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Seriously, Why aren’t you listening to PODCASTS - http://tubbynerd.com/2009...
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Too long introductions and talking about what you're going to talk about later.
- Andy Roberts
But that's one of the best bits - use the iPod double speed feature or shuttle through!!
- Ed Dale
from iPhone
Too inefficient use of time. Give me pdf transcriptions any day! I only listen to podcasts when I can't do anything else, such as when driving kids around for swimming, taekwondo, school...
- Ritesh Lal
Again how many hours a week are you doing those tasks - whack that iPod on x2 and take advantge of all those times you can't do anything else!!
- Ed Dale
from iPhone
What happened to this place where did everybody go. Where's all the old peeps? LJF wolf (Linda), Marysia, Groobers, Jorge, Jen, etc, where's all the comments people used to write when someone would post a question or statement. It looks like a ghost town. Where did everyone go.
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I remember Allison she's still here she's the one that LOL when I missed the sale on market Samari. Speaking of which MS is on sale and I just bought it. I'm sure most of you have it but if not get it now don't even wait for the last day that's how I messed up before... Twice. Allison who's LOL now? ha .
- Russ
I noticed that too. Maybe everybody went to the 30DC Forums while it's really active in August. At least I did.
- Michael Netsch
God thanks for noticing the same thing Michael I'm so glad I'm not alone. Let's try this Michael. Yell hello and see what happens. HELLO hello hello hello hello. Yea sure enough there is an echo in this place how scary.
- Russ
I am still here hay!
- TrafficBug
Hey Russ, Everybody is busy making money :-) Time for 30DC2009 newbies to get the ball rolling here.
- Ritesh Lal
Hello hello hello hello-o-o-o ! This old peep has come back from the dead
- Isha (Marysia)
Hey Marysia is that you? You are one of the old peeps and one of the good ones the best in fact. Sooooooooooooooooooooo glad you're back Marysia. eeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaa. Did you see the time Larry Wolf said "my happy dance continues unabated" still remember that line and it kinda fits now.
- Russ
Hello again hello just called to let you know...hi hope all's going well...testing testing hello...
- Groobers
Groobers of course I remember you yur onea the old peeps. So cool.
- Russ
Russ definitely old ;) I haven't been around friendfeed for a while any big changes? I have been trying to get a grip with the forums but I am so bad at the search thing and with being so behind yet again this year I feel bad because I keep asking the same questions.
- Groobers
Well damn Groobers. I think this stuff is all about persistence, persistence and more persistence and then you finally make it.
- Russ
I was rudely withdrawn from society by my body's health pecadillos. I sorely missed you all.
- Isha (Marysia)
LJF Wolfe is Linda :-D I think she's busy mayhaps.
- Isha (Marysia)
Well, busy is one way to put it . . . also not paying the TOTAL attention to FF like I used to, and oughta -- but I sure love seeing all you guys again! It's easy to get out of the 'FF checking habit' when you don't see the icons of old friends. Hiya!!
- LJF Wolffe
Larry oh shoot you are LJF a lady sorry, One of your other great one liners is also appropriate here. "I love my computer all my friends are in it." See I not only listen to you but damn I even have your material memorized.
- Russ
Wow, Russ -- that's cool, but kinda scary. Good lines, though, huh? Even if I did find "all my friends are on it" somewhere else. And don't worry about the name thing; I use LJF to be intentionally ambiguous, so it's my own darn fault. 8-)
- LJF Wolffe
Russ, only just seen your "Marysia is that you? You are one of the old peeps and one of the good ones the best in fact.Sooooooooooooooooooooo glad you're back Marysia. eeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaa"!! Thank you - you just made me feel all warm & big-smiley - it's great to be back!
- Isha (Marysia)
Hey Linda and Isha two of the absolute best glad you are back and Isha thanks for the talk, I solemnly swear to stop being so attached without properly testing (from now on just call my wally ;) to the testing... Thanks Russ for starting this post it's great to catch up with everyone :)
- Groobers
Man, August was crazy. Lots of unexpected work and quite a bit of travel (crazy as in fun :D) A bit sad I couldn't show up much for the 30DC this year... Rest assure, as the dust settles I'll be showing up here more often. Glad to see ye old peeps are still alive an kicking, cheers to you all ;)
- Jorge Blanco
I was wondering the same thing... I'm still here too! Hopefully it will become more lively again - I missed you all.
- Jen
@blunt_ how many Marvel films do you watch a day? How often do you use Twitter a day? Which is growing faster?which has more businesses?
which has actually made billions in revenue and survived for decades?
- alphaxion
I wonder if that question presented to an "offline" crowd may show a minimal Twitter effect and a surprisingly large Marvel audience.
- Paul Monaco
do you mean Mickey is going to acquire Twitter ?
- k0nan
+1 alphaxion. The real question is: How much money do you give you Twitter per year and how much to Marvel per year?
- Ritesh Lal
I need some help with WPD: I don't want to use WPD anymore for my old 30DC blog and instead just use WordPress as I do with all my other sites. Now, I'm confused as to how this works. Is there a simple way to uninstall WPD and install wordpress instead?
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Forgot to mention: my blogs is hosted by Hostgator, so what I'm trying to do is just to get rid of the WPD files so I can install WordPress instead. No change in hosting.
- Jen
I've dropped a number of my blogs from WPD and just open them in wp-admin mode. I have not had any problems with the blogs but I think you lose the WPD features like auto posting.
- Susan Young
Susan, did you delete them from your WPD interface or did you leave it as it is and just ignore that WPD is still there?
