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Re: Facebook’s first acquisition: secretive start-up Parakey

Ilya Lichtenstein — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:00:34 -0000

Facebook is already the world's largest photo-sharing application. It makes sense for them to expand further in this space. Click my name to read more of Facebook's plans for world domination.

Re: For Yet Another Perspective On Blogging Class Warfare…

Ilya Lichtenstein — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:40:31 -0000

Thanks for the link! You make a good point that just because we have the technology and leisure time to blog, we are all already on top. But every social structure gets stratified further and further...and it's unfortunate that we have to resort to tricks like SEO and link whoring to rise higher...

Re: Meme: Blogs That Make Me Think

Ilya Lichtenstein — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:23:50 -0000

How funny that all of those blogs are already in my list of favorites... I guess it's a small world of intelligent blogs...

Re: Meme: Blogs That Make Me Think

Ilya Lichtenstein — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:09:52 -0000

catch-22- if I've heard of a blog then chances are you have too. There's tons of amazing content out there nobody has heard of, unfortunately. I try to remedy this problem by linking to quality related posts from all around the blogosphere(gathered through Technorati searches) from every post I make, with preference to less popular blogs.

Re: Technorati Redesign: Cool But I Hope They Fixed The Bugs

Ilya Lichtenstein — Sat, 26 May 2007 00:58:40 -0000

I doubt anyone other than bloggers visits Technorati...but that's a big enough demographic in its own right...

Re: Want To Get Attention? Deny Geeks Their Internets

Ilya Lichtenstein — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:46:25 -0000

Your post made me think of the 1985 Bond movie A View to a Kill, in which bad guys try to destroy Silicon Valley. For some reason, I can't shake the image of a snarling Christopher Walken riding a Zeppelin into a datacenter.

Re: Blog Contests: Make Them Worthwhile To Participate In

Ilya Lichtenstein — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:37:56 -0000

I think so much of it has to do with format. If you offer $100 to comment #100, what incentive is there for people 1-99 to comment?
PS I like the color green, I think it looks fine here :)

Re: Blog Contests: Make Them Worthwhile To Participate In

Ilya Lichtenstein — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:37:56 -0000

I think so much of it has to do with format. If you offer $100 to comment #100, what incentive is there for people 1-99 to comment?
PS I like the color green, I think it looks fine here :)

Re: Facebook to Become the Web OS

Ilya Lichtenstein — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:13:35 -0000

I would not be surprised if Facebook, in 5 years, becomes a serious challenge to Microsoft on the desktop as well as online.

Re: Showing some link love

Ilya Lichtenstein — Fri, 11 May 2007 01:37:38 -0000

Look at everyone commenting on this post all of a sudden(me included).

Link whores! :P

Re: 2007/04/11/youchoose-dialogue/

Ilya Lichtenstein — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:45:39 -0000

I can only imagine the comic chaos that ensues once Mitt Romney is faced with the average YouTube comment.

It would go something like this:
Mitt: What's the greatest challenge facing America?
YouTube Commenter: The fact that u will die in 2 dayz unless you forward this video to 15 people but if you do the love of ur life will kiss you lol

Re: 2007/04/18/cho-seung-hui-video/

Ilya Lichtenstein — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:21:23 -0000

This guy clearly has a flair for the dramatic. Too bad the dialogue he writes is so trite and cliche.

Re: 2007/05/01/digg-out-of-control/

Ilya Lichtenstein — Wed, 02 May 2007 01:02:37 -0000

The most amazing and ridiculous thing is that Digg's moderators are STILL fighting the crowd by actively deleting stories and SUBTRACTING Diggs from popular stories, even ones that do not have the key. Unbelievable- will they ever learn?

Re: 2007/05/06/gottabet/

Ilya Lichtenstein — Mon, 07 May 2007 03:20:30 -0000

I don't see how the VCs could allow this. Investing $1 for every registered user is a terrible ROI- any good marketer will give you 10 users for $1!

Re: 2007/05/14/avanoo/

Ilya Lichtenstein — Mon, 14 May 2007 19:31:04 -0000

If you want an invite to try out Avanoo or have any questions about it, leave me a comment or email me .

Re: A Short Review of Randomly Selected Metal Band Names and Song Titles

Ilya Lichtenstein — Tue, 08 May 2007 19:18:40 -0000

I'm curious, why did you pick these particular titles?

