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Re: louisgray.com: To Blog, or Not to Blog - That is the Question

John Furrier — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:30:17 -0000

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

Re: Jason’s long goodbye: Give me a break

John Furrier — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:58:58 -0000

Dave Winer pulled the same stunt. Never retired. Publicity stunt. Jason is entertaining for sure.

Re: I am so friggin high it's not funny

John Furrier — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:39:07 -0000

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

Re: Silicon Valley as second grade (Scripting News)

dave — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:25:12 -0000

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.

Re: Silicon Valley as second grade (Scripting News)

John Furrier — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:27:12 -0000

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...

Re: Some thoughts from the Social Media Breakfast Boston

John Furrier — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:31:48 -0000

boy I wish that I could have been there...Love Boston in the Summertime..

Go Sox

Re: "Follow the law" computing

John Furrier — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:37:25 -0000

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.

Re: Where To Go For Inspiration?

John Furrier — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:39:40 -0000

what are you trying to say? wait that's a blog post :-)

Re: The Great Blog Weeding of 2008

StevenHodson — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:56:09 -0000

Oh sure John ... get my curiosity up LOL

Re: The Great Blog Weeding of 2008

John Furrier — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:16:16 -0000

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..

Re: Startup2Startup: Are You A First Time Entrepreneur Looking For A Dinner And Good Conversation?

nickgonzalez — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:06:50 -0000

I think there are young entrepreneurs at all ages. It's more about being new to entrepreneurship.

Re: Startup2Startup: Dinners for new entrepreneurs, like what they did back in the old days

John Furrier — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:58:36 -0000

Great idea to pull this off.

Re: Startup2Startup: Are You A First Time Entrepreneur Looking For A Dinner And Good Conversation?

John Furrier — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:47:28 -0000

Young entrepreneurial talent? What is the cut off :-)

Re: Google launches Gmail Labs tonight

parislemon — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:05:01 -0000

Thanks John. Lets give em hell.

Re: Google launches Gmail Labs tonight

John Furrier — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:54:49 -0000

You should have been invited. What were they thinking. Keep up the great blogging.

Oh I wasn't invited either. :-)

Re: How Questionable is Social Media Monetization?

John Furrier — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:05:19 -0000

the answer is targeted high value audiences... get that and the ad stuff is easy.

Re: Facebook Leaves More Questions Than Answers

John Furrier — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:16:22 -0000

facebook has a clutter problems...i would focus the engineering and product group on developing a relevance algorithm to filter apps for users.. installing them is easy creating clutter is easy but both contribute to irrelevance.

facebook needs to be relevant to users.. they need to be think like a search vendor..user experience and discovery = utilty; utility = revenue

there it is facebook - get to work

Re: Are Facebook’s Design Intentions Misguided?

John Furrier — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:09:03 -0000

Nick: how can i get access to the press briefing today in palo alto. is there a sign up sheet?

Re: New poll: Should Microsoft acquire Facebook?

John Furrier — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:40:40 -0000

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-micr...

Can MZ be extraordinary?? here's my memo

http://furrier.org/2008/05/19/facebook-ipo-micr...

Re: Techmeme listens: 32 months in the making, search arrives! - Techmeme News

John Furrier — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:31:10 -0000

great job gabe...

Re: Powder keg or conjecture? Microsoft buying Facebook could start Internet War I

parislemon — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:22:34 -0000

You bet John - glad I can be of some inspiration :)

That's an interesting angle to take on all of this.

Re: Powder keg or conjecture? Microsoft buying Facebook could start Internet War I

John Furrier — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:17:06 -0000

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-micr...

Re: Powder keg or conjecture? Microsoft buying Facebook could start Internet War I

parislemon — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:48:05 -0000

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.

Re: Powder keg or conjecture? Microsoft buying Facebook could start Internet War I

John Furrier — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:41:05 -0000

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-resp...

Re: Welcome to the Land of Irrationality

loupaglia — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:05:59 -0000

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.