- Jen
Jen, just ignore WPD and access your blog interface directly using yourdomain.com/wp-admin WPD doesn't install anything extra on your blog server. It just connects to it from outside. Just stop using WPD and start using Wordpress directly. DON'T DELETE BLOG FROM WPD. This will delete your blog entirely from your server! Ps- How's Canada doing for you? :-)
- Ritesh Lal
Ritesh, that's what I have been trying to do but when I installed the latest version of WordPress my blog disappeared, which I don't understand. Oh well, I will go and play with it some more... Canada is great so far, still settling in and I have realised that starting your own business and at the same time moving countries is a lot to handle all at once :-)
- Jen
Just fyi - have fixed the problem: there was a plugin left when I ran the upgrade. Working fine now after I removed it. All good and now more WPD for me!
- Jen
If you're not using WPD at all you might want to change your Hostgator password. WPD has access to the hosting account, and it's just a good practice to keep controls over your passwords IMO. You can always update the password if you change your mind.
- April
April, excellent advice - thanks, have just done that. But I'm wondering: is there no way to delete my WPD account? Will that affect my blogs at all, even if they are hosted elsewhere? I'm confused...
- Jen
Since you have Hostgator I assume you have your own domain and hosting and did not have one of their free hosted accounts. Are you paying for WPD and want to cancel? In essense, WPD acted as an interface between you and your blog (Wordpress software installed on your Hostgator server with your domain name pointed to it). WPD did some of the manual steps for you, like installing WP software and FTP (uploading) a theme and plugins. That's why it needed your password.
- April
I kept WPD for a few months last year and decided it wasn't worth it to me and canceled. Everything went fine. You can go into your WP-Admin area and see your theme and the plugins for yourself. They are on your hostgator account. If you use FTP, you can look through the files as well. There can be some learning curve, but well worth it with more control, etc. Hope this makes sense...very late. Sorry it's so long.
- April
WPD was great for learning but I'm so much more experienced now that I really appreciate the control I have without it. I'm not paying anything, had the free WPD account, my own domain and hosting with Hostgator. I just want to delete my WPD account as I'm not going to use it anymore but I guess that should be fine, as I have actually removed access to my hostgator account already. Thanks April, really helpful advice!
- Jen
Like My New Ebook? It was a low hanging niche!? - http://www.shipmentoffail.com/fails... (via http://friendfeed.com/swbnetw...)
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ouch (in a new high pitch voice)
- adrian brown
ROFLMAO "Low hanging niche"
- Ritesh Lal
Fwd: corvida: [A MUST READ] Why You’re Too Qualified and Respectful to Produce Great Content http://regator.com/ - http://twitter.com/corvida... (via http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...)
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I can't see the item you refer to on that webpage Ritesh (http://regator.com/ ).
- Isha (Marysia)
The original URL is http://www.copyblogger.com/qualifi... It's a guest post by Pace, who's half of Freak Revolution -- another great site. Great read!
- LJF Wolffe
Thanks LJF! Hope you can see it now Isha.
- Ritesh Lal
Yes - thank you Ritesh & LJF!
- Isha (Marysia)
I've been working through Niche BluePrint a course focused on creating e-commerce websites and I just thought about making a hybrid between that and the 30DC; i.e. the e-commerce website the main domain name maindomain.com and the blog maindomain.com/blog. Or should I make the main domain the blog and then convert it to an ecommerce later?
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I've answer for you, but looking forward for suggestions...
- zac
Not sure if there's going to be any other suggestions... What's yours zac?
- Connery Johnson
Connery, Zac, Had same dilemma as you. Did some research on what others were doing, including some gurus. Found that most of the cases had "domain.com" as the business page (the money page or the main e-commerce website), "domain.com/blog" was for blogs. Looking fwd to hear other ideas.
- Ritesh Lal
I would make the "money site" the 'domain.com'. Use the blog to drive traffic to the money site. All your efforts should be focused on driving traffic to the money site.
- Michael Wilson
I agree with most others here; make the main site the commercial one.
- Juho Tunkelo
I was wondering where does the squeeze page fit into all this? So primarily if one has 3 main pages: squeeze, blog, sales; then which one is the domain home page? Also, the blog should drive to suqeeze page or directly to sales page? Where should one direct adwords traffic to? Squeeze or sales page? Lots of questions, I know! Hope the experienced folks here can enlighten us and save us some split testing time :-)
- Ritesh Lal
Oh my this video of Hitler discovering FriendFeed's sale to Facebook NAILS it. Hillarious. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Whoever did that was on FriendFeed a long time. Appreciate all the humor!
- Robert Scoble
We still have Plurk, ha!
- Michael Ryan
This was originally form Mark Trapp: http://friendfeed.com/itafrom...
- Matt Mastracci
F'ing fabulous!!
- Larry Hawes
Plurk is just as worthless, especially with the hole Karma Bullshit.
- Matt Ruiz
Thank you, thank you: I'll be here all week! Be sure to tip your waitress; try the veal!
- Mark Trapp
The inside jokes are great, was LOL this morning.
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
Abso-effing-lutely hilarious :-)
- Ritesh Lal
Damn.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
"We still have Plurk" haha
- Patrik Johansson
I have seen this vid with so many different sub titles, and its always hilarious.
- Jordan Patterson
OMG! Great!
- Jason Miller
"We Still Have Plurk!" Hahahahahahahahha!
- Hugh McCallion
Hysterical! (At first I thought this (FB swallowing FF) was bad for Twitter - but maybe Twitter will end up the real winner. (Such a depressing thought.)
- Matthew Blaisdell
Laughed so hard I cried.
- Erica OGrady
If FriendFeed got big independently, you would have FriendFeed spam just like you get poked or you get trash messages on Facebook. It's the nature of the beast.
