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Happy Birthday Etsians!


Story by jared, TechUpdates Published on September 7, 2007 in Etsy News	Photo by screenshot baby!

From this day forward, we want to help you celebrate one of the most important days of the year... your birthday! So we created a Happy Birthday Etsians page – out of warm and fuzzy thoughts – just for you. Feel free to help us celebrate an Etsian's birthday today by visiting their shop.

Interestingly, after graphing the birthdays for all registered Estians, we discovered that the most number of people share a birthday on February 14th, Valentine's Day (you can see the spike in the graph above). No wonder there's so much love at Etsy!

We can all thank a new member of our Visualization team, Drew Trujillo for this wonderful new application. Affectionately known as Dr. Woohoo by his friends and peers, Drew brings an interesting eye for pattern and complexity to Etsy. He's made some very interesting discoveries about the Etsy marketplace that we can't wait to share with you. In case you're curious, Drew's birthday is November 24, plenty of time to find him something nice from Etsy! ;)

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Sept. 7, 2007 at 6:43 p.m.

anda

February 14 is my due date!!! :)

Sept. 7, 2007 at 6:52 p.m.

mmmfiber

Neato!

Sept. 7, 2007 at 7:19 p.m.

XOHandworks

Is there a link to this birthday page somewhere? or do we have to come back to this news story each time?

Sept. 7, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.

XOHandworks

Nevermind ... now that I've clicked it, I see that it's on the Buy page :)

Sept. 7, 2007 at 9:09 p.m.

pancakeandlulu

Thank you for the happy birthday wishes--I was totally surprised and charmed!

Sept. 7, 2007 at 9:13 p.m.

AllAboutTheButtons

very cool feature...thanks!

Sept. 7, 2007 at 9:19 p.m.

AliciaMae

too freakin' cool! I love the little hearts and stars that float around when the cursor stays in one place :)

If Etsy grows large enough that graph will be a line ;)

Sept. 8, 2007 at 1:47 a.m.

Hoolyghans

Oh this is fun!!!
Thank you!

Sept. 8, 2007 at 4:03 a.m.

studioalamode

There's been some criticism of this new feature, but I think it is a nice touch. Thank you -- my birthday is in January and it will be fun for SOMEONE to celebrate with!

Sept. 8, 2007 at 10:25 a.m.

QuotesOfArt

Wondering why there are so many Valentines birthdays? Seems more likely there would be more November 14th birthdays ... 9 months after Valentines Day.

Sept. 8, 2007 at 10:45 a.m.

EtsyStore

haha MY birthday is November 24th too Dr.Woohoo!

Mary

Sept. 8, 2007 at 1:12 p.m.

aniemancrochet

I love this app! Wonderful idea!

Sept. 8, 2007 at 1:29 p.m.

DrWoohoo

QuotesOfArt says:
Wondering why there are so many Valentines birthdays? Seems more likely there would be more November 14th birthdays ... 9 months after Valentines Day.

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haha. i thought the same thing... but actually September is the month with the largest number of babies... minus 9 months takes us back to December and January. ;)

EtsyLabs says:
haha MY birthday is November 24th too Dr.Woohoo!

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woohooooo, mary! there's nothing like having a great big turkey every seven years on our b-day. ;)

have a great weekend everyone and thank you for being so sweet.

Sept. 8, 2007 at 2:41 p.m.