The European Street Team, an Etsy Team, asked for a photo tour of a favorite place. You’ll never guess which place I chose.
Category Archives: Etsy
Opening Search
September 29 09
Image by nateduval
A few weeks ago we had an internal 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 [...]
Playing Favorites
August 4 09
Image by pleasebestill, also used here
There are many strategies people use to make discoveries on Etsy. This is my favorite.
Find a shop you like? Check out their favorites. Find an item in their favorites that you like? Check out that shop’s favorites. Repeat until you realize five hours have gone by and you have [...]
Finding Yourself Through Your Favorites
April 3 09
Japanese Tumblr users are “addicted to reblogging,” ffffolks on FFFFOUND are defining themselves by the images they find, and Etsians are hearting more items than ever. I’m discovering more about myself as I build up my Etsy Favorites, namely that I’m fond of hand-drawn pattern and complexity:
new EtsyNameSpace.Mini(6043418, ‘favorites’,'thumbnail’,5,4).renderIframe();
Here’s an XL view courtesy of [...]
Data Hunt: Entrepreneurship Around the Planet
December 14 08
Bubble chart of nations sized according to new business density. Source: 2008 World Bank Group Entrepreneurship Survey.
Good data on micro-enterprises and entrepreneurship around the world is hard to come by. There’s the World Bank’s Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Database, but it has more caveats than a prescription drug commercial. Different governments operating in different [...]
Giving Well
November 30 08
With the economy getting scarier and people getting trampled or worse on Black Friday, there’s a lot of disillusionment floating around and a lot of talk of bypassing traditional shopping this holiday season. I’ll be joining the growing chorus of people like Smiling Mama who are skipping the big retail stores and doing all their [...]
Summer Remix
July 28 08
FFFFOUND image by Andy Gilmore
A personal announcement: After more than four years immersed in all things web-, blog- and ecommerce-related at the 92nd Street Y (new look/season/brand launching Thursday)—a place I love and have had the privilege of contributing to while working alongside some truly amazing people—I’m moving on to another amazing place: Etsy. Specifically [...]