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Re: The Future of Web Apps Photos | Laughing Squid

allen stern — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 01:51:46 -0000

Great pics! You can check out my coverage of the event here:
CenterNetworks Event Coverage

Re: Okay, that was a little weird

allen stern — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:38:31 -0000

I have written my thoughts and comments including why I think this was a disgrace to women online here:
http://www.centernetworks.com/amanda-congdon-video-disappointing-disgrace-to-women

Re: How do I get into these things?

allen stern — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:55:35 -0000

Love the idea of tormenting me :)

I will post the round I winners on Thursday morning and I am also open to suggestions for making the competition better.

Of course adding my feed to your "my feeds" would certainly be nice (HA!)

I wanted to do public voting but my fear is that there won't be enough votes to make it real. Maybe for the later rounds - Final 4 or something.

Thanks for posting about it!

Re: How do I get into these things?

allen stern — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:08:43 -0000

Ha ha - I have already been offered a new Lincoln, a trip to Germany, a Ferrari laptop, and a few other things. I tell everyone, my soul is not for sale!

But just think Matthew - if you add my feed, you will be doing a good deed for everyone. And my name over there will help you get more bling bling.

Re: Congrats, Mike — nice April Fool prank

allen stern — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:36:06 -0000

yep.

Re: Rubel vs. PC Mag — bizarre

allen stern — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:20:12 -0000

Just remember that in case after case, both parties win.

Re: Kawasaki: How I wasted $12,107 on Truemors

allen stern — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:30:46 -0000

Mathew - you and a couple others mention these "two negative posts on tc" - can you point me to them? I don't see anything negative so I must be missing it.

thanks

Re: Kawasaki: How I wasted $12,107 on Truemors

allen stern — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:10:23 -0000

Sam - that's Robert NOT Guy!

I wonder how many people make that mistake to Guy's favor.

Re: Horny Geeks And Hot Babes Web 2.0 Style

allen stern — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:27:31 -0000

Really good post. I agree that Amber is the best of the set.

Thanks for the link!

Re: Days of Our Lives, the blogosphere edition

allen stern — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:01:39 -0000

Mathew - ever notice that the drama centers around less than 5 people?

Re: Days of Our Lives, the blogosphere edition

allen stern — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:31:59 -0000

It's too bad that the drama took a back seat to the bullsh** about facebook code. So that means we will need double-drama next weekend to make up for it.

We should create a "drama creatr 2.0" which we would import the names into and then it would generate battles for us :-P Imagine the fun! It could even be an iPhone App!

Re: Days of Our Lives, the blogosphere edition

allen stern — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:38:38 -0000

Btw Mat - I used this title first about a month ago regarding the fiasco over conversational shill marketing by FM.
http://www.centernetworks.com/my-recap-and-thou...

Your usage of said mark violates the CC license issued to me by the Nigerian Internet Foundation (NIF) to which I am a charter member. Should you not remove said mark within 18.5 hours, I will be forced to create a fight with you in the "blogosphere" in an effort to add inbounds to my count.

I appreciate your handling this matter in a confidential, yet proper manner so as not to invoke the "Rule of Thirds" which basically says that you must have at least 3 inbounds for every "ego" post.

Thank you.

Re: Days of Our Lives, the blogosphere edition

allen stern — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:48:13 -0000

Mike - there should be a Big Brother Web 2.0 Edition.

Just imagine them going at it in a head of household competition.

And imagine their speeches upon eviction :-P

Re: Who does Kara Swisher work for?

allen stern — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:33:21 -0000

I would comment but this is CN's "mm" free week. :)

Re: Who does Kara Swisher work for?

allen stern — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:04:19 -0000

My only comments would be that my emails to her were never answered, and she has a budget so unlike CN she can go to the places that you mention Mathew to get into faces.

Other than that, I don't know her.

Re: USAToday — bad model or bad fit?

allen stern — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:16:54 -0000

Check the story again Mathew - it appears that the numbers might actually be the reverse says usatoday/pluck.

Side question - whose name is spelled wrong more often - you with Matthew or me with Alan :)

Re: Who does Kara Swisher work for?

allen stern — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:33:16 -0000

Kara - if you mean me, allen, I got your email, thanks and replied about 30 minutes ago (8pm eastern.) Thanks for following up.

