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Re: Why The Flow Of Innovation Has Reversed

David — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:41:58 -0000

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.

Re: Our New Address: AOL.COM

David — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:43:41 -0000

Congrats folks.

Hey Tony...how can I reserve one of those bleacher seats in your group for the world series?

Re: WSJ’Sphere

David — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:19:39 -0000

Nice! I remember when we dicussed this concept last year in a phone call.

Speaking of phone calls, please give me a shout, it's been too long since we talked!

Re: Digital MBA: America’s Best Business Schools on Your iPod

David — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:10:29 -0000

Thanks for posting this. Not because I didn't know about it but because I didn't know anyone cared about business strategy and economics on Digg. Nice to know there are some folks.

You should check my ideas for revamping business school ratings, which are in need of updating, they lack an alumni component.

Re: Al Warms Sells Buzztracker to Yahoo!, Becomes GM Of News

David — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:38:43 -0000

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.

Re: Web 3.0 Nonsense

David — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:53:03 -0000

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

Re: Rethinking The Local Paper

David — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:38:33 -0000

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.

Re: Who Owns The Comment? - A Strawman Bill Of Rights

David — Sat, 31 May 2008 09:19:27 -0000

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.

Re: YHOO - a contrarian view

David — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:20:25 -0000

Amen.

Re: Honesty Is The Best Policy

David — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:25:33 -0000

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?

Re: Zemanta

David — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:30:05 -0000

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....

Re: A Lost Decade - But Not For Everyone

David — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:09:24 -0000

Very wise words...everyone needs to read them and internalize them!

"I am an optimist, I guess you have to be one to be in my line of work. Even in the midst of the worst downturn in my lifetime, I am thinking about what's next, how we are going to make money in the next run. Because as Andy points out, there will be one and we should be using this downturn to position ourselves well for when it comes."

Re: Google PageRank Directory Clanger

David — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:04:08 -0000

Good catch, thanks for confirming what we already all knew.

a better question would be when will DMOZ ever become functional again?

Re: Google PageRank Directory Clanger

David — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:04:08 -0000

Good catch, thanks for confirming what we already all knew.

a better question would be when will DMOZ ever become functional again?

Re: Gabe “Techmeme” Rivera speaks

David — Mon, 14 May 2007 00:43:57 -0000

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?

Re: Google and the wires torpedo newspapers

David — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:22:59 -0000

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

Re: Yahoo makes search results delicious

David — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:05:17 -0000

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

Re: Three Rules For Startup Success

David — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:44:57 -0000

Nice list...

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

Re: Wounded limb

David — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:08:30 -0000

Jeff,

Hope you heel (anf feel better) soon...

Re: LinkedIn, like Facebook, is letting employees sell some stock early

David — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:31:51 -0000

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".

Re: Twitter kills SMS service in some countries over costs. Will someone kill SMS already?

David — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:52:51 -0000

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

Re: louisgray.com: The Importance Of Blog Linking Seems to Be Declining

David — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:38:34 -0000

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.

Re: Warner Brothers gives us a peek at upcoming Speed Racer movie

David — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:03:39 -0000

I recall Speed Racer, I just want to drive the car.

Re: San Francisco: 24 Hours In

David — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 10:33:33 -0000

Earthquake fault = Hills

:)

Are you goind to Search Engine Strategies too?

Re: Chris & Ponzi’s Wedding | Laughing Squid

David — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 15:12:44 -0000

Nice pics, especially the children

Re: Microsoft Advertising Closes In on AdWords

David — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:40:11 -0000

You'd think with an announcement like that they would have had a much more active visibility at SES San Jose but they were virtually invisible save for a few people at a booth.

Re: Your Twitter Followers Aren't Real

David — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:00:15 -0000

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

Re: Media News: Sun-Times staffers get fired via voicemail

David — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:28:30 -0000

Voicemail, huh? That's kind of tacky.

I know people that never even check their voicemail. I wonder how many people will stay a few more weeks?

Re: How to Use Headhunters and Find Finance Jobs

David — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:43:59 -0000

This quote from the article above strikes me as a very outdated way of looking at someone skills...

If youâ€™re ideally suited for, say, a CFO position at a $750 million public company, then say exactly that, and why itâ€™s the case. "If you can at least capture those highlights, one of our people can act on it."

Where the new breed of CFO's that understand how their marketing spending is changing and they are leading that change? I haven't seen one yet...

Re: Free $75 from U.S. Bank and Albertsons

David — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:11:16 -0000

Well that is kinda annoying I opened up an account there several weeks before seeing this post - you should really post faster ;)

David @ Internet Marketing Management Strategy's last blog post..ifbyphone Raises $4.6 Million in New Round of Venture Capital Funding

Re: 2007/06/02/kevin-rose-digg/

David — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 12:22:12 -0000

Dude, I'm marking your restuarant lame!

Re: Traffic Method #239 - Share.

David — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:22:36 -0000

Nicely stated. I don't understand why more people don't get this concept.

Re: Time for a site redesign?

David — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:28:16 -0000

You are right, it should be about metrics...

I think this is because we haven't yet had a gentrification of management teams so that we can have leaders who understand these what does and what does not matter in terms of web sites.

Re: Is Google Putting a Horse Head in Cuils Bed

David — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:20:38 -0000

News is *not* always first in a Google ranking when there is news.

Re: Tools matter, at least with video

David — Sat, 20 May 2006 14:44:19 -0000

Hello Robert,

Thank you for participating in the first interactive pod cast on Waxxi today and answering my first historic question during it so thoroughly! I really appreciated your thoughts.

Sincerely,
David

Re: Yahoo recruiter wants my resume

David — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:24:27 -0000

While this thread is certainly very interesting and thought provoking, I think the days of the video interview with no resume is more than a little ways off for most of us.

I'm happy to both network and help people with resumes or discuss my resume and background with folks in this space, it's called positive networking and I'm pleased to do it.

Thanks.

Re: Getting kicked off of Wikipedia for “not being notable”

David — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:03:59 -0000

Imagine if search engines deleted web sites because they weren't notable. That would be lame.

This is lame too.

Re: Your exit interview of me

David — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:55:42 -0000

Great read, especially this point:
"I would actually start a new company that’s designed to destroy the old one."

I think you meant could the Beatles copy Elvis though. :)

I do disagree with an aspect of your other post though and will write on that later.

Re: Geeks’ private hells

David — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 17:31:27 -0000

Jeff - Sorry to hear of your wife’s illness and struggle. I knew someone with MS and I know it’s not fun.

Kevin – Thank you for sharing your beautiful story.

Robert – Thank you for writing something that allowed me to share these meaningful experiences from other people’s lives.

Offline – Sorry to hear about your Mother

Susan – Sorry to hear about your divorce pain and your sick friend.

I used to live in NYC and while I did not lose anyone directly on September 11th, 2001, I do have friends that were at ground zero at the time it all took place. It’s difficult to put into words exactly, but none of them are the same people today that they once were. I think the events of that day have affected us all in many ways we never could have imagined.

My one struggle at the moment revolves around my attempts to career transition to a search engine (I have preferences privately) or related startups. I’ve networked with some of the most amazing people at conferences and Techcrunch parties I’ve attended and have been reading and learning non-stop! I have the energy I had when I worked at an exponential growth company called BlackRock and am restless waiting for it to be put to good use. However, getting people to understand my unique competencies has been a larger challenge than I first envisioned. Additionally, people are insanely busy these days. Sometimes getting in touch with people can take weeks. I would welcome networking in this regard - during which I would hope you would share things you might need help with as well.

Please have a happy and safe 4th of July!

Re: Sad story, can we help?

David — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:52:22 -0000

My Dad's father, my grandfather, fell off a ladder and never recovered from his coma. That was a long time ago before the modern miracles of medicine of today though and it happened when he was older.

If talking to someone else who has been through a similar experience might help, please let me know and I can forward my Dad's contact info to you. You don't mention whether the kids have a Mom in the picture. Can you elaborate?

Re: Business card best practices

David — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:32:01 -0000

Michiel - It's not just about money, it's about information exchange and learning new things. People are interesting and you get exposed to new points of view. That is always a good thing! Also making a career change is not about money. You need cotacts to do that too.

Robert - great tips - it would be neat if you could put up some pictures or scans of some great examples in seperat post. I'm having trouble picturing some of them in my mind.

Re: The challenge for Europe: keeping tech there instead of the valley

David — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:36:01 -0000

Chicago finally banned smoking in restuarants and public stadiums and concert halls this year.

Re: For sale: one red couch

David — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 08:24:29 -0000

Aren't you going to inventory and provide full disclosure of each item for sale and how you obtained it, Robert? ;)

Looks like you've got nice weather there today for a garage sale. Have fun.

