Comments on: An apology – Facebook frienders

By: Philippe Bradley

Philippe Bradley — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:01:43 +0000

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.

By: Philippe Bradley

Philippe Bradley — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:51:19 +0000

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

By: Philippe Bradley

Philippe Bradley — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:01:43 +0000

By: Philippe Bradley

Philippe Bradley — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:51:19 +0000

By: Philippe Bradley

Philippe Bradley — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:00:37 +0000

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?

By: ES

ES — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:48:35 +0000

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.