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Re: Jurisdictional Competition

John Furrier — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 22:01:12 -0000

Delaware ? http://www.coindesk.com/equ...

Re: Five Changes Being Driven By Zero Marginal Cost

John Furrier — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 11:23:09 -0000

very interesting conversation to keep alive and robust. there will be oppty for many to facilitate new tools and value creation activities (not mutually exclusive).

Re: Five Changes Being Driven By Zero Marginal Cost

John Furrier — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 10:36:17 -0000

Margin cost to zero is great but the real action is where does the value shift to?? That is the billion dollar question

Re: Dick C

John Furrier — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 21:52:22 -0000

Perfect assessment. Dick knows what's going on he ran feedburner (you know that era Dave it was RSS based) now APIs will drive everything so you are right on this. All Dick has to do imo is surround himself with product minded people (like you and others). Their core product continues to change the world now "line extensions" matter and innovation from developers. They can stoke the dev fires it's not too late. You have a very strong angle on this which I think is right on. Wall Street guys are toads when it comes to tech and the Harvard guy George who went on CNBC trashing Dick is a confused old professor quoting 1950s theory in mgt. Twitter is an amazing asset and now that #hashtags are replacing urls on TV make Twitter the #1 prospect for being the fabric for the social internet with connected consumers. Twitter will survive and makes lots of money so not pushing it too hard is a good call. By the way their revenue isn't to shabby either and they haven't open the kimono on this thing yet.

Re: WTF is Facebook's new Rooms app?

John Furrier — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 12:29:00 -0000

Top analysts Ray Wang breaks down the CrowdChat impact and this is why chats are hot again. It has to be relevant (hashtags) and open (public). This will be great for communities and advertisers.

http://youtu.be/lny_c-jxnYg

Re: WTF is Facebook's new Rooms app?

John Furrier — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 12:10:29 -0000

Great validation for our new CrowdChat.net service we built now in beta. The issue for users is the "walled garden" aspect of FB only chat. CrowdChat.net in Palo Alto provides a chat using hashtags but all users can come in from any of their social networks. Users don't want to be only confined to just Facebook. CrowdChat allowsTwitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn users to share together in one thread. Early leaders in social media are using CrowdChat and it's expected to be open to public in few months. In beta now request to create chats has to be approved. We are releasing beta access for folks signing up. As an example chk out how HP and IBM are using it in beta www.crowdchat.net/TEDatIBM or crowdchat.net/HPPaaS.

Love to have people use it and give it a drive. It's free

Re: Twitter Chats 101: A Step-by-Step Guide To Hosting or Joining a Twitter Chat

John Furrier — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 19:44:27 -0000

love to give you a demo anytime. it's in public beta for creating chats but we are releasing access to social media innovators looking for automation and workflow integration to their social content efforts

Re: Twitter Chats 101: A Step-by-Step Guide To Hosting or Joining a Twitter Chat

John Furrier — Sat, 23 Aug 2014 11:02:23 -0000

Great Metin. I'll approve now. IBM was using it and found that they doubled the traffic & user consumption the 24hrs after they held a chat. Automating the transcript while having voting etc creates great post chat. Notice that crowdchat autobuilds the replies on twitter for better experience on twitter consumption. Everything is recorded and stored forever. finally stats are free. It's being adopted by early adopter bc it's a high end chat client for funded or program based social media. Here is example of 1 hr chat when it is completed. See you on crowdchat and DM if you have any questions. https://www.crowdchat.net/t...

Re: Twitter Chats 101: A Step-by-Step Guide To Hosting or Joining a Twitter Chat

John Furrier — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 18:52:13 -0000

One new tool that is in public beta is our new CrowdChat www.crowdchat.net an advanced social chat on hashtags. It has the new engagement container technology that automates lots of the manual processes. Anyone want beta requests just email us. Happy to demo and followup with anyone investing in building a community with social chats using #hashtags

Re: Use Your Competitors’ Products All The Time

John Furrier — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 15:18:02 -0000

this is the epic statement "My general approach to competition is to “obsess about their products while completely ignoring the company.” -Agree many obsess over the company new hire round of funding or paid PR campaign & messaging.. wrong approach so agree fully with your statement.

