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1 year ago

in Heading For The Exit Lane on A VC
The sky is falling, the sky is falling.......come on. We pay US$8.40 plus per gallon here in Germany and have for some time. You will get used to it and as a result start to conserve energy. The sun will still rise again tomorrow.

1 year ago

in TravelMuse launches a good looking vacation recommendations site on VentureBeat
Its a well presented site. But why does this site exist? We have enough travel recommendation sites and lets face it, there is more than enough travel media available.

The target audience is too broad. There is no focus or editorial voice. The content is very "me too". Very little here that is "authentic".

Nice design. Great colors. Nice packaging. But no real business........
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Donna M. Airoldi MJM: As Fiona noted, our main audience focus on the editorial side is family travelers. For our Inspiration Finder and Planning tools, it's anyone who travels.

As for the content not being "authentic": The first two definitions of authentic in the American Heritage dictionary are: 1. conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance or belief. 2. having a claimed and verifiable origin or authorship, not counterfeit or copied.

While our online guides are licensed and perhaps might be used by some other sites, the editorial side is filled with original content only, heavily targeted to family travelers. We do not run reprints nor do we copy from other sites. If I find a writer tries to pass off previously published content, I do not run it. Our contributors are expected to research and write their articles based on personal experiences and interviews conducted with relevant sources, and we fact-check all articles. As you can imagine, I'm curious as to what definition of "authentic" you had in mind when writing your comment.

Many thanks,
Donna
Editorial Director of TravelMuse

1 year ago

in Where To Go For Inspiration? on A VC
I think you are correct. The major tech blogs simply compete as news organizations - who can be the first to break a story. There is very little thoughtful analysis.

1 year ago

in Want Some Invites to Pheltup? on Social Times
This is an amateurish attempt at a new product intro, that it is comical. Are these ex-myspace marketing execs?

1 year ago

in FriendFeed Fans Fantasize About Death of Twitter on Social Times
I use both as well. I am interested in understanding why one is gaining dominance or traction while the other is not. The story is unfolding before us and it is an interesting case.....

Any thoughts on why Twitter is gaining release velocity?

1 year ago

in Is Web 2.0 Joining the Deadpool? on Social Times
This sounds like a post from 1999 or 2000....

Many Web 1.0 managed to gain revenue traction. Web 2.0 will also.

The differences today though are worth noting. In 2000 the web was essentially a medium for communications and information exchange. Transactions were just emerging.

Today, we have an enhanced capability as a communications platform (FB, MySpace), transactions are evolving towards services and we can now overlay content distribution and creation. It is a much broader set of addressable opportunities.

Secondly, the quality of consumer technology is now at a standard similiar to or better than enterprise level. So, cost of deployment is far less.

I think the future is pretty bright. The Valley is usually early and in this case probably right.

1 year ago

in Social Networking Sites: Dead in Two Years on Social Times
Certainly the "extended web" is quickly becoming a reality. Mobile will be an important interface, as will specific desktop applications.

We still need a "container" for all this data and the large social sites will likely continue to play a role as a data pool. Think "yellow pages" for the web - basically a social index server.

The interesting social interactions are going to devolve to smaller communities of common interest. There are over 4000 social networks now and many of the faster growing communities are thematic.

And younger people will use FB and others as the new "email", e-invite and e-match.com where the size of the communities actually works for them....

What a wonderful new world we live in.

1 year ago

in Endless Conversation: The Unfolding Saga of Blogs, Twitter, Friendfeed, and Social Sites [Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog] on Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
twitter and friend feed are compressing time.......the synchronous web....but are they all that conceptually different than msn messenger was at that point in the conversation? i there is value in that the technology makes it easier to participate...and as some wise man once wrote...web 2.0 is all about participation.

1 year ago

in Social Network Sites Are The Emperor’s New Clothes on Social Times
neil. won't the basis of value change over time as "social networks" change?

won't data portability enable growth opportunities (by lessening user friction) for new communities focused on specific interests, while creating pressure to maintain scale for large sites such as FB? creation. destruction. creation.

this debate reminds me of the first social network - AOL. as AOL gained traction there was a significant conversation around prospects for their "walled garden" versus the world wide web. we know who won that argument.

at the time, the issue of data portability came to the fore front with the IM. would AOl allow other IM's (Yahoo for example or MSN Messenger) to interconnect? eventually consumers required it and AOL yielded....

if the large social networks don;t give users what they want, someone else will........

1 year ago

in 2008/05/17/facebook-cable-company/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
To be a bit more "balanced", this is a increasingly frequently used analogy. why? valuation. FB and MyS are presented as the next Big 3 of the media space...it is a pretty easy story for a fund manager to understand

1 year ago

in 2008/05/17/facebook-cable-company/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
To be a bit more "balanced", is a increasingly frequently used analogy. why? valuation. FB and MyS are presented as the next Big 3 of the media space...it is a pretty easy story for a fund manager to understand
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