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Re: Seesmic for business

Jeremy Vaught — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:10:47 -0000

Ok, you are right, you said nothing about vision. But you did say "the developers are scratching their heads for a business case." So I'm just saying, I'm not a developer of Seesmic, and I didn't see much immediate business use. So I was looking for thoughts from everyone else, and am honored to have both you and Chris responding.

As for being sensitive, well, my role with Seesmic is a non-standard one... all I do is blog for them. I don't get much insight into the day-to-day, so I just don't want my boss' at Seesmic to say, "Why are you saying that our developers are scratching their heads as to what to do with Seesmic in business." or something to that effect. :-) I'm just putting it out there.

Cheers!
Jeremy Vaught

Re: Seesmic for business

Jeremy Vaught — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:44:02 -0000

Allow me to clarify a bit. One thing I do with the blog is engage the Seesmic community. So me asking about business uses is just me asking the question because I'm engaging you. And that part worked, you have fine answers. Just don't mistake what I said for Seesmic as a whole having a lack of vision. What I said are my thoughts.

Thanks for reading the blog though :) And thanks for contributing. I certainly look forward to hearing more from you in the future.

Jeremy Vaught

Re: Is Apple Rotten to the Core?

Jeremy Vaught — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:59:11 -0000

Nah. Apple is a company. And not only that, a public company. It isn't all about Steve. So Steve has to protect against the ire of stockholders, and by making more profit, stockholders are happy. Having said that, Apple will make more profit if they continue to innovate and thus selling more product. They will, and they do. Sure the price reduction thing looks bad, but that's business.

I think that Apple needs to push harder then it ever has before to open up the iPhone to 3rd party applications. Make it an open platform, this is the secret sauce of the iPhone. Currently, the iPhone is pretty good, open that up to 3rd party devs, and it is great.

Midnight ramblings :-)

Re: MeToday - Sept 30th, 2007

Jeremy Vaught — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:11:19 -0000

haha, that's funny stuff. :D hopefully your Halo 3 will improve. practice practice practice

Re: It’s all about the Parking Garage!

Jeremy Vaught — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:11:13 -0000

Brent! You're a nut. :)

Re: Programming less (Scripting News)

Jeremy Vaught — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:39:16 -0000

I appreciate these words. Mainly because this is exactly what I feel, so it is good to here Dave Winer say it. So many programmers think it is all about the program. But I say the program is just a fancy front end for a database, or several databases. Programs are all about getting the data, manipulating the data, and putting back updated data.

It all starts with a great database.

Re: Yahoo + Microsoft (Scripting News)

Jeremy Vaught — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:52:41 -0000

haha, Twitter acquire Yahoo, classic :-)

Overall I think you are right though... dead leading the blind.

Re: PodCamp AZ meeting at the desired location

Jeremy Vaught — Thu, 10 May 2007 01:11:12 -0000

Indeed Evo, I just read it... thanks for the feedback and for taking the time... good points all. Thanks for being a part of the conversation :D

*There is a reason I put the two questions together about number of attendees and number of bathrooms :-)
*Wifi is a deal killer, I agree. We have to get that sponsored and set up. We are exploring a few options.
*The live podcast thing... yeah, wifi is required, and will be available, equipment won't be a problem, we are a bunch of podcasters :-) and we will have to find a stream

Just more thoughts off the top of my dead

Re: Lemon Cake that Jeremy likes

Jeremy Vaught — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:10:05 -0000

I believe the author of this recipe died over 100 years ago. (not the author of the recipe card, but the recipe itself)

Also jointly released with the "my daughter and you dated for two years" license :-)

Re: Areae

Jeremy Vaught — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:50:38 -0000

Don't let me down Cuppycake :D

Re: Etymonic ER6i

Jeremy Vaught — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:56:20 -0000

no way! You have an iPhone?

Re: Anticipating the gPhone.

Jeremy Vaught — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:09:27 -0000

Clintus, Thanks for the replies on my blog.. my response is that the gPhone is still a possibility, hence possible purchase of wireless band.