Re: Video comment plugin for Wordpress

David — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:58:09 -0000

I like Peter Harkin's Sociable plug in (www.push.cx) a lot, it's gotten a lot of great comments from the C-level people I've been networking with recently in the serach engine community! He is currently working on converting it to other languages, so if you have programming expertise in this area, please give him a shout, he'd probably like to bounce a few things off of you.

Additionally, while we are the subject of video, I'd like people to join me in the fight against non-user enabled automatic starts of video and audio which are springing up everywhere. In discussing this with people, I find the vast majority of Internet users agree with me on this issue. I need your help to make this a reality. Please contact me if you want to join the cause.

Re: HDTV will make soccer a lot more popular in America

David — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 20:55:36 -0000

They've said this about the NHL for years. I'm still waiting. Then again, I've been cursed with being a fan of the Chicago Blackhawks, a team that still doesn't put it's home games on TV. Ugh.

What about videocasting on HDTV, Robert?

Re: Former Senator using Peer-to-Peer tech

David — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:18:48 -0000

As long as we are on this topic, what does Net Neutrality do to bit torrent if lost?

Re: Wiki’s to change politics?

David — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 02:14:42 -0000

I posted on this after his Barcamp Chicago speech, the first puclic speech on the topic. In my post there is a link to a series of public meetups being held to launch the "campaign".

Re: Interesting startup blog

David — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:10:57 -0000

If you enjoyed this..you may enjoy my post and a recent video interview with Larry Levy, a restuarant entrepreneur from Chicago.

Re: Is Microsoft really the largest blog vendor?

David — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:03:04 -0000

Robert,

Why recreate the wheel? I'm sure Tony Conrad of Sphere and David Sifry of Technorati would likely have some pretty good data on the subject.:) They might be willing to share and add value to the conversation.

For the Record I'm a:
Windows XP user
WordPress User (I left a list of Wordpress wish list enhancements in my August 5th post)

Re: The elephant in the kitchen

David — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:11:50 -0000

Actually, I've seen several Federated Media sites without ads on them lately. If they were selling ads left and right, they'd all be full.

For the record, I agree with the concept though and like the concept.

Re: Akismet is still down…(If you’re at Foocamp wake Toni Schneider up)

David — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:54:58 -0000

I'd have to agree with Jason, Askimet alone is not sufficient in it's present form.

Re: Blogger says “it’s OK to steal, if they use RSS”

David — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 22:52:20 -0000

Why not put more responsibility on the feed reader makers, feed delivery services, Wordpress and other folks to do more about security of text data?

You lock your door of your house in most places, why isn't the same done with the feeds, etc?

Re: Latest Windows Vista builds get praise

David — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:47:38 -0000

I would *really* like the refresh button back on the left side of the URL box where it belongs.

Re: It’s the small things at Google that impress

David — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:57:47 -0000

I dunno, I've blogged about a lot of Google issues and I have yet to see action on most of them. To my knowledge only one thing was listened to and I can't even be sure about that as the issue bothered many other people.

Then again, I met Eric Schmidt at SES and I gave him my card. I had a recent blog post predicting that Google Video would move to the front page soon. The next day it happened! Coincidence? I don't know.

I do know David Krane asked me to e-mail him some information that we discussed and he has not responded in any way.

Additionally, I recently sent 30 old fashioned real letters to senior people at Google and only 2 got any sort of reply. None addressed the issue in the letter.

I'd like to believe you're right, but I just don't see it yet.

Re: It’s the small things at Google that impress

David — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:37:26 -0000

Matt - thank you for chiming in! Please send me your e-mail to (myfirstname.lastname@gmail.com) and I'll do that this weekend and I'll put together everything in one post send you the link, good?

Robert - I don't expect every senior person to respond directly! I expect the senior people to delegate responsibility to those who can - to not get one serious reponse out of the thirty is kinda weak. That is one of the problems I've seen at conferences I go to many Google people do not have enough power delegated to them to satify customer issues - especially involving B2B issues. You alluded to secrecy in your post, it creates a lack of transparency.

Re: Here’s my Google calendar

David — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 17:40:13 -0000

Deannie asks a good question....

Re: Listening to Shelley Powers about women in tech

David — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:15:39 -0000

Robert - I love your description of diversity! Much of the world has way too narrow a vision of what this means...

Shelley - From your link on your comment I visited your blog for the first time just now. I don't see a bio, I don't know what you do and there is no e-mail address. If I were a conference organizer, please tell me just how I'd get the idea that you would be interested in being a speaker and what type of topic you'd speak about???

I'm currently interested in being a speaker, writing even more than I am and joining an A+ orgranization that is intensely customer focused. All of that information is clearly posted on my blog - I have Robert and Shel to thank for that, it has led to me meeting some amazing people so far and I'm making steps towards my goals every day.

P.S. You take real nice pictures of baby elephants, this I can tell for sure, how did you manage to keep the baby elephant in focus without the closer one becoming blurry?

Re: HP has major ethical problem, day 2

David — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:41:26 -0000

I think the (unspoken) assumption I see in this discussion aournd as I look (that this is an isolated event) is fundametnally flawed.

I'd urge people not to focus so much exclusively on this event at HP, but rather on the lack of transparency of boards and their lack of being informed of all information by all stakeholders of the 21st century organization.

I'd like to see us learn from this as a group and not assign the blame all to one individual - that is too simplistic and would be typical of the traditional media - we can and must be better than that...

Re: Web 2.0 conference sold out

David — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 20:36:59 -0000

Wouldn't that be contributing to the froth?

Re: Google Press Center is useless

David — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:50:09 -0000

Isn't this potentially a problem for publically traded companies to even have the *appearance* of selective disclosure?

Re: The view from a fat white boy

David — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:41:48 -0000

Diversity should come as a natural thing...never forced...

That also means you shouldn't be discriminating against passionate tech-oriented business people who understand strategy, customer focus and other things that in the end, truly matter just as much. Technology just for the sake of technology isn't very useful.

Re: To videoblog or not to videoblog

David — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:31:45 -0000

Text blogs and video blogs should be on seperate scales. I mean honestly, would you compare TV ratings to a newspaper circulation? No, you wouldn't because they are totally different things.

Joel Cheesman once stated to me that you should write a blog with content you would create even if nobody else was going to read it but yourself. I'm not yet certain video presentation even meets that standard. Why? Because people tend to act differently when on camera and it takes so little time to create.

Re: Maryam buying meat

David — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 19:19:54 -0000

How does that look at 56k?

My parents steadfastly refuse to migrate - it drives me crazy when I visit!!! If they still avoid web sites with heavy graphics and video entirely, doesn't it get across less information than text?

Re: Where’s the bloggers on new Acrobat?

David — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:20:11 -0000

Great, what if I'm not a fan of Acrobat and I'd almost always prefer the data in another format?

Re: How to beat Scoble on Wordpress.com

David — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:52:18 -0000

I'd like to see:

oh, wait I wrote a post on that 6 weeks ago.
http://daviddalka.com/createvalue/2006/08/05/wo...

with the increasing death of the trackback on many blogs, that these blogs link to this post feature would be nice as well.

- better comment spame - some get through lately.

Re: Former boss in the New York Times

David — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:51:11 -0000

I look forward to meeting Jeremiah, yourself and others!!! See you at ~8PM

Re: Blogger dinner tonight in Chicago

David — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:32:13 -0000

darn unreliable information on blogs!!! ;)

Re: ScobleShow Trailer (and tonight’s geek dinner report)

David — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:35:09 -0000

It was nice meeting you...finally!!!

Re: Saturday Breakfast

David — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 01:11:56 -0000

I like history museums, you can learn so much about a location by it's history.

Re: Zbiz.TV interviews businesspeople

David — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:21:41 -0000

maybe you should merge - imagine using actual business strategy to build a tech company?

Re: It’s about being part of the conversation

David — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:52:14 -0000

Every time you post Ze Frank, I think this from my Chicago perspective. Stop!

http://www.zfrankchevrolet.com/

Re: Kathy Sierra is my hero

David — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 13:57:25 -0000

That is *so* awesome. The sad part is that it's 100% true.

Re: Google acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion

David — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 19:56:48 -0000

maybe the press release is just a hack ;)

Re: Watching the game with Dave and my link blog is back

David — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:36:22 -0000

Interesting regarding the blog posts, don't quite see how that works though?

Re: Google reboots its master plan

David — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:54:27 -0000

I love it when Danny says "Google burn" - nothing could be more funny. I listen to the searchcast all the time. Danny especially keeps better tabs on international issues better than anyone I'm aware of.

Re: Is Facebook worth as much as YouTube?

David — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 03:04:30 -0000

http://daviddalka.com/createvalue/2006/10/12/ju...

Re: TechCocktail tonight in Chicago

David — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:37:53 -0000

Geez, you late slacker... ;)

It's OK, you're too boring for that scene ;)

Re: Thanks David for coming to dinner tonight

David — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:56:34 -0000

It's always great to see someone you know when it's completely unexpected, for some reason the vibe is always better than if you planned it!

It was nice to finally meet Maryam and your two new stranded Amsterdam friends as well. Our conversation about interesting world cultural issues will not soon be forgotten.

Ian - Nice to meet you!

Thanks for mentioning eComXpo, I will be speaking on the topic of "Mobile Search Marketing – The Coming Evolution of Chief Marketing Officer to Chief Customer Officer" - I talk about the interesting emerging world of mobile search and the talk about the high level vision of what is possible when disparate LBS data sets, RFID/Inventory and Mobile Search - which requires a different, smaller data set!!! One of the examples in my speech illustrates an experience of our friend Jeremiah Owyang.

I hope to eventually join one of the many disruptive startups in Mobile Search space or an existing company that is playing a role in making this happen - we are at the dawn of a long, customer focused transformational journey - it's about the data and the customer experience...

See you again soon I'm sure the way things are going! I may relocate at any time now...

Re: Gmail team, you out there?

David — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:47:57 -0000

Google really needs to bring in fresh, outside, customer focused leadership or their brand will start to decline.

Maybe this is occuring because their HR department doesn't work too well, in fact it mistates the facts to their own internal employees trying to help with referrals, but that is a topic for another conversation.

Re: Use Flickr, get work

David — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:21:06 -0000

That is awesome.

Re: I hate LinkedIn

David — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:43:38 -0000

I find the endorsement feature in linkedin to be quite useful. I have 11 endorsements which reduces the burden on those friends. This I appreciate.

Tim - nice post!

Konstantin - it would be nice if you answered questions sent to you via e-mail privately as well as you did Robert's blog entry.

I like linkedin overall but don't find it as useful as it could be due to a lack of focus on user requests for community improvement:
- At least six months ago, I asked for last login date to be added like in myspace
RESULT: NEVER RECEIVED A RESPONSE OR ACTION.
- You claim you don't like users who invite over and over. Yet I e-mailed regarding one user who has sent invites to me 7 to 1o times.
RESULT: NO RESPONSE OR ACTION.
- I've discussed several times the need to rectify multiple accounts held by casual users who land in new roles. This clutter makes Linkedin less useful than it could be.
RESULT: NO ACTION TO DATE.

I'd love to see Linkedin become a more customer focused and useful communtity. I don't see the listening required to take it to the next level. So to summarize, I've gotten value out of linkedin but nowhere near the amount that I could if some changes made in the interest of users were made.

Re: Automattic’s CEO, Toni Schneider, on ScobleShow

David — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:38:44 -0000

Good interview.

I have an issue I'd like to communicate to Toni! It has to do with one small problem I'm having and plans to bring remote hosted wordpress to the same stability level as wordpress.com

Re: Automattic’s CEO, Toni Schneider, on ScobleShow

David — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:39:13 -0000

Toni - You need to do a better job at listening based on the reply I received from you so far.

Re: New URL here

David — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:55:31 -0000

Good luck in the no support world.

Re: Andy says I’m an RSS stealer thanks to Google Reader

David — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:03:03 -0000

Maybe the next time you go to Google you can ask them to sort out how they have one division thzt considers your "reader blog" duplicate content that can be harmful to a source blog while there is another division that encourages you to use a "reader blog" in this manner. It's a complete contradiction.

Make sure you get Cutts and the other team in the same place at the same time - now this is good content - in fact, maybe you should have me conduct the interview!

Re: A "Sphereiment" — what do you think?

David — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:51:32 -0000

I think Toni would be better off on making error free Wordpress software that doesn't break first before working on things like this.

Re: Wordpress.com doesn’t allow PayPerPost and other SEO gaming

David — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:04:07 -0000

Robert,

I don't see Sphere slowing down your page load.

Wordpress itself is what is not ready for prime time, on the self-hosted version it's currently a web 1.0 software in need of a major overhaul.

Re: Can Google please fix my search?

David — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:55:27 -0000

Robert,

You are ignoring the real issue, Google is not the primary problem in this case, it's your cyberjunk!

Why isn't your old blog content integrated into this blog and the old blog shut down? It's because blogs are generally web 1.0 beta software and the creators are not focusing on what customers need and want to be good net citizens.

If we allowed littering everywhere in nature the way we currently do on the web, we'd all be living under giant piles of garbage! It's time for people to start picking up after themselves on the Internet where possible and for others to provide the tools to make that easy to accomplish.

I'll write more on this later today if I have time.

However, if anyone would seriously like to fund a more relevant search engine than Google, contact me and I'll put you in touch with the person with the business plan if the person is a qualified investor.

Re: Can Google please fix my search?

David — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:45:37 -0000

Kamal,

It's interesting that http://www.msdewey.com and link you provided aren't in sync on these results.

Did you change the ranking this morning on live.com or does microsoft/msn/live.com/msdewey.com have the same syncronization problem that Google has?

Re: Web 2007 trend: zero cost businesses

David — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:29:09 -0000

I can launch a company for nothing, but so fricking what Robert? Cheaper does not mean better.

Last time I checked there was a thing called revenue models, something other than building traffic to content hoping to be bought by Google. If I ask people what the revenue model is, that is where most people shut down.

Re: Cool Wordpress.com feature (tag pages)

David — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:36:01 -0000

Wordpress that worked well would be much cooler than this.

Re: What to do when you’re bored: talk about Google OS!

David — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:01:27 -0000

Boring...

Markus...Google, more secure? you must not read the news often.

Re: HDTV’s flying off store shelves…

David — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:41:58 -0000

If the story is just starting to be written, why don't you finish it you slacker!!! ;)

Re: Help a San Jose Mercury News columnist blog

David — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:49:14 -0000

I was at Search Engine Strategies this week and I was shocked at how many people told me they read my blog regularly - even being able to recite posts they found thought provoking!

So I asked a few of them, "Why don't you ever comment?"

The answers when coming from people that work at search engines is surprising. They confided in me that they feared doing so. It shows what a long way we have to go to in terms of reshaping opinions! Charge on.

Re: First girlfriend finds me through Google

David — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:03:14 -0000

I had an experience like this earlier this year.

I had dedicated an interview with the band Tonic (writers of "If You Can Only See" the most played Rock song on radio in 1997) on www.musicfrisk.com (one of my older web projects) to a girl I used to know that loved the band. She Googled herself one day, saw it and gave me a call. It was nice to hear her voice! :)

Speaking of music I learned last week that Adam Lasnik from Google is a music creator himself, it was nice to meet him at SES Chicago.

Re: Google and Technorati blog search rewards sploggers

David — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:42:53 -0000

Mr. David Sifry,

Can you point to a full explanation of "pinging set up correctly?"

Thanks.

Re: Don’t register domains when you’re drunk

David — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:11:41 -0000

I don't think it's actually that bad. Hopefully it's a warm domain. Might make a good gift.

I own a few interesting ones, like http://www.nextgoogleceo.com :) Which has led people to share some extremely interesting business plans and senior level roles with me. I will likely land with one in the not too distant future.

Re: PayPerPost forces disclosure

David — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:17:08 -0000

Did Ted send you guys a gift?

He mentioned at ad:tech that he was sending a few certain bloggers a gift - he mentioned you by name actually.

Re: First Google video advertiser?

David — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:45:04 -0000

Interesting that the ad is at the end and not the start, any thoughts on why?

Re: Sicker than a dog…

David — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:11:00 -0000

Robert,

I hope you feel better, I;ve had a nasty cough myself the past few days.

Re: What’s Ed Bott missing on his CES schedule?

David — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 07:01:09 -0000

I'm looking for a place to stay most likely.

Re: Photowalking in Sacramento postponed

David — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:49:37 -0000

Oh, exciting, huh?

Happy Holidays!

Re: TechMeme doesn’t care if you link to IT

David — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:24:11 -0000

And you just explained why I often get little in the way of value from techmeme when I visit. If I wanted a list of "a" list web sites that link to each other over and over it already exists, it's called the technorati 100, however it's not web 2.0 format with headlines like techmeme.

Re: Google not pointing to “best in their class” says Blake

David — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:55:41 -0000

For alot of reasons, including ever increasing numbers of inbound links and good SEO layout of text heavy pages, Wikipedia pages rank increasingly well in Google (for now).