- Michelle
Thanks for the humor. I needed to laugh today.
- Jeunelle Foster
Mark, I forwarded this to a friend - film school graduate, not a Friendfeed user. He loved it. Great job.
- John Craft
Ahahah excellent !
- Jacque
this meme never gets old
- Victor Barriga
hahahah
- Sinan İŞLER
Hahahaha!! That is hilarious!
- zephyrlily
From BBC online: "Google look out, Facebook knows the real money is in real-time search," said respected blogger Robert Scoble. "Google is the king of regular search. FriendFeed is the king of real-time search. This makes the coming battle over this issue much more interesting," Mr Scoble told the BBC....
Nicholas James to Nicholas's feed, Social Media, Social Media Club, Social Media Enthusiasts, TheNextWeb Forum, building43, RWW: The Future of Tech, FF Follow Friday, FriendFeed Talk
If you were only allowed to subscribe to 1 FriendFeed user who would it be and why?
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If I had to choose just one, either I wouldn't choose, or it would Robert Scoble because his info stream touches so many parts of life and not just social media.
- Nakeva Corothers
Robert Scoble because he connects to so many people and I like the things he talks about
- Andre P. Siregar
surely the REAL Steve Jobs, because has introduced the first computer "for all of us" :D
- Paolo Barresi
Robert Scoble, he is the king of FF ;)
- Jacque
Scoble but only if he was allowed to follow more than one person as its via following him I spot stuff I would of missed.
- Darren Stuart
ewing2001 and/or scoble ;
- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
Darren: I would agree with that totally!
- outofmyarse
Rob Diana or Mike Fruchter, because they share great things in Google Reader.
- Louis Gray
Louis Gray, for the same reason he cites for Rob/Mike.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Tied between Louis and Scoble.
- Mike Fruchter
Derrick
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
I would go to the beach and cry because I can't pick just one great FriendFeeder.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
+1 Robert Scoble, except I would curl up in a ball and cry
- Kim Landwehr
I see what your getting at but I agree with others, it wouldn't make much sense. It's all about the interaction. Otherwise, we might as well just get everyone's email to have one on one conversations.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
When I am dead, though, I think Atul is most likely to be the best-known liker and Louis Gray got me into this and brings the best people along.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Scooby Doo, aka Scoble definitely. No one else has such a rich and interesting stream.
- Ritesh Lal
+1 Louis. Agreed, Rob and Mike provide an amazing amount of value and are some of the best 'human filters' for tech and social media. Oh, and you're not so bad yourself ;) Atul and Robert are also up there.
- AJ Kohn
The king of FF is ordizia
- Jokin Lacalle
I could pick many people here but just to be a little different, I've picked one person randomly from my top users list: Thomas Hawk: http://friendfeed.com/thomash.... Well, we both have a keen interest in photography. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I would subscribe to Ladybug Heather because she's funny and thoughtful and because I don't want to end up before a divorce court! ;-)
- Scott of Two Countries
Well, crap. I guess I have to subscribe to Scott of Two Countries, then. *sigh* :-D
- Ladybug Heather
Hehe, Heather. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Louis Gray because he shares his wisdom and life to where I feel as though I can call him a friend by watching his feed
- Wayne Sutton
from iPhone
Wayne stole my answer. Definitely LG. He always posts the good stuff.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I would create a FriendFeed user subscribed to all the people I want to subscribe to, and then get my main account subscribed to the new user I created. :)
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Probably Anthony Citrano.. http://friendfeed.com/acitrano - he posts and "touches" the items I find most interesting around here.
- Aviv
RAPatton, variety and interest a plenty.
- Steve C
Anyone else getting SEOC errors when trying to analyze keywords? Mine hasn't worked since I downloaded market samurai and it's frustrating. Keeps saying, try analyzing again, which doesn't help.
Sometimes it seems to be a timeout or temporary ban. Before it went away with just stopping MS for 10-15 minutes. Though I don't know if the current SEOC errors are related .
- Jorge Blanco
Funny enough, I was having same issues past couple of days. Just shut down MS, let it rest a while, relaunch, and it got back all the missing data.
- Ritesh Lal
Yes, I am seeing this same error. Shutting it down is the only resolve I have found as well.
- Cindy Helton
I shut down numerous times to no avail, but since I have updated to include the "monetization" module, it seems to have worked itself out. Things that make you go hmmm... :)
- Peter Gibson
Well, the Noble samurai team works hard to get all the bugs they can out of MS, but since it relies on other services, like google, if google makes a move, they have to adapt MS to it :) In theory, all the bugs will EVENTUALLY be resolved ;)
- Jorge Blanco
Hi peter I have use market samurai for over a year and it has work very well.but when this year 30DC started MS has slow down.It my be so many new people doing the same thing at the same time can slow down the returns.It was a little slow last night. but hang in their it works.
- Chris Ellis
iQuit the iPhone http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...
Never bought into it anyway. My HTC machine with Opera browser, TomTom GPS has been doing all that iPhone does, since 2005 BTW :-), and without tying me to any carrier.
- Ritesh Lal
Yahoo-MSFT deal doesn't fix almost unusable search ad buying systems for either co. compared to goog, w/o better ad buy system deal fails
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Google adwords truly is poetry in motion. Tried to give Yahoo search marketing a try. They suck so bad. More expensive per clicks, and the system is a nightmare to use, plus unlike Google, Yahoo! charges you upfront BEFORE you get the traffic. So watch out for cash-flow as well. One thing Yahoo seems ok is on support or sales relationship. Am not surprised that the deal is retaining the sales support of Yahoo and moving to Bing for search marketing tech. Looks like I need to give Bing paid search a shot.
