tag:robotcoop.com,2004:/ Textpattern 2004-12-03T10:43:45Z Erik Benson erik@robotcoop.com http://robotcoop.com/ 2004-12-02T05:27:00Z 2004-12-03T05:36:17Z tag:robotcoop.com,2004-12-02:40 Thoughts <p>Walking to lunch at <a href="http://seattle.citysearch.com/profile/10798175/">Ballet</a> with my fellow Robots, I was recounting the film <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362269/">Kinsey</a> which I had seen over the weekend. Prior to Dr. Kinsey, no one had taken a truly scientific approach to profiling human sexuality—Kinsey managed to cast a wide survey net with his now infamous <a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~kinsey/research/ak-data.html">human sexual behavior studies</a>.</p> <p>As fate would play out Seattle’s own love doctor, <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/current/savage.html">Dan Savage</a>, was dining at the table north of the Robots as the conversation turned to <a href="http://twinkler.43things.com/twinkler">43 Things</a> and Twinkler. We let Dan eat his pho in peace, but couldn’t help but draw the correlation of events: Kinsey’s landmark sex studies, Dan Savage’s hilarious sex column and the fact that in its first two weeks 43 Things had experienced a 9% goal adoption rate for the sexy and downright mature.</p> <p><img src="http://www.robotcoop.com/images/35.jpg" class="cameraphoto" /></p> 2004-11-30T00:03:00Z 2004-12-01T07:16:53Z tag:robotcoop.com,2004-11-30:39 Announcements <p>Apparently, the world is full of twinklers. Here’s a list of goals from around the world. Have an idea what these say? Add your translation to the comments.</p> <p><strong>Update</strong>: Steve Rubel <a href="http://www.micropersuasion.com/2004/11/twinkler_twinkl.html">predicted we’d see some press</a> on our <a href="http://twinkler.43things.com">43 Things preview, Twinkler</a> but, as if on cue for the point we were trying to make about international users, here comes this international story <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/dinside/2004/12/01/416280.html">from a news site in Norway.</a> Today we’ve seen as much traffic from Norway as from the USA! </p> <p><a href="http://twinkler.43things.com/twinkler/list/5669"><img src="http://www.robotcoop.com/images/33.jpg"></a></p> <p>In the first 2 weeks of the preview, we’ve seen traffic from the following countries (listed in order)</p> <ol> <li>United States</li> <li>Canada</li> <li>Australia</li> <li>United Kingdom</li> <li>Sweden</li> <li>France</li> <li>Netherlands</li> <li>Germany</li> <li>Belgium</li> <li>Italy</li> <li>Denmark</li> <li>Switzerland</li> <li>Japan</li> <li>New Zealand</li> <li>Finland</li> <li>Singapore</li> <li>Brazil</li> <li>Poland</li> <li>Austria</li> <li>Portugal</li> <li>Argentina</li> <li>Mexico</li> <li>Norway</li> <li>Israel</li> <li>Slovak Republic</li> <li>Ireland</li> <li>Spain</li> <li>Iceland</li> <li>Russian Federation</li> <li>Greece</li> <li>Croatia</li> <li>Hungary</li> <li>Hong Kong</li> <li>Czech Republic</li> <li>Estonia</li> <li>Turkey</li> <li>Taiwan</li> <li>Lithuania</li> <li>Luxembourg</li> <li>Romania</li> <li>South Africa</li> <li>India</li> <li>Chile</li> <li>New Caledonia (French)</li> <li>Indonesia</li> <li>Peru</li> <li>Thailand</li> <li>Cocos (Keeling) Islands</li> <li>Saudi Arabia</li> <li>Slovenia</li> <li>Tonga</li> <li>Cyprus</li> <li>Uruguay</li> <li>Colombia</li> <li>Belarus</li> <li>Virgin Islands (British)</li> <li>Costa Rica</li> <li>Trinidad and Tobago</li> <li>Fiji</li> <li>Azerbaidjan</li> <li>Latvia</li> <li>Philippines</li> <li>Dominican Republic</li> <li>Pakistan</li> <li>Mali</li> <li>Turks and Caicos Islands</li> <li>Tuvalu</li> <li>Ukraine</li> <li>United Arab Emirates</li> <li>Malaysia</li> <li>Nepal</li> <li>Sri Lanka</li> <li>Guyana</li> <li>Bermuda</li> <li>China</li> <li>Ecuador</li> <li>Venezuela</li> <li>Micronesia</li> <li>Malta</li> <li>Ascension Island</li> <li>Oman</li> <li>Bulgaria</li> </ol> 2004-11-25T01:50:00Z 2004-11-28T02:37:56Z tag:robotcoop.com,2004-11-25:36 Rants & Raves <p><a href="http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2004/11/what-do-you-want-to-do-with-your-life.html">Steve Garfield</a> said “It’s like <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a> for ideas” and <a href="http://www.micropersuasion.com/2004/11/twinkler_twinkl.html">Steve Reubel</a> called us “the next great blogosphere meme”. Well you are all too kind. <a href="http://www.echoditto.com/node/view/337">Emily Thorsan raves</a> that Twinkler is “an addictive site” and says “Its brilliant design shatters some omnipresent myths about user interface and design.” That’s <a href="http://www.37signals.com">37signals</a> for ya! We are thankful for Jason, Matt, Ryan and David as well. <a href="http://www.coudal.com">Jim Coudal</a> too.</p> <p>We are really enjoying the experience of sharing this with all of you. Thanks for your kind words and your interest. We spent 18 months thinking about this project, 3-4 months working on 43things.com (which we’ll start inviting Beta testers to soon) and 2 days working on <a href="http://www.43things.com">Twinkler</a> as a way to give you a taste of our idea. </p> <p>We can’t wait to see what you think of the real thing. Make sure to save your list with an email address if you want to get notified about the Beta . . . and Thanks again!</p> 2004-11-24T01:25:50Z 2004-11-24T01:25:50Z tag:robotcoop.com,2004-11-24:38 <p>There’s plenty to make you wonder about humanity to be found on our <a href="http://www.43things.com">preview of 43 Things</a> but when I saw this goal and the number of people who want to do it, my faith was restored. <br /> <a href="http://twinkler.43things.com/twinkler/thing/1343"><img src="http://www.robotcoop.com/images/32.jpg"></a></p> 2004-11-23T03:35:00Z 2004-11-23T04:41:19Z tag:robotcoop.com,2004-11-23:37 Thoughts <p>Joe Goldberg has created a fantastic list of his top desired <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/bostonsteamer/647007.html">features for 43things</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/bostonsteamer/647007.html">Joe’s list of features</a> is split into 5 handy categories:</p> <ol> <li>Community</li> <li>Personalization</li> <li>Notification (RSS, email)</li> <li>Productivity</li> <li>Zeitgeist/Superlatives</li> </ol> <p>We’re hard at work on the next version of 43things but continue to marvel over what Ryan Singer of <a href="http://www.37signals.com/">37signals</a> calls the <a href="http://twinkler.43things.com/">goal soup</a> of Twinkler. Help us make 43things better—tell us what features you’d like to see on 43things in the coming weeks.</p> <p>Joe Goldberg, Web Developer and Live Journal user:</p> <p><img src="http://www.robotcoop.com/images/31.jpg"></p>