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Re: Joining Yahoo!

GraemeThickins — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:17:14 -0000

Alan, congratulations and best wishes! We lose another great midwestern guy to the coast. But it's Yahoo's big gain.

cheers,
Graeme

Re: What’s in a name? In Web 2.0, confusion

GraemeThickins — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:16:47 -0000

It will surely be interesting to see, two or three years out, how many of these names are actually recognizable brands. Commenter #1 hits the nail on the head, doesn't he?

Re: The Fiction of 20%

GraemeThickins — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:15:08 -0000

whoops, that last click went before its time...

what I was about to say in my comment was that this question comes up all the time -- so I'm going to send this post to every new Web 2.0 entrepreneur I know!

bless you for blogging it,
Graeme

Re: Defragging the Defrag Coverage

GraemeThickins — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:54:07 -0000

hey, Lou -- I certainly didn't mean to imply you were a tidbit :-) I chose that title originally because I was just going to write a quick post recapping things....but your panel was so good, it became much longer! thanks again for all your great insights, and it was great meeting you

my buddies here in Minneapolis at MarketWatch were delighted to learn about your blog, as was I....it's great, and I am
definitely subscribed

please let me know next time you visit our town!

cheers,
Graeme

Re: Thoughts on 2007 from 2008

GraemeThickins — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 08:41:41 -0000

leave it to you, Fred, to go to my home country so
you could be first to say you saw the new year!
so, now....did you go surfing? :-)

2008 will indeed be awesome!

cheers,
Graeme

Re: Twitter's Business Model

GraemeThickins — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:50:43 -0000

hooray for Chris Herbert's comment, "think about ways to explain these things to mainstream world that aren't involved in this discussion everyday" .... he's right: communication is just so critical

remember to repeat this refrain regularly: "We are not a market"

Re: user experience, great explanation

GraemeThickins — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:22:36 -0000

thanks for posting this, Lou -- had not seen it....very cool!

congrats on your new gig, by the way

cheers,
Graeme
www.tech-surf-blog.com

Re: As Usual Google Is The King Dog

GraemeThickins — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:03:51 -0000

Do the WP numbers include, as I suspect, both the host-your-own and hosted flavors? If so, then, in fairness, I think the chart should include MovableType, SixApart's sister platform to Typepad.

Re: As Usual Google Is The King Dog

GraemeThickins — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:13:27 -0000

ah, just Wordpress.com, not .org....thanks for the clarification

Re: louisgray.com: What's Your Twitter Noise Ratio?

GraemeThickins — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:47:18 -0000

thanks, Lewis -- I forwarded this to Jonny Bentwood of the Technobabble 2.0 blog, who wants to do a ranking of analysts who Twitter

and, gee, fun to see my ratio of 4.84 puts me high in the "Converationalists" category, right there with Kedrosky

cheers,
Graeme
www.twitter.com/graemethickins

Re: Friendfeed versus Techmeme: can’t they just get along?

GraemeThickins — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:03:11 -0000

agree - don't see them as competitors at all....
you're right, Louis: TechMeme updates on
FriendFeed would be very cool

bring it on, Gabe!

Re: Graphing Social Patterns East

GraemeThickins — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:41:39 -0000

I attended Graphing Social Patterns West, and highly recommend this event.
Dave McClure and the O'Reilly people do a great job.

Re: Come to Defrag

GraemeThickins — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:27:04 -0000

Zoli, look forward to meeting you here at Defrag (about to start up as I write this)...

Re: Farting Our Way Through the Recession?

GraemeThickins — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:42:52 -0000

totally agree, Zoli... I tweeted about this the other day, linking to a story on the insanity

hell, Jobs doesn't care: he makes 30 points off of this junk! and of course loves what it does to sell more hardware....

after this story broke, I just had to go out of my way to happily blog about a new app that actually *does* do something useful... what a concept, huh?
http://graemethickins.typep...

cheers,
Graeme

Re: WSJ: The Economics of Giving it Away

GraemeThickins — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:48:41 -0000

Chris Anderson has a charming way of stating the most excruciatingly obvious stuff, doesn't he? Remember, this is him writing here -- not the Wall Street Journal. He is simply a guest author.

