Mobile spank coming soon

Quite soon we'll have a mobile version of linkspank that you'll see
automatically whenever you navigate to the site on your phone. The
goal is to enable you to read your spanks while you are mailing and
browsing on the phone. Also, if you find a link you like on your phone
you'll be able to click through and spank it. It will be simple yet
awesome i believe, and a big step up in what's available even for
iPhone users. On the phone, it's "difficult" to copy a link to share
with someone. We are fixing this problem and helping the cause of
social procrastination by a billion. Let me know if you're interested
in being one me the first users.

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Publishing Features

We have some publishing features launching soon. I'm playing around with ways to publish your spanks in different ways. You'll hear more about it soon!

Today's experiment: publishing a particular spank on your site to look a bit like so:

On Being a Nomad

A couple days after declaring to my facebook friends that I was "home, taking a break from being a nomad," I saw this.



Boy is that true for me. I have been visiting cities for 5-10 days, working, spending time with friends, getting opinions and advice on Linkspank. I started to envision a life like that in 2001, shortly after getting my first cell phone, when I was living in Europe. Now I'm living the dream. As the article points out, it can be done without having a lot of money. But so many many things are more important than money... to me at least.

the very first video blog post ever.

What makes a good video blog?

I ask you, after admitting my ignorance. Click through the video to comment your wisdom and subscribe, and the world shall be enriched.



And now, some real art. Found at Diesel Cafe. I need to credit the artists but I don't know who they are.

June Goal and Funding

I had a meeting today with a classmate from Chicago GSB and we went over the Linkspank pitch and discussed funding stuff. The pitch still needs some improvement but I'm happy with how it's coming along. The business model is laid out a bit more clearly too and some of the questions from the Investor Roundtable a few weeks ago helped me. Facebook makes about $5 of revenue per user per year based on advertisements. With its current activity, Linkspank would make about $1.50 per user per year. So you set the baseline for revenue that way and make arguments at growing the $1.50 to $5 and beyond, while keeping costs lower than a Facebook say.

His insights were different insights though, and they were quite helpful. He strengthened my resolve to gun for 10,000 spankers ASAP (June is the goal). So returning from Chicago I'm quite refreshed to prosecute the many prongs of this growth plan!