Re: Musical interlude: Cadbury gorilla

allen stern — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:01:05 -0000

My friend in the UK showed me this when it first came out - no matter how many times i watch it, i just dont get why it's funny.

Re: Google: Why Jaiku and not Twitter?

allen stern — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:02:58 -0000

good post mathew - you can click my name for my full thoughts but here are some notes:

-- jaiku can be molded, twitter already has too many scobles

-- not sure if jaiku had vc, but it probably made the purchase smaller and easier

-- with the stock price changes over the past month, this acq probably cost them nothing :)

-- twitter has big issues with stability

Re: It’s not the eyeballs, it’s the brains

allen stern — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:45:15 -0000

Here are my thoughts:
http://www.centernetworks.com/the-bottom-line-a...

And I found your story via TM :)

Re: Selling Music Directly To The Fans, But At What Price?

allen stern — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:59:40 -0000

What I would love to see is the ability to buy music from any musician around the world directly. If I like Grunge Puppets and Meatsauce (made up name) from the U.K., why can't I purchase this in the U.S. Does this radiohead deal fix that (copyright) issue?

Re: Selling Music Directly To The Fans, But At What Price?

allen stern — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:33:06 -0000

nice one peter! :)

will download later

Re: Facebook: Conference call notes

allen stern — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:21:07 -0000

Thanks for the link Mathew :)

There were a few interesting points to me - if I get enough energy I will write a post about them but frankly I am 2 minutes from falling asleep in this computer chair.

Re: Hilarious Southwest Airlines Pre-Flight Safety Announcement

allen stern — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 01:15:50 -0000

Flying sucks - and this guy made it a bit more enjoyable. There is a conductor on the NYC subway who did something similar. He was up for a promotion to tower desk and was denied because he couldn't follow the rules that said "no deviations" from the standard speak.

Isn't life about smiling and I bet everyone who got on this plane in a grumpy mood smiled.

Thanks for sharing squid.

Re: Posting From The "Sad-assed Backwater"

allen stern — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:55:23 -0000

I moved CenterNetworks (http://www.centernetworks.com) back to NYC in April because this is where it's at. CenterNetworks is covering NYC like no other and will continue to expand our NYC tech coverage over the coming months. There is a hot scene here, is it the same as SV? No. I actually prefer the scene here. Do we have work to do? Sure, and CN will do its best to help with that work. We need to kick up the community aspects first.

Re: CenterNetworks - Social Media News, Opinions and Insights

allen stern — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:14:01 -0000

anytime - good luck with everything Daniel.

Re: Download Squad

allen stern — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:19:36 -0000

Zach - check my post - I use Drupal and it's very easy to install. note that I didn't replace the drupal comment module, just added it on top.
http://www.centernetworks.com/disqus-launches-r...

And FYI - I found that adding akismet has really almost completed removed the spam from showing.

Re: Deals and Steals

allen stern — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:53:54 -0000

Fred - to make your point, check out my examples using visual voicemail from vonage:
http://www.centernetworks.com/visual-voicemail-...

Re: Techmeme: A Cautionary Tale

allen stern — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:20:35 -0000

Actually for a good bit of time, I was the highest ranking individual on TM. I've dropped to the 60s because of the changes that TM made in the last couple of weeks. One additional note about the blog networks, they can create their own streams on TM very easily. I am not saying they are doing this purposely, but it can be done.

And remember Fred - there is a difference on TM between lead, related and discussion in terms of the leaderboard. Discussion gets you no credit.

I still hope to meet up sometime Fred - not sure if there is some reason I get ignored by you, especially since I am the NYC social media blogger :)

Re: Video secrets revealed! Give me a break

allen stern — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:56:52 -0000

Yep - agree with Leigh - that's what I said over on CN - as someone who managed a variety of precious brands for a fortune 50 company, I can tell you that you screw up once, you might never be able to recover.

It's also interesting to consider whether 3-names-Dan is actually talking about another form of the paid post -- something which TC has seemed to be completely against in the past.

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

allen stern — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:11:28 -0000

I'd love to be involved somehow Dave.

