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Tony Stubblebine

Mill Valley, CA
37.907623, -122.548172
www.stubbleblog.com/

About: I'm a social software enthusiast, the founder of CrowdVine social networks (this site) and former engineering director at Odeo.com, a podcasting startup. I also worked at O'Reilly Media where I wrote Regular Expression Pocket Reference and helped launch a social network for programmers, O'Reilly Connection.

Organization CrowdVine, Founder
Suggested topics for the breakout sessions social networks, social solutions to engineering problems, podcasting
Dinner table group pr and social media

Blog Posts

blog posts

Urban Hike Roundup

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Sarah wrote up our Urban Hiking experience for the NY Times small business section. Turns out these Urban Hiking expeditions aren’t just gran...

Urban Hike Roundup

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Sarah wrote up our Urban Hiking experience for the NY Times small business section. Turns out these Urban Hiking expeditions aren’t just gran...

Lusting After Car Art

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My friend Tim’s company, Infectious.com, just launched. They do vinyl art stickers for your car. For now, the art is from a select group of g...

Lusting After Car Art

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My friend Tim’s company, Infectious.com, just launched. They do vinyl art stickers for your car. For now, the art is from a select group of g...

Two Good Things

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For the past year or so, Sarah and I have ended each day by telling each other two good things. For the bulk of the year, our format was for the tw...

Two Good Things

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For the past year or so, Sarah and I have ended each day by telling each other two good things. For the bulk of the year, our format was for the tw...

Deliberate Practice

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Sarah and I just got back from a talk at Haas about “deliberate practice” as it relates to excellence. The idea is that how good (or ex...

Deliberate Practice

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Sarah and I just got back from a talk at Haas about “deliberate practice” as it relates to excellence. The idea is that how good (or ex...

Small Business Hacks

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Here are my notes from the small business hacks session at Web2Open. Don MacAskill, Jen Bekman, and Bryan Mason were the major guests. Don’t ...

Small Business Hacks

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Here are my notes from the small business hacks session at Web2Open. Don MacAskill, Jen Bekman, and Bryan Mason were the major guests. Don’t ...

Bookmarks:

New York Times: Making Long-Distance Partnerships Work

Technology makes it possible to run a business from practically anywhere on the planet. But what if your business partner lives in a different city or a different time zone? How do long-distance partners make it work?

Going Solo: Being a freelancer in a connected world

A 5-minute inspirational talk by Stephanie Booth, who explains what brought her to organize the Going Solo conference, which will take place in Lausanne (Switzerland) on May 16th.

Blogging's a Low-Cost, High Return Marketing Tool

Although small businesses with blogs are still a distinct minority, blogging can be a low-cost way to market and boost a small company's brand.

10 great Web site designs/redesigns of 2007

We pick 10 of our favorite site designs and redesigns of 2007.

Lifehacker on Wesabe: secure online money management

Lifehacker writes up money management site Wesabe and talks about its interesting security model, its Firefox Uploader, Mac Dashboard widget, mobile site, and more

7 Habits of Highly Innovative People

Have you ever looked at super creative or innovative people, and felt they are special beings blessed with gifts? Creativity is actually more psychology than intellect.


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Comments

Jodie Davis:

Hi Tony,

Crowdvine is looking great!
I use IE, since 998% of my customers do (refererence to discussion at SoCon!) so it's a noticable difference to me.
I am about to start a group of QNNtv.com insiders/evangelists and am looking for a home. Jeff suggested Crownvine, which I'd love to use. I like the idea that members can have profiles and get to know one another. But I need a feature where we can have threaded conversations. Would that be in the offing?
Many thanks,

Jodie

Tony Stubblebine:

Barbara:
Good point. That's wrong. I'll try to fix soon.

Tony Stubblebine:

Robert:
I really appreciate your feedback. I'll definitely build a way to see an overview of all your social networks. Managing membership in multiple networks has been the most requested feature.

I'm not sure how, but I'll find a way to make it easier to browse members. I'd wanted next buttons so that I could page through every profile but I also like your idea of getting enough information in the list of profiles to decide if you're interested in the person or not.