- Ritesh Lal
RT @rickrey Uhh WOW this guy just drove his car INTO the post office while I was inside. http://twitpic.com/bu8mv
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Urgent mail? :D
- AJ Batac
When it really has to get there overnight.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
yikes
- anna sauce
Did he just go postal?
- Ritesh Lal
Everyone like @shelisrael is looking at Zappos sales. Wrong number to pay attention to. Here's why:
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Retail usually has profits of about 5%. Which means out of a billion in sales, Zappos only kept $50,000,000, out of which they had to pay rent, employees, benefits, etc. So, when you see that the purchase price was about $900 million in stock, that makes sense considering the smaller $50 million in real revenue number.
- Robert Scoble
rofl
- Joel Bennett
lol
- Justin
I'm playing duck hunt while scoble types out why.... :)
- Adam Jackson
Adam: you're funny and a bad shot!
- Robert Scoble
I know the duck move very fast.
- Adam Jackson
They got people to buy shoes online. Amazon wouldn't have figured that out alone.
- Tom
Nice observation
- Michele Neylon
Duck hunt :P There's something I haven't thought of in a hundred years.
- Jason Hargrove
Anyway, the way to look at it is really this is a company with $50 million to $100 million in real revenues. That's why $900 million in stock makes sense.
- Robert Scoble
is the retail margin you posted, robert, for brick and mortar retail? or online retail?
- Tristan Walker
Tom: right, and Amazon gets a bunch of really great executives and a culture that NO ONE can match.
- Robert Scoble
Tristan: both.
- Robert Scoble
Uh Robert, aren't profits usually calculated AFTER deducting rent, salaries, benefits, etc.? Perhaps you mean operating profit, in which case 5% is low for retail industry.
- Ritesh Lal
ya its not about revenue, its about annual net profit usually
- sean percival
Yeah, this deal was calculated as a multiple of EBITDA or PBT, not top line revs.
- Alan Chamberlain
Tristan: retail sucks unless you are Apple.
- Robert Scoble
Sean and Ritesh are right. My number is NOT net profit. That's even lower.
- Robert Scoble
Zappos has 1,500 employees and a huge warehouse, etc.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: have you heard of bonobos? those guys are pulling impressive margins because theyre direct to consumer, and how about companies like threadless?
- Tristan Walker
Tristan: I'd be shocked if they make that much profit percentage wise. They probably have a nice business, though. So does Zappos.
- Robert Scoble
The ones who are scared by this are the IT vendors who supply Zappos.
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Does _web_ retail really have only 5% profits?
- Joel Bennett
What about http://www.endless.com, Amazon's shoe site?
- Andrew
i think threadless runs at 30% profit margins, will send the link to where i found that stat
- Tristan Walker
metageoff: Zappos doesn't have that much IT. Joel: yes. Think about it. Anyone can open a web business.
- Robert Scoble
Tristan: Threadless has a very unique business model though.
- Ryan
Tristan: that's very high margins for retail, if true.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Can you point me somewhere (edit: grammar) detailing web and brick retail comparisons?
- Jason Hargrove
"doesn't have that much IT" - therefore the IT vendors they do have are easy targets for "new efficiencies"
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
depends on the business
- You.
http://www.inc.com/ss... "The business grosses $30 million a year and enjoys profit margins of 30 percent."
- Tristan Walker
I'd think Amazon can squeeze savings out of the distribution side too.
- Ryan
@Ryan I agree but there are fantastic opportunities in online retail that generate impressive margins. that being said, i understand why zappos would be MUCH lower...amazon will certainly help bump up those numbers through various synergies
- Tristan Walker
Amazons next buy will be Rackspace, Great culture and good company. ( I am just guessing based on common sense )
- Luis Borjas
Luis: don't scare me like that! :-) Jason: I can't, but helped manage retail stores for the first 10 years of my career.
- Robert Scoble
Quick look at Yahoo Finance says Robert's numbers are in the ballpark. Amazon, Walmart, both have operating profit 4-5%, and net about 1 point lower. Best is Target with 6.7% operating profit. Costco is terrible at 2.53%.
- Ritesh Lal
My take was that Amazon is buying a culture. http://www.onebyonemedia.com/amazon-...
- Jim Turner
Robert, would love to chat with you about your experience there at some point. Interesting space
- Tristan Walker
Robert: Retail doesn't suck for Apple because they are vertically integrated. It's just another 5% to add to their bottom line.
- Ryan
Robert: fair enough. Hmm. A breakdown on web retailers would be awesome. I see a few links here already. Research task for the summer perhaps.
- Jason Hargrove
I assume by "retail" you mean that they don't also manufacture what they sell.
- You.
So will Amazon make all their employees go on Twitter? Imagine the horror although they could probably squeeze a bit more productivity out of them.
- Mark Littlewood
Jim: That works. ~sometimes. Hmm. Maybe 'rarely' is a better word. It's tough to acquire a brand culture unless you're prepared for full adoption. One (decade+ old) example is Canada's Telus (http://telus.com) that acquired a small mobile carrier called Clearnet, paving the way for Telus to become a mobile powerhouse. It was all about the Clearnet brand. I remember the CEO quoted as...
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- Jason Hargrove
I wondering if Zappos excellent customer service will be adopted by Amazon, or will it lose some of its well known service. (Hopefully not)
- Kim Landwehr
Mixing both companies will be a mistake, because they go with different strategies to achieve differentiation. Amazons focuses on efficiency and lowest cost, Zappos focuses on costumer happiness. I think they can both learn from one another and then keep serving their respective costumers with the strategies that have made them successful this far.