Re: Tech Open House, OpenAlley, NYCamp... whatever you want to call it: An idea to promote NYC Tech to outsiders

allen stern — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:55:48 -0000

Happy to help coordinate.

Re: iPhone For Sale

allen stern — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:22:47 -0000

If no one goes $249, I will go $149 plus lunch on me in NYC.*

* $25 per person or less :)

Re: Twitter takes a break, we're awake, and wondering... (Scripting News)

allen stern — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:46:05 -0000

Dave - it's called Twitterdiction and from what I can tell, you have it. I've worked up a post that might help to explain the disease and some help. :)
http://www.centernetworks.com/dave-winer-dealin...

Re: Pete Glyman Takes a Tumble - Evolution of the Geezeo office

allen stern — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:45:48 -0000

got an extra desk area for the centernetworks offices? that office is bigger than my apt yet my apt is 4x more - blah! I will move in but I still link the yankees :)

Awesome floor Peter - rock on !

Re: A flashconf on fair use? (Scripting News)

allen stern — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:26:49 -0000

I'd love to be a part of the conference but I am guessing it will be on the west coast with the same people as always. But if you decide to hold it in NYC, I'd love to be on the panel.

Re: Macs are even more expensive than I thought (Scripting News)

allen stern — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:04:29 -0000

had it been a warranty, i guess then the drive would be theirs right? (i've never owned a mac so I don't know) but with say Dell, when they ship you a new HD, they want the old one back.

But in this case, you PURCHASED a new one. That means the old one is yours as well. Boo. And here I am considering purchasing my first macbook next week.

Re: Pete Glyman Takes a Tumble

allen stern — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:44:32 -0000

yep saw this before - it's sickening!

Re: Dembot - Misunderstanding the $ in Online Video

allen stern — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:23:34 -0000

Hey Andrew - read my post again - I said what you said :) It's Scoble/Blodget who are on the other (wrong) side!

Re: The Advertiser’s Dilemma

allen stern — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:48:06 -0000

Thanks Steve!

Re: Calacanis: You have to be a “player”

allen stern — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:15:21 -0000

nice post - after my post this morning and then jason's - i noted that there's a difference btw those who have large bank accounts and those who don't - seems you agree which is great :)

Re: 5 Marketing Tools Every Startup Should Use

allen stern — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:50:30 -0000

thanks for including CN in your list!

Re: Let’s stop this now - right here

allen stern — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:01:37 -0000

social puts butts in seats my friend - that's why everyone uses it.

Re: Scoble and his Facebook data (Scripting News)

allen stern — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:17:12 -0000

Sorry Dave - you are wrong here. Scoble has no right to take my PII and move it to another system. Did I tell him it was ok? Now sure, what complicates this is that I can give him my business card and he can enter that info into Plaxo or whatever. But tying name and birthdate together is where it can start into an identity issue. Imagine if it wasn't scoble. but instead a criminal. those 2 pieces of data are enough to get credit info on anyone. I think this is an excellent topic for discussion - not so much for scoble v. facebook but in general. I didn't tell Scoble he could use any of my data outside of facebook.

I'd love to have a real live discussion about this sometime!

Re: Wikia search: Let’s give it a break

allen stern — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:24:39 -0000

i wanted to like it - and i've been playing with it since day 1. it shoudln't have been launched today, period. it was rushed for no reason.

Re: Lessons Learned from 60 Minutes’ Interview with Zuckerberg: Brandee Barker is a Genius and Zuck Wears Nice Moccasins

allen stern — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:09:09 -0000

Dave - here are my live notes:
http://www.centernetworks.com/facebook-zuckerbe...

I think your questions are good ones, but this was more of an infomercial than anything - probably to make 60M look hip?

The average American would have no idea what dataportability is nor cares.

I do agree that Lesley should have pushed the advertising and revenue a bit more. Would also have been good to see him sweat a little.

Re: Gizmodo: Wrong, yes — but also right

allen stern — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:47:04 -0000

weren't you the one who recently done stole data from facebook? :)

Re: Gizmodo: Wrong, yes — but also right

allen stern — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:49:00 -0000

you are so wrong mathew - what we DONT see in that video is what happened when they turned the tv off. so don't run to say that the person just turned the video back on. and you can tell that at least one person was audibly mad at what was going on. with these events costing TONS of money with lots riding on the line, the prank was not a prank at all.

