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September 30 at 12:55 am - Link
answer: no, not any more - jerobins
yes, I think so, a good memory device for finding a site. recall the conversation about Amazon.com? Why call a book store Amazon.com. Yet now it just seems the most natural name in the world. So my take is that URLs do matter. Unless you mean some other aspect? - John Cass via twhirl
No because "normal people" use search engines to find sites making SEO and SEM much more critical than URLs. It's also interesting to note that Google Chrome has recognized this in their use of the address bar where it doubles as a search bar. - Tim Elliott
today on a talk show to which my wife was listening: "Here is the URL...www.sboe.state." "That's long, search for NC State Board of Elections" -- folks will search for Amazon.com before they will type it in the address bar. - jerobins
All that money people spent securing domain names-- mostly wasted. - Kevin
Probably not to find it, but to advertise it? Do you want some crap URL emblazoned across your bidness cards? Your invoices? Your letterheads? So no, it's not strictly necessary. But neither are clothes that match or a car that's clean. Me, I like matching clothes and a--well...matching clothes, anyway. - colleen wainwright
I've seen people use the search bar as the address bar; so, URLs probably don't matter to most. But I agree about matching clothes, etc. :-) I think it's like good biz cards--90% of the time they get thrown away, but the professional image for that 10% matters. - Christine Taylor
In my experience, people lose interest after the top-level domain. And yes, search bar = address bar for many, many people. The URL to any point of entry beyond the site root should be as short and simple as possible. - Tom Harrison
no - .LAG
+1 @jerobins. when i look at the search analytics on my corp. site, i'm always surprised at how many are typing the domain name into search engines... even people who work for the company do that! - .LAG
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Is It Spamming or Savvy Marketing?
Is It Spamming or Savvy Marketing?
August 8 at 4:08 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Mostly savvy marketing. Personally anyone who writes in public and then is nonplussed when a marketer contacts them should be hit with a wet noodle. - Robert Scoble
what if that marketer is not open about what they are selling? - John Cass via Alert Thingy
John: if they do that in public that not only takes some big ones, but could be very illegal as well. There are laws in the United States that govern advertising speech. - Robert Scoble
True robert, though I was thinking about direct emails, and someone initially just asking questions, rather than stating what they wanted. - John Cass via Alert Thingy
JS-Kit employees are known to behave in a pretty insisting manner when trying to persuade bloggers to using their service. But actually Disqus was equally persuasive in the early days until they reached kind of massive adoption. So I think it is simply an issue of company trying to beat a more successful competitor by all possible means. - Svetlana Gladkova
Come on, he reported the guy to Twitter as a Spammer! LAME, FAIL! - Igor The Troll
I think reporting as a spammer is too much here, absolutely. Does not he see enough real spemmers on Twitter& Block the user and stop paying attention if you don't like this, I believe it's perfectly enough. - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl
Overreaction to good marketing. - Brad Nickel
Brad: +1, especially when overreaction is picked up by Mashable :) - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl
Spam? give me a break...no different than a gas station opening next to another. - Alan Edgett
The problem is - when it's solicitation for your business, it feels dirty. When a company responds to a Tweet complaining about a problem you're having with their product or service, and they want to fix it, it's generally appreciated. Good customer service is, by default, great marketing. That's what they're supposed to be doing here. Had JS-Kit helped with installing DISQUS, I bet it would have been appreciated - and maybe even effective marketing. But what companies will actually take that risk? - Kevin LaHaise
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“heading up to boston w/ sean today: lunch w/ msft's don dodge, forrester w/ john cass (+others) & mit media lab tours & planning meetings”
August 5 at 4:45 am - Link