Re: Areae on Facebook

Jeremy Vaught — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:38:45 -0000

It's true, I'm probably the nicest guy you will ever meet: virtually or otherwise :-)

Thanks for noticing!

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Jeremy Vaught

Re: Second Life is Just a Fad Huh?

Jeremy Vaught — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:39:11 -0000

All good points. I would like to remind you that Second Life is user created. And where there are faults, the gaps are filled by the users. The L Word is a great example. I wasn't a Sheep yet when that was conceived, but it is a great example of filling a gap that needed filling. And it has been hugely successful! I'll just say that our retention is a little north of the Linden Lab retention, and little is a term of opinion. (UPS makes a little profit in my opinion)

I think we are making the metaverse a better place to be, and Second Life is just the beginning.

Thanks for highlighting the news CC, and I'm glad to be a buddy. :-)

Re: Workplace Happiness

Jeremy Vaught — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:21:27 -0000

nice!

Re: Why I Dont Visit Second Life

Jeremy Vaught — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:41:59 -0000

I'm confused. If you aren't in Second Life, what virtual world are you in?

:D

Re: My Social Media Toolkit

Jeremy Vaught — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:21:00 -0000

Slideshare.net, not slideshare.com :-( Feeding the link-baiters you are. Bad Chris

Re: Moving On

Jeremy Vaught — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:45:15 -0000

Not that you are going anywhere, but best of luck to you Chris.

Re: The New Gig

Jeremy Vaught — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:36:06 -0000

Chris!
Sounds perfect for you. Congratulations!

Re: Do I Need a Book Reader

Jeremy Vaught — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:10:44 -0000

I can't see an electronic device being preferred to paper books any time soon. Sure, the inner geek thinks that would be cool, but in reality, I like my books being 'offline'.

I don't lose them when my computer crashes, they don't rely on battery power, I can read them while the airplane is taking off and landing, I never have to get my book warrantied, I like getting a paperback for $5, (and any time there is a new technology, even if it is easier to produce, the price goes up, i.e. tapes to CDs), and many many more reasons.

Books are great. Electronic books will have their place, but books are books, and books are awesome. I'm not giving mine up any time soon.

Jeremy Vaught
jeremyvaught.com

Re: Thanks for the Influence

Jeremy Vaught — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:35:13 -0000

awwwwww.. Me? You shouldn't have

Re: Social Media Starter Moves for Freelancers

Jeremy Vaught — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:50:31 -0000

3 things.

1. Fantastic post, I find it hard to believe you are constantly on the edge of being broke when you are always putting out such great content. And great seeing you again at SXSW.

2. @paul above, lol, because I found this post on FriendFeed.

3. to build on what Laura said. When I was a freelance PHP developer, almost all of my work came through LinkedIn. Often 2nd party (someone needed a PHP dev, they asked a friend if they knew anyone, that friend did a search on LinkedIn, and recommended me to the first person)

great new look on the blog btw Chris... ahh, just noticed it is Nico who did it, nice

Re: Bowing to Our Twitter Robot Overlords

Jeremy Vaught — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:26:35 -0000

I'm generally not a bot follower either. I follow 1/2 as many as follow me, so I'm not much of a follow everyone kind of guy, but I'll try this out before coming to any conclusions. What's three more tweets a day...

Besides, I've never read Pride and Prejudice.

Re: How Your Blog Helps You Do Business

Jeremy Vaught — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:28:52 -0000

meh I say! Jeremy Vaught is a tool. :)

Re: 25 Ways to Build Your Community

Jeremy Vaught — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:54:30 -0000

Now you are just rubbing it in my face. :) I keed. Thanks Chris.

Re: In Lieu of Holiday Cards

Jeremy Vaught — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:25:24 -0000

You are a man among men, Chris Brogan. :)

Re: Be Wary of Creating Pedestals

Jeremy Vaught — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:21:45 -0000

And don't be the guy that, when you are talking to them at a conference, they are looking over your should for someone cooler to talk to. (not you Chris, you don't do this, but plenty of peeps do)

Re: Google Latitude is a Marker to Consider

Jeremy Vaught — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:18:19 -0000

I like the idea of Brightkite, but can't stand having to remember all the txt commands for every mobile app out there. Thus, this is perfect. I installed it on my N95 the first night it was available.