Re: Travel disaster

David — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:21:31 -0000

While you're there Robert ask him what his plan is response is to the recent Concord Coaliion's "Fiscal Wake Up Tour". I want to know every candidates response to this message and plan and I would like to see it well documented. Thanks!

http://www.concordcoalition.org/

A race between Rudi and John would hopefully be a debate of positive ideas. We'll see what we actually get.

Re: In Reno…

David — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:18:01 -0000

Those reporters don't pay for the trip personally, the newspaper companies do!

BTW, did you ask Edwards my question (let in another thread about the Concord Coalition and the fiscal wake up tour?
http://www.concordcoalition.org/

Re: I screwed up twice … trip very expensive

David — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:48:36 -0000

Ouch, that is a bummer. :(

Re: Chuck uploads his video of Edwards

David — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 08:44:48 -0000

That law seems broken the past few years, can they catch up?

Re: What a year!

David — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:26:05 -0000

I'm sure 2007 will bring large changes to my life as well. I hope to network more deeply with even more people in the blogosphere (and elsewhere) and I'm sure those people will be the foundation of my continued transformation.

Happy New Year to all! Please feel free to reach out. :)

Re: Apple rebooting problem hits us…

David — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:28:20 -0000

Don't praise Dell too much Robert, they don't deserve it. My new desptop keyboard is less than 6 months old and is dying (space bar is sticking) stopped at a Dell mini-store the other day and got instructed to call some phone tree that still has not seen a new keyboard sent to me.

They've also never acknowledged my post about last of USB ports on the new models - the mouse and the keyboard are now USB, they removed the old ports, did not add more USB ports to compensate. This equals not enough USB ports upon arrival (for a power user) and I had to add an expansion card. Old keyboard doesn't work as it's not USB port compatible. :(
http://daviddalka.com/createvalue/2006/07/20/de...

Dell also hasn't told me if my laptop battery is part of the recall:
http://daviddalka.com/createvalue/2006/08/28/de...

However, I wrote "Dell Hell" in one post and that got me an automated looking response regarding Jeff Jarvis. Argh. Not exactly customer listening!

Re: Apple rebooting problem hits us…

David — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:29:30 -0000

That should say "lack of USB ports" :)

Re: Why bash Microsoft and not Nokia?

David — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 07:47:38 -0000

I don't know why every three months this is discussed like it's a new issue?

Re: Why bash Microsoft and not Nokia?

David — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 13:19:41 -0000

blogger@wordpress

Despite your lack of Wordpress blog link, your point about difficulty installing Vista could lead to certain headlines is a good one.

However, I recently interacted with the mainstream media on two articles where I felt the headline was not in sync with the articles.

The answer in both cases? The editor and not the writer picked the headline! This is a problem as the editor can sometimes hype controversy when an article is just analyzing a complex situation fully to let the reader make a decision or they are making a lowest common denominator headline.

I think the disclosure issue is overplayed. Every time you see AOL/Time Warner entity write about Google you don't usually see a statement about the % ownership. This may in fact played a role in not formally naming the Youtube guys person of the year btw. People who take the time to know influences that will draw their own conclusions about any precieved bias. Shouting it out too boldly just looks silly to me when I see it.

Re: CES warning: watch for people turning off TV’s

David — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 07:30:00 -0000

Phil, Suggesting legal action to solve a problem represents everything that is wrong with our society today.

Re: The 40 things I link to the most

David — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:27:08 -0000

When someone invents something for quality metrics about links or readership instead of just quantity, I'll be amazed!

Re: If you had $10,000 to spend at CES…

David — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 19:13:11 -0000

A copy of the complete attendee list with contact information. :) If I had money left over, I'd but brand new cell phone, my current one is long in the tooth.

Re: Egotistical bastard on way to CES

David — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 18:20:39 -0000

Hmm, Chicago is the new India? ;)

Re: No more “computer” in Apple?

David — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:14:26 -0000

The iPhone *is* a miniture computer.

Re: Political use of social media: Edwards (1); Obama (.5); Clinton (NA)

David — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:08:40 -0000

actually based on a recent post I made - all campaigns, John Edwards included, receive an F- for listening to the blogosphere.

Re: Political use of social media: Edwards (1); Obama (.5); Clinton (NA)

David — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:40:14 -0000

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There would be a pingback here except that Askimet is classifying many trackback falsely as spam. Toni Schnieder and Matt Mullenweg are aware of my problem, yet have not fixed it.
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Re: Political use of social media: Edwards (1); Obama (.5); Clinton (NA)

David — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:41:33 -0000

Ryan,

Here is a post that quantifies my statement above. Thanks for finally joining the conversation.

http://daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/01/17/jo...

Re: iPhone distortion bump revealed on Google Finance?

David — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:46:20 -0000

OMG, it's not Ajax, it must not be cool now!!!! ;)

Re: YouTube pulling down posts

David — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:42:18 -0000

It's interesting that Google is not responding to this post.

Re: Upcoming.org rocks for letting people know about events

David — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:39:01 -0000

Jeremiah would notice that!

Re: If Campaigns are conversations?

David — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:49:12 -0000

If campaigns are conversations, candidates don't have staff "print off blog entries" - this is neither a conversation nor environmentally friendly
:(

http://daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/01/17/jo...

Re: If Campaigns are conversations?

David — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:05:49 -0000

Robert,

How do you explain them printing off blog posts instead of joining the conversation.

How do you explain none of them not using a last name with an individual email? There is a lack of engagement necessary for me to give the credit you're giving and that, to me at least, is engaging with real blog posts, not throwing "blog parties".

Re: Getting a look at Intel’s new 45nm fab

David — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:57:40 -0000

The videos aren't showing up for me - IE7 Windows PC

Re: Do A-list bloggers have a responsibility to link to others?

David — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:47:30 -0000

Interesting thread Robert, my blog focuses on 4 Main areas all involving usage of technology:
1) Mobile Search Marketing - the emerging field where search engine, LBS and real-time inventory data will be merging to create innovative consumer driven experiences! It's going to be a fun yet complex ride!
2) Search Engine Industry General Issues
3) Using Business Strategy in conjunction with technology to create new business practices.
4) Customer Experience - Technology companies (and all companies for that matter) need to focus more on customer listening then innovating in real time based on feedback - where it's flaming Dell's or melting Apples - the examples of suboptimal customer experiences is unfortunately the norm, I want to work to change that - as Peter Drucker said - "Businesses are not paid to reform customers. They are paid to satisfy customers.” (look for a guest blog post from my Mom on Comcast shortly)

--------------------------------------------
I'm currently seeking leadership roles in companies who believe in these principles (I will relocate for the right opportunity). I bring the following experiences to the party:
1) start up company experience, I once worked for http://www.blackrock.com - a company that used Internet to deliver ecommerce information way back in 1996! The company innovated the way bond data was used and analyzed creating structure out of chaos. Similar to how the Internet is doing now with search engine marketing, we are in the early phases of transparency and an efficient advertising marketplace. I was with this highly tech oriented company during it's primary growth phase (80 to 800 people).
2) Passion for making sustainable competitive advantage through superior, customer-focused data models.
3) Top 10 MBA

My contact info is on my blog and I look forward to hearing from you and building positive relationships.

http://www.daviddlaka.com/createvalue

Re: Fun dinner last night

David — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:48:46 -0000

How was the eggplant?

Re: Why you SHOULD be livid at me

David — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:56:46 -0000

Hi Robert,

I think this idea might help the cause, what do your readers think?

http://daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/01/29/ma...

Re: Which blog search engine is covering Demo best?

David — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:41:33 -0000

Google Blog Search gets 1/10 of the usage it would if Google did this.

http://daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/01/29/ma...

Re: Wikipedia’s quote, from the person on stage

David — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:01:01 -0000

It would be great if you pushed solutions about linking to blogs instead of griping about the current state.

http://daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/01/29/ma...

Re: The “evite” killer?

David — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:40:35 -0000

Did you ever communicate these issues to evite before? Why do it now when a person with a new product stops by?

Re: The downside of community spam deletion

David — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:33:32 -0000

This has been a on again off again problem since December. Last week or so I've had no issues (knocks wood)

http://daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/01/03/as...

Re: Did Calacanis just call me fat?

David — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:48:18 -0000

more photowalks :)

Re: What is social media?

David — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:39:23 -0000

Robin - I'd strongly encourage the opposite. Technorati should change it's default search to words, not tags, it's less spammy IMO. David Sifry, what do you think?

Re: Twittering from the Freeway

David — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 00:34:57 -0000

I say hi back to Maryam...

Re: Damn, I should charge to speak…

David — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:00:18 -0000

When given the choice between a speaker I've never heard of and one I've seen give a talk before at a conference, I'll almost always opt to go see the one I've not heard of. I know of others that always skip keynotes.

