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Personal blog · zengestrom.com/blogstartupsculture

Zengestrom is a personal blog at zengestrom.com about startups and culture. Since 2007, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.

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3HN people?
2007–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2007

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked in a thread about Jaiku and Leo Laporte's move from Twitter, a discussion of how a social network's user base depends on key influencers. The only comment is neutral and cites it for that idea.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

What Hacker News says?

  1. '... Leo Laporte jumped ship from Twitter to Jaiku, his 4,000 followers followed. ...' Interesting thought. You build a company on relationships and the key influencer's leave and your user base is eroded. So just who is Jaiku? I ran into Jaiku [0] after listening to Bruce Stirling. Bruce is a science fiction writer, appeared on the first cover of Wired and writes in his blog, beyond the beyond [1]. But I think he's…

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    on “Jaiku Tips the Tuna?”
  2. Submitted 21 characteristics of great teams as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Zengestrom.com: Foreign Friends: from a service-centric to an object-centric social web as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted What makes a good social object as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Signal & noise about Jaiku this week as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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