DISQUS

I have noticed, though, that I do get far less results on a Google search pointing to Wikipedia these days than I used to get over a year ago. It seems as if, perhaps, this thing of yours worked or the NOFOLLOW hurt them more than they would care to admit. I guess they had to get rid of spammers, but there might have just been a need for better moderators instead of using NOFOLLOW. It's just not clear, yet, what NOFOLLOW does just yet...

This is true. As with all things, it can take so long to build but so quick to destroy. Just one bad line of products under your brand and your entire brand is placed under a question mark or ridiculed. A person only needs to have one bad experience to say they'll never go back to that product ever again. Even if they get a life of brilliant service, one bad experience is often all it takes to lose them forever. It's a horrible reality.

I'm interested in knowing how Matt (or someone like him) actually makes money. How does he make money out of Wordpress? It's all free, and someone has to develop it. So how does he make money? Surely someone has to pay for all this stuff – the hosting, the developing, the fixing of the bugs, the administration, etc. Open source really amazes me that they manage to make money out of this business model – very interesting!

Those are quite cute. Thanks! I really like the RSS feeder logo, I think whoever came up with it was a design genius. As far as I know, it was the original logo used in FireFox and everyone else adopted it as a standard when it was obvious that a standard was required. It looks almost like the wireless or bluetooth logo. I think it's a really nice logo. Nice buttons – some are really large, but that's cool.

One thing that I think you may have neglected to tell Chuck was that he perhaps needed to re-assess his actual website in comparison with his competitors. Maybe they just have better content and better Copywriting on their site. Maybe they just have a more accessible site. Both of these would make the sites more popular and give them a better ranking, plus if the content is overall better than his site it may stand to reason why he dropped (especially as Google changes things in its algorithm...)

Wow, you've got like three Spam filter plugins there. That's a HECK of a lot. I'm sure you might be losing a heck of a lot of genuine comments that are getting caught up in your spam filters. It may be a little too much. I'm quite happy with Akismet, and don't feel that the normal blogger really needs any more. I suppose if you have a HUGELY popular blog then you might need so many spam filters...

I think that the iPod really, really propelled Apple into the big time. Before that, they were doing well with their PC's and all but it was the iPod that made them really, really popular again and well known. Only a few geeks would rate Apple before that, now everyone thinks Apple is absolutely brilliant and people will be happy to buy expensive laptops just because its Apple (and actually get less for more money). Me, though, I just buy a normal laptop and install Linux Ubuntu – works just as well (for a LOT less!)

Well I've found Akismet to work really well. You should at least feel honoured that your blog is that popular that spam bots find it easily. I guess, though, that that's all you can get on the positive side for this problem. SpamKarma2 may be a little too much, though, because it does throw a lot of genuine comments into the trash can and then you just have the opposite problem of sifting through all the spam to find the real comment. It may be easier rather to have the problem of deleting spam manually rather than sifting through it manually.

Ah, now I understand. Monetizing widgets. That's clever. It's also now brought advertising all over our computers and for that I'm not happy about. There would have to be a way we can be sure we have less advertising – I'm not going to sign up for a widget today that tomorrow has adverts splashed all over it. I'll rather then just stick to opensource, thanks. And everyone else can take a hike.

Some businesses are best left when they reach the amount of money that the owners/investors wanted from it. This is because the business may be part of a larger group that wants to indulge in some experimentation etc. and they like to use the consistent business to bring in the money. Like a bread-and-butter sort of business. Growing it means higher costs, greater risks etc. So, there are reasons for those ambitions and I think it's okay to make a decision (like companies like Ferrari have done) where they say : “Ok, this is where we wanted to take it and we're going to let it stay here and no further.”

Ha ha, you're quite right about the fact that you'll get attention when you say it – regardless if you like the term or dislike the term.
The term is necessary when explaining yourself. What I don't like is how EVERYONE is a Web 2.0 this or that, in the sense that it becomes hard to distinguish who REALLY is a Web 2.0 this or that and who isn't. In truth, everyone is a web something or other but the term “Web 2.0” is definitely used to garner attention and it certainly works!

I like the last point you mentioned - “Don’t create social communities just to have them.” Even some successful online companies have panicked at the wake of the social media boom. As a result, they all tried to employ some sort of social community at their site when their site wasn't condusive to such a thing. Sometimes, there is so much MORE they could have done for their site but they failed to see the true potential because they were reacting on the social media boom. Hopefully, now that that's all quietened down, people can get to work on making their online business really work.

Certainly last year (when the original post was written) social media encountered a major boom. This was evidently seen when everyone (and their grandmother) got on Facebook. Interestingly, this year we've started to see people slowly leave social networks as this type of media begins to stabilize and find its true market. From here, it integrates normally into society where many people will do it, but not everyone is going to flock to one type of way of doing it or a particular service.

