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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
WWDC 2008 Starting, Twitter Already Struggling (TechCrunch Too)
Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in Mobile, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Twitter is already struggling to stay afloat as the tech world buzzes about Apples WWDC 2008... and Steve Jobs hasn't even taken the stage yet. Perhaps Twitter shouldn't have made ... Read more..Analyzing Techmeme’s Top 100 Blogs: Techmeme Presence vs. Monthly Traffic
Sunday, June 1st, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 4 Comments »
One of the appeals of Techmeme is it's transparent, always updated leaderboard. Techmeme ranks it's top 100 contributors by the number of headlines each blog sends to the homepage. The ... Read more..Why Twitter Needs It’s Power Users: They Play Host to Newbies
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 3 Comments »
In response to Om Malik's proposal that Twitter tax it's top users with usage fees, I argued that Twitter needs power users like Michael Arrington, Robert Scoble, and Loic Lemeur. ... Read more..Twitter - Experiencing Windows 7 Via Twitter (Rather than Blogs)
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Techmeme is filled with major tech sources covering Microsoft's Windows 7 debut (TechCrunch, D6 Highlights, WebWare, Engadget, and many more). But the action is also being covered actively (perhaps even more ... Read more..Twitter Needs Its Power Users and They Need Twitter’s Data
Monday, May 26th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 2 Comments »
Twitter and FriendFeed have sparked serious controversy over the last few weeks – and now the controversy is surrounding super users like Robert Scoble. As Twitter searches for a business model ... Read more..Landing a Great Start Up Job: The Best Job Resources
Sunday, May 18th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 6 Comments »
A great thread has been growing on Hacker News about the best place to find start up jobs. I've include the mentioned websites at the bottom of the post - ... Read more..Charting Techmeme’s Top 100 Headline & Discussion Sources
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 4 Comments »
Techmeme has garnered a great deal of analysis over the past week: Statbot broke down the top 100 users, CrunchBase released a very thorough Blogger Board, and I argued that ... Read more..Yahoo Buzz Has Ability to Out Muscle Digg By Delivering Greater Traffic
Sunday, March 16th, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0 | 2 Comments »
A week after Yahoo Buzz launched, I suggested that Digg shouldn't have reason to be nervous unless Yahoo took advantage of their ability to deliver greater traffic to publishers: "...Yahoo ... Read more..The Trouble with PerezHilton.com As a Business (Perhaps Blogs For that Matter)
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized, Web 2.0 | 7 Comments »
Want celebrity gossip? The online destination of choice is PerezHilton.com - which, according to Perez, boasts larger readership than People Magazine (the perennial #1 print magazine). That success has turned ... Read more..
