Fellow Ideators - Can we help you?

We would like to put your startup story on the top page of IdeasWatch and also feature your story on our blogger.com blog and then…

A BIG Boost for the First Five to Provide IdeasWatch Blog Posts

At IdeasWatch, we're all about your ideas and seeing them come to fruition

The first five IdeasWatch members (“Ideators”) to provide a story of how they met in IdeasWatch and are starting to make something, or launch a new business, organization, program or website – will all get a large boost from me, OsakaSaul (Saul Fleischman), the community development guy at IdeasWatch.

Need more of a hint? Check out the Twitter @mentions of http://www.twitter.com/#/osakasaul

Promote your story?

Yes! On our blog, which will get shared, of course.

Have any of us met in IW and started working on a collaboration of any kind? We would like to feature you – and also your site URL(s) if you’d like, Twitter accounts, etc.

We want these stories and the ability to show you and your progress off to the entire IdeasWatch community, through our blog, and soon, in other places, too, such as the new IdeasWatch Facebook Fanpage.

Just send your story and any attached image files, videos, etc., with links included and full Twitter handles (for example, not @osakasaul but http://www.twitter.com/#/osakasaul ) to saul@ideaswatch.com

And let’s get you, your team, your link(s) and the story of how you hooked up in IdeasWatch and are just starting to make something happen – right on our main page!

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Its getting ugly in Empire Avenue

Mission cheating and complaining: this is where I see the most inconsideration – on both sides.

I have accepted many Mission Avenue Missions and I have launched at least ten – so I know full well that those complaining and/or calling out those who take the reward without doing the required action are “seeing” that they are cheated.  Having launched a number of Missions that were probably impossible to not be able to fulfill (i.e. a Facebook like/share – and I even explain where the buttons are on the blog/site), and still been robbed of the reward by people who probably had no intention of doing even the simplest of actions, I know it happens.  I am with you also, in knowing that many people run wild through the Missions – with no intention to even attempt to follow through with what’s asked.

Where I cry foul, I see no one else acknowledging, and wonder about this: What about the most inconsiderate of Mission-Issuers?  I provided examples of Missions that I particularly hate to see – in Mission: Irrational (Empire Avenue Mistakes to Avoid)

Lately, I find more and more of the type of Mission that expects you to “copy and paste” or otherwise open new tabs, browsers… test links, and so on – before clicking the Mission link (and thus, taking the reward).  My stance?

Gamification is what Mission Issuers need to consider

Reduce the steps (and time) you are asking for and reward in accordance of the “stupid human trick” you are asking us to perform.

Be reasonable with what you request.  Here are my thoughts on fairness, by network:

Twitter: If you want the Twitter retweet copy and pasted, rather than clicked though, at least offer a larger reward – as a consideration for the extra trouble you are asking us to do for you.

Facebook: You know what happens if we give several people ten likes in one day? Facebook puts us in jail.  So don’t ask for twenty likes.  Ask for a “bomb,” and take what you get.  Better yet, ask for the answer to one to three questions, likes on the questions, or something logical and truly interactive such as this.

Klout: If you are asking for +K in Klout, begin by understanding that we each have 10/day; don’t ask us for three +K for a 1,000e reward.  We give +K to many people, and to remember if and when we gave it to you for your precious RedBull topic is as unreasonable as asking us to go to Klout on your behalf, just to test to see if we can give you +K for RedBull.  Suggest we give you for RedBull, and suggest that if we cannot, we give you for two other topics (again, suggestions are wise).

Weird Networks: Its nearly every day that they find their way into Missions.  Some send us to odd sites for voting, nominating, and otherwise helping you buy your way into what’s meant to be earned: before you issue those Missions, log out of the site you intend to send us to and then test the Mission link.  Is it going to open?  Will it send us to a landing page – that either requires us to sign in with Instagram or that is all in Dutch? Well, if you launched it and send us to something we cannot read or cannot find the way to vote in, you deserve to be “cheated.”

My writing prompt for this was a Mission entitled “So EAv is morally bankrupt?”