thanks Mike, good to meet you today - John Cass via Alert Thingy
agreed john - thanks for setting the meeting up, enjoyed it - mike "glemak" dunn
sounds like fun - clarke thomas via twhirl
its was fun for him (and me) he got to sit in on msft & forrester meetings - then have some great mit grad students giving him a demo of their projects :) - mike "glemak" dunn
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FriendFeed: where the conversation happens « Freelancing science
July 28 at 7:31 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
I wonder how many bloggers have noticed this same trend with their blogs and use of FF. I bet it's a high number! - Susan Beebe
so what drove the dip ? seems like a classic bell curve ! - Peter Dawson
Blog traffic dipped as the Blogger's increased use of FF caused him to post less on his blog, thus less traffic to the blog. - Susan Beebe
Didn't drop to previous levels either! - Mo Kargas
FriendFeed has consistently increased my traffic. - Louis Gray
yes I Agree with Louis, as a causal blogger, my second highest traffic comes from FF ..google organic is still the 1st.. and as I have moved away from posting on twitter, that as a source is a slacker for me. But FF is gaining traffic to my blog. So actual use of FF imho increase traffic , does not decrease it ! - Peter Dawson
I have all kinds of blogs, and I hardly ever get to any of them any more, microblogging has so captivated my forebrain's attendant fingers. Were I paid, or precious, I might rouse from this leisurely crouch to spare the poor babies them from their venture into negative numberland, but we have often felt that downward mobility was more dignified, and so the shouting began, and away went the numbers, and no one is the worse for it. - david beckwith
And yet FriendFeed is still called an aggregator. - Bwana McCall
i still get an amazing amount of traffic from FF. 1. Google, 2. Stumbleupon 3.FriendFeed - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
FF drives traffic to my Flickr account. - Russellreno
Is there another data point that is co-related to the dip - you as the blogger focused your energy on ff for quick conversation and didn't off as much blog posts as before? so you trained your visitors to engage w you on ff and also for blog visitors not following you on ff, your blog didn't offer as much content as before? ok, I am just speculating here, but interesting stats! - Sudha Jamthe
FF brings me more traffic than Google. No kidding! Stumbleupon beats it tho. - Yuvi
I was just thinking today if it was worthwhile to still maintain my blog... I post so rarely now. - Clay Newton
You have to remember that we bioinformaticians read each others blog for information. Our "Life Scientists" room has become our water cooler. So the results aren't that surprising. Pawel's just making an empirical observation. The conclusions are interpretable in so many ways (for one, he's been busy, so hasn't been blogging that much, which definitely has an impact). - Deepak
@Clay I keep reading about people who might stop blogging in favor of FF and other services, but I have a feeling that the people who stop blogging altogether may regret it. Maybe you just need a break - not a complete stop? I have no facts to support this, just a gut feeling that people will start missing their blogs eventually. - Melissa Chang
room for both. blogging can be different. Potentially use blog for longer, more thoughtful posts. Stuff that isn't bite-size. Use FF for sharing brief thoughts and links to other great stuff. Thats my intention. Will see whan happens... - Kevin Doohan
I think for many people blogging was, as they say in computer science, a kludge. It was an incomplete solution to their information sharing problem. When FF came along it filled the gap a lot better and now they are wondering why they still blog. - Steve Spalding
I think you have to do both, means managing your time - John Cass via Alert Thingy
I would agree with Kevin D. There seems to me to be a place for both. longer, more thoughtful posts and shorter 'updates' not requiring the full length of blog posts. I would be interesting if there was a related traffic increase on FF during the time of the initial dip... - Tim FitzGerald
But dont you think, its also how well you mesh together all your properties ? I mean, I use blogger and my post header gets spawned to Twitter and also to FF. This means I am reaching a broader audience other then my tradtional RSS subscription base. sticjing together ones propities is also critical to how you drive audience. Must my 2c .. - Peter Dawson
