"Excellent! Glad you're finding the time. Keep the posts coming. Maybe some anecdotes about entrepreneurship? Or thoughts/ideas on agile product development and customer service? I've been very impressed with the transparency and responsiveness of BackType. It's a new model and for those able to implement change that quickly, it's powerful and efficient in giving users value." - Bryan Landers
Man, I think I'm gonna stop playing with brightkite until I have more friends on there than one (you)! Are you getting any value out of it? - Bryan Landers
“Service wanted: BackType. BackType (backtype.com) is a site that allows you to keep a profile of ALL of your comments on ALL (okay, not all, but a ton) of blogs in the blogosphere. It'd be super cool if FriendFeed posted a notice saying that I posted a comment on some blog.”
Thank the lord it's about freaking time! Saw this earlier and I'm troubled by the vague reference to it being Apple's call when...grrrrrr - Bryan Landers
Haha. Hope they're buying you lunch or something, bud! Those are all possible solutions, but I like the layout on the site for discovery. It's just more robust (not sure about the 3rd party apps you mentioned though). And they have the flash player there, so there's really no point in not solving that problem to make a HUGE positive impact on the user experience. Try poking around lala.com to see why it would be better. - Bryan Landers
I guess I don't have a desire to listen to music via flash while stuck on a site. I've used lala before. I prefer to get right at the music. The UI is just the medium to get to the music not the prize/destination. The desktop and iPhone apps do that. The discovery features are cool. Oh I forgot to mention Firefox plugins. - Jon West
"Maybe I’m an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It’s complete gibberish. It’s insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?" says Ellison. Come on, man. There's nothing idiotic about semantic social cloudr media 2.0. ;) - Bryan Landers
Update all of your social networks at once! - Jon West
How come nobody has both the update and receive from one dashboard-like service? - Bryan Landers
What do you mean by receive? As in see all your status/stuff/tweets in one place? Isn't that what friend feed does? - Jon West
I'm talking full API integration back to the aggregated services to post directly from the dashboard. FriendFeed does that for Twitter only, right? - Bryan Landers
"Thanks, Justin! Clip and quote away - it's yours for the taking :)
Re: bowerbirds, I definitely recommend the video "Attenborough In Paradise and Other Personal Voyages". I watched it from Netflix. It's a nice relief from our highly plugged-in tech lifestyles..." - Bryan Landers
"Hahah! Love this, Ethan. That monologue line, hahahaha.
The "traditional" bit is reminding me of the "elementary particle" issue in physics where it gets smaller each time we learn of a new substructure. A term like that has to keep catching up with new discoveries and is really only useful relative to a moment in time. So, traditional media to us right now looks like industrial media, but once the post-social media thing happens, social media will become traditional media, and so forth.
Any guesses on post-social media? Neuro-media? Inward looping media? Nm, you've got work to do on social media still ;)" - Bryan Landers
"Thanks for the mention, Taylor! Let the games begin!
Everyone seems to agree that social media is a powerful and exciting tool. Those who come to understand and exploit the opportunities inherent in new communication technologies will gain leverage over competitors and achieve unprecedented rewards for their efforts.
And it's all coated in web2.0 bubble glossiness!" - Bryan Landers
"Re: endemic narcissism - hey, you're the one who went to BlogWorld ;)
I saw the image and thought, "finally, some real content on Ethan's blog!" only to find that you were mocking the fair and balanced Fox media. Mortgage relief plans don't sell newspapers, man.
(oh no, I've taken to heckling on your blog...no more disqusing around midnight)" - Bryan Landers
"Re: #13 - I might give UNDER-promise, over-sell, over-deliver a chance. That's one way to get the over-deliver part right. And if for all the other reasons you listed for things going wrong (lack of $$$, etc) you'll have to face your investors and customers for over-promising things they might not care about if you didn't promise them in the first place!
I've been trying out OtherInbox and they have dummy buttons on the top for features they don't have yet..I hate that! They might change tactics before building those features and for now they just confuse and clutter the space. Just only put what you have NOW! Let me be excited to see a new button added for me to play with...
Re: #22 - how about: if possible do not meet at all! And if you absolutely must, do what you said :)
What about the one where people say, "you can't do that," or, "that's not how it's done," which really means, "we can't do that...that's not how we do it..." and should in no way stop you from making good moves?" - Bryan Landers
On FF now...Twitter is sucky for this. I like "All" in the 2nd column to display all messages, but where you wanting some kind of mailbox editing functionality there? Editing settings for mailboxes right now is inconvenient. Seems like a settings button on the same row as "mark all as read" that takes you to a screen where you can set notification and all settings for the selected mailboxes (you could select multiple boxes) would be sweet. Right now it takes 3 clicks to get to mailbox settings and there's not individual notification settings in there. - Bryan Landers
Do you mean put "All" on the far left under "Inbox"? And it shows all mailboxes on the 2nd column in from the left (with all messages inside each corresponding box)? That jives. I thought you meant inside "Inbox" in the 2nd column... - Bryan Landers
An "All" mailbox would refer to all messages, not all mailboxes, no? I would suggest a "Manage Inboxes" up at the top (umm...maybe instead of those coming soon features which would make more sense on the left by inbox and saved once they're ready for release) where you could use checkboxes to select multiple inboxes to act on (select all standard kinda thing, too). - Bryan Landers
"Thanks, Ethan. Aren't the bowerbirds amazing!!!
I agree. If there's going to be a foundation to build on, it would be helpful if there were some agreement about what is the standard starting point in the larger taxonomy for what we're calling SM. I'll leave that to you (and others) after I do a taxonomy post (coming soon...)!" - Bryan Landers
Hahah! Singer/performer Juli Crockett is the leader of a band named the Evangenitals (band members were former adult store employees...), who I've sat in with and played on some records with... - Bryan Landers