Empire Avenue Mission Cheater

The issuer of this Mission continued, “I’ve run hundreds of missions over the past few days. I’ve given away MILLIONS of eaves. “Pretend” money that it has taken me months to build up. To those of you who were honest and did the missions, thank you! However, the VAST majority of the people who took my money did not do the mission. We’re talking 20 or 30 thieves for each honest player. I’ve lost at least 450,000e to these spineless, gutless, cheating players. This is pathetic. Those of you who stole my money should be ashamed of yourselves.”  I didn’t accept this Mission (I didn’t take the reward, in other words), but did give it a “like” and the following comment:

Oh, the horror!  Those evil, abominable Empire Avenue Mission “cheaters!”

But what about the Mission issuers who send us on “wild goose chases,” or put us on things where we only learn – once we’re in – how long it will take to do what they ask?!  I think it goes both ways.Without mentioning names, my current pet-peave is the type of mission where the issuer thinks its fair to ask you to test something (i.e. KLOUT) to see IF you “qualify” to take the Mission.  Hey, look, my stance is this: I’ll read the Mission description.  If I am willing to do it, based on the information you provided, I’ll accept.  But to “test” a link to see if I have given you Klout for one specific topic in the last seven days?  It is not right to ask.  Fair would be to do – as some are doing – to ask that we give you +K in your selected topic if we can, but if not, other topic(s) (you might even suggest a couple that matter most to you).

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No, I am also a member!

Michal and I are Ideators, too, and regularly study and interact on our own and other Ideators’ Ideas launched in IdeasWatch.

How our Ideators get featured

Those featured on our top page are there based on their “Ideation,” our points system which is simple, totally transparent – and spelled out right here: http://www.ideaswatch.com/inspirers

Note that the likes you receive on your idea (not those you give, but those other Ideators give your ideas) count for your Ideation.  These keep adding up, and while Ideators featured on the top page is based on stats for the last 30 days, the “all time” stat keeps growing as your Ideas take on comments, links, and likes.  Partners joined to your idea do not get scored; we think you will get plenty more just by getting one or a few people to choose from to team up with and get your idea made and brought out into the public.

Who’s in the lead?

Also, active members and those whose Ideas draw the most interest and interaction find themselves on the all-time leaderboard:

Even before your web app or site gets traction – get traction in IW

Ideas keep on collecting input, discussions, cofounder interest and likes – so those with awesome ideas keep growing in their Ideation ranking.  Time invested and time with us pays, thus – in how much you are seen in IdeasWatch.

Be sure to also learn about other Ideators from their profiles

This is where you can also privately message them, in case you want to talk on an idea privately.  You can see members’ attached social network profiles, connect with them through Facebook, Twitter, etc. as well as evaluate what they are doing in IdeasWatch.

We believe we would be nothing, we’d go no where – without you.

(So, what are we going to do for you?)

We aim to feature you, because Michal Hudeček and I believe that most of our ideas have great facets and flaws as well – but that the people behind them are where the value lies.  We want you to get seen by each other, get to connecting and truly teaming up, planning and getting your dreamchild built, perhaps crowdfunding it, or, simply “bootstrapping” it (and retaining all equity, or ownership rights).

A little reminder – we want the IdeasWatch blog (with its teaser right in the center of our top page) to be mainly from you.  Submit your story of how you connected with someone in IW, and how you are planning or building something together to saul@ideaswatch.com for consideration for the blog.

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Godzilla Meets LinkedIn

LinkedIn has been allowing the input of Japanese text and even sub-profiles in Japanese – for over 3 years.

“Nihongo de LinkedIn” group is just over three years old, and hosts discussions in Japanese – from over 3,600 members.

This didn’t win over the Japanese; from several months ago we can can also select a Japanese menu.

But LinkedIn does not have the Rinkuru Girls, alas… nor does it put them in space

A real class act, Rinkuru is sending a Bentley Limo and a “somewhat” decorated Rolls Royce on a promotional tour of Japan

I have to wonder, what drives them to create sloppy monsters from things that are already well built out and fairly solid to begin with?  I will leave you with this parting thought: from those who do not read Japanese, in the image below, from the top page of りんくる (copy/paste that to find them; I will not dignify them with a link) they boast 11,358 companies have registered with their new social network.  And yet, mine makes just 243 (I always root for underdogs) Facebook likes?

I smell bad sushi.

How does りんくる compete with LinkedIn, then?

