We’ve had amazing discussions around article content on Pinyadda this week. The ideas and knowledge being shared is incredible. It underscores how our information system can really advance the power of the collective mind. I also had the pleasure of listening to Mikolaj Jan Piskorski (Misiek) speak this week, who believes there is an unfulfilled need for a social networking platform for internal use at companies. By enabling and facilitating collective intelligence, Pinyadda could be an effective social networking platform for fostering innovation, communication, and community in the workplace. (more…)
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Last Wednesday, amid a sea of reporters and a blinding array of flash bulbs, we opened Pinyadda registration to the public. OK, so that’s not exactly how it went down. 
We did quietly open up registration last week and so far the results have been great. Thanks to everyone who’s signed up; we look forward to hearing from you in the coming weeks about your experience with Pinyadda and how we can make it better. (more…)
On the day of Apple’s Tablet announcement, I got to thinking: what current e-reader is more popular? Outside of sales, which would probably skew in the favor of Amazon’s Kindle because Barnes & Noble’s Nook was only released in November, I thought a good gauge of popularity would be to track online media mentions of each e-reader. For the data, I went to Pinyadda’s index and scanned article titles for “Kindle” and then “Nook”. The results were somewhat surprising to me: (more…)
After a couple weeks of learning lean startup methodologies, I’m left wondering about the value of comparing user first impressions to developed use (and doing so across customer archetypes) in order to discover and validate our customer base.
The business opportunity Pinyadda has recognized is the need for an information system that leverages an individual’s unique social graph to filter the firehose of news articles and blog posts published each day and deliver only the ones that would be most valuable. The Pinyadda team has built a base product that addresses this opportunity and which we believe solves several problems.