alice44

Privacy act? -- time for a little after the fact copy editing I think

From the page: THE BURDEN OF PROOF PROBLEM

Under SOPA, copyright holders can simply send a notice alleging copyright infringement to payment processors, ad services and hosting providers that many of the most heavily trafficked web sites rely on, who in turn would have five days to suspend their services to the offending sites. Because the mandated response time will prevent these service providers from investigating the legitimacy of any such claim or fine-tuning their response to the allegedly offending page(s), and because these proposed laws would grant legal immunity (for example, from claims of business damage) to these service providers even if the original accusation turns out to be incorrect, they will likely shut off services to entire web sites altogether, effectively shutting down entire business operations. All of this can be done without a judge finding a web site guilty of a crime and without giving that site sufficient time to address the issue themselves. This wouldn't just be detrimental to large companies, but would likely keep resource-constrained startups from getting off the ground or taking the kinds of risks that lead to innovation and experimentation.

Very well said

"Little, tiny 15-million subscriber Stumbleupon generates more traffic than mega-monster Facebook because ???????

You had better have an answer to this, because your existence depends on it. My answer is that the Stumbleupon generates enduring traffic because shares are made based on personal relationships. What is additionally distinctive about those relationships at Stumbleupon is that the relationships themselves have developed from shared interests. I can easily share personal passions with my SU friends, which would be potentially sensitive, or even explosive, with my family and "real" life friends, because the relationships were developed from these shared passions. The result is often intimately informed referrals about shared interests in the context of personal relationships. Ask the next sales professional you see what he or she could do with that.

Maybe my analysis is all wet. A good statistician cum systems analyst could figure this out, track down the actual source of your Stumbleupon super-referrals. I understand you want to establish an identity, and the identity Stumbleupon is creating for itself is not what you planned. I also do not know the costs behind supporting a photoblogging site. The important question becomes did you accidentally stumble upon a powerful referral engine that makes your site work, or does the photoblogging detract from the identity that actually makes your creation vital?

A business is like a child, and while parents may have created the child, and while they clearly have great control over a child's world, the business, and the child, both have an identity of their own. It is clear to me that you are messing with the fundamental chemistry of your offspring, and it is important that you have a skilled surgeon in the operating room who knows what they are doing.

So is photoblogging an expensive wart, or a vital organ? I wish you the best of luck in figuring that out, and hope that your business realizes all you desires for it.

Cheers,
Paul Frank"

how many times do I have to delete it before it is gone, gone, gone?

time to just up and leave

They are joking

My first thought and apparently I am not the only one

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Re-design:
"a deeper integration of the Explore Box"

sigh.....
To me that just about says it all -- useless. As soon as I can finish deleting (viewing and moving) my reviews I will be gone.

I do not think they want us to visit one another as that is NOT marketable traffic, unfortunately the only way to find good stuff is to visit your friend's pages.

There's a bug eating messages.

I think the bug has probably been dealt with for now.

PS. on an unrelated note. I will not be checking out the new StumbleUpon -- with a lot of luck and some hard work, I will have deleted all my reviews by the time it is foisted upon us.

Check this forum out. Try the new beta version. Tell the deveolpers what you think. You may come up with advice that will help produce a more user friendly new look.

I am afraid I think the Sidebar will become impossibly sad as it it filled up with "stuff."

The heart and soul have left the building.