David Crow - Latest Comments

Re: Blogging More

Boris Mann — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:26:31 -0000

Blogging is hard! I'm loving link blogging, which is easier but also jogs my brain for long form. I find I've never managed to to write for StartupNorth because my writing is sucked up by my own site. So, I think you are blogging, you're just doing it on SN. Maybe get in the habit of cross posting?

Re: Blogging More

Bryce Johnson — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:47:37 -0000

Ahh. Memories.

Re: Blogging More

ShaneSchick — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:46:50 -0000

I'm not always sure being prolific is all it's cracked up to be. When you write, it's worth reading, and that's really all that matters. Happy blogiversary!

Re: The day the punk music died

Toronto corporate Photos — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:08:13 -0000

Thank you for sharing

Re: Windows Phone 7 Design Resources

davidcrow — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:46:34 -0000

Updated in the post: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink...

Re: Windows Phone 7 Design Resources

Friendspankaj — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:42:44 -0000

Hello,

Windows Phone 7 Design Template (CS4 PSD)Clarity Consulting’s WP7 Design Blog

This two link are not working.

Do u have the updated links?

Regards,
Pankaj

Re: SMS and Canadian Phone Numbers

Antony — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:34:28 -0000

Also any thoughts on the best iOS and Android VOIP client with integrated SMS send / received (to phone numbers and email addresses). Acrobits Groundwire looks good?

Re: SMS and Canadian Phone Numbers

Antony — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:26:15 -0000

I'm using callcentric right now - having ported from Bell Canada (wirelines) - but no SMS and when asked they are non specific about it. Thinking about porting my Bell Mobility phone to a voip provider - but for me SMS is a must.

I just looked at http://www.anveo.com/ and it looks like they do everything you want now... what am I missing? Several SMS related updates in Jan 2012.

Even looks as though I can peer to CallCentric so calls to my friends and family on CallCentric numbers would be 0cents/minute.

Thoughts?

Re: UW VeloCity Evolving

Erika — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:50:59 -0000

Congrats and a job well done! Absolutely love what velocity has been doing and I hope to see even bigger and better things in the future.

All of us at Kik are big supporters :)

Re: Toronto Coworking Location

hackernest — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:35:54 -0000

The Hackernest coworking shared office is a new space in Toronto, just 3 minutes from the Lansdowne TTC station! Most affordable rates around, great atmosphere, great people! www.hackernest.ca

Re: UW VeloCity Evolving

William Mougayar — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:21:41 -0000

Thanks for the update David. What's next for you?

Re: UW VeloCity Evolving

Mike Kirkup — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:13:30 -0000

Thanks David. I am very excited to be joining the team at VeloCity. I feel like you and Jesse have done a great job in building a fantastic foundation for the program (great companies, amazing space, funding, etc). Looking forward to working closely with the team and all of VeloCity's supporters to build on that foundation.

Re: B2B Marketing Guide by KISSMetrics

appointment setting — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:05:05 -0000

Business to Business marketing is not as easy as we make simple phone call. Convince the customer for the appointment on phone is very big task and after get the appointment time convince for the product is not easy.

Re: SMS and Canadian Phone Numbers

DF — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:41:49 -0000

Using Anveo currently for the same reasons. Was hoping that SMS to email was more mature but it seems to be missing some features.

1. the email comes in with sender's # but not sender's name (ie. no contact list lookup)
2. the emails come from unique email addresses and therefore email clients don't thread the conversation properly

I've requested features for both of these issues.

Re: Whiskey Stones

Pope_Prius_X — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:13:40 -0000

I just bought some at the AGO Gift Shop in Toronto only to realize they're selling knock-offs made in China. The packaging has much the same look, although I should have known from the tagline being changed to "Ice Melts. Whisky Stones" which destroys the pun of the original's "whisky rocks". The bad spelling and grammar, such as "Who need ice?" along the box's spine and "Georeous eco-friendly gift wrapping available" should have also been a clue. Worst of all, they charged the same $20.00. Some cheek, that.

Re: Jobs

Etienne Garbugli — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:20:32 -0000

iFrame not working very well. :)

Re: Whiskey Stones

Scott — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:38:22 -0000

Cold is a relative term when it comes to whiskey stones. I tested the temperature of various stones at intervals over 45 minutes. From 72 degrees at the start, the best whiskey stones (3 in 2 ounces of whiskey) chilled the whiskey to 61 degrees after 5 minutes and held it at 68 degrees after 45 minutes.

You can see the full results at http://www.whiskeystones-revie...

Re: meshmarketing– Oct 22, 2009

Credicards — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:29:24 -0000

My friend attended this event and recommended your website and how great it is. He’s right, I am actually impressed. Meshmarketing rocks!

Re: Recommendation Engines

ravi pathak — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:43:51 -0000

If we somehow do happen to cross the road , I may be able to share may be an A/B test which partially butress what I was saying, but I do agree, it was not for Amazon so can't claim that for amazon !

Re: Recommendation Engines

isomorphisms — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:24:32 -0000

Ravi, I don't think that can be correct with Netflix and Amazon. There are so many repeat users who are kept on as repeat users through effective recommendations. Not only that but people who come to buy one book/movie and end up buying two books/adding multiples to the queue.

Re: Recommendation Engines

ravi pathak — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:22:12 -0000

My hypothesis is the customer who has intention to buy, have decided on a product. They have more or less clear goal to be achieved via an e-commerce store. Therefore, they are less likely to be distracted by recommendations for up-sell/cross-sell.

Even if my assumption is not correct, I am fairly certain that you have less than 10% of your visitors who come with a defined objective on your website. I call rest 90% as browsers. This group of 90% are either researching, trying to see what could fit their bill, or doing some random things that one can never imagine. (for e.g.one of my friend who runs a web development shop, tries to buy from an e-commerce store , takes a video of how slow the experience was to sell his services :))Recommendation helps this group ! Think if you are on a offline store with nobody(to tell you whats interesting) except a cashier only looking to collect your money. Would you buy something from that store. May be yes, but only if you have a dire need.

Re: Recommendation Engines

isomorphisms — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:10:33 -0000

Ravi, Why do you think recommendation plays a more significant role in turning non-buyers into buyers rather than better satisfying (and retaining) customers who were already intending to buy something? Your theory sounds logically possible, but why do you believe it.

Re: Recommendation Engines

ravi pathak — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 07:59:41 -0000

I think another fact worth mentioning here is that only 16% of visitors came to website with the intent of shopping. If you consider others as browsers, you need to up them to buyers and recommendation play a significant role to do exactly that, however not to counter that there are people who come with strong intent to buy a specific product, mostly recommendations doesn't affect them. Its the other set of visitors (browsers) to whom it affects without they knowing it , I believe.

Re: Goodbye Microsoft, so long and thanks for all the bits

PHP Programmers — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 03:57:54 -0000

Good Job David

Re: SMS and Canadian Phone Numbers

tthompson — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:57:55 -0000

tropo does have cdn incoming sms. Not sure if you knew that or not? Twilio would be much better but they don't.