If you’ve been following the Askablogr saga, this is the final chapter. I’ve had a ton of fun with the project and it was a useful conversation-started in the early days of Founders Co-op, but I’ve gotten too busy to give it much love and don’t think about it except once a month when I continue…
Longtime readers will remember Askablogr, a blog Q&A widget I created with my friend Craig as an experiment in late 2007. I just realized that Wednesday was the product’s 1-year birthday, so here’s a brief update for anyone who’s been wondering what happened since I stopped paying attention. Members: 701Questions: 1,220PageRank: 4Alexa Rank: 785,941Visits: 12,382Page continue…
Between summer season family commitments and some great new developments at Founders Co-op, I missed my 5-month Askablogr update, so I decided to run a little experiment. In previous months I took an active role as community manager, welcoming each new member with a personalized question and looking for ways to unblock members who seemed continue…
Not a ton of news to report this month but didn’t want to leave anyone hanging (assuming there are folks out there who are still following this story…). A few stats to get you started: Members: 492 Completed Q&A: 768 Good News: We keep chipping away at feature tweaks (mostly based on member feedback) We’ve continue…
Askablogr turned 3 months old on the 18th, but I’ve been distracted by a few other projects recently so am coming to this report a few days late (for clarity, the stats to the right are from March 18-April 18). One thing I promised to do after our Mashable writeup was to read out again continue…
One of the best things about Askablogr’s recent publicity was a fresh influx of member feedback and feature suggestions. Craig and I sat down and prioritized these early last week, and (amazingly) he found a way to squeeze a bunch of them in around a nasty cold and a crushing consulting load (kudos again, Craig). continue…
Phew! Ever since the Mashable story hit I’ve been scrambling to keep up with the new customer signups at Askablogr. To get a sense for the kinds of folks who are signing up, I decided to make a point of welcoming each new member personally, including a visit to the blog they registered as a continue…
Last Friday afternoon (not the best moment for a PR break, but I’ll take what I can get), Mashable posted a generous review of Askablogr. I was curious to see what the mention would do to our traffic curve, and I thought you might be too. The graph above shows our traffic for the past continue…
Just before I left the office this afternoon I fired off a cheeky email about Askablogr to the folks at Mashable. They’d recently covered Guy Kawasaki’s new project, Alltop, with a focus on the fact that he’d “only” spent $10K to launch the product, which is $2,500 more than I’ve spent on Askablogr so far. continue…
Yesterday was Askablogr’s two-month birthday. I posted earlier this week about our recent styling changes (that’s our new logo to the left), but wanted to follow up with some stats and commentary about how things are going. First, some basic numbers for the two-month period: Registered members: 145 Questions asked: 239 AdSense revenue / eCPM: continue…