Then I see the growing popularity of Unconferences and Barcamps and other conferences where it's considered an honor to speak (and none of the speakers get paid) and you have to think this paid speech concept MIGHT be a leftover from a bygone era that will slowly fade away.

Re: “I’m so unsubscribing cause you’re inane”

David — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:27:50 -0000

Nice link bait, so I'll comment. :)

What are some of the best RSS readers other than Google's? I need to redo my stuff again soon, so alert functions will be a focus.

Re: A blog fire recovery

David — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:19:37 -0000

When I saw "blog fire", I couldn't help but think of current problems with my Wordpress installation.

Re: Google Reader widget for Wordpress.com

David — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:21:35 -0000

when will wordpress.org = wordpress.com ?

Re: Thank you Akismet!

David — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:21:16 -0000

at least 3 false positives of real comments I made.

Re: Going to SXSW?

David — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:51:52 -0000

I need a place to stay/share in the middle of things
please visit my blog and drop me a note - contact info is in the about section.

1) Yes
2) Uncertain on my dates
3) Most certainly
4) yes, I will be driving in from Dallas
5) will be soon, would like advice on what video camera you would buy today in the $500-$1500 range and why.

Re: Another Stanford University Startup coming September 2007

David — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:56:34 -0000

Congrats

Re: What does Rocketboom’s founder use?

David — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:22:51 -0000

*crickets*

Re: Microsoft tells MVPs “we’re in it to win” — Really?

David — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:31:00 -0000

While I agree Microsoft (and Yahoo!) both need a blog search(and that Google needs to move blog seach onto the front page immediately), to say that Microsoft search sucks is broad and unfounded. I recently had an experience where I needed to delete an item at the request of someone from my flickr account. Within a week, the live.com and ask.com indexes had updated for it - item gone. Google and Yahoo! still have the item cluttering up their index one month later with a phantom item - now *that* is irrelevancy defined.

In a related matter, what is del.icio.us doing about rogue del.icio.us scraper sites? poorly written scrappers are combing multiple entries creating serious reputation management issues. Who indexes these sites? Again, not live.com or Ask, but Google and Yahoo!

Robert, you are not looking at the whole story with your statement. More data on top of spammy results is not more valuable in many situations.

Re: I had a good blog post planned but then…

David — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:07:57 -0000

The entries move on without enough time to click on them. :(

Re: Glenn Reynolds saw a Saturn Aura…

David — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:45:06 -0000

I'm getting a new car not available in the US yet to test drive next month for two weeks.

What's strange about that you ask? The agreement doesn't allow me to talk about it while I'm driving it. Quite strange...

Re: Mirror mirror on the wall, which blog search is best of them all?

David — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:16:08 -0000

Since when is quantity of links a measure of quality success?

How many of those are splogs or documented miscountings? http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=538
Is the Technorati 100 accurate or is it manually manipulated?

Where is Icerocket, Sphere and others in the conversation? Did all of the other blog search egnines close down and I missed the news?

Re: MySpace’ers learn harsh reality

David — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:41:20 -0000

Good points.

It would be great if you actually got the same Wordpress software experience and features in a self hosted version as you get here, but alas, you don't at this time. That is most unfortunate.

Re: Reviews on iTunes needed

David — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:10:35 -0000

That's interesting. I personally go directly to your site, not itunes. It would be interesting to see how the user types differ if that data were available.

Re: Google to penalize bloggers selling links?

David — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 14:02:04 -0000

I think it's humerous to have Google announce this when they just bought a division of Doubleclick - Performics - which has an Search Engine Optimization division.

Rather than focus on a non-problem, they should be focusing on banning splogs and made for adsense sites.

Re: Google gets big company disease?

David — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:01:12 -0000

People have documented the many recruiting errors that Google's process has here is just one:
http://tinyurl.com/24pe5q

Last year, I had several internal contacts that thought I'd make a good Googler submit me. Some Google employees have privately expressed frustration with Mr. Bock's rigid process that apparently gives the hiring manager little or no control in candidate pool choices.

Re: Always on isn’t for me

David — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:12:53 -0000

Neuromancer - That is certainly an interesting usage.

Robert - Good decision.

Re: Stumbleupon acquisition by eBay: ridiculous?

David — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:41:10 -0000

Did I miss a *confirmation* of this rumored Ebay acquisition?

Re: An expensive lesson

David — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:47:16 -0000

That sucks. Sorry to hear about that Robert.

I had an extended test drive of a new hatchback concept car recently and disliked leaving stuff viewable in an urban environment. Fortunately, I completed the test drive without an incident. But your post hits home.

Thank you for communicating the incident, I hope it prevents someone else from having an incident like it.

Re: Stumbleupon acquisition by eBay: ridiculous?

David — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:51:23 -0000

Robert: That's great that Om has "five sources". Just one problem though. Last time I checked Ebay is public compan that should be publically silent on pending acquisitions prior announcing them. It creates an environment where accusations of inside information and/or insider trading could be made (in this case on EBAY).

I believe the blogsphere should be living a higher standard on this information as the potential exists for blogs to be blamed as the cause of such an event. Of course we both know people who write blogs would be the cause. That is quite preventable. If Om has "five sources", that is itself a problem.

Re: Stumbleupon acquisition by eBay: ridiculous?

David — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:22:18 -0000

Robert: I hear what you are saying. I don't know how the individuals communicated the information or under what context or condition of privacy. I'm not suggesting that Om isn't documenting his sources well, he always does. But saying he has an obligation to publish it, that might be a stretch.

NBC used a somewhat similar argument about an obligation to publish information in the past 24 hours and it got told loudly that they were wrong.

While I sincerely hope the above scenario never comes to pass, only time will tell how it's perceived if it were to occur...

Re: Doubleclick turned down Microsoft money?

David — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:58:42 -0000

This is likely pure hogwash in regards to Doubleclick.

Doubleclick is owned by a private equity firm, those firm's have one goal - maximizing ROI upon disposal of investment. Unless someone from the private equity firm is quoted as saying it(which is highly unlikely), it's likely not true.

Re: Doubleclick turned down Microsoft money?

David — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 15:04:57 -0000

Robert - I agree with you list - just not with this example.

Re: Zawodny trying to define Web 2.0

David — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:49:04 -0000

How about just talking about what people are doing in simple plain English at all times instead of putting into meaningless, "news media" slang?

Re: Definition of slow news day

David — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:09:04 -0000

yawn at Jason

Re: Google Reader adds better email features

David — Thu, 03 May 2007 12:10:28 -0000

Google Reader needs keyword alerts (which is the primary way I'd prefer to read blogs to get more points of view on subjects I care about.

Re: I’m not speaking at PostieCon

David — Sat, 05 May 2007 08:03:52 -0000

Room for fresh speakers!!!

Re: Should reporters face SEC inquiry?

David — Sat, 05 May 2007 08:09:21 -0000

Robert,

I think this is what I stated a few weeks ago regarding Ebay and all the pre-announcement of Stumble Upon. Good to see the exchange we had in these comments appears to have had some impact on your thinking since that time.
http://scobleizer.com/2007/04/19/stumbleupon-ac...

Re: RSS Mistakes people make

David — Sat, 05 May 2007 14:13:11 -0000

My biggest mistake is not having more subcribers!

http://feeds.feedburner.com/DavidDalka

Re: Photobucket sells for 10x Flickr to MySpace

David — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:46:48 -0000

@Robert - sometimes? ;)

Re: What’s next? Facebook vs. Linked In

David — Tue, 08 May 2007 11:57:57 -0000

Most people don't take the time to read and utilize Linkedin's best feature, endorsements from people who have actually worked with you. This is most unfortunate.

I haven't gotten alot of interaction from my Facebook account.

Re: ‘60 Minutes’ brings Google traffic

David — Mon, 14 May 2007 08:55:46 -0000

It's kind of interesting actually. Techcrunch has an older post on the subject, but had a new one yesterday talking about the event before it aired. Google has a result for the old Techcrunch news, not yesteday's more recent entry. Are those the best two blog entries on the subject or just the ones with the most links? I don't know but they are the only two blogs in the top ten.

Re: Congrats to Wordpress.com on a million!

David — Mon, 21 May 2007 07:55:53 -0000

Long live the trackback!

Most other services have no clue about the conversation.

Re: I’ve lost control of my comments…

David — Mon, 21 May 2007 21:15:51 -0000

First, blame search engines that reward and cause the behavior not Akismet.

Second, trackbacks are more broken than comments. A blogosphere without every blog having trackbacks is lame.

Third, I sent you this tip a while back and you didn't post it. Lorelle did. But not everyone reads the great info she has. It needs wider attention.
http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/04/2...

Re: I love old trains…

David — Tue, 22 May 2007 07:18:22 -0000

Too bad you didn't post this...

http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/05/2...