His point, as I see it, is that the focus now has to be on the business model. (Agree: big huge duh.) Too bad he doesn't cite some examples of newer Internet business models that are, in fact, working (rare as they may be). But is "freemium" all there is?

It seems Anderson is putting out a call that more creativity is needed here. It's amazing how many 'Net entrepreneurs don't focus more on the hard question of "what will people pay for." Identifying customer pain points is great, but I think overly simplified.

The next question has to be: Will doing away with such pain mean said customer will unload some cash?

cheers,
Graeme

Re: WSJ: The Economics of Giving it Away

GraemeThickins — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:24:09 -0000

yep, I agree, Matt -- determining *how much* of a pain point a customer has is important... to try to ascertain what they will actually be willing to pay for

that's why customer research is so important -- nothing beats getting out there and talking to customers... but the beautiful thing about the Internet is that it offers many ways to do that even when you can't get face-to-face with enough of them to do adequate research

sorry I missed you today at our Social Media Breakfast! so much going on, and so many people that want to talk! let me know if you're up for coffee sometime soon... I want to hear about what cool things you are up to

cheers,
Graeme

Re: Twitter A Hotbed Of Frangers

GraemeThickins — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:11:16 -0000

franger - interesting term ... continuous / partial / fleeting friendship?

Re: Manifesto spurs a battle among giants in the cloud

GraemeThickins — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 09:40:05 -0000

The notion of a cloud computing standard happening anytime soon, via this initiative or some other, is pure fantasy, IMHO. But, hey -- nice try, IBM.

Re: Discovery Engine Coming to Twitter Homepage. Wait, What Twitter Homepage?

GraemeThickins — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:35:47 -0000

Great points, Stan. Just read the TechCrunch post of a few hours ago, which hit in the wee hours of the morning here, and your perspective is a great follow-on to that...

cheers,
Graeme
www.twitter.com/graemethickins

Re: What recession? Apple sees best March ever, best non-holiday quarter

GraemeThickins — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:09:17 -0000

great reporting, Anthony! see you at UtR

cheers,
Graeme

Re: Venture capitalists worry: Are we stunting companies?

GraemeThickins — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:44:19 -0000

This is a great insight for startups, Matt. Thanks
to you and Chris for holding that breakfast.

cheers,
Graeme
www.twitter.com/graemethickins

Re: Happy Mother’s Day

GraemeThickins — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:12:14 -0000

Great pix, and great post, Max. Just now discovering it....
A very good looking family!

Are you from Australia yourself? If so, I didn't know that!
I was born in Perth, and always enjoy discovering other
Aussies in the U.S. ...esp in the tech/marketing business.

cheers,
Graeme
www.twitter.com/graemethickins

Re: Q&A: Verizon’s Higgins says it will be the first to offer `true’ mobile video

GraemeThickins — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:54:32 -0000

I think the writer asked some very good questions. Hey, it's clearly disclosed as an interview with an advertising sponsor. That doesn't mean it cannot still be valuable information. It is. Thanks, VentureBeat, for publishing it.

Re: Buzz! matches user-generated video with location: Could lead to radical political activism

GraemeThickins — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:09:08 -0000

<< interested to see whether this application gets adopted in countries where there is civil unrest >>

yeah, like San Francisco?

certainly not in all those third-world countries where the price of 3GS
is the equivalent of, oh, five years of food for a family of fourteen

Re: http://venturebeat.com/2009/09/07/125415/

GraemeThickins — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:31:39 -0000

It's certain that legions of recent startups wouldn't be able to exist without the cloud. But I think the percentage of large enterprises who are also now implementing cloud initiatives would surprise most people. I saw a recent survey that found about two-thirds of IT directors have cloud in their budgets.
Two resources I've found very helpful to better understand cloud computing are these:
- a book from O'Reilly called "Cloud Application Architectures" by George Reese (4/09)
- and a whitepaper entitled "Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing"...
http://radlab.cs.berkeley.edu/ (02/09)