So if sharing online is about validation, what if the objects being shared are for sale, and you stand to benefit from their sale? Does money always ruin it? There is a lot of sharing and curating going on of objects that are available for sale somewhere. See Svpply, Fancy, Pinterest, large swaths of Tumblr, [...]
Posts on Etsy
22 Dec 2011
Refavorited is a Tumblog (do people still say that?) where my favorites from Etsy, SoundCloud, YouTube, Flickr, Fancy, Twitter and Wikipedia go, automatically, via ifttt. Etsy is not yet an official channel on ifttt (but is so ready), so I’m using my Etsy favorites RSS feed as a trigger. As for Wikipedia, for a long [...]
Etsy Book Picks:
07 Dec 2011
A Pinterest pinboard I can’t help but add to a few times a day, though Etsy Board Games is gaining momentum. Alternate filtering in effect for followers here on Etsy. No official API yet, but that hasn’t stopped Kellan.
Consider the Albatross: Foraging and Activity Feeds
14 Aug 2011
I came across this post on Quora on “Lévy-flight personalization” and optimizing Quora’s activity feed for novelty-seeking users. Its inspiration is the albatross, a long-range ocean forager that’s larger than you think. Lévy flights are seen in the behavior of many animals. It’s the pattern that emerges when an animal darts around randomly in one [...]
The Sun Rises in the East
24 Apr 2010
Etsy’s Treasury is something I’ve long been fascinated by. It’s an ever-changing, member-curated shopping gallery with some unique constraints. Treasury lists only live for 48 hours. Each list has a limit of 42 comments. You can only create a list if the total number of lists falls below 333 (shorthand for
The Providence Curse
14 Dec 2009
The European Street Team, an Etsy Team, asked for a photo tour of a favorite place. You’ll never guess which place I chose.
Opening Search
29 Sep 2009
A few weeks ago we had a “handmade code” hack day at Etsy, wherein many interesting features were born, large and small. One of the small hacks I crossed off on my to-do list that day because it didn’t exist yet was this Etsy search add-on for Firefox, for searching Etsy from within your web [...]
Playing Favorites
04 Aug 2009
There are many strategies people use to make discoveries on Etsy. This is my favorite. Find a shop you like? Check out the shop owner’s favorites. Find an item in their favorites that you like? Check out that shop owner’s favorites. Repeat until you realize three hours have gone by and you have 26 browser [...]
