"Der amerikanische Konzern Amazon geht rechtlich gegen die Namensgebung des Schweizer Startups Amazee vor – wegen einer angeblichen Verwechslungsgefahr. Nachdem der Versuch einer außergerichtlichen Einigung seitens der Amazee AG gescheitert war, zieht das Online-Kaufhaus nun in den USA vor Gericht."
- Timo Heuer
from Mento
Amazon - or, better put, their lawyers - think you could. Therefore, they’re urging young social networking site Amazee to change their name and delete Amazee from the Swiss trade mark register. The folks at Amazee, on the other hand, claim that Amazon has gotten its name from the world’s largest river, while their name is derived from the english word “amazing”. They highlight a quote from Amazon’s intelectual property department: “… the mark AMAZEE is not a natural derivative of “amazing”. Amazee is a coined term where the dominant portion of the mark brings to mind Amazon, not “amazing”.” I’m really not sure why “amazee” would call to mind the Amazon instead of “amazing”; especially if you try to pronounce the word out loud. Amazee’s target audience are activists, so they’re hoping that their users will side with them. Therefore they’re calling theme (you can login to the site with your OpenSocial credentials) to participate in a poll and vote on the matter. Funny detail: voters...
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Perfect. Now, I need improved filters that accept contacts groups in the to: and from: field (my filters doesn't work well with dozens of addresses).
- Jérôme Flipo
Kevin: You archive nothing? Interesting! Do you delete everything when done sending, or do you keep it in the inbox? (I don't think moving to a label counts, because that requires hitting the archive.)
- Stephen Mack
I'm what we term an 'infinite inbox' user. Okay, on rare occasion I select everything and archive it, but right now, for example, I have 12,087 conversations in my inbox. Once it's more than one screenful it's immaterial, since I don't use my inbox as a to-do list. (I use stars for that. I star something and then my 'starred' list is my to-do list, although I never look at it.)
- Kevin Fox
Every New Year's I vow to actually answer my email and keep a clean inbox. It is Jan 14 and my inboxes are both clear. It usually lasts until February. But *this year* will be different ;)
- Bret Taylor
My rules are pretty simple. Archive everything. Star items that need an action from me. Use filters aggressively to enforce the previous 2 rules (I have filters to star bills that I need to pay, for example). Only keep extremely important / extremely urgent stuff in the inbox. Once a week or so, go through the starred items and unstar things that I no longer need.
- Tudor Bosman
So "star" means different things at different times - "important" / "time sensitive" / "to do later", but as long as the number of starred emails never exceeds 20-30 at any given time, I kind of like this fuzziness. When I was at Google and had a lot more important email, I used labels a bit more, but I find a loose, simple system to work better than one that tries to solve everything.
- Tudor Bosman
Coincidentally, I started experimenting archiving read Gmail this morning, a few hours before they announced the new feature. Previously, I was an infinite inbox user (like Kevin Fox says). I like the clean inbox. I leave e-mails that require action in the inbox -- it's better than starring them because they're right there in my face every time I check mail.
- Mitch Wagner
I work nearly the same way Tudor does. Aggressively archive, auto label with filters as much as I can, and star anything that's super important. Stars mean different things depending on the label.
- Benjamin Golub
If the platform has a social bent, maybe.
- Chris Brogan
I think it depends on the launch strategy, either to open it up and build community from the start (in which case you definitely would need one) or if you're going for the super secret beta aspect (in which case you would still need one but would probably call them something else).
- Matt Dickman
from twhirl
Can someone provide a link to an explanation RE how "community management" is different than "customer service" if the latter is done properly? Or are we talking about the same thing? If so, then yes, every company--no matter the size--needs a community manager/customer service manager/customer advocate of some sort.
- Ken Sheppardson
Marshall -- We thought it about for a while at Twine and definitely had the need in the beginning stages, but ultimately decided to hold off. Why? It's actually pretty amazing, but the community started self-regulating, in a very mature and consistent way that we were pleasantly surprised by. We still check in constantly and our team is obviously very active in Twine, but I am curious what other startups are doing. The community is running smoothly now, but we have to see what the future holds…
- candice nobles
I think a startup should put a developer in the community as opposed to a "community manager". Even though the developer may not be as good of a communicator as a marketing guy, there is a different type of understanding of what people want.
- Rob Diana
Awesome thoughts everybody - I just posted notes on "Do Startups Need Community Managers?"" at http://bit.ly/46i5im collecting responses to include in RWW post in AM
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
from a strategy perspective (which is the hat I wear these days), startups are best served by having all of their key staff members engaging in various forms - blog, twitter, friendfeed etc. As a former Community Manager, I reall think that this role is much more effective with an organization that isn't as web 2.0 forward as a startup maybe...however, there are at least a handful of startups that I've assessed that could definitely benefit from having a CM in house.