Re: Gizmodo: Wrong, yes — but also right

allen stern — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:04:04 -0000

of COURSE motorola laughed it off - what else would be their official reaction? could you imagine them coming out with something strong against them? duh.

how many times has your pc not gone on when you hit the button and you wonder why - yet it turned out the power cord fell out? if the tvs went off, i doubt people immediately thought the power button was off.

Re: Hey, Steve — you broke the Internet

allen stern — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:15:14 -0000

hey mathew - maybe someone turned off twitter with a remote control?

Re: Hasbro and Mattel: Dumb, dumb, dumb

allen stern — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:08:45 -0000

oh gosh - here we go again - mathew bubalah - let's get a grip :)

if they bought the app they would be saying "sure break the law, we will buy you anyway"

if they were smart, they would already be working on a legit version of scrabble on facebook, get the app removed because of the legal issues, inject their own version. done.

Re: Hasbro and Mattel: Dumb, dumb, dumb

allen stern — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:28:51 -0000

to use some basic logic - it'd be like a thug stealing your car and then offering to sell it back to you.

i can't make it any clearer for you than that mathew!

Re: A Paypal Payment Scam Arrives

allen stern — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:39:10 -0000

thanks - i've added a link to this post for my readers - the whois data on the url shows paypal.com for the dns if that matters.

Re: Hasbro and Mattel: Dumb, dumb, dumb

allen stern — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:29:48 -0000

let's all remember that mathew supports(-ed) lane hartwell's photo's being used without her permission.

Re: Hasbro and Mattel: Dumb, dumb, dumb

allen stern — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:16:35 -0000

im just building a foundation :)

if they buy scrabouls then let's you and I make an online candy land, deal?

Re: Revolutionary? - Give me a frikken break

allen stern — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:29:19 -0000

wow.

Re: Unfortunately, I have to unsubscribe to the Dilbert Blog

allen stern — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:59:35 -0000

"going to partial feeds will make your RSS audience dry up, engage less, and certainly never pass the site to others."

can you share some of the ways you engaged with the site when there was a full feed?

Re: Feed Cleanup... Need some inspiration

allen stern — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:20:22 -0000

I will throw my feed into the drawing :)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Centernetworks-

Re: Journalism: of sell-outs and hand-outs

allen stern — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:26:48 -0000

of course the news is a week old :) guess everyone missed it when scoble frst posted about it and when everyone reported on it.

Re: Qtrax: Can ad-supported p2p work?

allen stern — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:23:35 -0000

it's gotta be free right Mathew? I mean charging for content (which includes music) is wrong! Soon we will get everything for free! Nothing will cost anything.

Re: Qtrax: Can ad-supported p2p work?

allen stern — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:48:05 -0000

oh but not like say, a feed from a writer you enjoy, and get educated from?

Re: Qtrax: Can ad-supported p2p work?

allen stern — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:36:14 -0000

gotcha - it is the same but clearly we won't see eye-2-eye on this... out of curiosity, how much is the newspaper that you write on during the week? like if i bought one at a news stand?

Re: Qtrax: Can ad-supported p2p work?

allen stern — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:38:10 -0000

now daniel - that's a pile of crap :)

while i agree for anyone to setup a blog, it might be easy - why don't you come sit with me for a day during 12-14 hours while i write, research, analyze, etc. over the content i write - you see im not a copy blogger.

maybe i am not a blogger after all.

Re: Yahoo Live was live, now it’s dead

allen stern — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:37:34 -0000

you had 78s? we could only do 45s on my record player :)

Re: Yahoo Live was live, now it’s dead

allen stern — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 05:02:23 -0000

lolcat.

Re: Careful with that data, Eugene

allen stern — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:25:00 -0000

I'd argue Equifax is larger than Experian... here is scary... back in my old corporate days, I built a customer/consumer database with about 9-10 million of our customers. Experian came in and said they could matchup name/email to their database and give us 30-40 more points of data on each record in the db from credit info to salary, etc. And we think Beacon is bad :)

Re: Bloggers need to try even harder

allen stern — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:57:06 -0000

the true question is here is whether anyone gives a shit if the story is true, factually accurate or not. some sites still receive new inbounds in any case. And frankly, I (sadly) disagree with Mr. Hodson - though I'd love to see it happen.

