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Re: Thoughts on SuperDistribution

Kevin — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:57:31 -0000

Interesting thoughts, I personally get very irritated when an acquaintance starts in on a direct sales pitch. I did like Steve's idea, though, people love to see their work in print.

Great blog, btw, keep up the good work.

Re: Do you give away ideas?

Kevin — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:17:34 -0000

Do it!!

Re: louisgray.com: Search Engines, Web Sites Dress Up for Election Day

Kevin — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:39:10 -0000

Live search has a more subtle one: http://www.live.com/

Re: It’s The Interface Stupid! - Part 2 : Republic Of Internets

Kevin — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:01:54 -0000

This is an interesting issue, as Apple is really competing against itself with a "low-end iPhone" option. It they release it, they canabalize one of their primary revenue streams (Nano). However, if they don't release it, Motorola and gang will copy the interface and sell iPhone-type devices on the cheap. And of course you've got the MS Zune Phone speculation that's out there, too.

Re: Email At The Work Place - Lets Phase It Out! : Republic Of Internets

Kevin — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:57:51 -0000

You nailed this one! I work at a large company as well and it seems as though I spend the vast majority of my day wading through Emails as opposed to actually getting work done. For a few weeks I tried blocking off the first few hours of my day to (shock!) actually get work done before logging into my Email, but eventually I fell back into the old habit.

Re: Google’s GMail Themes - It’s the Little Things

Kevin — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:05:39 -0000

I think the reason they're asking for your location is because certain themes change from day to night based on your local time. It's pretty cool.

Re: The Social Advertising Race Has Begun

Kevin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:01:56 -0000

Great analysis, and totally agree that they should roll out a payment platform integrated with FC. Not only would that be a huge convenience to both users and site owners, it would also give FB valuable information on who is actually making purchases online, how much they are spending, what types of services are converting what types of users, etc...

Re: 2008/06/02/goosh/

Kevin — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:35:48 -0000

This is ridiculously cool. I just made it my new start page (and I haven't used anything besides a blank start page for the past year). Very, very cool hack, Stefan!

Re: GoDaddy Offers .Me Domain Names. It’s a Big .Fail So Far.

Kevin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:15:42 -0000

I thought that the initial process was that any .me domains that were registered by multiple users would then need to go through a reverse auction process to determine who the final recipient is:

From the GoDaddy FAQ's:
What is the auction process for .me domains?

During the Sunrise and Landrush periods, we may receive multiple applications for the same .me domain. During the Sunrise period, we validate the applications to ensure applicants entered the appropriate trademark information. If an application does not pass validation, we reject it. If we still have multiple applications for the same domain, we auction the domain to the highest bidder.

Full details here: http://tinyurl.com/godaddyfaq

Re: How Can Facebook Crack its Advertising Problem?

Kevin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:33:37 -0000

The only advertising problem that Facebook has is the fact that it's not 2010 and they're yet not rolling in massive amounts of money. They've got the users, they've got the data, now all they need is ad inventory. If only they had some way for site owners to get users to log into their sites using their Facebook credentials...

Re: Ask impresses with new search

Kevin — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:40:39 -0000

Ha, that's *exactly* what I thought as soon as I saw this. Very impressive work by the Ask team, the map/local search functionality is awesome.

Re: Another Twitter competitor — want an invite?

Kevin — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:04:19 -0000

So...you gonna take credit for Pownce's success, too? Heheh.

http://scobleizer.com/2007/05/08/twitter-vs-blo...

Re: It’s neither the chicken, nor the egg - Thoughts on disrupting online dating business models

Kevin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:35:50 -0000

Good idea, this is definitely the problem that needs to be solved. One addition to this idea is to use the "matchmaker" concept. Instead of targeting people who are looking for dates, instead target their friends. For example, if Alice is single, target Alice's friend, Betty. Betty thinks that her friend Charlie is a good match for Alice, so Betty makes the connection between them. With this approach, you don't need to build a big, existing pool of potential mates to wade through, you are stitching together the existing little pools of potential mates that naturally exist in any social graph.

I actually have some ideas on how something like this could potentially be very profitable once Facebook rolls out its virtual currency / dev payment platform, feel free to shoot me a mail if you want more details.

Re: What to ask at Microsoft's annual meeting -- and what not to ask

Kevin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:37:00 -0000

Great post. If I had a chance, I'd ask something around their plans for digital convergence. On Tuesday the XBox will stream Netflix movies, and given Microsoft's close relationship with NBC, I wonder if they're looking at a tigher integration with NBC's Hulu streaming TV/Movie offering? I'd love to hear Steve's thoughts on the next-gen XBox being positioned less as a game console and more as a mainstream social media hub that would replace the cable box and Blockbuster card the same way the cell phone replaced the land line.

Re: Twelve techies who could help nurture and save Seattlepi.com

Kevin — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:01:00 -0000

Great post. Along with The Sporting News, Paul Allen also has TechTV as a media venture he started (and sold). http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/tv/166459_techtv2...

Re: Microsoft's Tellme on Windows Mobile: Is voice the new touch?

Kevin — Fri, 01 May 2009 05:43:00 -0000

The key here isn't to make it faster than texting with a physical keyboard, it's to serve as a compliment to a virtual keyboard for touchscreen devices.

Re: Food charity disputes criticism of Microsoft's IE8 'meal' donations

Kevin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:30:00 -0000

What's sad about this story is that all MS Program/Marketing Managers will probably think twice before attempting to involve a non-profit in their next marketing effort. Besides having to risk dealing with all of the online criticism, it will likely add more internal red tape for the next PM who has an idea to run a campaign involving non-profits.

MS has plenty of targets on their back - their efforts to give marketing dollars to non-profits instead of ad companies during a recession should not be one of them.

Re: Wisdom of Crowds, Cambrian House and its three current flaws

Kevin — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:38:29 -0000

Great write-up, I have been submitting my ideas for the past few months to the site (TheCougar) and have a love/hate relationship with CH as well. More skewed towards the love part of it, for many of the reasons you listed above. I'm rooting for them, hopefully they will read posts like this and keep on getting better.