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Social feeds and lifestreaming
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Avalanche of shared content
High VolumeAvid users of social networks are facing an avalanche of tweets, bookmarks, opinions, and photos shared by friends
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Low RelevanceMost tweets are blather about dinner choices or airport delays
Accelerated TrendProblem will only get worse with users sharing more of their activities and social graph getting denser
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Cuesense Solution
Deep Content Analysis
Social Graph
Trends
Browser Add-in Mobile
Cuesense finds the most topical, trendiest content and excels in its visual presentation …
Cuesense Zeitgeist
… giving users control over their social feeds, saving time, discovering hidden trends.
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What I learned from launching Cuesense
Find THE customer pain
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Asking for Share of Time
Asking for Share of Wallet
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Competing for share of time
Source: comScore, Segment Metrix, Geography: US Visitors, January 2009, Segment: Heavy Internet Users
Monthly Usage of Top 20 Sites
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What I learned from launching Cuesense
Find THE customer pain Get Traction
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Asking for Share of Time
Asking for Share of Wallet
Legwork for initial traction
Scaling with SEO or Paid Traffic
Viral as a bonus
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Getting initial traction
Web 2.0 app directories
feedmyapp.com
momb.socio-kybernetics.net
www.listio.com
springwise.com
appscout.com
go2web20.net
programmableweb.com
www.dmoz.org
www.makeuseof.com
www.allthingsweb2.com
swazitools.slinkset.com
Twitter app directories
twitdom.com/submit
www.twapps.com
twitstat.com
twitter.pbwiki.com
www.twittown.com
Bookmarking sites
stumbleupon.com
digg.com
twine.com
delicious.com
Local Startup Meetups
Hops and Chops, hopsandchops.com
StartPad Weekly BrownBag
Seattle Tech Startups Meetup, seattletechstartups.com
Open Coffee at Louisa's , asack.typepad.com
Saturday House Giraffe Labs, saturdayhouse.org
seattlelunch20.wetpaint.com
seattle.startupdrinks.com
TechFoam
Event Guides
seattle.garysguide.org
seattle20.com
npost.com
barcamp.org
Biznik.com
mitwa.org
Feedback
Uservoice.com
Getsatisfaction.com
PR Wires
PRnewswire.com
PRWeb.com
Your Blog
SEO
Community
Facebook group
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Large-scale traction
Fastest-growing websites, Jan 2008 to Jan 2009
Source: comScore, Media Metrix, Geography: US Visitors, Sites with 10k+ visitors in Jan 2008
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Large-scale traction: mixx.com
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Large-scale traction: mixx.com
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Large-scale traction: mixx.com
Share with MIXX
Share with MIXX
Link in Profile
Link in Comments
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It’s your turn now
Find THE customer pain Get Traction
Asking for Share of Time
Asking for Share of Wallet
Legwork for initial traction
Scaling with SEO or Paid Traffic
@ssokolenko
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