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Re: I Don’t ‘Like’ to Annoy my Friends

Chris Selland — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:27:29 -0000

Does that mean no Facebook in Galt's Gulch?

Re: I Don’t ‘Like’ to Annoy my Friends

rob sama — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 09:09:52 -0000

serves you right. youkve had plenty of warnings about facebook and their lack of respect for privacy. now take the next step and delete your profile, and join the dark side.

Re: Just What I (Don’t) Need, More News

Jevon — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:27:41 -0000

I had the exact same thought.

Re: Time to break up Microsoft? $MSFT

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Re: The Itch is Back

Chris Selland — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:57:09 -0000

Lots of people tell me they are very happy with soft keyboards, but as I said I've tried for 2 years (I had an iPhone before my Android phone) and I have decided that I need one. Different strokes for different folks I guess.

I've thought about rooting my phone but honestly don't have the time or energy for that. It's a shame because in practically every other way I absolutely love the phone, but like you I've thrown just about everything other than the apps I regularly use over the side, and now I have to start throwing some of them overboard too. Part of it is undoubtedly the app developers sloppy coding, but it was shortsighted of Google to have memory so constrained.

Re: The Itch is Back

Cris Bjelajac — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:47:08 -0000

I'm in the same boat..somewhat. My G1...I love it, but onboard storage has led me to uninstall almost all of my fun apps, and now I'm stripped down to Touchdown (Outlook stuff), Google Maps, and other CRITICAL stuff. Some other stuff including some better Text apps and Twitter apss (Seesmic) I've had to uninstall, and of course all the gee whiz stuff is uninstalled too (games, google sky, shazam...and just about every hot new app), and this has become pretty lame.

I am -happy?- to learn that you still need a keyboard because I was considering ditching mine...but probably won't based on your advice. The G2 looks good...I may go for that. But I know I will need to have as much on-board storage as possible, or look into finally rooting the thing to allow app usage/storage to the SD Card.

Re: The Itch is Back

Chris Rechtsteiner — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:51:33 -0000

Take a look at the new Sidekick's coming from TMO. Possibly the best physical keyboards ever ... and now with Android! TMO has been fine for my Nexus S, but your mileage may vary based upon where you live.

Re: ‘Free’ Marketing & the power of Evangelism

Ed — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:58:36 -0000

Start ups, VC's, and many businesses are way behind an grasping scalable,
honest, evangelism as a budgeted item.
The lack of creativity does not surprise me; you have bean counter VC's,
and geeks who can code. There still isn't a human in the room.

Re: A Tale of Two Laptops

Mwebster — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:08:15 -0000

One of the main reasons I have never been a Mac fan and likely never will. Their stuff is nice, but their prices are outrageous. I do have to confess, however, that I am an iPad man.

Re: Tablets & Laptops – Consumption, Creation & the Replacement Cycle

WaldoMushman — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:04:15 -0000

Great post. After some research & an effort to actually use a tablet, I ended up buying a small, highly portable laptop. Gives me both productivity & entertainment. As far as MSFT goes, given that their entire franchise IS productivity, I don't see today's tablet frenzy as much of a threat.

Re: What’s Your Customer Score?

Mwebster — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:12:57 -0000

Agreed

Re: What’s Your Customer Score?

Chris Selland — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:06:46 -0000

My point is that the 'consumer vanity' value (which is where most of the attention is focused right now - driven by the navel-gazing Social Media Guru-ocracy) is dwarfed by the much larger opportunity for companies to change how they market to and service customers.

Perhaps it's not THE way to run a business, but anyone with a lot of customers needs to determine how to prioritize those efforts. Influence scores will play a major role in that going forward, and while it is early days, they will only improve and become more important over time. Like it or not, it will happen.

In other words, there IS real business value here. It's just not where the attention is focused at the moment.

Re: What’s Your Customer Score?

Mwebster — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:54:47 -0000

I thought the Globe said it best when it wrote that right now Klout makes social media even more like high school than it already is. I agree there is some potential here, but not sure when. I also disagree with the idea that the only important customer is a "connected." "influential" customer. Not the way to run a business.

Re: PR Worst Practices

Pcolpitts — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:37:02 -0000

Completely agree Mel. Makes me happy that the finish line is in sight. It's getting worse and worse, with social media providing a bully pulpit for folks who should spend a lot more time listening than talking.

Re: PR Worst Practices

Mwebster — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:06:29 -0000

PR continues to suffer at the hands of so many in the business who lack one ounce of common sense. It has been this way for the almost 30 years I have been in the business. I just shake my head and try to keep as far away as possible from these dopes.

Re: PR Worst Practices

Jonathan — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:48:47 -0000

Susan, it's OK. I imagine you've come a long way since you wrote all that stuff. :)

Re: PR Worst Practices

susankou — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:39:13 -0000

Behavior like this gives the good PR people out there a bad reputation. Ugh. I don't even know where to start with how inappropriate this is.

Re: Time to break up Microsoft? $MSFT

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Re: Microsoft & Nokia – now what?

Michael D. — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:03:56 -0000

Tons of competition for that...

http://www.theinquirer.net/...
http://techcrunch.com/2011/...

Re: Microsoft & Nokia – now what?

Chris Selland — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:37:21 -0000

By no means is success assured or even likely. Elop walked into a very bad situation and drove the best deal he could - it's pretty obvious that $MSFT waved some pretty significant incentives at him that GOOG either couldn't or wouldn't match. And where's the differentiation in being yet-another Android manufacturer?

A spinoff of NOK's HW & MSFT's SW could be pretty interesting. They should start by dropping 'Windows Phone' - if it was called 'Facebook Phone' they'd move 10X the units tomorrow. Maybe 100X.

Re: Microsoft & Nokia – now what?

Michael D. — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:35:08 -0000

Nice write up. On yesterday morning I tweeted the following, "MKT not liking $NOK / $MSFT partnership. By the time Larry Ellison finishes with $GOOG it may not look so bad after all."

A couple of hours later when thousands of NOK employees walk out because of the deal - I tweeted this "I may have to take back what I said about $NOK. They would rather go down with the ship than try a life boat. http://stk.ly/hchejA"

Although, I agree a Windows Mobile Spin-off might be formidable - the cultural differences may prevent it from materializing. It has taken the Alcatel/Lucent merger almost 4 years to begin paying off. A year in mobile is an eternity......

Re: Time to break up Microsoft? $MSFT

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Re: Facebook’s $50 Billion Valuation: That Sounds Reasonable, Even Cheap says @jyarmis $FBOOK $GOOG

Doctor Disruptive — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 14:19:32 -0000

Thanks, Chris. :)

Re: Transparency Will Save Us

Larrymkehoe — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:18:07 -0000

I agree with you about the reason to be optimistic. I'll believe were embracing transparency when Ron Paul gets his Fed audit.

Re: Transparency Will Save Us

Judy Shapiro — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:50:22 -0000

I'll add another note of optimism... As information technology spreads through the planet, economic dispersion is more likely to occur. As we become a "many to many" digital society it can serve many more digital citizens efficiently.

Technology, therefore, can deliver transparency + efficient economic distribution channels which together justify my sense of optimism. (As an aside, as I have my degree in history, I enthusiastically share your proclivity to ponder these macro trends.)

I enjoyed your perspective - especially as we welcome the new year. Thank you.

Judy Shapiro