They do allow you to search jobs, create a blog, save photos, and save the simplest of profile data as well as a separate resume page.  And they use a lot of pink. Let’s see how this goes over…

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Inspiration Arrives in Osaka

at the second annual TEDxOSAKA

Kyosuke Yamamoto made the long trip from Chiba to Osaka and took the stage – without an  invitation to speak!

This young man is my inspirer of the year so far: Must-see. The youngest TEDxOSAKA disrupter I have ever seen.

Get to know this kid, click the “disrupter” link above to see his talk, and you tell me: is Kyosuke going to change the world or are these kids?

Kyosuke Yamamoto: What He's About


Kyosuke’s site is in Japanese. I’d say that his presentation English is pretty good for his age, though.

Who inspirers you most right now: anyone, of any age?

Who is leading you to change what you are doing with your life?

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Fellow Ideators - Can we help you?

The IW blog will have this and that; your first five “we met in IW and are building something” stories will get blasted far and wide.  I stake my reputation on this.

We would like to put your startup story on the top page of IdeasWatch and also feature your story on our Blogger blog and then…

The first five IdeasWatch members (Ideators) to provide a story of how they met in IdeasWatch and are starting to make something, or launch a new business, organization, program or website – will all get a large boost from me, OsakaSaul (Saul Fleischman), the community development guy at IdeasWatch. We’ll take what we can get, include your link (okay, not your Amazon sales-pitch things, of course) to your new site, your professional profile and/or Twitter handle links, and make no mistake: if there’s any connection made within IdeasWatch that is beginning to blossom into a team and onwards towards a new startup, the story is perfect fro the top page blog of IdeasWatch and our external Blogger.

Promote your IdeasWatch connection story?

Yes!  On our blog, which will get shared, of course.

IdeasWatch.com is for people with ideas – the “Ideators“

Even half-ideas count. We launch ideas in IdeasWatch to get feedback, learn of similar existing sites/apps/etc., and also, to team up on each others’ projects.

Have any of us met in IW and started working on a collaboration of any kind?  We would like to feature you – and also your site URL(s) if you’d like, Twitter accounts, etc.

We want these stories and the ability to show you and your progress off to the entire IdeasWatch community, through our blog (see it embedded – right in the center of the main page of IW!)

Just send your story and any attached image files, etc., with links included and full Twitter handles (for example, not @osakasaul but http://www.twitter.com/#/osakasaul ) to michal.hudecek@ideaswatch.com

Getting users on a new network and getting them to connect with each other

I offered a great opportunity to those wanting to get their new baby “out there,” by importing the IdeasWatch blog – right on the top page of Ideaswatch.com, and then suggesting that it will mainly be from our members, not from the founder or myself.

Get your internet startup promoted - big time!

Launch something new and you go from “offering” to randomly blasting and spamming LinkedIn groups – and in short form, onwards and downwards to the emotional blackmail of friends and family to get them to check in and comment or like anything, even once a week. Unless, of course, what you have created is actually a reinvention of the wheel.  Its tough out there.

What are IdeasWatch Ideators sharing?

Here’s my latest Idea to be launched:  Register for several new sites – at one time

Perhaps you launch a new social network, review site, or web application.  You test all you can yourselves and with a few friends, but then, you need a “seed” community to get traction. Many of us – such as the membership of IdeasWatch and the Yammer-based StartupGuild – would be happy to do a reciprocal thing: let’s register and try each others’ new sites.

Registering for 10 or 50 sites, one by one, is time-consuming.  If there was one page and perhaps a tick-box to multi-register deal, I’d gladly register to many fellow internet startup innovators’ sites and give them a fair try.  Naturally, we’d want to “stagger” additions to the list of sites to register on, perhaps monthly or even every 3 months, so anyone participating would do many registrations at once, not just one or a few – and thus, make this multi-registration clearly a time-saver.

Reciprocation: if I have learned nothing else from my 20 years in Japan, this is something you do learn here.  (Moving my idea from Yammer to here.)  Launch something new and you go from “offering” to randomly blasting and spamming LinkedIn groups – and shortly, on to emotional blackmail of friends and family to get them to check in and comment or like anything, even once a week.  Unless, of course, what you have created is actually a reinvention of the wheel.  Its tough out there.

Check out IdeasWatch – even without registration or any sign-in

(but your ideas and comments, etc. are all done anonymously).

Profile completion in IW is a snap!

