John Furrier

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  • John Furrier  I agree with most of your points but would add that posting about someone elses post makes sense to share the comment and link to the audience. Disqus is a bit distracting but important to share on the site where a comment is relevant. For example I would leave this comment here but would post an expanded thought on my blog with a link (in that case a full on blog post would be ok). nice job Louis
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    •   louisgray.com: To Blog, or Not to Blog - That is the Question
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  • John Furrier  Dave Winer pulled the same stunt. Never retired. Publicity stunt. Jason is entertaining for sure.
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  • John Furrier  FSJ will go down in history as a journalist milestone in this new era of whatever we call it these days... social media or ...... kudos for having the brass b**ls to pull it off. Good Night and Good Luck
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  • John Furrier  but the people who say they're friends who don't offer support.... how telling is that line dave. I agree that it's funny how no one will come to Shel's defense... what are they afraid of? It's the silicon valley way... avoid anything that is negative because half the valley is hype... people are competing for signal and don't want to be associated with the noise. I like Loren and I like Shel. In silicon valley you're only as good as your last thing that you did.. for shel it's this mess. he needs to move on and put a new stake in the ground - be know for being what silicon valley admires- a fighter a survivor, a player...
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    •   Silicon Valley as second grade (Scripting News)
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  •   dave  Yeah, it's definitional. If a friend of yours asks for support, even if it's just private, and you turn your back, there is no friendship. Probably never was. When I was young and this happened to me, I swore I'd wait and get even with the guy who did it, and I did get even. There came a moment when he took me aside and said "You won, please stop fucking with me." And I did. That was when I was young, Mike's age. Now I get something I didn't get then. You can't get even with someone without fucking yourself. There is no vengeance for humans, that's for god, if there is one. So the satisfaction for Shel and other people who get fucked with like he's getting fucked with is the certainty that it will come back to the people doing the fucking. And probably to the people who stand by and say nothing. Moral of the story -- if you ever feel a vendetta coming on, take a deep breath and don't act on it. And if you see it happening to someone else, at least have the guts to tell them you see it happening, privately and if you can stand it, publicly. The former will help the person get over the feeling that they're dealing with it alone, and the latter will help make it stop.
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  • John Furrier  sweet post... the geo issue is going to be a nightmare but it will be solved and circumvented by technology around domicile issue of servers. To me any gov't intervention will be rerouted by innovation and entrepreneurial 'tech savvy'. I'm sure it will 'cloud' the issue.
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    •   "Follow the law" computing
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  • John Furrier  what are you trying to say? wait that's a blog post :-)
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    •   Where To Go For Inspiration?
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  • John Furrier  Interesting just as I'm starting to add advertising sponsorshp to my blog.. I think that it won't be weeding out but repositioning of the value is for blogging. If advertsiing is the sunlight then yes CPM based ads are nuclear winter... the sun is a new add model not CPM based.. My ads coming on my blog are not cpm based..
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    •   The Great Blog Weeding of 2008
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  •   StevenHodson  Oh sure John ... get my curiosity up LOL
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  • John Furrier  Great idea to pull this off.
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    •   Startup2Startup: Dinners for new entrepreneurs, like what they did back in the old days
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  • John Furrier  Young entrepreneurial talent? What is the cut off :-)
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    •   Startup2Startup: Are You A First Time Entrepreneur Looking For A Dinner And Good Conversation?
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  •   nickgonzalez  I think there are young entrepreneurs at all ages. It's more about being new to entrepreneurship.
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  • John Furrier  You should have been invited. What were they thinking. Keep up the great blogging. Oh I wasn't invited either. :-)
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  •   MG Siegler  Thanks John. Lets give em hell.
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  • John Furrier  FSJ: of course he should sell then my post will have come true.. if they plop $25b on the table - he has to sell - it's his only IPO - the IPO market is dark for at least 5 years http://furrier.org/2008/05/19/facebook-ipo-microsoft-is-facebooks-ipo-not-the-nasdaq/ Can MZ be extraordinary?? here's my memo http://furrier.org/2008/05/19/facebook-ipo-microsoft-is-facebooks-ipo-not-the-nasdaq/
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    •   New poll: Should Microsoft acquire Facebook?
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  • John Furrier  great job gabe...