Re: If Technorati can beat Google, why can’t Microsoft or Yahoo?

David — Wed, 23 May 2007 07:30:11 -0000

Robert,

Half your "authority" is splogs, all of the Technorati "100" are overcounted due to this issue.

In the past month, Technorati has missed 4 links (that I know of) that even when contacted were not corrected. I wouldn't call a search engine that bases itself on links, that can't count links accurately great. It has the potential to be great, maybe a new CEO will do that, but it's not great now.

Putting a Web 2.0 wrapper on a Web 1.0 product badly in need a complete redesign of what matters, the algorithym, does not fix anything.

BTW, I've been meaning to ask do you have options in Technorati and for that matter Wordpress/Automatic? A post like this one reminds me to ask.

As for Microsoft, there are many other blog search options to consider, if they don't know what they are, my contact info is on my blog. :)

Re: Google hiring funniness

David — Wed, 23 May 2007 07:43:12 -0000

John - great and very accurate rant. Many people are cluless of how messed up this is and how many workers are idle.

There are people with skills other than programming that aren't being utilized fully.

People call me for Internet and Mobile Search advice on the phone all day long, but the senior roles in start ups or search engines has taken longer than it should to land.

In regards to Google hiring, they have a constricting HR policy that muffles the many voices of internal voices that have evangelized me. It's been a while since I've even tried, but I have much more to offer, especially in mobile search, than I did a year ago. I'm happy to move out to the Bay area, but not until I know where I'd be working - getting an apartment in San Fran and getting a job in Santa Cruz would suck! Maybe I should come sleep on someone's couch out there for a few weeks?

Re: Google hiring funniness

David — Wed, 23 May 2007 09:27:19 -0000

Go John Go!

Re: DOG (Distrust/Disdain of Google) moves in

David — Thu, 24 May 2007 11:20:39 -0000

I hope they don't do something silly like use RSS to determine search rank.

Let's say there are only two blogs in the world:
Jennifer Lopez Blog with 8 zillion subcribers
Growing Corn In Iowa 199 subscribers.

Let's assume that the Growing Corn in Iowa posts on corn in every post, and last week, Ms. Lopez ate an ear of corn. I'd hate to see that post show up as more relevant for the term corn - but I could easily see how this could go down this path.

Re: It’s Facebook day

David — Thu, 24 May 2007 21:06:24 -0000

Overall, Facebook is pretty cool. I do have two issues at present that I'd like to see improved.

1) I can't join communities of companies that I've worked at in the past. This is a serious shortcoming.

2) They made a change without my getting a notice that allows your name to be indexed in search engines. Their answer to this is to make yourself invisible to the whole community to turn this off, that is not what I'd find optimal. I'd like anyone logged in to find me and anyone not logged in to not even know I have a profile in the outside world.
http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/05/1...

Re: Google busses not so evil after all…

David — Tue, 29 May 2007 15:49:50 -0000

Not as much as they should.

Re: Hanging out in the Zoho data center

David — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 09:10:32 -0000

It's good to know that if my blog ever goes offline that you'll keep the masses informed! ;)

Re: I can’t get into Flickr anymore…

David — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 10:18:35 -0000

@Christopher Coulter

You forgot changing code regularly in the live environment!

P.S. Why aren't you blogging?

Re: Ask impresses with new search

David — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:35:10 -0000

Wordpress seems to have eaten my trackback. Sigh.

http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/06/0...

Re: My favorite 35 feeds for the past month

David — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:01:22 -0000

Robert,

This reminds me, did I tell you I fixed the severe formatting problem I was having with my feed last week Friday?

It had been messed up for over a month due to a plugin being incompatible with Wordpress 2.1. This is why I'm not upgrading to 2.2 right away, the plugins aren't immediately compatible. This is a big issue that is likely ultimately resolved by the plugins becoming incorporated in the main code.

Re: TechMeme, not quite Google News

David — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:01:38 -0000

I don't have strong opinion on the issue in regards to Techmeme, likely because I'm a relatively new user.

But overall, I agree with the sentiment that blogs are not represented as well. I'd love to be able to mix news and blogs together as it would show that most non-pr driven news is begins in the blogosphere.

In regards to Google, I point to my follow on to your January post on a closely related issue!
http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/01/2...

With Google's new layout, I don't understand why blogs aren't be one click away using that white space on top instead of two from both a visibility and user experience standpoint. Last Summer when Google migrated Video to the homepage, it caused a spike of traffic to that service. I would like to hope that Google would consider doing the same with blogs!

Re: Google (and other sites) sucks for travelers

David — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:37:01 -0000

Nice post.

Re: Times releases list of best business blogs

David — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:27:07 -0000

Looks like it should have been titled "most overexposed"!!!

Re: The rise of the Facebook blogs

David — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 09:44:15 -0000

Most of them did not cover this issue.

http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/05/1...

Re: Eric Schmidt on YouTube showing off his iPhone

David — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:18:31 -0000

Eric in this video says Google fixes a problem when they become aware of it. That is untrue based on my personal experience.

I handed him my card at SES San Jose last August and told him of problems with Google's dysfunctional recruiting process for a role even though I had numerous internal referrals from people stating that I'd make a great Google employee. He seemed completely unaware of how severe this problem is and how it damages Google's brand.

He stated that someone would get back to me and asked me to also give my card to his publicist - Eric told me that one of them would get back to me in a week or so. I'm still waiting to hear from them.

Considering they are still using temporary Resume Screeners who know nothing about search or understanding relevant competencies or educational backgrounds - I'd say they not only didn't contact me, but also forgot all about it.
http://www.jobs.net/Job.asp?jid=J3F78564Z7C39FL...

P.S. The interviewer refers to part of this video as "being on the record". I recall this language creating a stir in another Google incident recently?

Re: Mad Mojitos tonight in Half Moon Bay

David — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:14:08 -0000

I would know if Twitter fixed the AIM interface.

TwitterIM: TwitterIM is under maintenance at the moment. Please check back later.

Re: Why Sue Decker isn’t CEO of Yahoo…

David — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:01:14 -0000

What about the groups that actually interface with consumers to serve their needs? Isn't that part of a portal/search engine anymore?

Re: Why Sue Decker isn’t CEO of Yahoo…

David — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:07:48 -0000

Robert: Are you saying you are more of a dork? ;)

Re: Not yet on TechCrunch: killer video search engine (ClipBlast)

David — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:22:57 -0000

Gary - please contact me via email.

Re: If you are going to sell your soul…

David — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:34:03 -0000

I think this argument happens every 6 months and it's rather boring.

Re: Scoble, your blog is lame lately

David — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:37:17 -0000

Delegate more?

Re: Hell on air

David — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:23:36 -0000

The issue of tons of these small "more efficient" planes is what causes alot these bottlenecks both on the ground and in the sky.

Re: Get on ScobleShow, get fired

David — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:39:17 -0000

Transparency + EXCECUTION > Secrecy

This post is nonsense if the iPhone flops.

Re: I know I’m blind and blonde, but…

David — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 06:36:54 -0000

@Soso Sazesh

That schedule is only the starting time in each city - not an indivdual artist estimated start time breakdown. If you click on the bios, there is no start time information by artist.

Is someone supposed to watch for 28 hours straight to see their favorite band? If that is the plan, that is not respectful of a user. (Not to mention it wastes energy!)

I'm still looking as are many other people, for an artist estimated time schedule.

Thanks for the efforts so far.

Re: I know I’m blind and blonde, but…

David — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 06:39:28 -0000

That's bios as in biography - not bios as in DOS!!!

ahahaha...

Re: I know I’m blind and blonde, but…

David — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 09:13:35 -0000

@John

I find it rather hard to believe that those schedules would not be found electronic versions of those publications on Google News or Yahoo! News.

Which one?

Re: Getting around developer pain at iPhoneDevCamp

David — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 20:49:47 -0000

Robert,

I sent you an email about an interesting non-iphone topic today.

Re: Blog designs that catch my eye

David — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:08:51 -0000

Read your email instead of redesigning. :D

Google should worry more about fixing splogs and MFA sites in Google Blog Search instead of redesigning your blog.

Unless of course you're leaving Podtech for Google in which case Google would own your soul and you'd likely have no choice. ;)

Re: Spock: Mahalo killer?

David — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:57:37 -0000

Mahalo killer...

Now that is funny. Did I miss Mahalo becoming God or something?

Re: My Facebook secret is out…

David — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:21:42 -0000

Scoble, I love ya, but you're ADD is showing a bit. It was about three months ago that you said Twitter was going to rule the world (or something like that...)

Facebook is a great tool to me more for the data validation model brilliance than any other reason.

