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Re: A Two Year Old Feature Request Fulfilled

Mukund Mohan — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:17:57 -0000

I am missing something. Why do you want to be the #1 commenter on your blog? Why dont you just blog about the questions / discussions in your comments section?

Re: Announcing MyEvilCyberTwin.com

Mukund Mohan — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 19:12:12 -0000

Jake
hilarious. I think that's the real me, not my evil twin :)

Re: Let me know what you think

Mukund Mohan — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:06:50 -0000

Mathew
Maybe a wrong comment, but I *NEVER* visit your blog. I read your content daily. I dont understand why people spend time on getting their blog design "right". I have the right blog design already - its called Google reader.

But you do write well.

Re: Google wants one ring to bind them

Mukund Mohan — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:58:05 -0000

Mathew
Honest question. Not trying to be either a) funny or b) sarcastic.

do you ever sleep? Every time there's something new on techmeme I see your site up there #1.

On top of your day job, how do you keep up?

Re: Does “social search” make any sense?

Mukund Mohan — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:24:09 -0000

I am searching on how to set my mp3 dll preferences on audacity. Someone else is searching for audacity for the same thing or something similar. Maybe they can help me find my issue and I could help resolve their since I ran into that problem before.

Why not? Its a great feature.

Re: Does “social search” make any sense?

Mukund Mohan — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:39:19 -0000

I think everyone needs to stop dictating "how people should or will do certain things". Most folks are creatures of habit and do what they are used to. There are existing communities I am sure, but by default I use my firefox browser for search. If I type something into my search and get results with links connecting me to people that are searching for something similar, I will be inclined to connect and ask - "hey did you find what you were looking for?". I can see how this might "possibly" reduce the # of "frustrated" search users, who keep searching and give up.

Re: Plenty of Fish equals Plenty of Money

Mukund Mohan — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:49:58 -0000

MI
Take a look at this video of them from a year (or so ago). Very cool Guy K with Markus and others.

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/02/panel_of_we...

Re: My social map is totally decentralized but I want it back on my blog

Mukund Mohan — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:11:28 -0000

Loic
I think the first points you talk about is that fact that people socialize "everywhere" in real life. What that means is that big social networks like Facebook are flawed in assuming that everyone wants to come there to "socialize". I dont ask all my friends to come to Borders and hangout or Starbucks and meet. Just the ones that like books meet me at Borders and they may be different from the ones that like coffee. If there's one place that I DO hangout a lot its at home, where I invite a lot of people. Which I guess is your digital equivalent of a blog. What's the digital equivalent of work in that case? Or is the point that work/home in the digital world are becoming "one".

The second point I think you make is around specialty. Each of these tools is good at one thing and is trying to add other things. Equivalent to Borders adding coffee but subleasing it to Seattle's Best, instead of having their own coffee. But these tools are trying to come up with their own social networking features, which does not make them the best at everything, and the thing they were good at gets watered down - e.g. MyBlogLog - was a good platform for meeting new bloggers, now its a mess of lifestreaming stuff.

Thoughts?

Re: Hey Generation-Free: What Sites Do You Pay For?

Mukund Mohan — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:54:01 -0000

1. Hosting my blog (annual domain fees) + quick blog (it sucks don't do it)
2. Paid one time $19 for IMplus on my blackberry
3. quicken online for business.

Re: louisgray.com: The Five Stages Of Early Adopter Behavior

Mukund Mohan — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:47:39 -0000

Very Cool thinking. Thanks for the post Louis.

Re: How Do You Describe FriendFeed? Just Ask FriendFeed

Mukund Mohan — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:47:56 -0000

FriendFeed: Friend tracker - helps me answer the question - hey what's up with XYZ

Re: Totally

Mukund Mohan — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:52:40 -0000

Scott
That's totally awesome news. I dont think I can imagine the horror, anxious moments, etc. that your family went through, but very glad your wife made it. Great news Scott.

Re: The Absolute Worst Question to Ask an Enterprise Software Sales Person

Mukund Mohan — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:15:08 -0000

Scott
Very good points. The point I was making was more about ball park estimates based on your experience as a vendor. Going back to your example of the roof, if I know that it costs $10K - $20K and my house is worth $100K it makes sense (i.e. the value of fixing it is obvious). Else if you say the roof is going to be in the $50K range, regardless of pain, I might consider alternatives.

The adoption of less expensive SaaS is a case in point. Yes there were mission critical problems, but at this low price point, it makes sense to try and see if it works, would be the thinking of several enterprise folks.

Re: 2008/08/08/is-it-spamming-or-savvy-marketing/

Mukund Mohan — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:14:33 -0000

Its just good marketing. If Scott really cared about not getting "spammed" as he wrongly puts it, let him send an email (or any other non public forum communication) to Daniel. If you put yourself out in the open, be prepared to get some of these zingers.

Re: Does your company support employee blogging?

Mukund Mohan — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:31:41 -0000

At a previous company, few select people were allowed to blog. Obviously this created a new seperation of "haves" and "have nots". The rules were not arbitrary, but there was a general fear of "who knows what they will say?".

Most companies are worried about the "perception" of their brand than any other item including legal. Its a nuance on your quality point, but it is a valid concern that can be addressed.

