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An apology – Facebook frienders

Hi guys – if anyone has added me as a friend on Facebook recently but I’ve ignored the request it’s because I’m doing my best to keep Facebook for my friends only – people whose updates I know for certain I am interested in seeing pepper my minifeed.

Please do not take this personally – in fact, it’s precisely because our relationship is impersonal. Facebook is the one service whose value gets diluted if I’m indiscriminate in establishing communication pathways with random people. But I warmly invite you to connect to me on a great number of other wired services – you wouldn’t be diluting them at all, you’d be enriching them.

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ES

I'd be interested to see the number of visits for OTCC during the days prior to and after Fred's plug--to see the "power of Fred" if you will.

Philippe Bradley

Here you go! http://www.overthecounterculture.com/2008/socia...
the 'Fred Wilson Effect' (though I've framed it as the benefits of open conversation, you're right that FW's high profile was in all likelihood a very important factor; and that informs a thesis I'd like to discuss later, about the benefits of hosting a minor, personal blog like this, vs. using an aggregated comment platform like Disqus, as 'podium' for self-expression and building a digital identity

Philippe Bradley

make sure you don't miss an important point about this effect - it's not a torrent of traffic, like Slashdot, Digg or Yahoo Buzz would send your way. But it was heat-seeking, laser-guided, ultra-relevant traffic - traffic to my About page went up loads. These were people who wanted to find out who I was, what I thought, what value I could be to them, what value they could be to me, what thoughts and views and ideas we could exchange.

For anyone that doesn't give two shits about # of visits (i.e. your site doesn't operate CPM ads), response rate or number of new connects formed - i.e. graph 3 - is the most important metric of the value of "FW effect" traffic.

Philippe Bradley

edit: I'd like to do that, I'm waiting to see how the data trends over the next few days, to show the spike and tail. OK to wait?