But Facebook is not a replacement for blogs (heck they even realize it - they allow you to link to your blog in your profile), it provides some interesting ideas for plug ins/enhancements that increase interaction (which is good for all websites not just blogs) - but like Twitter, some of that content is more noise than the substance. It's different - it's not better.

Re: Talking to one of IBM’s top strategists

David — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:37:26 -0000

"I have the best job in the world. I get to have conversations with interesting people like Drew and I get paid for it."

It's just too bad you haven't found a methodology to connect all of those readers to the interviewers. Imagine the collaboration value that could be created.

Re: Feedburner bad for us?

David — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:17:50 -0000

48 hours ago I emailed Dave Winer and stated that I would almost take his post serviously if his current email wasn't gmail on his blog...

No reply from him yet.

Re: Business plan obfuscation: Twitter style

David — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:57:45 -0000

Are they ever going to fix the AIM interface?

Why doesn't Twitter answer support emails? Ever.

Sending me spam email about funding when your major interfaces are broken show a major breakdown in priorities. Will they fix this stuff or will every Twitter user migrate to Facebook?

Re: Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble

David — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:09:23 -0000

TwitterIM: TwitterIM is under maintenance at the moment. Please check back later.

Week 9

Re: Why Google is walling off its news garden

David — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:52:07 -0000

inbound links? It's not 2003 anymore. Time for a new method.

Re: Walking tour of Pacific Grove — where CPM was invented

David — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:13:12 -0000

Maybe it has to do with the wonderful yearly Winter spectacle with the monarch butterflies who Winter in Pacific Grove?

http://www.ci.pg.ca.us/monarchs/default.htm

Off-topic yes, but no less fascinating to witness and understand!!!

Re: Yelp events compared to Upcoming; Incoming “bacn”

David — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:05:21 -0000

Yelp's data model has unfortunately has a few design and execution flaws. It's a classic example of a great site that didn't bring in the right types of leadership people to design the data model before writing the code and it shows in the user experience.

Re: “Scoble can’t be more wrong”

David — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:10:39 -0000

Alot of productive blogosphere time was wasted by people on this today Robert. I don't care if you acknowledge it or not, it was irresponsible to put out so much misinformation that distracted people from productive endeavors.

Danny Sullivan is one of the most positive people I know - he used the F word in his post.

Ditto with Rand - SEOMoz is usually a happy and positive uplifting place and he spent time on this instead of a post that added value.

I'd urge you to think in the future before filming something like that.

Re: The eight ways you can be my friend (or enemy) online

David — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:35:27 -0000

Text translation?

Re: The eight ways you can be my friend (or enemy) online

David — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:38:51 -0000

P.S. Kyte is a resource hog in Internet Explorer.

Re: Perspective…

David — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:04:55 -0000

The post was going along fine until you said this...it did not need to be said explicitly. :)

"Worth more to me than an iPhone or an HDTV."

Suggestion: Why don't you commit yourself celebrate his life by helping someone alive in the way he would have to another person if he were alive today? Everyday.

Re: Google News linking to “source?” Bull$$$$

David — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:20:53 -0000

(David wakes up, sees link in Wordpress panel, scratches eyes - is happy not to see 36 minutes of video on this - good old fashioned crisp text looks nice here :) )

@Sebastian - You are correct that there are a few certain large group (most old legacy as you point out) blogs that are in Google News.

@Tom - Blogs overall aren't the point. It's certain blogs that get used for stories without attribution when they get written about in most mainstream media sources. Bloggers write original content, then is gets ripped off and the evolution and migration to true sources is halted. The artificial separation of news sites (which along with certain super big blogs are literally copying content then not linking to it.)

@Julian - Getting the original source right every time is hard, and sorry Robert Techmeme doesn't always get it right either because sometimes a story plays out over days not hours and many people link to the wrong source. I want to be able to mix both together and with a time sort be able to see the sources. This is not possible in the current state.

OK, let's look at another example. Bill Slawski does amazing, painstaking research on search engine and related patents at http://www.seobythesea.com/ *all the time*

As he usually does, he was the first person to break the Gpay patent with complete analysis that was published on August 30th. Bill posted this at 10:24PM on September 1st.
http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=799

Ok, there were no stories that I see on the 30th, 31st or 1st prior to his post. The source was PR? No this was a patent filed in February, 2006 and this was again not published by Bill until a Saturday night on a holiday weekend. Stated a different way, it's my belief there would be nearly zero stories on this Gpay patent if Bill didn't write his detailed analysis.

Does Bill's analysis add value? Wall Street thinks so as many people there value his analysis and thoughtful consideration of these patents as do many others. In fact I received his post in two Wall Street emails on Tuesday after the holiday. Apparently Wall Street highly values original detailed source analysis - as they should - their livelihood depends on it!

Here are all the major media stories that got posted after Bill's story, almost all with zero attribution to his analysis or breaking of the story.
http://news.google.com/news?sourceid=navclient&...

Go read Bill's post again, then look at the top 10 Google search result for - Google Gpay:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient...

*sigh* Bill ranks #11...but then again it was a holiday weekend and Matt Cutts does deserve vacation after all, right? ;)

Like I stated in my post, Google is not truly the problem here, the artificial separation of news and blogs is a symptom of a larger problem. Google is a victim of this mess just like us in fact.

The root cause issue is that journalistic and education standards have not been revised for the new realities of electronic news and search engines. When the mainstream media takes a long detailed article and dumbs it down to a few hundred words and doesn't link to the detailed source they are reacting to or creating a story from, we all lose. The writer of the original content loses, the reader who can't discover the more detailed source loses, that they might actually prefer both at that moment and in the future. If you lack the self confidence that people will prefer your source if you link out properly to the source, maybe you shouldn’t be publishing the content in the first place.

To all megablogs and mainstream news sources out there lurking I'd say this, the rules have changed. You need to as well. The old rule was that “breaking the story” mattered; the question now should be "what additional value are you adding to the conversation after someone else breaks the story?" If you have nothing to add, please just link to the source. Stop the childhood game of telephone.

A side note to feed reader people, keyword alert sorting instead of subscribing helps this issue considerably.

Re: How many Facebook conferences do we need?

David — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:08:23 -0000

Zero, because it's not about one platform it's about change management in organizations.

Re: Thanks so much for all the kind words…

David — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:11:27 -0000

Awesome! Glad all went well.

Re: Best sandwich in America

David — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:58:54 -0000

Best Sandwich in America?

You've never had an Italian Beef in Chicago from Jay's or Luke's.

Re: Inspiration

David — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:34:48 -0000

Really interesting story telling...thanks for sharing.

Re: Google Android: we want developers but…

David — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:45:58 -0000

Wow. It's the old Scoble! The magic of text! I hope he stays around, I miss this guy. :)

Re: Tech news headlines…

David — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:59:09 -0000

Where is the Search Engine Strategis Chicago session links? lots of great search and marketing insight there...

Re: It’s your business

David — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:47:55 -0000

So are you denying the implication I made from your Facebook post? :)

Re: It’s your business

David — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:37:51 -0000

Robert,

Since you asked in #24 here's the link:
http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/12/1...

Re: Fake Steve Jobs hoaxes TechMeme/bloggers

David — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:33:15 -0000

I've often wondered why does Google indexes satire news sources liek The Spoof (they verify the "value" of sources" and to a lesser extent fake blogs. Anyone?

Re: Best new blogger I have found recently

David — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:35:54 -0000

The content is great yet you describe it in vague words that make it sound like 10,000 other blogs - all you are doing is proving the current popularity of a topic, not the substance of the content.

Re: Why we’re going to FastCompany.tv

David — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:11:57 -0000

Congrats!

Re: Are we in a recession?

David — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:22:02 -0000

There are seperate things going on here. You may recall I used to work in the mortgage bond market.

All the money that was being given to people who truly weren't qualified for mortgages is now being put into REAL growth businesses. So some sectors grow while others falter. This is not new.

On another front, the dollar is under severe challenge as a reserve currency due to our decades of reckless spending and consumption - if we dont reverse this this nation is in deep trouble.

Re: Putting photos into public domain

David — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:36:54 -0000

Very nice demonstration of your viewpoint Robert!

Re: No more goofing off

David — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:59:28 -0000

It would be nice to know the following about Myspace.

First a word of praise, I emailed them for the first time ever with the tech help question recently - they gave me an answer that actually solved my problem in one answer, the first time. Far exceeded my expectations. Why aren't they leveraging the fact that they actually have customer service when Facebook and Digg don't?

I've seen a lot of talk about the lack of monentization from ads in the past few weeks in social networks. What are their thoughts on this issue and the future of it?

When they delete spam accounts, why don't they delete the associated spam invites that get sent out?