Re: Bloggers need to try even harder

allen stern — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:54:05 -0000

i'd certainly love it Mathew... and if it happens I will fedex you a dozen bagels :)

Re: Lacy and Mark Z: Train wreck or lynch mob?

allen stern — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:42:32 -0000

Matt - Here are some thoughts... I was sitting in the 3rd row, got there 90 minutes early to get a good seat and settle in to do live blogging - and nearly 5 minutes into the interview, people started turning around saying negative things about where it was headed. Just to clarify some of the other blog posts, I'd guess 5,000 were watching this live - not 1,000. Was she there to push the book? When I think about it now, I actually don't think she realized when the crowd first started getting loud with applause that the movement was against her moderation versus with her.

Personally I was very much looking forward to this interview -- the only time I heard Mark speak live was at TC40 which was shorter (i think longer would have been great) and most of it was an infomercial for the fbFund. I was hoping that there wouldn't be any announcements here and we could some answers on the future mostly. What's interesting is that just minutes before it started, someone came over and told me he was going to announce something big - not sure if that was the French version or if it turned out to be false.

I found the interview more awkward than anything and a bit boring. She came across as a close personal friend of Mark's and he seemed to not be having it. She cut him off a bunch in the beginning. She kept referring to "Leslie Stahl Moments" when he didn't answer her, which was not appropriate. If you know that Mark is awkward, make sure you prepare on how to deal with it ahead of time. I think Mike did a better job in this area.

She seemed to "poke fun" of Mark for having a journal that he writes things down in. I have a paper journal and Om Malik wrote a lengthy post a year ago about the value of his journal. She even did a yes-no thing with Mark about him burning the journals until she had to call out to catherine Holihan way in the back.

Mark also stuck to basically the same answer all discussion - "we are focused on our missing of communication, etc." -- this frustrated the audience I am sure. No matter the question, he responded with basically the same answer.

What's really interesting is that the first audience question was "so where are you headed with fb" and frankly that was the best question of the entire keynote.

My guess is that it was 80% poor interview, 20% mob - as once the crowd starting cheering on Mark, it seemed to take off from there. To be honest, in 17 years of attending, speaking at, moderating conferences, this was the absolute most shocking crowd reaction I've seen.

It went to all hell when she made "woh is me" comments - the professional singer keeps going on even if someone's boos. She easily could have just continued on but by feeding into the crowd by saying things like "you cant imagine how hard my job is", only fired up the crowd further.

What I don't get is why knowing how big of a fan base and follower base she has, that she didn't ask for questions on twitter or her blog beforehand.

Re: Lacy and Mark Z: Train wreck or lynch mob?

allen stern — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:51:24 -0000

actually drew/mathew I don't think she was thinking of opening it up for any questions because when she was pushed to do it, there was 4 minutes left.

I stand firm that had she asked the audience ahead of time what types of questions they'd like her to ask, things would have gone completely different.

In fact, people could have recorded questions around the event center using sponsor Kyte phones and then shown the questions in the center.

Oh well, let's all move on - 2 more days here to enjoy.

Re: Disqus Funding

allen stern — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:40:55 -0000

Howard - I agree with you on the community pages. Here's my take on the cp vs the old forums:
http://www.centernetworks.com/disqus-goes-beta-...

They have also impressed me with their take rate so far considering it was a first beta.

Re: Dembot - Rocketboom Fastest Growing Video Company

allen stern — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:36:31 -0000

uhm, I thought CN was your favorite blog online - now I will go cry under my cover!

congrats Andrew, you (and the awesome team) are doing great things!

Re: Fun with Simulscribe Transcription Errors

allen stern — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:05:11 -0000

LOL - when vonage launched their transcription service I wrote a post about it - with a funny example:
http://www.centernetworks.com/visual-voicemail-...

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

allen stern — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:05:40 -0000

Loic - I agree - here is my post from last week:
http://www.centernetworks.com/where-conversatio...

I called it: "There. Everywhere. But Here"

It's impossible to join, follow and lead a conversation when everyone is all over the place.