- Jorge
Robert, congrats on being a VC, but your 5% estimate for an online retailer seem lower than anything I have heard before. EVER.
- shelisrael1
shelisrael1: OK, so let's say it's 30%. Still is 300 million, not a billion like the number you used. I don't think Zappos is that high. If it were, they wouldn't have laid people off last fall.
- Robert Scoble
agree with robert...impossibkle their margins are in the 30% range
- Tristan Walker
I think we are seeing perhaps a mixing here that could work. With Zappos customer centric culture and Amazon's backend infrastructure. I think that was part of the reason for the layoff since it was mostly that par tof Zappos' company that felt the crunch.
- Jim Turner
Good reminder, people often look at the big figure and forget where it all goes.
- Andrew Nimick
Everyone seems to be high on Amazon - and if your order comes as expected they are good. But, if it doesn't, the customer service sucks.Example: Order with next day delivery (extra charge) but fulfillment slips from Thurs to Friday. No Sat. delivery, won't come till Monday. Call Amazon and they will redirect you to take it up with the carrier. Fail
- PXLated
Talked to some manufacturers reps that handle Amazon. Example-1: Amazon orders by the container load and reorders when down to xx units. Rep gets a new container order and was amazed they'd sold the last that fast. They hadn't, they still had a half container in the warehouse and didn't even know it.
- PXLated
Example-2: Customer orders a $2K product. Receives it with a broken part ($150 part). Instead of shipping part, Amazon ships a completely new unit. This happens three more times. And, the customer had to threaten to have the other (broken units) declared abandoned property to get Amazon to pick up the other four units.
- PXLated
So, I fear for Zappos
- PXLated
Mighty big picture of teh Innernet usage - http://www.newscientist.com/data...
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It's pretty wild. I like graphics like that - puts it into simpler perspective.
- phil baumann
Thanks Phil, that's a great bird's eye view of net usage.
- Ritesh Lal
Ritesh - sure, that's what teh internet is for? :)
- phil baumann
My new Dell Studio XPS is noisier than my Mac. Gets hotter. Has better screen. Other quick comparisons:
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The fit and finish on it isn't nearly as nice as the Mac.
- Robert Scoble
Overall it feels plasticky.
- Robert Scoble
The Dell has better speakers. The Dell has a much more common VGA port. Which, of course, means it won't work with my Apple 21 inch monitor.
- Robert Scoble
I just gave my son the same computer, really is squishy feeling and upgrade options are minimal especially the power supply
- Robert Burgin
Which model? I just ordered the 16"
- Chris Mayer
Robert: yeah, battery doesn't last nearly as long as a new Mac, either.
- Robert Scoble
How's the battery life? I'm getting about 9 hours with my new Asus eee 1005HA and am loving the backlit LED screen
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
from iPhone
it's not apple-to-apple (pun intended), how should we compare such kind?
- Toni @ NavinoT
Better screen? Wow
- Zoli Erdos
On the other hand, the Dell runs Windows better than the Mac does and now I have a machine just for doing email, which makes me more productive.
- Robert Scoble
Zoli: yeah, Apples really don't have the best screens on the market. You should see the top of the line Lenovo. It blows the Mac screens away.
- Robert Scoble
I disagree I dual boot windows 7 on my Mac and it runs faster than any pc I have run Windows 7 on just my opnion though
- Robert Burgin
Talk about screens, I am baffled why so manufacturers offer matte (antiglare) screens. The world is not all about vids and pics... some just want to work, and glare is horrible on most fashinable glossy screens
- Zoli Erdos
Brian: this Dell model only is supposed to get about three hours of battery. I think the reason it gets so hot is because it has a bigass video card in it and a fast centrino processor.
- Robert Scoble
PP35L is the Dell model number.
- Robert Scoble
Lenovo... hm... I'm cheap.. was eyeing the Ideapad U350 - lightweight, but not top-of-the-line
- Zoli Erdos
I don't think Lenovo is as near as good since IBM sold them imho
- Robert Burgin
It's 16inch model, Robert. I'm thinking of getting that model when Win7 comes out. You recommend?
- Gregory Schultz
i have the studio xps desktop, really nice machine. so overloaded its great
- sean percival
I got it with the 256GB SSD, hoping that will extend the battery life a little (plus add a lot of performance).
- Chris Mayer
I am a HUGE Mac fanboy but et me tell you Windows 7 really has me liking it, I just hope they don't mess it up before they release it love the way they took the drug dealer approach, give you a taste get you hooked now pay me lol
- Robert Burgin
Robert: Windows 7 is very nice. I'm actually leaving Vista on here for a few weeks just so I can remember what it was like again. :-) So far I don't care that much. But Windows 7 was faster and has a nicer UI.
- Robert Scoble
I'm going to wait until they ship with Windows 7 and then I'm in.
- Craig Shipp
Well in my opinion Windows 7 is one of the best OS's Microsoft has put out, liked 2000 pro allot to but this is a really good OS
- Robert Burgin
I'll be putting Win 7 on it as soon as I get it. I have it on all my machines with very few problems.
- Chris Mayer
Which Mac Laptop are you comparing it to?
- Tim Child
i have the dell xps m1330 - its even a refurb and i would put it up against the macbook/pro anyday. it has hdmi and vga, i wont go into all the specs because everyone has different but in the 5 mos i've had it, i have zero complaints.
- Allen Stern
What about resell value? How long is its average lifetime?
- Jesse Stay
Adi: yes.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Hey Robert, give this a test on your XPS and google chrome. It's rendering everything in Javascript! It's taxing my quad core pc, your poor laptop might pass out ;) http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail...