Register and sign-in through your choice of networks and you can contribute with your name/pseudonym and get input on what you think might be a worthwhile thing to build and launch.  You might even get people selecting the “I wanna do this” option – and telling you what they would like to bring to your team.  All features within IdeasWatch are free, of course, and are presented as a labor of love for fellow Ideators by founder Michal Hudeček (of Maintop Businesses) (Prague) and I.

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I will relay a story on transactional email, something experienced by my friend Dave, paraphrased from memory, below…

Tell me what’s been bugging you?

Email. Ah what a nightmare! Inevitably we’ll want some bit of software to react and send off a pearl of wisdom in the form of an email message. Naively perhaps, a bit idealistically, I would like to see that email lands in the recipients inbox.

Bliss that would be to do it consistently and reliably.

Myths or legends get started from who knows when by who knows whom and has a tendency to stick around longer than it should. Tell me if you fell for this old wives’ tale:

“For an application to send off an email, just send it through the smtp server.”

Lets see how that goes:

1) Hey are you an smtp server. Wake up, I want to send an email;

2) Oh hello! Here’s all the crap I support most of which you can’t be sure is supported by all smtp servers and the other half is completely useless. But one thing is guaranteed, it’s all outdated;

3) Sure whatever. Is that liquor on your breathe. Anyway, here is the email to send;

4) OK (not to be confused as an indication of success or failure) or unrecoverable epic crash;

5) Done.

Those numbers aren’t an all too familiar unfixable WordPress formatting flaw, it’s all the back and forth communication between a healthy bit of code and a smtp server. Which takes time. Up to 5 seconds, instead of instantly done.

After all this back and forth, don’t even know whether the email was sent successful or not.  Went through the host bureaucracy, the kind that loves receiving forms and whose idea of communication is sending lengthy misleading threats, design smtp… And we are left with the worry that our message is destined for the trash folder or marked as spam – if it even gets delivered.

Side-step the bureaucrat?

For most of us, smtp is our only option.

Forward in time to the 21^st century, hopefully everyone has given up on things like: wood gas engines, paper currencies maintaining their purchasing power, and sending email directly to a smtp server. We expect the services we use to be competitive and feature rich. Getting started; painless and quick. And most importantly “reliable.”

“Transactional email” takes the place of the nightmare laid out above. The process is simplified down to sending one request (using curl). With actionable feedback. Lets ignore all the great features for another article, there must be a catch.

Setting up Postmark (transactional email)

The most important reason to go with transactional email is having the piece of mind knowing email communication will arrive reliably, end up in the recipient’s inbox, and happen near instantaneously.

Postmarkapp

Lets start by going to http://www.postmarkapp.com and setting up an account. You’re asked to give a name to a “server” and it makes a big show of lots of stuff being configured. Then choose a sender (from) email address that your application will be using when sending emails. A confirmation email is sent. You click on the url within the email. Confirming you are the proud owner of that email address. Pretty standard stuff so far.

Next comes the shocker. Have to make two additions to your site’s dns settings. And only way those changes will happen is if you ask your web host really nicely, and when that fails, never hurts if your web host is a drinking buddy.

Asking web hosts

After explaining the two lines that need to be added to the site’s DNS, I got served a dish of reality:

Servage (Germany web host)

Kindly note that it is not possible to add customized TXT records at Servage. But you can add SPF/TXT records for the hotmail and google by going through the below steps:

Control Panel>> Domains>> DNS settings >> SPF

So dead end there. What Servage supports would be good enough to send @gmail.com or @hotmail.com authenticated email through a smtp server. Besides being slow and unreliable, sending from a web email address leaves recipients with the feeling that they are dealing with a bunch of amateurs.

First Choice Internet (Tokyo, Japan)
2012 Apr 4th. Day 1
good to hear from you.

sure, I can make these 2 changes for you.

2012 Apr 8th Day 5
1) txt record for [domain name] – v=spf1 a mx include:spf.mtasv.net ~all
2) pm_domainkey.[domain name] – IP: 217.105.32.102 (that is the mail server)
3) txt record for pm_domainkey.[domain name] – k=rsa;p=M……..

Could you please check if this is correct and if it is working?

At this point, the keys to the postmark account were handed over, so the web host has a chance at determining whether the changes were successful or not.

2012 Apr 10th Day 7
o-medetou! Should be working now.

Let me know if you should still encounter problems.