Re: What to write about on a boring Saturday

allen stern — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:30:47 -0000

wow :)

Re: NYC Coworking - Interested?

allen stern — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:50:32 -0000

thanks for the link - I am super excited that we may just get a coworking space!

Re: Who Voted For These Top Blogs?

allen stern — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:57:19 -0000

hey how do i get in there? i wanna be a-list!

Re: Who Voted For These Top Blogs?

allen stern — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:25:48 -0000

everyone wants donuts- i guess i never should have bet a dozen glazed

i think you are better off with nyc bagels or pizza - donuts suck here

Re: Shyftr: Feed theft or social news reader?

allen stern — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:44:19 -0000

this will clearly be this weekend's fun - while i may have a longer response, let me begin by saying that if "asking for permission" is what seems to be recommended, it won't work. Why? Because scoble, arrington, cashmore, macmanus, eldon, etc. will say "fine steal my shit" - and then the rest will be forced to follow.

Re: Shyftr: Feed theft or social news reader?

allen stern — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:26:01 -0000

what will happen is simple - small bloggers who are trying to earn a living blogging will be forced to quit - the few at the top currently will remain there indef. because they have already passed the mark where they can't drop below, the "safe level" - but only a few blogs in each category will reach this mark.

i think today i will take the 2 new developer books i received this week - both are about 2500 pages (c++ and vb 2008) scan each page and put them on my developer site - and put some ads there too.

why not right?

Re: Of blogs, accuracy and editors

allen stern — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:51:10 -0000

Mathew - what you miss in your post is that frankly right or wrong doesn't matter - inbounds do to a variety of blogs. If you look at duncan's post (and im not suggesting whether he should or shoul dnot have posted by any means) - he has driven a large number of new fresh inbounds.

if we looked at say the top 20,000 tech blog posts of all time in terms of inbounds, i wonder how many weren't true :)

Re: Manage Twitter’s Level Of Distraction While You Work

allen stern — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:09:11 -0000

great post - this year I still believe time savers will win out over time wasters.

Re: Why Big Brands Don’t Sponsor Blogs

allen stern — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:07:23 -0000

remember that for a variety of blogs the current prize is links - that's the key. if some other metric was the key for him or her, then that would be the key.

always remember this line from the honeymooners... you better be nice to people on the way up, because you are going to see the same people on the way down.

Re: Video Comments Would Be A Waste Of Time

allen stern — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:50:49 -0000

fyi - viddler had their video commenting pluging for a few months now and mashable included it from the beginning - tc was the first to install the seesmic plugin tho.

Re: Twhirl is raising funds at a $4.2 million valuation

allen stern — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:57:55 -0000

Loic - send me an email babe - my fund is totally into Twhirl and would love to fund you - I am thinking initially $5 million on a $100 million valuation. When I entered your other investor into the app I use for funding, that raised a red flag but we can still do it for you and your smile. Shoot me an email and I can get the papers over to you straight away.

Re: Techmeme and the “A-list” canard

allen stern — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:21:59 -0000

im about to bust a nut, seriously.

Re: Google Reader allows me to (surreptitiously) alter the text of any article.

allen stern — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:01:56 -0000

interesting find ryan - please don't change any of my shared items :)

Re: Video comments: Actually not so bad

allen stern — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:35:04 -0000

what's interesting is that you note mike going off on wired and fred talking into his webcam - in both of those cases you speak about the post author. they could easily embed a video into their post.

Re: DFJ East Coast Venture Challenge - LIVE BLOGGING

allen stern — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:52:42 -0000

awesome job nate! i wanted to be there but with the cnet/cbs stuff this morning, my schedule became completely out of whack and i had to go see the people at drop.io for the video interview. in any case, great reporting - perhaps i could hire you for future live reporting?

Re: The Problem With FriendFeed(ing): It’s Not Twitter

allen stern — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:32:18 -0000

thanks for linking to my video! :)

Re: Forrester comes up with new (rather bland) Apple products it wants by 2013 — I come up with better ones

allen stern — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:41:59 -0000

raise your hand if you think this was linkbait (not your article mg)

Re: Forrester comes up with new (rather bland) Apple products it wants by 2013 — I come up with better ones

allen stern — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:04:48 -0000

that's cuz you got talent

Re: PR secrets? bullshit.

allen stern — Sun, 25 May 2008 20:47:43 -0000

Loic - it's important to remember that not everyone has the "instant-on" connections you do today. While I agree with what you are suggesting about a community completely - not everyone has "instant-on" that you do.

