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[{"user_id": 2067, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1300476189.8134291, "message": "Killerstartups.com", "group_id": 95, "id": 384814}, {"user_id": 4077, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1300475167.457283, "message": "So, as the title suggests, I asked to be on a conference call that I really didn't need to be on, babysitting some long running tasks.  Taking a break from my regular work, I decided to start a project to see how far I could get.", "group_id": 95, "id": 384735}, {"user_id": 4077, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1300475207.1035831, "message": "The result is at http://loudstartup.com/ (I registered the domain and everything within the 2 hours, so DNS might need to propagate for you).", "group_id": 95, "id": 384745}, {"user_id": 4077, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1300475246.410507, "message": "The logic of it was that I was looking for str's \"ShoutStart.com\" recently, but it seems to have disappeared.  Thinking it was a good source of information, I think it needs to exist in some form, whether or not there's a 'business' associated with it.", "group_id": 95, "id": 384747}, {"user_id": 4077, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1300475299.77668, "message": "So, here's where I need your help.  I only just started -- and while I know of a few other places doing startup coverage (The Startup Foundry, The Next Web, etc.) the list in my head is by no means exhaustive.", "group_id": 95, "id": 384753}, {"user_id": 4077, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1300475319.8860791, "message": "Please post any other suggestions here that do any sort of startup coverage.", "group_id": 95, "id": 384755}, {"user_id": 1452, "stars": [{"date_created": 1300491273.787416, "user_id": 3531}, {"date_created": 1302185994.8146901, "user_id": 27776}, {"date_created": 1302248087.8084011, "user_id": 27976}], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1300487747.458519, "message": "http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-blogs-a-new-startup-should-send-press-releases-to?", "group_id": 95, "id": 385692}, {"user_id": 22785, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1300488853.4732111, "message": "wooga", "group_id": 95, "id": 385760}, {"user_id": 4077, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1300490734.1257319, "message": "That is a beautiful answer Chris.  Thanks!", "group_id": 95, "id": 385922}, {"user_id": 5136, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1302180509.1481349, "message": "@bmelton Cograts for the tool. It is really useful. There's yet a BM?", "group_id": 95, "id": 574817}, {"user_id": 5136, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1302180480.989059, "message": "@bmelton I have feedback about you project, that I'm using to promote my product. The submission link open a page in the current window. I suggest you to open them in a new windows. More usable.\n\nAnd when the link is an email it doesn't work. The link open this url \"http://loudstartup.com/tips@venturebeat.com\". There are a lot of link like this", "group_id": 95, "id": 574815}, {"user_id": 4077, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1302183612.704253, "message": "@ccarnino Thanks for the heads up.  I'll get the email links fixed asap.", "group_id": 95, "id": 575082}, {"user_id": 4077, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1302183994.5977139, "message": "@ccarnino as for the new window targets, you're right, but I decided a long time ago to leave that to the user. If they want a new window, they can shift+click or whatever.", "group_id": 95, "id": 575110}, {"user_id": 4077, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1302184025.287967, "message": "@ccarnino and thanks a million for the feedback.", "group_id": 95, "id": 575114}, {"user_id": 4077, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1302185897.1913381, "message": "@ccarnino the mail links are fixed -- I had omitted the 'mailto:' portion of the link.  Also, I just noticed it, but what do you mean by BM?", "group_id": 95, "id": 575451}, {"user_id": 4077, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1302188646.7279611, "message": "I have actually given much thought to it.  