Tyler is comfortable messing around with php, and made several changes to the code today. He understood the idea immediately, and see’s some potential with it.
I’m seriously psyched to work on this one again. Php for the win I guess 
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Welcome Tyler Gillies aboard
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Added a feedback email address to victusmedia.com frankensearch.appspot.com and updated victusmedia.appspot.com to at least not break (it’s empty atm). All feedback is directed to victusmediafeedback@gmail.com which forwards to my email.
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Heyo guys, chatting with William Mougayar tomorrow about someof his expert knowledge tools at Equentia
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Added a contributing authors box to the side of the P2. Man I have been stone walled in productivity for August. Time to fix that pronto. I’m going to start with adding user feedback pages. Any ideas we have that have potential test sites up, I’ll add a link to a common comment area.
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Had a good chat with Zoltan and Domonkos. They liked the concept but can’t volunteer any effort quite yet. We’re still too early stage to begin a business relationship with the Ensemble team (they’re working hard on finding revenue now). Zoltan said after we have a working mockup (baseline), that they’d be more than happy to revisit where we are at.
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Ryan any ideas on how we can clean up the landing page for victusmedia.com? It was a quick and dirty job to help gather early user feedback, with the assumption being that we’ll make it smoother and more user friendly over time. Maybe it’s time to iterate on this and actively get folks trying it out and leaving comments?
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Heard back from Ensemble (Netflix winning team), I forwarded the email to you folks. What’s a good time for us to chat with them? Should we talk beforehand to get a solid/unified view of the problem we’re trying to solve?
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Good background information from Fred Wilson on “The Ideal First Round Term Sheet”, he refers to a post by Chris Dixon (cofounder of Hunch), who I candidly asked (on Chris’ blog) if he’d consider a board member position for a would be venture. Fred’s post: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/08/the-ideal-first-round-term-sheet.html
Of note, Fred Wilson mentioned Delicious had 100k users per month and wasn’t officially formed into a business structure when Union Squares invested in them. I think getting a functional tool & site, and building a user base would go a long way to helping us build investor confidence.
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Pretty sick database hookup: http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql all apache 2.0 licensed for our reusing goodness
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Left a comment on Jason Cronkhite’s blog
I got the chance to read up on some pretty radical social business concepts (Simon linked his ideas). But more than the concept of sustainable community driven businesses, are the people involved it it’s architecture. I trust that you’ll navigate a direction for Argo Ventures that leverages our most powerful assets towards defining a challenge, and collaborating on a solution.
While many ideas are bouncing around within the friendfeed space, there are few plans of action. What can we do to differentiate our efforts and begin building milestones? Is a corporate framework a good start? That’s where myself, Vladimir Vukicevic, Brian Hendrickson, and Ryan Leland are headed with the contextual advertising and personalized search model.By focusing on short term achievable goals we can increase the probability of successful growth.
I’d like to move quickly past the “hot air” phase. Who’s with me?