Re: PR secrets? bullshit.

allen stern — Sun, 25 May 2008 21:42:10 -0000

sure, over time. it's not as easy as loic seems to suggest it is. this is a common issue with a variety of people I see -- they think what works for them in their success will work for anyone just starting out. This is why I suggest you work on building your network while you build your startup. Don't expect to finish your product and have a network ready to launch it for you.

Re: Web Discussions: Leaving The Instigator Out

allen stern — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:18:44 -0000

Fred, I've been saying this for months now - in fact my post about friendfeed addresses this in general. I'd love to chat with you about this topic sometime as I am very passionate about it and believe that many are missing the point with why the conversation should be centralized in/decentralized out.
http://www.centernetworks.com/friendfeed-conver...

Re: Web Discussions: Leaving The Instigator Out

allen stern — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:20:20 -0000

Robert - just because something works X way offline, does not mean it should work X way online. Your "calling" point just doesn't work online - I am sorry.

Re: Web Discussions: Leaving The Instigator Out

allen stern — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:23:22 -0000

Fred- it's good to see you come over to the good side (perhaps you were always there) - I've written about this topic a bunch of times and while many disagree with me, the conversation should be centralized in/decentralized out. Comment on the place where the item happened (flickr/youtube/blog/whatever) and then all of the other services like friendfeed can aggregate out - but the comment should take place on the place where it originated.

click my name to read my latest article on this topic

Re: Web Discussions: Leaving The Instigator Out

allen stern — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:50:31 -0000

Robert - I have written about digg before - you can find my post on "wtf: why does digg have comments" from early 2007. Whether it's about money or not, it doesn't matter - the conversation should remain where it started whenever possible - we can do this technically - so why not do it?

I just don't get why anyone wants to keep the conversation away from being centralized in/decentralized out - this is the best scenario for all.

Re: louisgray.com: Are Blog Comments Really Conversations, or Are They Just Replies?

allen stern — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:15:56 -0000

if you aren't replying to your commenters where appropriate, then you are just standing on your soapbox - in fact, i'd argue not replying makes you look like more of an egotist as you call it.

Re: Google launches Gmail Labs tonight

allen stern — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:01:44 -0000

MG - you do realize that recommending something on FF won't work - no one reads FF.

also, I didn't get invited either...

Re: louisgray.com: louisgray.com Experiences 100% Uptime During WWDC Keynote

allen stern — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:18:00 -0000

i didn't know you made funny posts Louis - was this blog hacked? :-P

if i didn't like you i would say something like "maybe you should try more of this in the future!"

Re: The real iPhone 3G rip-off: Text messages

allen stern — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:51:26 -0000

i will put my phone up against the iphone any day. you name the place!

Re: More Money For Technorati? Really?

allen stern — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:54:21 -0000

I wonder how much of that traffic is "real" on trati. Thanks for the link Duncan - link counting might be the only thing it's good for - but that rarely works as well. Someone must have some excellent speaking and writing ability to get the VCs to give them more money. Maybe the vc's are hoping for an exit?

Re: BlogPotomac in Pictures !

allen stern — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:00:24 -0000

gruber is everwhere!

Re: louisgray.com: LOUD3R Launches Massive Semantically-Driven Network

allen stern — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:28:16 -0000

ok i gotta ask, was this a paid review :)

Re: louisgray.com: LOUD3R Launches Massive Semantically-Driven Network

allen stern — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:49:08 -0000

btw this 3r reminds me of the old days on irc when you'd go all l33t and c00l, etc.

Re: Why Has Keith Teare Gone Into Spam Blogging? Seriously Dumb

allen stern — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:22:46 -0000

guess I am not good enough to make this site :-P

Re: Why Has Keith Teare Gone Into Spam Blogging? Seriously Dumb

allen stern — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:47:41 -0000

no thanks - and don't say you don't have a google standing when you are already in google news, and i am not :)

Re: Reaching milestones are a good boost

allen stern — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:41:50 -0000

svetlana - you need to remember why the splogs are there :) you are forgetting that!