I'm not sure if the name would catch on, but the fact is that what you are presenting IS Web 2.0 in many ways. I can understand the idea of separating Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0, but Product Development 2.0 is certainly the whole Web 2.0 thing itself. And, personally, I'm excited to see where it's going – there is going to be a huge shift in the market very, very soon. I'm excited about this shift and hope that the big-guns don't win in their tactics to stop it.

I agree with the first poster – this is, probably, the best plugin for wordpress ever. This would make upgrades really seamless for me, and no longer a bit of a pain. Only thing is that I need to watch the megabyte ratio –- being in Africa, our broadband is “capped” (meaning, we can only use a certain amount of GB's a month and if we exceed it we need to pay more to the ISP. Weird, eh? As far as I know, there's no other country in the world which does so; although, I'm sure there probably are, I know most developed countries don't do this.).

Man, a Linux version of Media Centre or whatever would probably rock compared to Apple TV or Media Centre. Alas, I don't know of any working version just yet – but, once it gets working, you bet it's going to take off.
I guess the Apple TV isn't priced badly for what you get. Although, I think they can still do a little better and I hope that in the next generation of Apple TV we're going to see a heck of a lot more compatibility – as that's the real problem with it for me right now.

Sounds like an interesting enough film. I think that there are a lot more films that can be made around this era, but it seems that it isn't very popular. There could be a heck of a lot more WWI movies too, but there seems to be very little of these in reality. WWII seems more interesting than WWI in Hollywood... perhaps it has something to do with the fact that in WWI everyone made hectic mistakes. In WWII it's easier to know who the good guys are supposed to be (anything but Nazism) but it's more difficult to make that distinction in WWI.

I like the mention of writing articles to establish the firm as a thought leader. This is one thing that many firms, of all kinds, don't think about : being a thought leader. Too many firms forget about thinking about their philosophy and what they are actually WANT to be about. This is something that people should honestly think about, but spend very little time on this very important part of ANY business.

I do think it's a little dumb that people willingly give their e-mail password out to social networks; but besides that, the truth is that this is pretty disgusting. The poster who spoke of all his business associates being mailed shows how horrible this thing can go. That's plain unprofessional and just plain ridiculous of these guys. I really can't believe they went ahead and did this – they should definitely get their heads checked or something!

Man, I would love to hypermile more. The problem, I think, is really the other drivers : the pushy ones that try and push everyone either off the road, or faster down the road. I've tried a few times to do some makeshift manual hypermiling, but my plans are always spoilt by some suit in a faster car insisting that I go his ridiculous speed in a residential area. I have no patience for those kinds of people, but they push you so badly that you just want to speed up to get away from them and the accidents they're almost causing all around themselves!

Weird how it's added a suit, changed your hair and done a whole lot of other things. Interesting how they manage to get this to work. They've also got the nicest name, but I think $20.00 is very expensive. Especially since (it seems) you can't save and keep the photo, but can only upload it to the social networks they've registered with? While that's a nice touch, I wouldn't pay $20.00. I can maybe spend the money on getting a professional photo done instead, which would be a lot more beneficial!

I think I agree with you – it's at once an ingenious idea, at at another an idea that we've seen employed many times before. What makes it ingenius is probably the fact that it focuses around blogs – and focuses around the social and community idea of the internet. This time, however, you can earn money from a social community (ie, a pyramid scheme but more like, as the above poster said, an MLM idea.) I would probably put it in the MLM bracket myself, and certainly not the pyramid scheme (which is not reasonable.) MLM is reasonable, and there's nothing wrong with it – provided you're the right kind of person for it.

I wonder when they're going to finish Google Books as I think it would be very valuable if they could include what they have there in all their API choices here. Say you do a Google Desktop search – it would search all the books available online and retrieve those answers for you too. But for some reason they're keeping Google Books under the radar... I suspect it may be because of possible Copyright problems that they want to avoid while they sort all the bugs out. But, once it's done, I think it's going to be a great application!

I think that the real point is that there are constantly new shiny things coming out, but only like 1% of them really make a difference. Perhaps all you need to do is just mention them, but not rave about them unless you're TRULY excited about them. And, even if you do, just be careful how your rave about them. That'll probably keep your audience happy. Of course, you've got to decide who you're blogging for – you? Or your audience? The answer should probably be both, but that's a little bit of a cop-out. I think you should blog for you, otherwise you just become an old-media journalist in a new-media suit.

There's obviously different kinds of people, and the content of your site should depend on the type of audience / customer you're wishing to lock on to.
That's why I do agree with Jakob's statement that, “To demonstrate world-class expertise, avoid quickly written, shallow postings. Instead, invest your time in thorough, value-added content that attracts paying customers.”
Even though you didn't agree, Scoble, the fact is that he is right on this point. But, as you said, there's a place for both of them. Yes, I also just want to know that there's meat in Aisle. 4 but I don't consider some of my passionate interests 'meat.' With those, I want details!