DISQUS

This is a great video. I wish I could live by his principles.

Good new ideas have to come from past experiences.

"Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior"

Piclens is great, use it on the big screen via HDMI.

Good new ideas have to come from past experiences.

"Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior"

Piclens is great, use it on the big screen via HDMI.

Hi Chris- Thanks for the write up and your insight on the site. I am glad that it got in front of your community.

@Dr Wright- The article you reference by Anita Campbell is a great read for any blogger. It is more about your rights as a blogger and what you need to know based on the latest legal action taken by the AP.

@ Josh- We worked with Digitas New York on this project. They were instrumental from the very beginning and have been a great partner.

@Darren- You can absolutely link back to your own site when leaving a comment; the field is right under name and email on every post. FWIW, trackbacks are also enabled to help further identify and link out to the conversation.

Skitch is awesome. Changed the way I work with .ppt.

Oh i get it. So the user generally wants to see the same standard flash ads that they can't interact with. Who would want to see the actual creation of art from multiple participants through banners; just give me the message already!

I agree with you Ben, when there is a customer relationship(a real one, not one where you accidentally checked a box), email offers a great way to not only fulfill but also create demand. Amazon does an amazing job for me with fulfilling and in creating demand with the emails that I get from them. They are not perfect, but they are good enough that I don't mind them when they are off.

To your point Michael to focus on email to create or even fulfill demand when it wasn't asked for, is a bad way to spend time and money.

I agree with you Ben, when there is a customer relationship(a real one, not one where you accidentally checked a box), email offers a great way to not only fulfill but also create demand. Amazon does an amazing job for me with fulfilling and in creating demand with the emails that I get from them. They are not perfect, but they are good enough that I don't mind them when they are off.

To your point Michael to focus on email to create or even fulfill demand when it wasn't asked for, is a bad way to spend time and money.

I would definitely think that Amazon would be happy with how their page is shaping up. The biggest thing that could happen for Brand Tags is it will go mainstream and you will really get a sense for what people *really* think of brands. Right now, it is in that early adopter/Digg home page phase of, "oh my God Ron Paul is going to win the Presidency, and Mac's have 90% market share!"

What is interesting from the current data is brands that were born on the web or have made a significant investment in the web; seem to be talked about and thought of far more favorably.

How is it obviously Amazon? I think that it is a good sign if it is fairly obvious. It almost shows that a small cluster of words can immediately differentiate one brand from another.

I just took a screenshot of B through E to try and not giveaway obvious tags like Amazon or JeffBezos.

I did also notice that in that screenshot there is a tag for EC2, I guess that gives it away pretty quickly to someone familiar with the Amazon brand.

No, but that is a good guess.

Some heavy stuff here Mr. Cohn. I was talking with Teresa Neilsen-Hayden (see:--> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/) and she brought up the interesting patterns she sees in communication being the moderator of BoingBoing. Crazy to think of the output you get when people have tools to communicate and meet like-minded nodes.

No. :)

Not a bad point Joe-Joe.

The future of the web is not a bunch of white boys on macs.

Apple is lost in this fascination, and so are the white boys that really feel they are the only ones creating the web.

To counter your point on price: Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it. The personal computer is becoming the most important piece of equipment in a person\'s life, leaving the OralB in it\'s dust.

At some point you do need to pay for quality. It is hard to appropriately value such an important piece of equipment merely on a price tag.

Take for instance a pop-up. How many have you closed in your life? How much time have you wasted re-installing, rebooting, or runnning virus scanning equipment on Windows.

How much is that time worth? There is a price tag there as well.

Thanks Kip and welcome aboard.

Awesome points dude!

Right on Nik! Good to hear from you, these blogs provide such good connecting platforms. :P


TC party should be fun.....

yeah, fraud on CL stinks for everyone. Restrictions are terrible as well, but I think that is the way everything is going.

Sounds good, just dont tell Chas.

er, this is true..

Never! :)

Yeah removed the whole *costs* part, but it does stink. More importantly, did you just call me a natch? Which kind of a natch are you referring too?

You urban dictionary loser. :)

This really has nothing to do with disclosures, merely a follow up to my post about Blake Ross' fantastic article.

Please dont mistake the use of satire to prove a point with malice towards the subject(s) involved.

In regards to #1, well, I hope you know me better than that.

*nods*

With Fletcher coming out and saying, "The challenge is to create world-class blog search, which we don't think exists now."

If this is more than PR fodder they should have thought about this already and have something in place.

Thanks for the comment Scott. To address your points.

1. I understand the need to develop the index with some "tricky math" but i don't believe the underlying content archive is an issue.

2. Totally agreed about spam finding any viable source. But Feedburner has a gatekeeper. The 'index' would not be formed around unknown pings from 'naked' feeds, they have the content centralized(Feedburner feeds only), and the goal would never be to 'index', in this case, the whole blogosphere. The ability to discriminate is key here.

3. Agreed

4. I am just going off what I have seen and read so far, which is admittedly limited. I guess the person to ask would be Tony. :)