Disqus - Latest Comments for Sam Harrelson

Re: Worlds Collide: Mahalo and Affiliate Marketing

Sam Harrelson — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:08:13 -0000

Calacanis bought 20.com while working at Sequoia and coming up with the idea that would become Mahalo. I'm guessing he registered the Amazon stuff while the working name was 20.com.

Re: ReveNews- Why Not WordPress?

Sam Harrelson — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:54:34 -0000

Hey Vlad-

i'm typing this on my mobile on the way to CJU, so excuse any typos.

basically, the decision to stick with movable type over wordpress came down to the group nature of the site. As a stand alone platform, wordpress kicks mt's butt. In a group blog setting, mt is much better for the bloggers and admin. We havent finished installing all the new plugins, but im confident that once the site is completely "finished" by the end of the month, it will have all of the functonality you reference above. See the new boingboing.net site for an example. MT 4 is very powerful, so give us some time to get RN finalized and i assure you that you'll be happy!

Re: ReveNews- Why Not WordPress?

Sam Harrelson — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:34:03 -0000

Not really damage control... The new ReveNews is less than a week old, so its more of a plea for patience. Group blogs are never easy platforms to create or recreate, and there are bound to be bugs in the first few days. We'll get them worked out right away, though. The hard part of getting onto the new platform is done.

Re: ReveNews- Why Not WordPress?

Sam Harrelson — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:54:34 -0000

Re: ReveNews- Why Not WordPress?

Sam Harrelson — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:34:03 -0000

Re: The Jim Show Episode One - Reckless Driving While Videoing

Sam Harrelson — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:58:33 -0000

Cleveland Rocks!

Sorry, had to.

Re: Buy The Flip Video Camera, Everyone’s Doing It!

Sam Harrelson — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:56:51 -0000

I'm in love with The Flip, but I'm hating the Verizon.

And such.

Re: People LOVE Lists - You Should Make One

Sam Harrelson — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:54:26 -0000

I've got to agree with Scoble here... "Lists are Lame."

I do think this is a death-blow to Technorati, and am glad to see something to compete with that out-of-date system.

But seriously... blogging is not about making or creating lists or finding the best way to capture eyeballs. It's about writing what you're passionate about and communicating with the people who are passionate about the same thing (or converting a few others to share that passion). Of course that's my personal opinion.

Re: People LOVE Lists - You Should Make One

Sam Harrelson — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:24:29 -0000

"Youâ€™re right Sam, but weâ€™re talking about marketing, not so much blogging. A blog is a marketing tool in this discussion."

I don't see the need for a distinction. Two sides of the same coin.

Re: Exclusive First Look At SocialSpark, Formerly PayPerPost, A “Social Network” For Advertisers & Publishers

Sam Harrelson — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:51:31 -0000

Seriously?

What a lame Izea.

If people are tired of social networking with their friends, what's to make a social network with "advertisers" that actually benefits the network and the advertisers much more than the actual bloggers appealing?

Sorry, Jim... this just looks silly.

Sam

Re: I Love Twitter, But I Have To Quit It

Sam Harrelson — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:34:47 -0000

Nice linkbait, Jim :)

Get a desktop client like Twitterific for Mac or Snitter for Mac/PC or Tweetr for PC and let the flow roll.

I'm with Marshall...

http://marshallk.com/twitter-is-paying-my-rent

Re: What’s In A Name? Web 2.0 Domain Naming Disasters

Sam Harrelson — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:14:41 -0000

Actually, Google is a made up (and mis-spelled) name. The intention was "googol."

http://graphics.stanford.edu/~dk/google_name_or...

Re: Busting the 10 Most Common Social Media Myths

Sam Harrelson — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:19:07 -0000

Great post, Lisa. I stand guilty of saying about 3 of these in public then regretting my words later for the same points you make here.

Plus, now I have a place to send others when they throw out the common misconceptions.

Sam

Re: The Penguin at the ASW08 Pinacle Awards

Sam Harrelson — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:10:32 -0000

Thanks, JGoode (and The Penguin) for the kind words. It was great to meet the both of you as well!

Sam

Re: Email ain’t going away

Sam Harrelson — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:09:36 -0000

Nice post and I feel your pain, Robert. However, my family and non-geek friends have started checking my Flickr page more and more after I put my foot down and said "Look, this is how I do my photos. Look at them if you want, otherwise you're going to miss out." I set my mom up with a Flickr alert for when I post new pics and she spreads them around to the fam. Similar thing happened with my friends during baby shower season.

My blog has quickly been replaced by my Flickr page for non-geek communication. I should just redirect everything there!

Re: Webify Your Living Room with TiVo

Sam Harrelson — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:37:30 -0000

Great post, Andy. We've got a Mac Mini hooked up to our TV and watch most of our "TV" through downloaded episodes now. I've recently started using our TiVo box for podcasts while I'm working in the den and it's a nice augment to the iPod.

When we have family over, we use a quick app to display our Flickr stream on the TV through TiVo. The grandparents love it.

Here's a link to that: http://home.comcast.net/~major_clanger/TiVo/

Sam