I love metal, but some of the lyrics are rather...silly. Just look at Cradle of Filth. I can't understand any of the growling, but every time I look at the lyrics for one of their songs it's always something about raping,killing, and eating virgins, not necessarily in that order.

Re: iPhone distortion bump revealed on Google Finance?

Ilya Lichtenstein — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:27:52 -0000

More pageviews get your picture on Wordpress.com....ALL THE TIME.

Re: Sometimes I need an hour away from the computer…

Ilya Lichtenstein — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:53:37 -0000

I think you enjoy the drama, Scoble.
It is blog excitement and excellent linkbait after all, as Calacanis correctly points out.

Re: The hype about that micro blogging service

Ilya Lichtenstein — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:10:59 -0000

I've written repeatedly about how Twitter sucks, does that count?
http://neomeme.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/twitter...

And I would definitely disagree with you. One mention about how Twitter is awesome from the likes of you or Steve Rubel is worth more than 1,000 hate posts from little guys like me. Notice that most of the Twitter-hate is not coming from A-list bloggers- you guys all love it, because you have thousands of adoring fans(would they be called Twits?) In conclusion, your opinions suck :)

Re: O’Reilly responds to code of conduct feedback

Ilya Lichtenstein — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:35:50 -0000

I still don't understand the purpose of the code of conduct. The only bloggers who will follow O'Reilly's code of conduct(and put up his badges) are the ones who would not make any mean posts anyway. The trolls will keep on trolling, code of conduct or not.

O'Reilly's rules, like a non-binding resolution may be a nice gesture, but useless in reality.

Re: O’Reilly responds to code of conduct feedback

Ilya Lichtenstein — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:19:09 -0000

@Andy Because, after laying claim to the term Web 2.0, Tim O'Reilly now wants to be known as the man who brought law and order to the blogosphere. Trust me, he's not dropping this one.

Re: Microsoft about to enter into patent war?

Ilya Lichtenstein — Sun, 13 May 2007 19:08:59 -0000

Microsoft is seeing open source like Linux and Firefox as more and more of a threat- and instead of stopping open source by developing better software, they seem content to try to sue it out of existence.

Re: Microsoft about to enter into patent war?

Ilya Lichtenstein — Sun, 13 May 2007 20:21:33 -0000

anon: And how are they going to get those royalties without legal action? Are you going to pay them?

Re: Nokia users hate me…

Ilya Lichtenstein — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 01:53:08 -0000

I can't believe you continue to hype the iPhone.
Shouldn't you declare a conflict of interest before writing all of these posts?
How much free publicity have you personally gained thanks to the iPhone?

This isn't even about iPhone vs. N95. This is about irresponsible blogging.

Re: Nokia users hate me…

Ilya Lichtenstein — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 02:02:49 -0000

I wasn't talking about getting paid by Apple.
I was talking about all the free publicity you got because you bought an iPhone.

I think this is about saving face. How bad would it look if, after so publically camping out for an iPhone you said "This thing I've been waiting for...it actually isn't that great." After all of that press about you exuberantly getting an iPhone, you have no choice but to praise it.

I just wish you wouldn't be so hostile about it.

Oh, and I've used an iPhone for hours. I'm writing this from a Macbook. I also have an N95.

Re: Nokia users hate me…

Ilya Lichtenstein — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 02:04:22 -0000

Also, you, if anyone, should know that it's far cooler to be an Apple fanboy nowadays.

Re: Nokia users hate me…

Ilya Lichtenstein — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 02:24:17 -0000

Robert, I have a conflict of interest because I mentioned in one blog post that I'm sick of the iPhone hype, but you're don't have a conflict of interest when you wrote 33 posts about the iPhone? A bit much, no?

Fair disclosure: I was given an N95 to try out by Nokia, and I fell in love with it. Feature-for-feature, the iPhone simply does not compare.

You can argue that the iPhone has a better interface, is easier to use, is pretty, fine. But once you start listing features, the N95 wins hands down.

5MP camera, VIDEO, GPS, VoIP, flash, etc.

There is no way you can favorably compare the iPhone's crippled, flash-less web browser to the N95. Want to know why?

Because the N95 web browser uses the same code as Safari on the iPhone! It's basically the same damn browser!

I thought you were a geek. Didn't you know that?

Re: Nokia users hate me…

Ilya Lichtenstein — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 02:45:19 -0000

Allright the iPhone looks nice, we get it. It's eyecatching. It doesn't look like a regular smartphone. It looks beautiful.

