday, May 31st, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »
As a consumer - and an inbox owner - email marketing can range from highly effective wildly annoying and irrelevant. The respective consequences can lead to activity / purchases or ... Read more..ESPN Knows Online – ESPN360 and ESPN Podcasts
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in Sports, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
I think ESPN and their online efforts go overlooked - mostly because they are so dominant on television and radio. But I have been *very* impressed with their online efforts ... Read more..iTunes Podcasts Center - 10 Things That Must be Fixed
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | No Comments »
I love podcasts (they get me through the day). But, I really hate iTunes Podcasts center. As iTunes continues to improve, their Podcasts section still seems to be on its first ... Read more..5 Up, 5 Down - Loving FriendFeed, Bebo, Podcasts, WordPad and Amazon
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 2 Comments »
What I'm Loving: FriendFeed: Brilliantly simple and effective. Bebo: started using it for Widgetbox purposes, but I have been very impressed by the quality of the site and their new open ... Read more..iTunes, Apple Demonstrate how NOT to do Behavioral Targetting
Monday, February 4th, 2008 Posted in Sports, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
... And it makes me even more depressed. After last night's horrible Super Bowl, I received the below email from iTunes: "Because you've downloaded sports videos, audiobooks, or podcasts from iTunes in ... Read more..