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    •   Techmeme listens: 32 months in the making, search arrives! - Techmeme News
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  • John Furrier  MG commenting on your post imspired a quick analysis that I was mulling over..thanks for shaking it loose for me. Facebooks IPO is MSFT - the lack of an IPO market makes this a save 'FACE' for Facebook http://furrier.org/2008/05/19/facebook-ipo-microsoft-is-facebooks-ipo-not-the-nasdaq/
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    •   Powder keg or conjecture? Microsoft buying Facebook could start Internet War I
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  •   MG Siegler  You bet John - glad I can be of some inspiration :) That's an interesting angle to take on all of this.
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  • John Furrier  Hey MG, I write alot of ideas on my blog and most of them become reality but when I post rumors they are more than ideas - all of them materialized into fact. We'll see on this one. As you know it's knowing the players and what they say and don't say then watching their actions. This story wasn't made up it came from very credible sources and some detective work on my end. I don't report on speculation but when I see missiles being fired in my backyard of Palo Alto it's clear to me what is going on. This is a war between Goog and Msft; Here is my observation on Zuck's comments to Reuters http://furrier.org/2008/05/19/facebook-ceo-responds-to-rumors-stresses-they-wont-be-sold/
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    •   Powder keg or conjecture? Microsoft buying Facebook could start Internet War I
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  •   MG Siegler  Hey John. I got that impression from you talking about MSFT/YHOO in your piece, but not when you were talking about MSFT/FB, so thanks for clearing that up. I'll update. Certainly MSFT's desire to do this seems very real to a lot of us (I too wrote about it a couple weeks ago), but I'm not sold on FB doing this. I'll check out your piece on Zuckerberg's statement though for sure.
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  • John Furrier  I'm with you on the valuation but if Msft was willing to poney up 41 billion to get yahoo they might be willing to grab the yahoo search and facebook for a price in that range. Microsoft is crunching the spreadsheets and SIA had a post that Google's search revenue will soon surpass the revenues in the bellweather monopoly windows franchise..Microsoft has to kill Google or reduce their position in the market... Facebook is a pawn..an expensive pawn
  • • 2 months ago
    •   Welcome to the Land of Irrationality
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  •   loupaglia  John: I'm with you. Once the rationalization occurs that you are spending $41B on an online asset, making the strategic decision to split that asset up on Yahoo! Search and Facebook isn't much of a leap. But that is already saying you justified $246M for 1% and then another justification that $20B is justified for Facebook (expensive pawn or not). Couple of points: 1. It is a very dangerous strategic game to justify getting so heavy into online search simply because Google is making money doing so. Even if it is more money than the windows franchise. 2. Online search and windows are two different businesses so I'm not clear on why any comparison of the two revenue streams should be made. 3. Is there a guarantee that you are a immense player in search long-term by placing a $41B bet on yahoo! search and Facebook? Right now, I'd say it isn't a sure thing and it better be at that price tag. 4. Will Facebook acquisition help with the Office franchise? Because MSFT needs to have a strategy there against Google Apps as well. I'm not sure Facebook is the answer here either.
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  • John Furrier  You have the right read on the 'press their competitive advantage" - but i'd submit to you that they don't have that yet. In fact Facebook came across like Netscape not Microsoft. Facebook thinks they have sustainability in their platform - not yet. It's a false sense of security on their part. They aren't at the Microsoft levels of leverage yet. In their mind they are but not in competitive strategy. It's Google who has the leverage not Facebook. Here's my post http://furrier.org/2008/05/15/facebook-just-pulled-a-netscape-hey-facebook-what-are-you-thinking/
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  •   Jesse Farmer  John, I actually agree, in part. Facebook is trying their hardest to hold onto the monolith they've constructed. That's certainly something they have that Google doesn't. But you're right in that they think they have more control than they do. The Microsoft-style lock-in isn't there yet and Facebook has given away its hand. They can't even emulate Microsoft correctly — you stay open until everyone is using your platform and then cripple everyone else. Part of it is that these old strategies just aren't as feasible as they once were. On the network people move too fast to lock them down. The tighter the grip the quicker their users will slip through their fingers.
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  • John Furrier  Social media needs to be social...putting links is is key but that ain't the end game... I have a big opinion on this puppy - almost all social media fails because PR isn't funding in their companies to do it right. Links is the minimum starting point. To do is right is like building a rocket ;-) A marketing rocket http://furrier.org/2008/04/11/social-media-release-ok-this-is-in-my-wheelhouse/
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    •   PR industry: Still grasping for a clue
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  • John Furrier  Dave: great assessment but to move forward your analogy is to think about interoperability among apps once they scale past the limit of AppEngine. The open question in my mind is how they will port the scale question once someone writes a great app that supercedes the limit on Google. Basic and Pascal worked great for primative apps so i'm not to sure how python will work in today's not so primative web services world. Sure in Google's part of the stack it's primative but underneath Google it's far from primative - that's the assembly code metaphor - Enter the network layer - hello Cisco.