BTW, are there some good FriendFeed readers, beside the feed aggregation itself? And, I agree completely and love to check only one source instead of multiple ones ;-) - joergkurtwegner
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It's a good day so far
July 29 at 6:27 am - Link
good to hear that - John Cass via Alert Thingy
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“will be in boston on aug 5th for mit meeting - msft & forrester too (schedule allowing)”
July 26 at 1:37 pm - Link
Who are you meeting at Forrester? (I'm in SF) - Jeremiah Owyang
john cass - haven't firmed up details yet though (anyone else you'd suggest?) - i'll be in sf for msft vc summit in sept btw... - mike "glemak" dunn
Let's meet up in SEPT, although that's a very busy month for me as I'm doing a Wave report - Jeremiah Owyang
sounds good - i'll email ya prior to - mike "glemak" dunn
Mike, let me check with the cio role team and see who is available - John Cass via Alert Thingy
ok john, have to be up there on that date but as for times, my schedules still pretty flexible - mike "glemak" dunn
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July 10 at 1:43 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Common sense tips from John Cass. - Neville Hobson via Bookmarklet
thanks Neville - John Cass
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July 13 at 7:50 pm - Link
This is a lot of great how-to info. Cool beans, John. - Chris Brogan
Thanks Chris, check out the comments with Dan, helped clarify my intentions. - John Cass
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July 5 at 2:22 pm - Link
Paul, karin and I were thinking of visiting, what is the city doing for the 400th anniversary this year? - John Cass via Alert Thingy
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July 4 at 4:57 pm - Link
Ha! That was cute. - Candace Holly
thanks candace! - Allen Stern
That was fun. I do want off at FriendFeed. :-) - Robert Scoble
bing bong! - Hao Chen
you are off your head! :) But i love it. - Zee from WeDoCreative
original! - Anthony Farrior
funny stuff ... but I wanted to get off at FF as well ... identi.ca is a station half-built :) or else at least let me off at Kwippy since I just wrote about LOL - Steven Hodson
well you have to pull the cord or something to get off Steven! - Allen Stern
Very creative dialogue. I think I'll just continue a mad hop between the various stations. - possible248
I think they just opened up - John Cass via Alert Thingy
thanks possible! - Allen Stern
whaat, no Toeman? ;) - Jeremy Toeman
Great video. You would look better in a Boston Red Sox hat though. - Russellreno
You gotta listen to this ... Bing ... Bong ... Allen, you're a rip - Charlie Anzman
Do we have to get off at identi.ca? I want to keep going! Thanks Allen, that was fun! - Jesse Stay
boston red sox hat? are you kidding me? - Allen Stern
Notice he didn't even let me on the train. I would have hijacked it for sure. - Cyndy
I don't kid about the Yankees. I grew up as a SF Giant fan. My wife grew up in NY. Your vid was entertaining. - Russellreno
glad you enjoyed it russell - Cyndy, I will certainly use you on the next social media train! - Allen Stern
Allen your videos are always fun to watch, keep them comming pls - Dobromir Hadzhiev
Great video Allen :) - Gary Bacon II
thanks Gary! I will do my best Dobromir - might have some serious ones coming too - Allen Stern
stepping up the game ha, looking forward to those - Dobromir Hadzhiev
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July 4 at 4:19 pm - Link
Mark, can you tell me more about the group aspects? - John Cass via Alert Thingy
Hey John, TweetDeck looks to work on a series of panels: one for your friends, another for your replies. You can create more panels that have a group of your friends, making it harder for those friends to get lost in a stream of tweets. Unfortunately, it doesn't pick up all your friends when you go to create a group, and you can't modify who's in the group after you create one (so you have to delete the old group and recreate it if you want to add someone). Otherwise, it's Yet Another Twitter AIR Client. - Mark Trapp
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“I'm a spammer! Outlook is replicating my outbox, sending out 6-7 versions of each email, sorry!”
July 2 at 9:35 am - Link
I was thinking you were just trying to get my attention - John Cass via Alert Thingy
Score one more for Outlook. - Mike Abundo
Funny stuff all - Jeremiah Owyang
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