I have been pondering this post and the ones to come a great deal. I think I have started to write this post a half dozen times never actually having the time to really bang out all of my thoughts…it seems that there is always something else coming up on the radar.

So as I had mentioned previously ConceptShare was featured in Techcrunch. We have been very happy with the response and we are continuing to follow the growth as the story gets pulled deeper into the social fabric of the net. We have been busy tracking all of coverage as it pops up around the net. We are having to translate alot as the stories have been shared in to many languages to name. It is interesting to see the effect that delicious and other social bookmarking services have and how they really move relevant information to the right people.

The other interesting fact of the techcrunch story is the high caliber of the traffic that it generates. It is interesting to watch the trends that are generated. We have been using www.opentracker.net to give us the real time stats to give us the who, when, where how on the traffic. This service has to be one of the most complete packages that we have ever used. We could watch the real time effects of stories and referring sources. This was actually more helpful then technorati to track the referral sources. I think this will be very helpful as we continue forward. It is always nice to know who’s interested….

The article spawned some incredible conversations with some truly fantastic people. Many of which have been very passionate people who have been waiting for a solution like this. It is great to know that there are in fact others out there who want the ability to share visual ideas and manage the discussion in a relevant way. You can see it in their face and hear it in the voice when they really get it. Why do they get it? Because the pain is very real to them. These are people who have to share everything from fashion designs, creative print, pictures, product design…etc. They aren’t sharing for the sake of sharing. They share because they need feedback on the image itself, they need direction and feedback to take that design to the next step, wether that be to an new iteration or to production. They don’t want more realtime meetings about small design changes. These are people who don’t want to get a faxed back proof with design changes. These are people who are tired of trying to read multiple threaded conversations together emails to elicit feedback . These are people who want a better way.

This week should be even more interesting then the last few. I will try to be a bit more vocal as to the things going on.

cheers

scott

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