- Jennifer Van Grove
from twhirl
It does depend on the business model. With my own company, we started off small but, one of the first things we did have was a Community Manager. It's proven to be a irreplaceable part of the company. Another thing that is stressed (because we're so small) is all the "key" people are also a part of the community. It's made things go a lot smoother since we are so community based.
- Candace
Amen, mashable! I never understood why Google Geared-up Reader first off; Gmail seemed (and still seems!) to be a more obvious candidate for that kind of functionality
- Andrew Terry
ha. friendfeed comment sections are beginning to be as funny as the reddit comment sections. hmmm...probably just all the same users.
- mike
from twhirl
Possibly. And other clones have come along. But with identi.ca I have *never* seen such a rush of Twitter faithful to a new clone. We. Are. Frustrated. ;-(
- Barbara K. Baker
they might fall apart but its where everyone built their networks, no way to export all the friends, the conversations. you can emulate some of the more active relationships when you move to a new network but the piecemeal people get left behind. twitter is special
- Paul Rj Muller
from twhirl
Yes Friendster indeed ... and MySpace swept in and cleaned up the pieces, just as FriendFeed looks poised to do ...
- Mark Jeffrey
yes :) It hasn't impacted my life yet. A component of my job is watching for trends on the internet.
- Tony Haenn
@Tony same with me - it's integrated into my career.
- Steve Rubel
@k I think I saw a psuedo-science article one time that said there is an "endorphin boost" when we access new information or are waiting for it. Hence the constant need to check email, flip through g. reader etc...So in a sense you are addicted to something just like crack or meth :)
- Tony Haenn
Friendfeed doesn't mean addict in English ?
- Jean-Charles
Hmm... lets see here.. Staying up until 1am catching up on news feeds and/or creating independent media content.... I think I might be. But I can quit any time!
- Mike Wills
@Steve and @Tony...me too...does that make us addicted to work?
- mike
I would feel like I'm cut off from the world if I didn't have *some* connection to e-mail, or Google, or whatever, but I don't think I'm addicted. There are many times (often weekends) where I barely do anything online besides check e-mail... That's why I'm not a very good blogger. :P
- Cheryl Jones
"endorphin boost"? So that explains it. /me quits the internet... but will return when the DTs kick in.
- DeathByNinja
Yup. But I'm ok with 7 days in the woods with no internet too. I think I'm addicted to breathing, eating, and movement. I asked an ex-girlfriend about her addiction to reading "When was the last time you went a day without reading anything?" .... "Uhhh. Can't remember." ;-) See Julian Baldwin's "addicted to learning" thread http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mitchell Tsai
Addicted? No. Not at all. I can quit anytime I want.
- Russell Holliman
To be honest, I am taking a week hiatus the end of this month. Middle of nowhere... no cell phone, no internet, no radio, no TV. I think I'll die! And catch a lot a fish while doing it.
- Mike Wills
I am yes, a program I want to watch is on and I am here!
- Joe Dawson
Absolutely! My wife despairs when she tells me to put the laptop away when we retire at night, and then I roll over and pick up my hiptop! :-)
- Lee Hopkins
Oh, come one. Anyone who reads your confession can relate. After all, it's on FriendFeed. Does anyone other than Internet addicts even use FF? :-)
- Brent Logan
The Internet.... My life...One in the same it appears to me :)
- Keith Bilous
let's find a word stronger than addicted... :)
- Goktug Gedik
I can survive without it for a while before dying of "noise" thirst.
- Roberto Bonini
pretty much, find it tough to deal without Internet connection for more than a day, possible but feels weared, it's where I communicate mostly, it where I hear the news, where I learn something. It's vital oh ye it helps me make a living as well
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
I've been away from the internet for hours at a stretch. Sometimes days. But usually, it's because I'm participating in other activities even more addictive than the internet.
- Morton Fox
I'm not addicted to the Internet. It's not like I've been browsing FriendFeed constantly. I take a 30 second break every hour so nobody can say that I spent the whole hour on the Internet. :D
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
from NoiseRiver
I want to marry FF and have half FAIL WHALE babies.. addicted? Never.
- Mona Nomura
I guess I am if I'm upset that I missed this for the past 2 hours. ;)
- Kevin C. Tofel
I'm glad that Internet keeps me away from my other addiction: reading books. You know, from reading books you get those tiny, tired eyes, your elbows are getting sore from holding up the book and at a certain moment you don't know how the hell you got to move your body because of stiffness. Well with Internet, after all those hours... Well, I feel the same, but happy. ;-)
- Ton Zijp