Disqus - Friends of seemsArtless

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

Alex Iskold — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:14:07 -0000

Okay, well time will tell who is right on this :)

Re: JOE LAZARUS - Scars

Alex Iskold — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:55:29 -0000

Amen. Nothing great ever been done without scars. Thats where the wisdom comes from.

Re: iPhone For Sale

Alex Iskold — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:09:05 -0000

I still love Apple, just love it. New store in Short Hills Mall is to die for. I am joining the cult.

Re: If I install the WP plugin, does it keep my existing comments?

Alex Iskold — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:44:16 -0000

Hey, I have exact same issue on blog.adaptiveblue.com. I was expecting that the comments would be preserved?

Re: If I install the WP plugin, does it keep my existing comments?

Alex Iskold — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:18:17 -0000

ok, i did that. why does it not import comments?

Re: Subscribe to Comments and Join the Conversation

Alex Iskold — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:28:21 -0000

We are really excited to try Disqus on our blog! Tell us what you think guys.

Alex

Re: 10 Tips on Building A Beneficial Company Blog

Alex Iskold — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:04:34 -0000

Well said Fraser, and well done on BlueBlog!

After all these years I am still learning and evolving the sense of what it takes to build a community.

Re: 10 Tips on Building A Beneficial Company Blog

Alex Iskold — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:02:34 -0000

Thanks Jon! We do our best around here and you are a huge part of it!

Re: The Age of Conversation

Alex Iskold — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:15:51 -0000

All I can say is - what a brilliant name!

Re: Welcome to Stellah De Ville - Our New Creative Director

Alex Iskold — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:02:05 -0000

Hi Ed,

Stellah will be working on Information Architecture and Design at AdaptiveBlue. My email is alex dot iskold at gmail.com

Re: BlueOrganizer 3.4.2 Released: Supports Firefox 3 Beta 5

Alex Iskold — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:25:52 -0000

Steffan,

The secret is that I get out of Karen's way :)

Alex

Re: Wrapping up the Week

Alex Iskold — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:57:23 -0000

Terry - added it to my netflix queue!

Re: Open Source Product Management: Which Call To Action Is Clearer

Alex Iskold — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:02:42 -0000

Wow, you guys are amazing! Thank you so much for all your great insight and input!

To answer Daniel's question. The two buttons do not do the same thing. Widget menu leads to a list of choices, one of which is Grab This function. Grab this is the old choice that we had that took the user to the screen that enabled copy.

The reason we went with the menu is because we wanted to offer more than the Grab/Copy feature. For example, when you are looking at someone's Netflix Queue, the copy does not make sense you want your own. But when you are looking at New York Times bestsellers, then copy is what you want.

Re: It’s the Data, Stupid

Alex Iskold — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:20:31 -0000

How do you make money on the data?

Re: Updates to SmartLinks Plugin

Alex Iskold — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:50:15 -0000

P.S. I heard that you can also make the widgets show elements at random on each page load. how very cool is that?!

Re: We Need A New Path To Liquidity

Alex Iskold — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:56:56 -0000

Two thoughts Fred. The first right out of your own book - microchunking. It happens to vc money too. no need for large investments, particularly in businesses that can avoid door-to-door sales.

Second one, has been bugging me for long time - advertising and free are dangerous and broken models. Hey startup, how do you make money? Duh - its ads! So wrong, so wrong for many reasons. Number one reason? Big media companies are looking to get out of ad only business and diversify. If it was that good no one would be getting out of it. CPM is about to stand its ultimate test - recession.

So maybe we are overlooking businesses where people pay money. Not large sums, but even Flickr like - $25 per year with mililions of users is an interesting business. And maybe the problem is that VC can't get paid in private companies unless there is IPO or exit. Maybe we need to invent better ways of doing ROI for VC in companies that generate revenue?

Re: We Need A New Path To Liquidity

Alex Iskold — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:56:34 -0000

CG, I understand free just fine. You do not understand that free kills startups.

Re: Book Bites for Kids: A Podcast and A Partnership

Alex Iskold — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:32:30 -0000

Well done, Fraser!

Here is what I loved about the show - it grounds us all and makes us think in terms of how to really deliver all the innovations to the mainstream. What is trivial to early adopters is magic to the crowds. Way too often we forget that.

Re: Gary Vaynerchuk: From Personal Brand to An Institution

Alex Iskold — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:46:51 -0000

Added to my cart! Gary, man, congratulations! What a leap for mankind and for New Jersey in particular. There is a chance that because of you, people of America will be able to find NJ on the map. Well done!

Re: Meetups

Alex Iskold — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:28:01 -0000

Thats awesome Fred! Will try to added one of the coffee meetups.

Re: The Difference Between Wordpress and Facebook

Alex Iskold — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:51:55 -0000

Its about integrated user experience, FB excels at connecting people who just want to hang out. Wordpress is different.

Also, how many of these WP blogs are real vs. weird?

Re: The Difference Between Wordpress and Facebook

Alex Iskold — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:46:38 -0000

In this case my prediction is never. Blogs and FB are different and both necessary for diff audience. I would argue that blogs are for more savvy people who are looking for richer content. To me blogging is more about journalism with feedback in the end then networking.

Re: The Difference Between Wordpress and Facebook

Alex Iskold — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:55:36 -0000

Yep, yes, I do. I'd say it falls in between. Oddly, I have not been compelled to use it lately... I think that it lacks structure and organization too much for the structured freak like me...

At some point I wanted Tumblr to be my "soul" like books. music, movies, pictures, etc. but then I found that I have to do constant uploading, etc. - i.e. work. So I now think that Tumblr is more like FriendFeed, but still needs more out of the box stuff to engage people constantly.

Overall, I feel like all of these are for different people - there are stuff to be done on Wordpress, on tumblr and Facebook, just not the same stuff...

Re: Xobni is Inbox Spelled Backwards

Alex Iskold — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:10:55 -0000

very true. MSFT's fatigue reminds me once again that MSFT is now really just IBM.

Re: Introducing AB Meta - Simple Annotation for Pages About Things

Alex Iskold — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:10:44 -0000

@Eippit lol, yes, it is quite different. The microformats are a) inside the page b) current do not have support for the same concepts as we specified in AB Meta.