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    •   Early notes on GoogleApps (Scripting News)
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  •   dave  Remember what happened with GMail -- how they kept making the free storage amount larger, I bet that'll be in play here too, and it'll take a while before people hit the barriers. We know where they are at the start, people likely won't build apps that are likely to exceed the limits. And then at some point they'll announce their pricing. And Python isn't an issue, it's a fast language. CPUs are a million times faster today than they were in 1981 when PCs rolled out, and even then Pascal was a fine deployment language.
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  • John Furrier  It's great to see the big thinkers are picking up on the main message to this post.. http://furrier.org/2008/04/03/influencers-have-clout-problem-is-what-does-influence-mean/ influence isn't about people - it's about groups.. ding ding 1 point for fred wilson; welcome to the party Fred. You're doing the community a great service by point out Hamir's post and your view on it.. classic b-school stuff but very relevent as the modern web evolves as 'infrastructure transactional' engine or a 'vertical engine'.
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  • John Furrier  I'm not disagreeing with you on this one dave but merely pointing out how you can be more active than one post. I find myself looking at both the political techmeme and ballbug for stories but more and more twitter is becoming a signaling system for my 'navigation or attention'. I remember when you 'over linked' to techcrunch everyday when it formed and promoted their initial flow - so why don't you do the same for someone else. Some people are saying that sites like Techcrunch prefer to lead with a sword verses collaboration and that is leading to blogwars and ill will.
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    •   Proof that the end is near (Scripting News)
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  • John Furrier  It sounds like the blogosphere is becoming a joke. I blog for comments to other stories and for my original thoughts. I post only orginal thoughts and opinions. Blogging and now twittering is about sharing ideas and collaborating imho. Posting original ideas, comments, and opinions is the only way to get a connection... One thing about being a visionary is that I can see these things coming a mile away - this kind of splintering or cival unrest in the blogosphere has been brewing for sometime. It's a symptom of the leadership in the blogosphere which Dave you are one of. http://furrier.org/2007/12/18/why-i-like-dave-winer-timely-leadership-in-the-face-of-controversy/
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  •   dave  It's not really "the blogosphere" that became a joke -- there's a lot of blogging going on that has nothing to do with tech. I pay much more attention to the political techmeme these days than I do to the tech one (still have yet to get a post over there, and I *want* it). I could give a shit about techmeme, because it only picks up my bullshit posts like this one. The interesting ones never make it on. Same as it always was, I couldn't get CNET to take us seriously when we were pushing RSS and related technologies, now it's not CNET but the gatekeepers at TechMeme. Difference is I'm not running a company now, I don't have a burn rate, nor do I have to make payroll, and I'm not trying to push anything ambitious like RSS. Just little projects here and there.
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  • John Furrier  Thanks Fred. I'm a man of my word :-) furrier.org blog did 18k uniques for the qtr around 6.5k per month ... i have no idea how many subscribers are hitting the feed.
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    •   Where My Traffic Comes From
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  • John Furrier  Fred, What were your total unique visits? You mention page views but how about sharing the unqiue number? I'll share mine if you share yours. Thanks john
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    •   Where My Traffic Comes From
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  •   fredwilson  i just checked google and it was 83k for the past 30 days
  •   fredwilson  Around 75k per month last time I checked plus whatever the uniques are that read my feed and don't come to this page (like dan who left a comment earlier) Fred
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  • John Furrier  Great to see you podcasting again. This is better than the old morning coffee notes in terms of quality and topics. Excellent. I love the infotalk format of 15-20mins.. keep them coming
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    •   Who should I interview next? (Scripting News)
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  • John Furrier  Great point Dave about the only thing to do is let the market figure it out by launching competing sites. If Valleywag has that many uniques as they claim then that should attract entrants. I am certainly not a big fan of Valleywag because not only was the stories false but when they attacked me personally they never called or investigated. Did it matter to me no because at least they spelled my name properly :-) It's three 'R"s in Furrier
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    •   Valleywag got a legit story, Mike (Scripting News)
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