I would add my view to that great statement: "The Competitors (products/value not company) define your business ..your Customers own your business". Many should view their customer as owners of their business.

Re: The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

John Furrier — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:58:57 -0000

Nice job putting this together. Great weekend reading :-) Now it's time to do that Series A for CrowdChat

Re: Shifting into Gear | Scott Monty

John Furrier — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 14:24:30 -0000

Congrats Scott. Well done great group there.

Re: 7 Signs of the Post Social Media Era

John Furrier — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:23:52 -0000

I see your point but think that it will work itself out with tools, sw, automation, users involved..etc. If valuable it will work out. We saw this movie before in the evolution of the web. Web pages web sites etc.. we are in early days of social and yes bad stuff will be there in the wild days of norms forming.

Re: 7 Signs of the Post Social Media Era

John Furrier — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:38:33 -0000

I disagree. Social media by my data and research is scaling to Social Business. This is taking the same vector the web did in the 90s except it's happening faster. The webmaster was a underfunded misunderstood role that many dismissed. The web community was passionate and relevant. Then it exploded mainstream - ebusiness, ecommerce the web was the way to do business online. The social media manager is in the same situation today now it's changing to business commerce in social - the next digital frontier. I'm bullish on social. That is why Crowdchat is focused on social media and big data. Data will prove to the world that social works. Then it scales mainstream.

Re: Bing Ups Its Twitter Game: Rolls Out Hashtag & Twitter Handle Search Features

John Furrier — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:15:17 -0000

Great news for our new CrowdChat engagement container technology for having group conversations with #hashtags. However Bing isn't resolving with true #hashtag search. www.crowdchat.net we are in beta with some blue chip marketing folks who have had great success with it. We have built in SEO in the product. Search #dataeconomy on google it is supported in Google. Google has better search than Bing with #hashtags

Re: Can HP Build the Computer of the Future?

John Furrier — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 09:43:14 -0000

Mea: Carly is not CEO anymore. Yes she did some serious damage to the soul of HP. The R&D and innovation mojo is back at HP which is a great sign for a viable future for HP.

Re: Money Doesn't Talk. Why Most Startups Aren't Announcing Their Seed Financings

John Furrier — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 20:37:55 -0000

I'm announcing seed funding tomorrow bc we built a massively scalable, highly elastic, born in the cloud, global real time platform for less than $1m; announcing GA of our paid product and scaling up.

Re: The easiest way to tweet a storm!

John Furrier — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 16:58:38 -0000

we built this app alreay .. there are lots of hard problems to solve which we fixed and launched Crowdchat.net

Re: New gig: the response is humbling and I might be back.

John Furrier — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 17:26:08 -0000

Welcome back to the blogosphere is so dirty now

Re: Russia blocks protest-linked sites

John Furrier — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 11:55:03 -0000

I've created a page for data from the crowd to get comments and media out on #hashtag #ukraine - www.crowdchat.net/ukraine

Re: Google offered to buy WhatsApp for $10 billion

John Furrier — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:53:58 -0000

Hey this is good deal

Re: Setting the record straight: retraction and apologies

John Furrier — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 23:21:01 -0000

this is bad for Paly and the student

Re: Pizarro: Macintosh's original family gathers to celebrate its 30th birthday

John Furrier — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 14:43:41 -0000

It was a fantastic event underhyped for good reason. It was a core celebration of great people and minds of the time when a computer industry was born.

Re: What's really wrong with Boston tech? - The Term Sheet: Fortune's deals blogTerm Sheet

John Furrier — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 14:09:12 -0000

Update: SiliconANGLE has major tech coverage presence in Boston. MIT live coverage just two weeks ago. Big time coverage in the enterprise. We are the deepest of them all in Boston except the globe.

Re: What's really wrong with Boston tech? - The Term Sheet: Fortune's deals blogTerm Sheet

John Furrier — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12:49:36 -0000

I would add Bijan to that list although never met the guy. Know him. One thing that no one is talking about is how the VCs on the west coast were asleep at the switch when the social revolution hit.. most of the east coast dudes (mentioned here and Fred Wilson in nyc) eat the lunch of the valley VCs. Hey keeping it real.