- Mark
I bought a Macbook Pro 17, 2 weeks ago. First timer Mac. But I guess I am not cool enough. Just put it back on eBay and am back in Windows' arms :-) Had way too many Windows only programs which wouldn't run well on Parallels. Windows is great, but man I wish someone would make as beautiful PCs as Apple products. Considering XPS 16 or HP HDX 16t. The 16t is better value feature for feature, but XPS 16 looks so much better. Hmm so many choices :-)
- Ritesh Lal
I suppose if you want things done buy a PC. If you want style buy a mac ;)
- Mark
hi, I am the countyfairgrounds.net webmaster. Years ago when word press came out it was very complicated and time consuming, so I left it and learned how to code and do other stuff instead. Now I am interested i n converting our Blogger blog to a word press blog, without losing the stuff I might add. How do I do this? Do any of you know? pointing...
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Piece of cake Karen. Install Wordpress. Login in to Wordpress admin interface. Go to Manage → Import → Blogger and follow the directions. If you need more details, go to wordpress.org and search for "import blogger" without quotes.
- Ritesh Lal
Peter Johnson and other legal minds: Would you guys care to share your opinions on services like http://www.legalformsgenerator.com/website... and http://legallyclear.com/ ? I am thinking of using one of them to comply with all legal requirements for my various websites. Thanks for your thoughts.
Please subscribe to my feed so that I can contact you directly. Thanks
- Peter Johnson
Thanks Peter, Just subscribed to your feed.
- Ritesh Lal
How long do you usually test to see if a site/niche is worth it?
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Michael, great question :-) It's more a function of how long does it take to drive 1000 unique visitors to your niche site (blog/landing page/whatever). If using SEO alone, then it can take 1-3 months or so. If using adwords, you can get this done in 3-10 days or so. Adwords costs $$$, SEO costs $ + a LOT of your time. Generally I find 1000 clicks is sufficient to try various combinations of offers, landing pages, ad copy etc. to reveal if the niche is worth it or not.
- Ritesh Lal
Official Google Blog: Find Creative Commons images with Image Search - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
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Google launching a feature on Image Search to help you find images that you can use for free, while respecting the wishes of artists and creators. This feature allows you to restrict your Image Search results to images that have been tagged with licenses like Creative Commons, making it easier to discover images from across the web that you can share, use and even modify. Your search will also include works that have been tagged with other licenses, like GNU Free Documentation license, or are in the public domain.
- Ron"micronet"Harwood
from Bookmarklet
Very cool and useful. Thanks Ron.
- Ritesh Lal
If you could only afford one at the moment, which would you choose? UAW or AMA?
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I'm using UAW looking forward to see how many answer with AMA
- Snurtl
Unique Article Wizard hands down. I use both. UAW has generated nearly twice as many links as Article Marketing Automation over the 2 months that I have been using them.
- Ritesh Lal
may i have a translation of the acronyms ? :)
- gareth【ツ】
Oh? Umm.. well in terms of number of links I suppose that UAW does the job, but I heard that links from AMA are more powerful because they're sent to blogs instead of to directories?
- Art Y.
Translation is Unique Article Wizard and Article Marketing Automation
- Art Y.
thanks Art!
- gareth【ツ】
I use AMA I really like it how many times my articles get published. Now still waiting for the links to get recognized by Google as the Blogs are a bit weak.
- Mitja MG
I am using AMA and I am very happy with it both for publishing stuff which you pay for and receiving free articles to populate blogs which is free. Over 4000 backlinks to my sites currently through this
- Graham Hunt
Fwd: I have to try @Net's http://www.screenjelly.Com/ after talking at the Guardian tonight. (via http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...)
What a great tool for screen video capture without downloading anything. Imagine possibilities of tech support with this, or sharing cool stuff with community instantly with your own voice over.
- Ritesh Lal
I have a low CTR on my product link. How do I find out if my market isn't into buying stuff or if it's simply the wrong product?
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Good one Michael. Short answer: Test different things, ad copy, the offer, the sales page (if it's your product). I drive 200 clicks to an offer, if it doesn't convert, I try 2 different offers, and do the 200 clicks again. If it still doesn't convert, then either there most probably is a problem with your ad copy or this niche isn't into buying products. It does take several rounds of iterations to determine what works and what doesn't. Hope this helps.
- Ritesh Lal
Thank you very much. Switching the offer was what I was thinking too. Do you mean 200 clicks total till you switch again?
- Michael Netsch
Yes Michael, 200 clicks total to the offer. It's hard to make a call till you have at least had 200 eyeballs to the offer. If after 200 clicks not even one conversion happened (0.5% conversion), then it's time to try couple of other offers. But if you have sent 200 clicks/offer for 3 different offers, and still got zero conversions, then- try 3 different ad copies, and again send 200 clicks per adcopy/offer combination. If still no conversion, then there's high chance that the market is not into buying.
- Ritesh Lal
Weirdest keywords I've been indexed for so far: "loss of teeth for erotic reasons" How did my pages got there, I still don't know :S
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Lol! Comeon Jorge admit it. You've been a bad boy playing around with naughty niches :-)
- Ritesh Lal
Quick - buy the .com!
- Isha (Marysia)
I'm always searching for that!!!! I'm getting .tv for the video stuff!!! Lmfao
- Andy Grant
from Nambu
Now I know I don't ooze sexiness like Ed does. After all, he the man candy :-) and those baby blue eyes... But still, could someone point me to where could I get an avatar like his made? Thanks fellows :-)
Honestly, I have had enough with folks poking fun at my Bear avatar. Some DDs (Desperate Dudes) even had visions of Sophia Lauren lurking behind that Bear avatar, and tried flirting with me. PS: I am a 35 yrs old married guy and like to take long walks on the beach. One day I will tell you all the story of how Michael Roberts (of Traffic Bug fame) thought that I was girl, and there was this mixup of sharing a hotel room... :-)
- Ritesh Lal
Lol - must admit I had you for a member of the female persuasion!! Just shows the androgenous nature of bears!!!!