Barbara Vining:

It was great to meet you at SoCon07 this weekend. Just wanted to let you know that I do not have a "show all contacts" feature on my profile page.

Robert Joseph:

Hey Tony, Great meeting you yesterday. I also wanted to get your opinion about sales force. On a different note love CrowdVine. 2 suggestions:
1) I would like to have a central home page where it is a overview of all my social networks that I am involved in with CrowdVine. Not sure what that looks like but it would allow me to see all the people that are my contacts, some condense information about the different networks, etc.
2) I would like to be able to go through people's profile that are part of the Social Network in a page by page fashion without having to go in to a profile then out of a profile to the all members page. Better yet I would like to have a list or profiles on the screen that I can read through very quickly then page to another list.
Again great meeting you at the conference and looking forward to more conversations.

Dawn C. Hayes:

Hey, I just shot you an email. I couldn't make it down to the conference, but let's connect soon.

Nik Wilets:

I like the app man. Simple, easy to use and useful.

kathy shields:

Tony I thought of one thing I'd like to see, an option to view a 'list' rather than thumbnails of participants. This way, if I was looking for a particular name I'd be able to find it more rapidly.

Tony Stubblebine:

Thanks Dawn, yes RoR.

Dawn C. Hayes:

Hey Tony,

Nifty tool. Is this a RoR build?

Mike Schinkel:

I guess we can do the URL stuff offline (unless you currently have a better online forum...)

Mike Schinkel:

One of my first ventures into Web 2.0 was participating on the Microformats list. I came away rather disenchanted although Microformats may still be applicable to this use case. I have a goal to create an alternative to Microformats that address use cases they won't, but I can't do it alone and first looking for others who would be ready to roll up their sleeves and help. (OTOH, I'm currently immersed in launching Toolicious, so it will be a while. :)

Tony Stubblebine:

Thanks Kathy! I have tons of functionality in the works. Is there anything in particular that you're looking for?

kathy shields:

Tony, I really like what you've done with crowdvine. It feels very friendly and vibrant. Will you be adding any new funtionality in the future?

Tony Stubblebine:

Mike:

Your group will get extended networking power -- you'll be able to reach more people than are planning to come to a meeting. You'll also get much better control over your identities -- there's a lot that you contribute to the community that people can't discover in person.

Re: too many social networks: I'm happy to be part of the solution. FOAF didn't go anywhere but the microformats community is planning on taking another stab. I already support hCard and XFN which is what I need to do for export. Will eventually support hCard import so that I could import your profile and network from someplace like your Flickr profile.

Re: URL structure. Yes! Let's do that.

Mike Schinkel:

I see you use Saleforce. I have an interest in to as well: http://thoughtsonsalesforce...

Mike Schinkel:

Regarding the "Atlanta Web Entrepreneur", I actually have a Meetup group (see http://www.atlanta-web.org) and the only reason I created one here is was hopefully to encourage SoCon07 attendees to learn more about our group.

However, what can CrowdVine offer to our group so that we'd do use it beyond SoCon07? As you may know, a big problem these days is having too many places to go for your social networks.

Mike Schinkel:

About your comment regarding URL Structure, if you need any analysis help I'd love to do a case study on the Well Designed URL's Blog...

Jeff Haynie:

Some of us author multiple blogs - might be nice to be able to have more than one blog setup.

Ken Grisnak:

Thanks for the willingness to connect, Tony. There are commonalities to explore - Bucky and I recently moved (back) to metro Atlanta after 10 years in the Bay Area. Are you Aussie? Have I read that somewhere?

Leonard Witt:

I want to get myself and others who are interested in reinventing journalism into that group. I have been to My Profile, but there is no help there. How is it done? Thanks.

Grayson Daughters:

Tony, love the site, but I'm trying to delete my URL on my profile at the Blog RSS Feed space, and it won't let me delete it. Can you help? Emails to support@crowdvine.com were bounced back to me.

I'm in the Social Media Conference site, grayson5 at bellsouth dot net.