Indeed, Brightkite/Plazes etc..., be on notice.

Re: Caught in Apple restart hell

Jeremy Vaught — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:10:31 -0000

If your hardware keeps breaking, you can blame Apple, but you can't praise Microsoft for your Dell that doesn't break down.

Not exactly Apples and Apples, heh.

Re: Electric Sheep Company To Change Core Business?

Jeremy Vaught — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:31:07 -0000

I don't think they ran out of money. They have always been profitable as far as I'm aware. They were profitable when I was hired, and they hadn't received the CBS money yet. (Which was $7 mil, $2 mil paid off some early investors, and $5mil went in the bank for a rainy day)

It looks to me like 1. They fired a bunch of people that were about to qualify for their first vesting of stock, which I explain in more detail at my blog. And 2. They just freed up more then $100,000 a month in expenses with these firings.

These two things add up to one very likely result. They are showing more profitability so they can sell the company, and the founders get to keep a bunch of stock they almost lost to those employees. It's a win-win for everybody involved. (everybody being the founders, long time employees, and investors)

Re: Keeping it simple!

Jeremy Vaught — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:08:38 -0000

meh, email was hard once too. NOW everyone does it. I say promote both equally, because eventually, even our grandmas will be using Google Reader, and wondering why you are so stuck on old school email. Hey, I've got my mom using Juice to download podcasts :-) Now that's progress.

I would also think you demographic is all over RSS.

Re: 50+ Years Later: BugLabs Arrives

Jeremy Vaught — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:34:27 -0000

Ron, you are very clearly not a software guy. Red Bull comes in 4 packs.

Re: New Media – New Directions

Jeremy Vaught — Wed, 28 May 2008 03:00:32 -0000

Oh man! This will show me for not reading this blog as often as I should!

This sounds like an incredible beginning! This makes what I sent you about an hour ago almost humorous. Now we REALLY need to talk.

Talk to you soon!
Jeremy Vaught

Re: New Apple Revenue Source

Jeremy Vaught — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:30:56 -0000

If I had a macbook I would leave a coolio video comment for you powered by Seesmic. :)

Instead I'll just chastise you for having it so rough that you have both a macbook and an appple tv. :) I feel for man.

Re: New Apple Revenue Source

Jeremy Vaught — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:32:15 -0000

errrr, that should have been, "I feel for you man."

Re: Wanna See Influence in Action?

Jeremy Vaught — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:08:08 -0000

All Johnny-come-latelies. I'm Ron Ploof old school. :)

Seriously though. Chris is awesome, you are awesome. Keep on rockin' in the free world.

Re: Advertising: Back to the Future

Jeremy Vaught — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:50:26 -0000

Oooooh, I like it! Great point.

Re: Wanna See Influence in Action?

Jeremy Vaught — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:54:45 -0000

Now that you mention it Steve, I recall a conversation at the Buddy Group that went something like this...
"Hi, Ron." "Hi, Steve" and Ron says, "Steve, have you met Jeremy?" Steve says, "No, not yet. Hi, I'm Steve Webb." And with that I recognized your voice and replied, "OH!!!! You are THAT Steve!"

And the rest is history.

Re: Atoms and Bits

Jeremy Vaught — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:20:34 -0000

No link to the griddlesode about the music industry, with Thomas Edison!? That one is classic, and applies. :)

Re: The opposite of control isn’t chaos

Jeremy Vaught — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:50:05 -0000

amen

Re: Social Media Stimulus Package

Jeremy Vaught — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:52:59 -0000

This is awesome! I'm currently editing my very first edited video, and you have already helped me rethink how I can do it better.

Great post. Great message. Thanks Ron.

Re: 9 Steps for every Social Media Expert to improve Rankings and Garner the Respect they Deserve

Jeremy Vaught — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:01:44 -0000

hahaha, classic.