- Andy Grant
from Alert Thingy
Oh and sorry, can't help you with the lord gods Ed Dales avatar - if you find out let me know - thanks in advance.
- Andy Grant
from Alert Thingy
If I remember correctly, Ed said the avatar was made by a former 30dc'er. But I've heard wonders of Design Outpost http://www.designoutpost.com/ .They seem to be the way to go when outsourcing graphics
- Jorge Blanco
I am thinking of writing some articles about the legal aspects of IM. What topics do you think would be interesting?
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using pen-names ethically vs. misrepresenting and promoting your own products pretending to be a neutral 3rd party. Disclosures about paid endorsements and commissions from so called testimonials.
- Ritesh Lal
what Ritesh said :)
- Peter Gibson
What legal disclaimers do you need on your webpage? What do you need to have covered if you sell your website?
- Michael Netsch
Great questions Michael. Some more: 1) What are some common legal trip-ups committed by newbie IMers? 2) What international implications should we be aware of when say selling in Europe while having an American LLC? 3) Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policies: What minimum documentation is required to be available on niche sites?
- Ritesh Lal
Maybe something on different copyrights? What is PLR? How can you use Public Domain works and what do you need to consider there?
- Michael Netsch
Plagiarism and cease and desist !
- Inspired Writing Research
Taxes.
- Art Y.
The legal question of providing a legit address gets a bit complicated in the UK; we have a law that anybody trading under another name must reveal their address, which means we can't use cloaking for "Who Is". I'd say particularly make clear which country(ies) you're referring to when you write your articles.
- Isha (Marysia)
I never see any info on the legal aspect of IM. I think articles covering the very basics would be good to start with.
- Sandra
Trademark and Servicemark process and laws in layman's terms would be good ones
- Ron"micronet"Harwood
Intentionally-unintentionally misleading with either facts or figures done to seek financial gain - (sounds like a definition for fraud), complete disclosure of all relationships both financially and morally.
- micmol
How about truth in advertising, use of testimonials for example, and what liability is incurred when promoting a questionable product,ie The Google Money Tree situation in Texas is a case in point.
- Claude Pelanne
Check out my new blog http://www.petermjohnsonesq.wordpress.com. I have tried to answer some of these questions and hope to get to the rest in the near future. Thanks for all of your help.
- Peter Johnson
Many thanks Peter. Useful stuff.
- Ritesh Lal
Peter, that's a great site you've put up IMO. I think you could have great success with it.
- Isha (Marysia)
Apple virgin just popped the cherry. Ordered a 17'' Macbook Pro. Can't wait till it's delivered to see what the fuss is all about :-) Any tips from Windows migrants on what should I watch out for? What's your recommended must-have additional software that I should grab? Thanks gang!
I recommend iwork (comparable to Office) and VMWare Fusion (can run Windows simultaneously on your Mac)
- Snurtl
Thanks Snurtl, iWork 09 is on my list now. What's your take on VMWare vs. Parallels?
- Ritesh Lal
Comeon folks, i know there are several long time Mac users here. Help me out. Particularly concerned about anti-virus s/w. I have used PCs for years, always used McAfee/Norton, and touchwood, never had any security issues. Do Macs need antivirus? If so, which one would you recommend?
- Ritesh Lal
If you're worried about viruses then simply don't install any windows simulators. There are very very few Mac OS viruses ever been created.
- Andy Roberts
VMWare vs. Parrallels... I personally use VMWare easy to install and works great
- Snurtl
If you do internet marketing in the USA, these new regulations could be game-changers
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What regulations? Where? Got link?:-)
- Ron"micronet"Harwood
I would GUESS he is talking about Affiliate Disclosure - http://www.copyblogger.com/affilia...
- Sheryl Loch
I think he is talking about the great posts he has written on his blog http://www.petermjohnsonesq.wordpress.com . BTW, thanks for that great link Sheryl. In my niche research I constantly run across sites which don't follow FTC guidelines. I am amazed so many people risk their livelihoods & more by doing this so blatantly. E.g. http://www.apreport.com/ Pretends to be a NEWS site for heavens' sake! Is an affiliate site with no disclosures, and misleading links on top. Prime target for FTC if there was one.
- Ritesh Lal
Some people are griping about Outlook: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... My confession: I've never used Outlook. Is it good/bad/happy/sad?
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I have always liked it, but I am moving away from desktop client s'ware for internet based tasks like email. GApps rulez.
- Travis Koger
It's pretty good, but the problem is that for security purposes, they're removing a ton of functionality from HTML emails.
- Mark Trapp
At work, Outlook is my main email client (corporate policy I'm afraid, with a 150MB Exchange mailbox which I need to archive each month... sigh). This made me switch to Outlook at home years ago, but now I only use it to download my Gmail as a backup. Even with Outlook open, I still fire up Chrome (although it's usually already open) to compose and reply to emails.
- Tony Ruscoe
I've never used it either.
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
If your organisation has a full exchange stack then Outlook is quite a killer tool. And extensible enough in terms of layout for it to be excellent for GTD fiends such as myself.
- Jamie
It's the last installed piece of software I use on Windows. It's really hard to get off of, but Gmail is becoming better and better all the time.
