March 2009
24 posts
“I’ve been visiting it every day … It’s great for research and...”
– ReadWriteWeb writes about a lot of apps, but “few stand the test of time.” On the other hand, enjoysthin.gs has “sticking power.”
Milestones
A nice early milestone on a site like enjoysthin.gs is when you notice that it’s no longer your friends that use the site, but it’s complete strangers who aren’t using it because they know you, but because they think it’s cool. A second and unexpected milestone has recently been reached: my real life friends are back.
Also, I just went back through all the old blog posts...
Looking for friends on enjoysthin.gs? I’ve got some recommendations. (If you’re viewing this on your tumblr dashboard, click here to see the avatars).
From left to right: Luillermo Binary, matiasjajaja, CeeBee, natalia covo, MF, Ara Roden, lauterhaus, justnaxete, Elizabeth Brewington, MUKIKAMU
“$20 is a bargain for the amount of fun the site’s giving me.”
– I swear that this is an unsolicited testimonial that arrived in my inbox today from Alan Trotter, a full 8 days after he signed up for a joy account. I’m glad to hear people think it’s worth the price even after it’s settled in a bit. I constantly worry I’m not adding enough...
Let me take off my blogger skirt and put on my...
An enjoysthin.gs user who just launched his own iPhone app wrote to me and asked “What have you found to be the most rewarding ways to engage with users? … Any tips for a person that’s not very good at self-promotion but who simply wants to be a good creator of interesting things?” I emailed him back a response that quickly became an unrelated rant. I don’t know if...
RSS Feeds
As promised, you can now view your things in various types of RSS feeds. You can get a feed of the things you like and filter out various things, this is super useful if you want to import your enjoyed things into something like friendfeed.
You can also get a feed of your most enjoyed thing. Since you can only have one most enjoyed thing at a time, this feed will only have one thing it it. This...