Re: Reaching milestones are a good boost

allen stern — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:42:15 -0000

yay for you - awesome!

Re: When Did Splogging Become a Business Model? Fav.or.it

allen stern — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:47:59 -0000

Robert - I believe you are wrong and I agree with Duncan. Look at this example - http://fav.or.it/post/115615 - what value has favorit added? None. Not only do they take the entire article, they are monetizing the content as if it was their own. There's a tiny link to the source (in this case mashable) but otherwise it looks like favorit created this content - which they didnt. Let's not even get into yet another place that has comments. Their tagline is "bringing blogging to the masses" - really have no idea what this means.

You (or favorit) cannot compare this to any news reader - I am offering you as an individual to read my content through your news reader. I am in no way shape or form allowing these scrapers, spblogs whatever you want to call them, the right to take my content and profit off of it.

It reminds me of the people in nyc who try to sell you a fake dvd copy for $5. Pretty close.

You want to provide a snippet - fine. Favorit makes it seem to the untrained eye that they content is their own.

Robert - we already know how you feel about stealing - you leave your front door open with a sign that says "come in take whatever you want its all free" :)

Re: When Did Splogging Become a Business Model? Fav.or.it

allen stern — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:49:45 -0000

perfectly said bocajuniors.

Re: louisgray.com: RSSmeme Creator Served With Legal Threat Over RSS Sharing

allen stern — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:06:11 -0000

just linked you up in my latest video post
http://www.centernetworks.com/content-scraping-...

perhaps now people will start to see the value in my feed for a buck concept. i give you as an individual the right to read my content, i don't give you the right to take it and do whatever you please with it.

free = partial
pay = full

simple as that my friend

of course im sure you will give me some friendfeed argument back :-P

Re: drew olanoff dot com.

allen stern — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:41:43 -0000

and this is the future - the parents laughing as the kid says bad words.

Re: Interesting Things Learned From Google Trends

allen stern — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:38:26 -0000

WOW I am honored - you keep pumping out this great, well articulated content and you will pass me very soon! :)

Great post - one note, on the sai/vb/rww/go chart, sai has one thing those others don't have - yahoo distribution.

Re: Sponsorships and Blogger Hypocrisy

allen stern — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:02:37 -0000

The most important part is trust.

Re: Checking Out Google Trends For Websites

allen stern — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:31:25 -0000

fred, if you login to the google trends (top right) - it will show you the numbers on those graphs.

Re: Sponsorships and Blogger Hypocrisy

allen stern — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:27:21 -0000

my friend - you aren't alone :)

my deal is simple - when you come to CN, I want you to learn to trust me, and I want to trust you - it's a relationship we have - and I hope it's something that sets CN apart from other blogs. I may not have big traffic but I know that my readers trust that I won't make decisions that will harm or put them in a bad place. Maybe it's my background, who knows. I think too many big bloggers have forgotten who made them. I will never forget the following: you better be nice to people on the way up because you will see the same people on the way down.

I've turned down plenty of sponsorships over the last 15 yrs, ones that would have made me a bit better off - instead I live with little money but know I am doing the right thing. They say that pays off in the end (i hope soon ha)

Re: Sponsorships and Blogger Hypocrisy

allen stern — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:29:17 -0000

and can i point you to something i wrote about a week ago:
http://www.centernetworks.com/social-advertisin...

it's amazing how we talk about this - but look at celebrities - they will put their name on anything - do you think derek jeter really thinks gatorade is the best? of course not, it's the dollar bills ya'all.

Re: Crowdsourced Translation Is Not Free Labor

allen stern — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:21:17 -0000

if it's not free labor then how do you define free labor? and will seesmic be doing this type of localization as well?

Re: If your marketing strategy relies on being at TechCrunch 50 or Demo, you've already failed

allen stern — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:16:04 -0000

i am here in california covering both events representing nyc and the east coast - so you know that you will get the real coverage...
http://www.centernetworks.com/demo-techcrunch50...

Re: The Inquisitr at 4 months

allen stern — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:06:06 -0000

Congrats on all of your progress - you (and the team) are doing great!