Re: Microsoft MVP Summit just days away…

Mukund Mohan — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:19:38 -0000

Where's the BBQ? How come I did not get the invitation on the Wallop? :(

Re: "Happy Birthday" Community Group Therapy…

Mukund Mohan — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:09:31 -0000

Sean
Very very cool. I got the Wallop link BTW. When's the BBQ? :)

Thanks for taking the time to document the what 3 things you would do. That was very valuable.

Mukund

Re: Gone Skiing…

Mukund Mohan — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:02:52 -0000

Sean
Great photos. Do you have 2 girls? I tried to click on the video, but it went to soapbox and gave me some kinda error.

I need a vacation. We are planning to go to Fiji.

Re: Attending a few events in the next several weeks…

Mukund Mohan — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:34:30 -0000

S
I will be at the unconference.
See you then. Looking forward to it.

Re: Podcast on Communities…

Mukund Mohan — Thu, 24 May 2007 10:26:55 -0000

Great podcast. Did not get a chance to feel the time go by real quick.
Good work Sean.

Re: A new look and feel for this blog…

Mukund Mohan — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:58:02 -0000

Looks very professional Sean. Nice work buddy. Cant believe even a "Microsoft" guy can do such good UI. (kidding of course, No Not really)

Re: 15 years at Microsoft, coming to an end…mixed emotions

Mukund Mohan — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:10:16 -0000

Rock on. Its going to be a BLAST. Sean, Good luck, great wishes.

Re: The real reason the news business is in trouble…

Mukund Mohan — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:27:54 -0000

RS
The same people that say Newspapers are dead said Amazon will be the death of Wal Mart. Wal Mart is doing badly but not because of Amazon.

MSM will do badly not because of citizen bloggers or user generated news, they will evolve because they cannot deal with a changing business environment when they are stuck with their old ways of making money.

Re: It’s your business

Mukund Mohan — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:05:45 -0000

Good luck Robert'o. Always play offense.

Re: Skydeck is no longer a secret

Mukund Mohan — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:18:44 -0000

Jason
You have to make it easier to give you guys feedback. Right now there's no easy way.

Re: Can I have some privacy pls

Mukund Mohan — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:02:45 -0000

Balu
Pretty funny man. I just linked to this post, late but still funny. :) Good work.

Re: Can InfoWorld Survive The Transition From Print To Online Publishing?

Mukund Mohan — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:30:42 -0000

They are already at 3 million page views a month and 1 million unique. Yes, they will do very well is my suspicion. The bigger problem is whether they can continue to be a "generalist" in terms of IT magazine or try and become a specialist?

mukund

Re: links for 2007-04-03

Mukund Mohan — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:10:03 -0000

Thanks for the track back.

Re: A Virgin in Hollister

Mukund Mohan — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:46:06 -0000

Hey Ann
Very nice, I cannot relate yet, but my 6 year old's going to give me the same sensibility soon, is my guess.

Re: Competitive Parenting As Child’s Play

Mukund Mohan — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:33:33 -0000

You write awesome. Just wanted to say that. :) Glad you write. Even glad I can grab a coffee and read this instead of an editorial on SJ Merc. Keep writing. Thanks

Re: The Shadow Knows: Watching Superbad with My Son

Mukund Mohan — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:31:45 -0000

I was reading this half smiling half squirming. My kids are 6 and 4 and we don't have TV at home so this would have been real interesting.

Actually I always wanted to be a Mad character. Wonder if they can make me a commemerative edition :)

Comment from blackberry btw so typos excused.

Re: Korean Otters

Mukund Mohan — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:23:44 -0000

The thing that's really funny when I read this was I am a little deaf, so regardless of accent or phone I would have still heard Korean Otter or something like that.

How did you figure out Career Day BTW, which part of the brain was that? That part of my brain hardly works I think.

did your daughter tell you?

Very good BTW. Welcome back slacker. :)

Re: Korean Otters

Mukund Mohan — Thu, 01 May 2008 07:15:33 -0000

Now I am curious Julie, what were you trying to do? Or did you achieve it all 5 times? I am not being funny, just curious

Re: A Retro Road Trip in a New World

Mukund Mohan — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:55:35 -0000

Coming late to the party. Coming from Canada to US, they caused you so much heartburn! I think they have something against Molson Ice and Ice Hockey.

I can just imagine if you had gone on this road trip to Mexico or worse: from someplace outside North America.

Re: Dancing with Bears

Mukund Mohan — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:41:43 -0000

Better to have loved and been rejected than not loved at all. :)

Its a matter of looking at the right (or wrong) comparisons. I look at your writing and keep asking myself the same question - why do I bother to write?

Then I remember because I enjoy it and its fun for me. Regardless of how painful it is for my audience. :)

Great work, dont give up writing BTW.

Re: I Suspect Everyone Else Is Smarter, Better-Looking, Taller, Cooler, Cuter, Has Newer and Shinier Objects than I Do (and Is More Modest)

Mukund Mohan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:57:14 -0000

At least I found one person smarter, nicer and a better writer than me :) - Look in the mirror Ann.

After I started "speaking my mind and writing like Ann" - I get a lot more credits for how "good" my blogging is.

Re: Froggy Fugue

Mukund Mohan — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:12:36 -0000

My kids prevent any ant spray at home. My son personally thinks most ants are his pets. He had us move him to a "nature" school which has horses, cats, dogs and chicken next to the classroom. I dont think he can handle the death part yet. I cant also. I get terribly upset even when I drive on the highway and cannot avoid a dead skunk or small rodent. I actually hate the term roadkill.

Good post Ann. Welcome back. Its been a long time.