So one full week later, the dns changes were finished. Would have been quicker to give over the keys to the postmark account immediately after the web host agrees to make the changes. Lesson hopefully learned.

Afterwards — Bernd Plagge, First Choice Internet

we have been using spf for many years – although in a non-enforcing
way. The required spf record was just a variation of what we put in by
standard.

The dkim key is just another record. When I first put it in I made a
copy mistake. Then I had to enter it manually into our DNS database
because the system didn’t like the ‘_’ in the ‘pm._domainkey’
subdomain. But that can be amended.

So, in all it was straightforward.
It is probably a bit too much to expect the average customer to provide
a valid DKIM key. Therefore it makes only sense to offer it to
everybody if we calculate the dkim keys as well.

So warn your web host about the underscore might cause a minor inconvenience.

Code libraries

List of PHP5 libraries, wordpress plug-in, drupal module, magneto extension, and many many more can be found here:

Choose to implement this library for PHP5

Any implementation snafus not covered? Let us know about your horror stories in the comment section.

1. Is your site using smtp or transactional email?

2. What transactional email provider did you choose?

3. What features attracted you to make that choice?

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!kohausMusicGroup @BlackCaesarX & Vlado’s @BigSoul on the “Jerk Movement”

“Kid Soul” (of Vlado Footwear) and Carlos Romero @BlackCaesarX have talked at length from time to time and even though they may not have seen eye to eye in every conversation, the positive impact that Kid Soul brings to the Jerk Movement is undoubtedly the heart that keeps the “Jerkin” non-violent, non-negative hip hop movement alive.

Kid Soul (from his Facebook Page)

If you don’t remember breakin’ or lockin’, perhaps you remember

Crunk: the dance form

You see back in the day about 2009 or so after the “Krunk” period of Tommy The Clown kind of subsided the youth still looked for a means of expression and with the advent of the New Boyz “Your a Jerk” with the dancing of the Power Rangers, Jerkin’ was born.

The Jerk Movement: non-violent hip hop

The Jerk movement started as a loosely knit gathering of like-minded youth, tired of the Hip Hop violent Rapper image, after all the youth just wanted to have fun and enjoy life, before any Rodney King type episodes might befall them in the then ever present state of an unequal justice America. But, they had no organization, and only the one group New Boyz and the Power Rangers dance group to express this new artistic dance form.

“Enter Kid Soul a former group member of a rap group, I’m not sure which one he’s kind of humble about his beginnings. Someone had to take the lead in keeping this art form alive, so Kid Soul was already entrenched in the movement, realizing the nascent art form needed dance gear and aligned himself with Vlado Footwear and came up with a functional design for the demands of Jerk dancing.” (Carlos Romero)

Carlos AKA “BlackCaesarX” vs Kid Soul – on seeing eye-to-eye, a thing to aspire to

!kohausMusicGroup Founder, Carlos Romero

So there you have it an authoritative glimpse into who “Kid Soul” really is and what he means to the Jerk movement. Now “Kid Soul” is the pragmatist / Carlos Romero @BlackCaesarX is more the artistic purist and traditional in terms as the Jerk Movement as an art form. “Maybe one day we can collaborate on a more functional Jerk Dance shoe, because I believe it is more “quality than quantity” and meet somewhere in the middle pushing the Jerk movement to all new heights.”

As for our place in the movement, Carlos and I see the kids having their videos lifted, mashed up, and sold on multiple sharing networks.  We aim to empower the “Jerks” with tactics and technology that will help them retain the rights – and the profits – from the stuff they make.

!kohausMusicGroup: Grassroots Social Action

More on Carlos, !kohausMusicGroup, and far more videos from the Jerk Movement can be found here.

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Just be honest.
(We’re sick of cover-ups)

Taken from a recent Megan Berry Interview, just after her exodus from the foundering Klout:

Customers: They are the lifeline of any business. No matter what kind of business you are running, keeping your customers happy is key.

How can brands, big or small, do just that? Megan Berry, founder of LiftFive and former Senior Marketing Manager at Klout, explains to genConnect how to create a conversation with your customers and how not to piss people off:

Megan Berry

“The first thing is to start a conversation with [customers],”Berry told genConnect. “Don’t make assumptions about what they want or what they care about. You can’t talk to everyone but you can find the key people who are the influencers in that community and find out what matters to them and what they care about as a transition happens.

