Ryan Spoon - Latest Comments

Re: How to Create an Early-Stage Pitch Deck

Kim Lifton — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:14:59 -0000

Love this pitch deck and using it now; thank you for sharing it.

Re: Amex + Facebook Likes + Social Graph

Leigh Spoon — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:00:56 -0000

Go Amex!

Re: iOS5: Apple’s Web ‘Reader’ is Awesome. But Also a Trojan Horse for Ads?

Michael Olivero — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:08:15 -0000

While your analysis sound, I feel this is simply a carryover from the Mac version of safari. Apple recently has been blending their platforms putting things like app launcher into the next version of their operating system and similarly there are things, such as reader, which have been part of safari for quite some time now.

Re: Facebook’s Slick Photo Tagging Interface / Interstitial

shopping cart software — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 05:03:03 -0000

It's really an excellent modification in interface in photo tagging. The main thing is it secures the information.

Re: Thinking About Facebook’s Expanded Like Button

Johncarl59 — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:47:42 -0000

This can only help internet marketers. The future is staggering.

Re: Thinking About Facebook’s Expanded Like Button

Chris McCann — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:19:40 -0000

Whoa had no idea Facebook even made this change.... I wonder why no one has talked about this?

Makes me really think about everything I like now as well.

Re: Facebook’s Slick Photo Tagging Interface / Interstitial

letsgetreal — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:23:26 -0000

This upgrade is the result of the acquisition of drop.io and its interface, I believe. FB acquired it in November 2010, so it was just a matter of time before it appeared on the site. Any confirmation on this, Ryan?

Re: Google Voice & GMail – More ‘In the River’ Marketing

ERP Companies — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:01:32 -0000

I know Google is providing free phone calls.. but this is very costly......

Re: Facebook’s Slick Photo Tagging Interface / Interstitial

cheap shopping — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 02:02:15 -0000

It's a good change in interface in photo tagging. The main thing is it secure the data.

Re: Techmeme Figuring Out the Blend of Real-Time & Published News.

alanp — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:43:00 -0000

Agree re Quora - can't see the point of an aggregator pointing to another aggregator, the reader just gets sloppy seconds. Might as well take direct feed from Slashdot, Hacker News etc too in that case? Better to just leave it in the Discussion as they do with those...

(Update) Decided to blog about my thoughts re Ryan's orgiial post, as I felt the same about the Uber Twitter article:

http://broadstuff.com/archives...

Re: Techmeme Figuring Out the Blend of Real-Time & Published News.

davemc500hats — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:31:42 -0000

great observation Ryan.

(btw if Techmeme added links to threaded tweet conversations, might increase reader value beyond just tweet headline content)

Re: Techmeme Figuring Out the Blend of Real-Time & Published News.

davemc500hats — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:45:59 -0000

agree with Robert.

Quora integration is high value (even when it's about me colluding at Bin38 ;)

Re: Techmeme Figuring Out the Blend of Real-Time & Published News.

Scobleizer — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:11:24 -0000

Why? That's a totally uninformed comment. Increasingly news is breaking over at Quora, or, at least, it's being discussed by some pretty damn connected and smart people. I've seen Quora get quoted all over the place. To say to keep it out just ain't smart. But, then, anonymous commenters rarely are that.

Re: Twitter: Want to keep using Twitter on your phone?

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Re: Techmeme Figuring Out the Blend of Real-Time & Published News.

WinWonder — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:54:31 -0000

Yes, I'd prefer if they leave Quora out of it.

Re: Techmeme Figuring Out the Blend of Real-Time & Published News.

msuster — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:25:53 -0000

Great development at TechMeme. Yesterday was interesting to watch over there.

Re: Facebook Announces New Facebook Photos With Hover Promotion.

Leona Martin — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:20:34 -0000

I love this new feature! I posted a comment on my FB Profile and was amazed w/ the people disappointed! No one values these improvements. Oh well...GREAT change FB!

Re: Facebook Announces New Facebook Photos With Hover Promotion.

Derek Hopper — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:21:20 -0000

I'm a big fan of the way they handle new features as well. A lot of people complain about their major rollouts, but don't seem to mind when little features like these are integrated cleanly and without disruption.

Re: Post Game, Super Bowl Advertisers Move to Facebook Ads

Perry West — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 07:03:38 -0000

That is how social media contribute to our marketing industry. Facebook does help me a lot with my promotions since I don't have the $3 Million for 30 seconds for a super bowl ad. lol

Re: Post Game, Super Bowl Advertisers Move to Facebook Ads

inm — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:37:22 -0000

* Promoting ads that you promoted on TV feels a little absurd. But it's just indicative of the overall trend towards more and more big-brand advertising moving to Facebook and Twitter. Sites like http://facebook.getmorepopular... even going so far as to sell Facebook fans to businesses indicates how far this trend has already progressed.

* But I think the most interesting ad-related story of the Super Bowl turned out to be Groupon's ad. I don't get why people are offended at that. It wasn't making fun of Tibet and helped spread awareness and it got people talking about Groupon. It's too soon to judge the long-term impact, but I think it might go down as the best ad in a long time.

Re: Tech takes to Super Bowl XLV Ads… & Takes them to Web before the Game

DigitalAdAgency — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:58:46 -0000

The VW wins before the game even starts. Curious how many of the ads will incorporate social media

Re: Amazon Marketing the Kindle for Valentines Day 2011… with Same Ads as 2010

Brad Jobs — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 10:31:59 -0000

most gifted? most-wished? Well, I thought it was Apple's iPad and iPhone 4? Whatever. iPad can be used as an eBook reader right? Well, I'd rather go to the iPad than the Kindle.

Re: Innovating Around the Check-Out Rather than the Check-In

Claude — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 11:27:34 -0000

Ryan, this is solved. Check out Zavers (www.zavers.com & www.zavenetworks.com) They just announced a deal with IBM where they will be integrated into IBM's retail POS system.

Re: Internet TV Summed Up

Wholesale suppliers — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 06:32:04 -0000

That is great

Re: Innovating Around the Check-Out Rather than the Check-In

Brenton Gieser — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:44:14 -0000

Good point that Larry makes. With POS being such a closed off technology how does small and medium size businesses track transactions and have their rewards redeemed (and make sure the accountability is there)? I see an opportunity with companies like Square for account for credit card transactions...and maybe other standalone platforms (that run through mobile) that have a method for accounting for both.