Does that make it a technically superior product?
It doesn't matter.

This debate is fruitless- it's impossible to argue with a true believer(this applies to both Apple and Nokia fanboys).

You can trade your N95 for an iPhone, and I can continue to use my N95, and we can both go to sleep smug and secure in our own superiority.

Re: Hate my iPhone and Facebook yammering?

Ilya Lichtenstein — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:36:51 -0000

If you're looking for news, you can always turn to ValleyWag for hard-hitting, quality journalism....

never mind. They're writing about Facebook.

Re: Hate my iPhone and Facebook yammering?

Ilya Lichtenstein — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:53:05 -0000

Getting tech news from Valleywag is like getting political news from The Daily Show- it only serves to illuminate the sad state of the real media.

Re: Calacanis asks deep questions about social networks

Ilya Lichtenstein — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:53:44 -0000

Facebook is the new business card? Oh please.

You are so far out of Facebook's target demographic...Facebook is a way to remember the name of the cute girl you met at the party last night, not a serious business networking application.

LinkedIn, maybe. But Facebook? Facebook is a toy.

Re: Technology Bloggers, what are they good for?

Ilya Lichtenstein — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:13:22 -0000

What did Valleywag do to earn its way back into your good graces?

Re: Digg StumblesUpon a New Way to Engage Community

Ilya Lichtenstein — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:13:43 -0000

Actually, I'm pretty sure it's reddit that Digg is imitating. Reddit, a social news site almost exactly like digg has had http://reddit.com/recommended for quite some time.

Re: 105 Web Apps for Everything You Could Possibly Need

Ilya Lichtenstein — Fri, 11 May 2007 01:31:58 -0000

This is like the Web 2.0 meme . It's a bit surprising how 99% of people use the same 5-10 applications, despite the hundreds of them out there.

Re: 10 Tips for Investing in Domain Names

Ilya Lichtenstein — Fri, 11 May 2007 01:33:22 -0000

Domains on hot news topics get snapped up INSTANTLY- I can never get there fast enough.

Re: Guide to Getting the Most Out of Backlinks to Your Domain

Ilya Lichtenstein — Fri, 11 May 2007 01:36:19 -0000

I bet it's almost impossible to get a PR10 backlink..so the list isn't too helpful :(

Re: “Subvert and Profit” Profits No One

Ilya Lichtenstein — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:41:43 -0000

The concept of a group of saboteurs infiltrating S&P is an interesting and exciting concept- Ragnar will not be pleased- this is the second infiltration attempt he will have to deal with.

As a top Digg user, you would surely know that Digg is host to many groups with special interest. All of them game Digg with varying degrees of success. Ron Paul, immigration reform, liberal, conservative, Apple, Microsoft, Ubuntu,TechCrunch, you name it, there are people gaming Digg for every one of these causes. I have empirical evidence to prove this.

In the fast-paced world of Digg submissions, content is secondary to how you game the system. You game the system, perhaps inadvertently, by having a lot of friends- look at how many of your friends Dugg your stories before they hit the front page, and consider if your story would make the front page without them.

At this point, almost everyone games Digg, if only to even the playing field. I have seen stories get submitted, get 2-3 Diggs, and fade into obscurity. A day later, that same story is submitted by a top user, and gets thousands of natural Diggs after it hits the front page. Is this fair? Of course not. But that's the way it works- like all democracies, more powerful elements invariably emerge.

Re: “Subvert and Profit” Profits No One

Ilya Lichtenstein — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:24:26 -0000

Or take the easy way out and buy some friends on Subvert and Profit :)

I kid, I kid.

That's a very astute observation on the spirit of the times- this is how a democratic system works: You can make friends...or you can buy them.

Re: Improve The Performance Of Your Alternate Urls Using Openads

Ilya Lichtenstein — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:31:45 -0000

I've just installed OpenAds, and I absolutely love its flexibility. Viva open source!

Re: Chris Winfield in the Associated Press: ‘Digg Fires Google for Online Ads’

Ilya Lichtenstein — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:14:47 -0000

Such a hot web property? Are you kidding? Digg users are absolutely notorious for not clicking on ads. Just look at the comments on the Digg story- the most upvoted are "Digg has ads?".

Digg's CTR is absolutely horrible- Microsoft advertisers won't be happy.