There's an idea in there for sure, similar to what you said, but I'm trying to work it out so that I can go a step further, and assist startups in building effective press kits and getting them more press than they might be able to on their own.", "group_id": 95, "id": 576141}, {"user_id": 5136, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1302188441.8101721, "message": "@bmelton I love your project. It saves me a lot of time!", "group_id": 95, "id": 576092}, {"user_id": 5136, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1302188503.2873609, "message": "@bmelton For Business Model. Have you thought to be payed to send the application to all the sources you have? Sell it as service", "group_id": 95, "id": 576111}, {"user_id": 5136, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1302205850.5553329, "message": "Get in touch with me claudio at challengein.com when you've something ready that I'll help you do beta test with my startup, if it helps you ;)", "group_id": 95, "id": 579388}, {"user_id": 3314, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1302206690.4956281, "message": "Hi, I'm Boing Boing's software developer. I like seeing us up on the top there. How did you calculate our reach?", "group_id": 95, "id": 579653}, {"user_id": 4077, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1302208461.8475831, "message": "@Dino You might not like the answer, but it's basically a mashup of community-available data from places like Compete, Quantcast, Alexa, etc.  It's pretty rough at this stage, but I think it's at least representative of the real world.", "group_id": 95, "id": 580224}, {"user_id": 3314, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1302215047.6159811, "message": "@bmelton Compete has the worst data. It's way way off. Where it has data for some sites, it is likely making it up.", "group_id": 95, "id": 581694}, {"user_id": 3314, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1302215077.7734959, "message": "@bmelton Regardless, the site is good. The Effective Press Kit is the real goldmine here.", "group_id": 95, "id": 581701}, {"user_id": 3314, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1302215121.6094489, "message": "@bmelton It's really valuable to know how to approach press, and this does a decent job keeping n00bs out of the basic pitfalls.", "group_id": 95, "id": 581712}, {"user_id": 3314, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1302214740.4491701, "message": "@bmelton Not sure I can do that specifically, but I can tell you it's quite low. I suspect some of your other numbers are low as well, so changing ours would throw off the order for the list, which doesn't really help you anyway.", "group_id": 95, "id": 581595}, {"user_id": 3314, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1302214399.6680419, "message": "@bmelton A mashup is good. At least then you're getting your info from a few different sources and balancing it out a little bit. Is that number intended to be monthly visitors?", "group_id": 95, "id": 581494}, {"user_id": 4077, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1302214980.4006491, "message": "I was thinking that would be the case.  Compete has the most readily available data, which makes it heaviest in the ranking, but its numbers are low for everywhere that I can compare it to (where I know the numbers).  Quantcast data is great when it's there, but it's missing for a lot of sites period.", "group_id": 95, "id": 581683}, {"user_id": 3314, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1302215165.4223211, "message": "@bmelton You might add a little description of the kinds of startups that each site would be likely to talk about to their caption. Even linking to a few startups that the sites have posted about would be handy.", "group_id": 95, "id": 581723}, {"user_id": 4077, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1302214553.581708, "message": "Yeah, approximated monthly visitors.  If you'd like to give me a number to let me know how far off the mark I am, I'd much appreciate it.", "group_id": 95, "id": 581546}, {"user_id": 27946, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1302215567.8481171, "message": "@bmelton thanks a lot.. website is accessible. I am sending my site http://sanetax.com/ to few sites listed.", "group_id": 95, "id": 581840}, {"user_id": 3314, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1302215249.121598, "message": "@bmelton The startups Boing Boing would be willing to post about, and what our readers would care about, are likely quite different from TechCrunch, Mashable or YCombinator.", "group_id": 95, "id": 581742}, {"user_id": 4077, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1302227694.6299009, "message": "@Dino All very good advice.  Categories are the next obvious step, and as was suggested to me elsewhere, comments with disqus are drop-dead simple, and would be worthwhile.  Would it be possible to shoot you an email to bounce some ideas off you?", "group_id": 95, "id": 583574}, {"user_id": 27976, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1302249537.6309021, "message": "@bmelton Useful list and press kit checklist. I'd recommended that you throw google.com/adplanner/ data into calculating reach, as in most cases the reach is way off.", "group_id": 95, "id": 587623}, {"user_id": 3314, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1302279864.2982221, "message": "@bmelton Sure. dean@boingboing.net", "group_id": 95, "id": 592278}, {"user_id": 26244, "stars": [], "topic_id": 13831, "date_created": 1302446960.5805171, "message": "Okay so now a submit to all with a choice of template emails :-) - but fantastic idea and bookmarked!", "group_id": 95, "id": 609890}]