So what happens when you slip up? Companies aren’t perfect so come clean to your customers; they will appreciate you even more.

“Recognizing your mistakes, stepping up and saying ‘We did X wrong and here’s how we are going to remedy it’ is great,” Berry said. “Companies are so reluctant to say when they make a mistake that consumers are just overjoyed when it happens.”

Just tell us when you stuff things up.

We notice.  We will forgive you.  But not when you piss on us and tell us its raining.

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Pinterest is all the rage, as of this writing

People are motivated to visit blogs from Pinterest by one thing: image quality

Let’s remember, every action in liking, re-pinning and sharing in Pinterest is visually-driven.  Recipes, kittens in coffee cups, hot infographics, and inebriated people removing themselves from the gene pool – along with brilliant photographic and video work will get seen, shared (read: lifted and “repinned” to others’ boards) and make you the cat’s meow in Pinterest.

Seldom-discussed fact: Pinterest is hardly new.  Private beta invites went out in the beginning of March, 2010

I think its just a matter of how long I’ve been using Pinterest and perhaps the OsakaSaul name that people have “seen around” that has caused me to collect likes, repins and a slew of followers within Pinterest.

I have been kicking their tires for nearly two years, and while they’re gotten flashy, I would love to see them be more thoughtful to the user in their user experience.  My ideas for just the most obvious Pinterest UX improvements:

• Close windows after we’ve liked/shared
• let us multi-share with boxes to tick, rather than having us repeat steps
• provide us with us more condensed view options – so we can get more done with a lot less scrolling

For me, words are my strength.  Article titles drive traffic from many sources, and terms, or “key words” within the body of posts draws natural search traffic.  A couple Google Analytics screenshots should speak volumes.  For Referral Page Views, StumbleUpon is still doing it for me, with 1,095 pageviews in the last 30 days (just 4 new articles published in that time), and Pinterest, where I have had an account and boards for about two years, does not even make the top 25.  Also, note the 1.19 page visits (means some people see other pages after the one they came to see, once on my blog) and an average stay of 58 seconds:

Where do I find Pinterest within Google Analytics?  39th place – seven visits/30 days.

Seven visits, thanks to my seven boards in Pinterest and dozens of images, most of which lead to OsakaBentures.com.  While the Time on site of 10:13 and 3.57 average pages viewed would look glorious, I’m not buying it:

1. the sample is too small – just seven visits to my blog from Pinterest, so, I’m guessing that one or more people left their computer on and the browser showing my blog and did other things for an hour or so – before closing the browser or going elsewhere on the internet;
2. my own wife would not listen to me for 10:13 at a time (or read 3.57 of my writing) – even when we were still dating, and she still felt compelled to pretend to take interest in what I had to say.

If you, too, are not using breathtaking images, infographics, or showcasing the People of Walmart in original and shocking ways…

Learn to build a presence in StumbleUpon

1. Follow people you know, to start, but understand that it will take some time to understand how they are going to use StumbleUpon.  I get better and better at looking at a Stumbler’s number of likes, the recency of likes and what they like – and decide if the Stumbler is going to appreciate what I share to them, perhaps “SU-like” on occasion, and maybe not share tons of odd stuff to me.
2. Every couple days, from Profile > Connections > Visitors, from the pull-down menu, see who you don’t already know (they could be people you are already connected to who simply looked at your likes most recently), and see what their stats tell you.  What do they like? How often, and when was the last time they shared content? Follow (or don’t) wisely; you can only follow 500 people in StumbleUpon.
3. Stumble-review your own post, and also go through your blog circle, etc. and SU-like your supporting bloggers’ latest posts.The first review on a page is the StumbleUpon “Discovery Review” – and counts the most for StumbleUpon SEO.  StumbleUpon allows you to add as many tags as you like, but actually uses the first five you provide. These, multiplied by the number of likes you have on the page, once reviewed, increase the likelihood that your page will appear “randomly” before Stumblers who are Stumbling their followed topics.
4. For reviews on your own posts/pages – or any that you want to be sure get in front of many Stumblers’ eyes – test your tags in the StumbleUpon “Explore Box,” which suggests acceptable StumbleUpon topics from words and phrases that you input.

If your content is not particularly visually dynamic and you are seeing far better results, please share what you are doing differently.

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