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1 year ago

in Homeless voicemail: Only in the Valley on Mathew's comments
cmon Mathew - let's not go down the route of the other blogger.... let's realize that homeless people who want to work need a phone number to receive job opportunity calls. let's realize that giving your social aid worker's number won't look good when x company calls with a job opp.

did google get a bit of press out of this? yes. should they have? yes. and fyi, grandcentral has been doing this since day one.

i might be lame because my family was as close to being homeless as one could be when i was young but i think this is an excellent service that google/grandcentral is doing and it should be a nationwide or worldwide program.
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mathewi I already admitted all of that, Allen -- but homeless people also need
food to eat, clothes to wear, health care (including mental health
care), medication, education, job training and plenty of other things,
all of which I think are indisputably more important to their lives
than voicemail.


On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Disqus

1 year ago

in nextNY News Coverage Blackout... why? on This is going to be BIG!
Thanks for the clarification Charlie.

1 year ago

in Why I Read Techmeme on A VC
Fred: Of the 8 links that are in your screenshot, how many did you go to?
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fredwilson Two or three

Can't recall

1 year ago

in nextNY News Coverage Blackout... why? on This is going to be BIG!
uhm - I've covered the nextNY events before - here is one example:
http://www.centernetworks.com/matchupcamp-nyc-r...

unless I don't qualify as NYC reporter

I actually came to the bar on Friday, walked in, couldn't barely move anywhere, looked around for you (and anyone else I knew), then waited outside to see who else might come out for air and then left.
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ceonyc You're totally right Allen... I did mean mainstream/old media news...

1 year ago

in 2007/12/19/mashmeet-nyc-2-recap/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
it was so rad - can't wait for the next one

1 year ago

in 2007/12/17/troll-contest-finale/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
you gotta admit - that one was awesome comment :)

1 year ago

in 2007/12/17/troll-contest-finale/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
adam - if the party tomorrow night is anything like this blog - it's gonna blow.
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Adam Ostrow lol, sorry Allen, no way in hell you're winning two prizes from us :)

1 year ago

in 2007/12/14/t-mobile-blocking-twitter/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
Mark - I can relay all tweetys to you during your time away from the pc.
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Mark \ haha! thanks. is this a free service?

1 year ago

in Facebook Status Updates: The “is” is No More on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
Now this is why the company is worth $15B!

1 year ago

in 2007/12/12/mashmeet-nyc-2-approaches/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
Even if you don't like mashable, come anyway - cn will be there recruiting LOL
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Pete and vice versa I'm sure ;)

1 year ago

in 2007/12/04/myspace-launches-transmissions-forgets-to-complete-it/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
Thanks - I am not fully awake yet - that's my excuse - what's MySpace's excuse? :-)

This is pretty pathetic and clearly someone dropped the ball on the launch timing.

And James Blunt better have been paid a lot to appear on this site considering how it's not even half completed.

I couldn't even post a forum topic!

1 year ago

in 2007/12/04/myspace-launches-transmissions-forgets-to-complete-it/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
loz Stan - I said the same thing in my post:
http://www.centernetworks.com/myspace-transmiss...

WTF do the sliders do? Nothing!
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Stan_Schroeder yeah, I've linked to it if you haven't noticed. I'm flabbergasted at how a multi-zillion dollar company can go public with something like this and be proud about it. It all goes to prove my (personal) theory that the bigger a company is, the more it sucks.

1 year ago

in 2007/11/04/feedburner-glitched-numbers-fixed/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
mark - you are lucky that the bitch week is over otherwise i would open a can of woopass on you :)

"better things to do" :)

1 year ago

in 2007/10/30/text-link-ads-shopping-ads/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
true Pete - but I doubt TLA's business will be severely affected - but it might take a hit.
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Pete If the main selling point of TLA is to boost your rank by buying text ads, and getting money for selling them, then why wouldn't it be a major issue for them?

1 year ago

in 2007/10/30/text-link-ads-shopping-ads/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
Uhm - they launched this close to a month ago to their customers in a quiet beta - I doubt it's due to last week's change. I also don't think this is an answer to Google - TLA and SA are completely different products - perhaps complements but not substitutes.
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Pete Well, Google's change hardly started last week - Matt Cutts warned about it months back. And TLA had concerns about Google tackling text links as early as the middle of last year. Go look at ReviewMe and the way that fits into the picture.

1 year ago

in 2007/10/28/troll-week-begins-on-monday-moron/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
If this piece of crap site was any crappier, you would be approaching the crappy-quotient of CN.
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Pete Thanks Alan. Or was it Allan?

1 year ago

in 2007/10/23/mashable-the-biggest-uk-blog-that-wasnt/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
pints all around mates

maybe you guys should get pete to pay you in pounds instead of $ :)

1 year ago

in 2007/10/20/internal-linking-explained/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
There are internal links that add value, and those that don't. There are also ways of adding links only to add more traffic as you pointed out, which is sad.

Also when you read a story and expect to go:

a --> b

and instead you get

a --> some misc site within the site's network --> b

it doesn't work

1 year ago

in 2007/10/14/adam-ostrow-mashables-new-editor/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
I see an IPO early '08 for mashable - symbol MASH!

1 year ago

in 2007/10/14/adam-hirsch-joins-as-mashable-community-director/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
Congrats Adam - you are the "Julie 2.0" :-P

and hats off to Pete - you are really growing an empire here!
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