DISQUS

Yeah, I'd agree, the technology is the easy part. I advise companies on the hard change management issues facing enterprises today...most are nowhere close to using social media for what it is best used for, creating customer innovation via feedback loops.

While this is a bit too simplistic, it's certainly factual. I don't think frequency is the right metric though.

Did you analyze long tail accounts? That would be far more interesting.

@dalka

Yeah what he said. It's the first plugin in a long time that made me say "whoa, this has potential."

It's not perfect, but it has alot of potential.

One thing is that I've not yet seen it use my content elsewhere or redistribute it....

When I got a cell phone in the USA in 1998 - the incoming text meessages were free.

It's time to go back to that policy. Today mobile operators have created a "strategic" hell with seperate plans and internal P&L's for minutes used talking, lbs, text and data plans.

This hell is not what consumers want or need for the rapid adoption of these tools to occur.

http://twitter.com/dalka

Does anyone other than me think the Facebook valuation in comparison to this Linkedin valuation $500 million on an alleged $100 million of revnue doesn't compute /match up? Who would these people be selling to? How do these buyers know these revenue numbers are accurate? I'm still baffled by the recent Linkedin round in that if I ran a business with $100 million in revnue, I think I'd be managing it in a way where I wouldn't be dilution of equity in a significant way.

*disclaimer - I don't have all of the details one would need to do this analysis, but something doesn't "feel quite right here".

Fred,

I'll play devil's advocate on this so you can clarify your definition....

Many ordinary folks think RSS numbers from Feedburner = actual daily blog readership Does this mean you should add a disclaimer that about your 135K RSS figure to be fully transparent so that some people aren't misled?

Or does it mean that an uneducated market gets inferior information due to a lack of thorough research and certain knowledge and that's always the way it's been?

It's about relevancy, not quantity of traffic. You're right about quantity, wrong about relevancy to people who live "outside social media". Links, like it or not, still determine that for "normal people" - you know those 99.9% of the world that actually lives outside the echo chamber. For many people those random search visitors are far more valuable.

Amen.

Nice list...

how about a follow up on team dynamics and revenue models?

I have a right to have that blog have a hotlink my comment name back to my blog so that people can discover who I am if they like the comment. Alot of new comment widgets and bigger sites ignore this and that is why many bloggers don't leave comments on those sites.

Hi Fred,

Long time no talk. Like you I'm very excited to see a sites like this emerging. To many people they seem unimportant as they aren't as sexy as some other things. The fact that they are focused on a real data model to create relevancy taht I think could become powerful as it scales.

Nice reaction. I pointed out some of the serious risks of this experiment in my post on this.

Thank you Fred. If you can't define something clearly - it's usually a sign of a lack of substance!

Greg Jarboe couldn't have even possbily been a better choice?

(Just saying that "they could not have found a better person" is strong words.)

Time will tell.

I've written a post that goes in another direction, if your theme had proper trackbacks, you'd see that post here.

I literally email him and say that he'd make a good interview and then 10 minutes later you post this, are you reading my mind?

Nice pics, especially the children

Earthquake fault = Hills

:)

Are you goind to Search Engine Strategies too?