In Clay Shirky’s “Cognitive Surplus,” Shirky suggests that sharing or creating content online is exciting only if the process allows the user to show her creativity. I think this perspective is accurate. It reminded me of the UGCX conference in New York last year, where I recall asking Scott Porad,...
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I’ve noticed many of our users reporting current hit singles from around the world, which is great. That’s the idea behind Trendero.com: we share tidbits of locally authentic, verified data that help other users understand the pulse of a city or country, even if they have never visited.
Knowing, for example, that “We...
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UPDATE: Below is the original post, but congratulations @cbonpc, who won our iPhone 4 giveaway on Friday!! Hope you can use it to spot exciting new trends around the world!
It’s the latest and the greatest, the biggest and the baddest, a $770 value! Here’s what we’re giving away:
A Black iPhone 4...
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As part of ramping up on our plans to build Trendero 2.0, we are looking for excellent engineers who would like to join our team. Trendero is a small, quickly-moving organization that can offer the right person a chance to flourish. We have exciting plans for the future, and we would love to have...
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After steadily gathering feedback from our users, we have started to prepare plans for a Trendero 2.0. This has been an exciting past several months for Trendero.com, and we’ve come a long way. Our users have been giving us great ideas, whether through the Feedback widget or, more commonly, through emails to the team....
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Just wanted to say that this was the best SXSW experience yet. What a fantastic time; great parties, met some excellent people, and above all, enjoyed the wonderful city that is Austin, TX. I could live there in a heartbeat.
And please check out our new friends at the following startups:
-FlowTown.com
-Sprouter.com
-Sockittomesocks.com
-UrbanDictionary.com
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After having been based in Palo Alto since inception, I am considering moving the headquarters of Trendero.com to San Francisco. This is based on a few observations I’ve made over the last two years about Silicon Valley:
-It seems most content-based startups prefer to be in San Francisco, whereas technology-based startups prefer to be in...
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Just a quick note to say Happy New Year to our loyal users! 2009 was an exciting year for Trendero; we launched, we’ve made several changes to the site, and we’ve been growing every month. So here’s to more like it!
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The holidays are always an exciting time for us at Trendero. One of the great parts about having access to the Trendero.com database is all of the incredible, unique gift ideas you get from browsing: great bands, excellent indie films, cool new gadgets and clothes. It can almost be overwhelming.
We’ve...
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There are several ways to answer that question, usually with another question (sorry). Help us pick which is the best way of phrasing it by leaving a comment.
Basically, you should report the answer to any of the following questions:
What are you into lately?
What’s hot where you are?
What are you and your friends doing for...
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