DISQUS

Awesome! Finally a clear and simple solution for the Disqus documentation.

Thanks guys!

Twitter is a simple service. Direct messages are meant as a way to send SMS to someone without having to know their phone number. It's not email. If you think someone asks you a question that requires an email, then ask for an email address.

Twitter is not a GTD application, it's not email, it's not complex in any way shape or form. It's a broadcast platform for 140 character text that has a point to point backchannel, however, it is a text broadcast platform first.

Adding a layer of complexity means adding another reason that my mother won't use it.

PODCAMP!!!

Let's not forget Audial Hub too.

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Thanks for posting this Chris.

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I'd love to talk more about it. Maybe sometime around October 1st. I really don't think that they have realized they are not in the printing business anymore. If they had, they would have an online circulation manager and other positions that mirror their print counter parts.

Micromanaging is an issue that faces newspapers' management. Because we can control every little aspect of newspaper production, we assume that we can control every aspect of the web properties. While it's possible to have control over all of it, often you'll need more than one trusted person to be making those decisions. A lot of newspapers and newspaper vendors that provide some online services have an problem seeing the difference between being a newspaper with a website and a news organization that has two products, one print and one digital.

It's this micromanagement and refrigerator magnet mentality towards the digital offerings of newspapers that force them to ignore the larger issues, like the need for a different business model for each of those products.

While your idea seems like a good one, managers know that while the print might be the more respected medium between the two (to the general public, not us) the print version is the one seen by more people. Because of that, most managers are unwilling to let go of the digital edition to someone who isn't deeply rooted in print, and there are so little people who are deeply rooted in print and get the online side of things enough to lead a team.

I can expand a bit more, but not until the end of the month. Hope it helps.

Is Gary V really speaking for 15 minutes?

I know what you mean.

For my current job, it's listening to people write or talk about personal branding.

For my previous life, it's having people tell me that they can hear the difference between two sets of wires carrying sound when they both cost over $100/m

It's the kinda situation where you would justify throwing up on someone.... just once.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/theambershow/27261...

Ah, but I do have a stoop!

I think it's important for marketers to know that the people who pin pointed what works years ago and how to go the most viral and get your message out in the best fashion were not marketers to start with. Ask ZeFrank, Maddox, the people behind Boing Boing or Andrew Baron. Everyone is welcome in the pool to have fun, but look at the culture and get a feel for it before diving head first. Learn from other people and dammit, be a person.

Still no dice Drew. Video not available.

I run into the same issue with pro wrestling video games. Most of them are designed so poorly that it's just a jumble of button mashing.

But on fighting games, I always found that a game that moved a little slower was always move enjoyable. I liked the Street Fighter series until they started in with the Hyper and Turbo and the like.

I don't buy that Mevio will live up to their valuation. At this point they have taken in $38.9 million dollars in VC funding, and I haven't seen any advancement by the company. I see other networks innovating and visibly expanding, but Mevio just seems to be this blob of content that just sits there. the last time I remember hearing anyone walk about them was when they changed their name and the collective intelligence of the internet said "Who cares?"

You'd think a company that had a TiVo and Sirius deal would have been able to make more positive noise for themselves, but alas no one seems to believe that this company can actually make positive strides towards living up to its own hype.

The interesting point to this is that the companies that would bring an idea like this to market, would do so on the assumption that most people would pay for the service, but would not read enough books to cover the $40 monthly fee. It's how these unlimited services operate.

It's the people who pay for tickets but never go to minor league baseball games that keep the stadiums and teams afloat, it's the people who pay the monthly fee but don't put podcasts up that helps LibSyn cover costs, it's the people who accidentally hold on to DVDs from Netflix that allows them to be profitable and it's your late fees at the library that help keep the libraries afloat (and your tax dollars, let's be serious about that).

You could argue that the library already provides this service and it's free provided you are in your county's libraries.

I use the 30 boxes app and that words pretty well for me, though I tend to ignore the social based applications and only add apps that increase Facebook's functionality.

This is a great example of trading information for a service, kinda like what Google does with Google Analytics. It's great to see one of these services taking advantage of the information they are groking and creating another service based on that.

Good food for thought, but the myth of the need for a large community comes from the idea of the CPM. The same struggle is going on with advertising. It's not how many people participate, it's how valuable each of those people are to the conversation and community.

Oh man. I was totally expecting a conductor hat and a train set. This looks good too though. Maybe I'll whip my fat behind into shape one of these days.

Instant Web 2.0! Now we need a service that adds a reflection.

This is less about musicians selling songs and more about selling stock music. Kinda like iStockphoto for audio. It's less like the sites you had listed.

I'd also say that this site is less about loyalty and more about what fits for what someone is specifically looking for while working on a project. The site doesn't cover the usage rights of purchasing music, but I can't imagine the reason a song is $40 is because you want to hear it as much as you'd want to use it for production.

@shahzad I'm not worried about my connection to the website in terms of security. I'm worried about my information sitting on their servers. Here's what I'm also worried about from the Privacy Policy:

"Finally, information about our Users may be disclosed as part of any merger, acquisition, debt financing or sale of company assets, as well as in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership in which personally identifiable information could be transferred to third parties as one of our business assets."

My information is a company asset. That includes all of the information that is encrypted on the servers like my passwords and e-mails. That's what my concern is.

No Safari support, that's seriously lame. And the idea of converging all of my information on someone else's server is frightening. Especially a service that pulls in all my e-mail and contact information.

This is just my opinion, but I can't remember hearing about a house tour that's been successful in the past. I've more seen the house shows as stops between bigger shows, or closed events that happen during a tour. It's like the gravy as opposed to the roast beef.

It's something that almost disappeared from the musician's tool bag, but I'd love to see it work.