Re: The story of the Alta Vista party at SXSW

David — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:49:37 -0000

sounds like SXSW is overexposed and tired...

Re: The secret to Twitter

David — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:08:41 -0000

Great post...Listening is a hard skill, I've been doing alot of it lately.

I'm not a heavy Twitter follower nor followee - I'm half and half. Does this make me balanced?

http://twitter.com/dalka

Re: How our digital lives are spreading out

David — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:23:24 -0000

Who needs another echo chanmber of the same over-exposed people? Is this progress? I'm looking for relevancy. I didn't see it in my 5 minutes logging into Friendfeed today...maybe I'm missing something?

Re: Era of blogger’s control is over

David — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:09:29 -0000

@Kevin Gamble

LMAO - but accurate

Re: Hope

David — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:46:50 -0000

Thanks for sharing this moving story. It opens the complex dialougue of peace, which is more complex than many of us fully understand.

Re: The month of no startups

David — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:05:08 -0000

sent an email...we'll see what kind of response I get

Re: My “alignment” with TC50

David — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:40:13 -0000

"I am NOT paid in any way by TC50. I have absolutely no business dealings with TC50. I have signed no contracts."

Two clarifiying questions to save time later:
1) Are you aligned with any of the 50 startups as an advisor or evangelist?

2) While we are at it, same question for Friendfeed...

Re: The Scoble Top Tech Blogger/FriendFeed/Social Media List

David — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:50:27 -0000

...

Re: Why Facebook has never listened and why it definitely won’t start now

David — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:15:33 -0000

Interesting post - thought provoking - but I'd have two areas I'd like some clarification...
You stated: "He saw that Twitter was going to make a crapload of money"

I ask: Exactly how?

You stated: "Facebook, at this point, is growing 200,000 to 700,000 users per day."

I ask: That's a wide window that doesn't 'feel right', can you state your source (or can someone from Facebook tell us users, active users and new users per day?)

Re: Real time comments will piss off pro bloggers (at first)

David — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:33:39 -0000

No what upsets me off about Disqus is that it breaks the ability to leave trackbacks, the original and most respected form of comment an add on post. It's breaking the blogosphere's most fundamental functionality when there is no need for this if they respected the blog mediums traditions.

Discus must fix this simple and fundamental shortcoming.

Re: Free Online Reputation Management Beginner’s Guide

David — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 08:38:00 -0000

This post certainly stands the test of time!

Re: Manage AdWords Like a Mutual Fund with New Preferred Cost Bidding Feature

David — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:22:26 -0000

Interesting, maybe Google should be hiring people with heavy investment management backgrounds to manage these types of B2B initiatives in sales in marketing as it's the skill set that will become more and more important, especially as we migrate to the even more complex area of mobile search marketing.

Re: Google AdWords Copying Yahoo Panama Interface?

David — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 15:20:56 -0000

Amy,

You are correct.

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/008122....

Re: Ask a Question for Tomorrow’s Marketing Pilgrim Podcast

David — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:22:53 -0000

Hi Andy,

I'd like to hear your thoughts on convergence issues among devices/mobile delivery methods?

I recently did a Nokia Interview on this issue in regards to their new N800 device.
http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/04/1...

Re: Viacom’s Vendetta Against Google

David — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:12:57 -0000

Quite nice.

Maybe content is still king?

Re: The Marketing Pilgrim Podcast - Episode 3

David — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:02:23 -0000

I don't recognize the guitar player in the intro?

Re: Is Feedburner Siphoning Your Link Juice?

David — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:49:10 -0000

I think a bigger issue is that Google seems to ignore the No Index feature.

Re: Yahoo’s AlltheWeb Better than Google?

David — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:46:09 -0000

Interesting data. I haven't used some of those engines in quite some time.

BTW...The Local Search Link leads to a white screen when I click it.

Re: Breaking - Microsoft to Acquire aQauntive for $6 billion

David — Fri, 18 May 2007 09:55:49 -0000

Wow!

[link removed, see profile link]

Re: Viacom Once Again Abusing DMCA?

David — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:13:47 -0000

That is pretty bogus

Re: 200+ Internet Marketing Gurus on Twitter

David — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:20:25 -0000

Very nice list and good idea. :)

http://twitter.com/dalka

Re: Pubcon Las Vegas and SES Chicago

David — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:10:35 -0000

Very interesting situation.

Re: Phoenix Real Estate Investment Firm “Blindsided” by Home Price Declines. Sticks it to Investors

David — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:41:36 -0000

Wow, what an analysis!

I'm not sure I understand where people forgot the rule of real estate being an illiquid asset. It's sad to see people get ripped off in this manner.

<abbr></abbr><abbr>David - Marketing Management Strategy´s last blog post..ifbyphone Raises $4.6 Million in New Round of Venture Capital Funding</abbr>

Re: Happy Boxing Day!

David — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:50:55 -0000

When I was a kid I thought people in the UK got into a ring with gloves! It was perhaps better that way!

<abbr></abbr><abbr>David - Chicago Internet Marketing´s last blog post..Search Engine Strategies Chicago 2008: Video Search Engine Optimization</abbr>

Re: Digg Traffic Has Questionable Value For Most Niche Publishers

David — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:39:49 -0000

Nice article Scott! I wish more people understood this like you do.

Re: 8 Random Things You Never Really Knew About Me

David — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:03:08 -0000

Thanks Tamar! Good luck with your movie quest!

Re: SES San Jose 2007 Recap

David — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:39:44 -0000

Tamar,

Great meet you as well finally. See you again soon.

Re: An Open Letter to Kevin Rose

David — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 14:54:12 -0000

Answser your support emails mr rose, you coward.

Re: In Memory of My Grandpa David, a Wonderful Man

David — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:36:55 -0000

What amazing blog post at an amazingly difficult time.

Thanks for sharing your wonderful memories of such a giving family member. I can now clearly see where your giving and caring nature developed!

RIP

Re: Kevin Rose: Digg’s Biggest Hypocrite

David — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:30:20 -0000

This post rulz!

Re: ChaCha Search Engine Gets $6m Funding from Jeff Bezos and others

David — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:36:52 -0000

Wasn't the Wikia thing rumored to have Amazon backing as well? Are they trying to build a portfolio of search engines?

Re: 9rules Network

David — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:37:06 -0000

Nice.

I was having some technical problems recently that prevented normal blogging pace. Next time.

Re: Must Read Search Marketing Blogs

David — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 09:45:33 -0000

Nice resource. You forget me! Search Engine, Mobile Search and Customer Listening.

Re: Press Releases as Marketing Tools

David — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:58:48 -0000

Nice summary post of a very important topic! Not enough people think about these issues!

Re: Search Marketing Blogs by RSS Subscribers

David — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:20:06 -0000

if only clickthrough rates were known....

Re: Session: Mobile Search Optimization

David — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:10:18 -0000

They had this session for the first time in December, 2006 in Chicago and oh my how everything has changed!

You need to be doing this now, but having a clear idea of what to do as by the time you do it it might once again be totally be obsolete.

I think each business should look at their customer acquisition model and determine if this is urgent or not. If you are dealing with high touch, expensive B2B products or services you might decide to wait until the standards settle down a bit. If you are a local business you MUST be thinking about this now.

Re: BIGLIST Search Marketing Blogs 083107

David — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:01:58 -0000

big list? I like kinda smallish

Re: Dell Social Media Interview with Richard Binhammer

David — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:43:38 -0000

Dell listens.

They don't fix issues effectively in my experience. Sadly, they aren't empowered to.

Dell is a poster child of how engaging is only step one and not at all sufficient. There is a need for much larger organizational change to satisfy customers. This change is not the responsibility of the people of that social media group - it is the responsibility of upper management.

Re: Twitter: the newswire killer

David — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:19:30 -0000

Will the SEC see this as an issue in regards to regulation FD? Will all parties be informed and use this?

Do Institutional Investment Managers suddenly need experts in the management teams with both investment management and top notch social networking skills? If so, that is a pretty good scenario for my skillset. :)

Re: Make More Of Mobile Web 2.0, Report Warns

David — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:03:18 -0000

It is certainly an interesting debate.

BTW, It's sad that you have trackbacks disabled on your blog.

Re: Finally – Meet-up and SOBCon08 Pics

David — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:15:56 -0000

Nice to meet you, where did you disappear to Saturday? I never saw you again!

Re: My feed got flooded! Sorry!

David — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:39:23 -0000

That is a major bummer. But I've been seeing a number of these types of WordPress snafus recently (I've been having a problem with blog comments sometimes not taking at all). I wish WordPress would get serious about testing the releases and the plugins as this type of stuff is unacceptable in an enterprise environment. Argh, sometimes they are their own worst enemy. :(