- Robert Scoble
I've been using Outlook since Office 97 came out. Been a big fan for years as it has a lot of functionality. But I agree with Scoble, Gmail is amazing. Plus, I can pop other accounts into it.
- Adam
personally I'd like to see the practice of transmitting HTML email removed, nothing but hassle, security vulns and wasted bytes. @tony Those of us in IT use mailbox limits like that to encourage users to maintain their mail and not leave it there to rot (I've had users bitch that their email takes ages to open up... it will when they leave 30,000 messages in their inbox!). Also, bear in...
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- alphaxion
comment:Frank I actually believe that Gmail is far better, more advanced, user-friendly and not so connected to variable scripting?
- frank burns
I've used outlook on all of my computers for POP accounts since it was first released. I like gmail for cloud email, but its not quite as easy to use or feature rich as Outlook.
- jcunwired
@alphaxion I understand the reasons for them imposing the 150MB limit, but when a free Google Apps account has a limit of 7GB+ it's just a bit difficult to come to terms with. My mailbox at work is neatly organised into folders and subfolders with only unanswered emails in my inbox. After almost 9 years of working here, I have a 2.5GB archived PST file which contains all my old email....
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- Tony Ruscoe
Oh, Matt - don't get me started. I loved Outlook 98 / 2000, and from there it went downhill. Switched to Mail.app on OS X and haven't looked back (Exchange via IMAP for the time being).
- l0ckergn0me
Outlook is nice at work if the company has a full Microsoft network complete with Office Communication Server or LCS and Exchange. Otherwise there are alternatives that are lighter, more stable and more functionals.
- Francesco Balducci
I'm willing to bet your gmail account isn't as well organised.. it's why features such as search exist - because there's simply no management being done and it forces the need for such a feature, people then end up relying on it so much that without it they can't operate. And, as I said, resources tend to be a bit more constrained in a company. But such is the price you pay if you want your corporate emails to be private instead of in the hands of another company.
- alphaxion
I'll admit it, I love Outlook. I can't imagine using anything else for corporate email. -10 to my hipster cred :(
- Tech Introvert
Outlook is the best email program ever. I miss using it. There are a ton of apps out there that do little things half-assedly, that Outlook does natively and exceptionally well. Quite possibly the best application I have ever used to keep track of marketing campaigns, press releases and editorial calendars. The tasks and group collaboration/team tracking tools are awesome. There isn't an app or website out there than has been able to rise to Outlook's level.
- Admiral Anika
I've never used it - only had a quick look. It doesn't seem particularly useful, but then I've never worked somewhere that uses a Windows back end.
- Rich
@rich it really comes into it's own when you have many things pulling from an exchange backend. Shared calendars/contacts/mailboxes, delegating out permissions to mailboxes, syncing between multiple machines and devices. Without exchange, outlook is run of the mill and bloated. With exchange and a company of more than 10, it gets very handy. Sync up with your PDA across the net or use a...
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- alphaxion
you should be happy... nothing good there.
- Ido
so very sad...
- Derick Hewetson
I don't like Outlook nor Exchange. Our corporate email server runs Exchange. Since I run my workstation with Linux, I have to use Evolution to work with it and it doesn't have all the features of Outlook. For scheduling purposes that don't work with Evolution, I work around it by using Citrix to log into the corporate Windows box.
- imabonehead
Outlook is a good email client by itself. for better or for worse, it doesn't really shine until you combine it with other Microsoft products, though -- like Word and Excel. For example, it's really nice to quickly apply a beautiful format to a table in Excel (formatting options really limited in Google spreadsheets) and then select the relevant cells and paste them into an email an Outlook, and have them retain their formatting (which doesn't happen in Google Docs or Gmail, as near as i can tell).
- Karim
I'll use outlook until something better comes along (better not different).
- Matt Soreco
Outlook's been my favorite since 2000 (and I have seen & used the gamut here.) I send a lot of emails that contain inline illustrations (of the picture's worth 1000 words type) and the editor handles this scenario particularly well.
- Wade Dorrell
What would be a better email client for me is one that has its own drawing & image annotation tools. Anyone anyone Buehler? Wave?
- Wade Dorrell
similarly it helps to have an Exchange server that gives you instant notifications of new mail, quick visibility into other people's calendars, push email and calendaring that "just works" on your iPhone, intelligent switching between online & offline use, etc. etc. as well as a decent web client, Outlook Web Access. Too bad you've never used it -- that was where AJAX was invented.
- Karim
I don't use exchange with outlook, but I have 20+ POP email accounts. There is simply no other tool that could help me manage the content coming in as well as Outlook does.
- jcunwired
It's funny to read some of the comments about Outlook being terrible. We've been using Lotus Notes at work for the last 8 years and are moving to Outlook later this year. Everyone is so excited. By comparison to Lotus Notes, Outlook promises to be nirvana.
- MD Roz
Wow. NEVER? I never used it willingly at home, but yeah, it was a requirement at a few companies I used to work for. I perfer Thunderbird if I use any third party app. But I'm all about Gmail/Google Apps nowadays. I guess that should make you happy, Matt. ;)
- Tamar Weinberg
Even without an Exchange server, I love Outlook 2007's ability to tag, flag, and track everything...especially with the ToDo Bar.
- Zian Choy
Outlook has the best UI of all email/calendar/task apps out there. Tried everything else (for no reason except to be 'cool'), but it really is the best. Love Gmail for its speed, 7GB storage, search, and ability to manage multiple accounts, but its UI is terrible. In addition, this label concept instead of neat organization using folders/subfolders is terrible IMHO. So, I marry both and use Outlook for front end and Gmail IMAP access :-)
- Ritesh Lal
I just don't understand how anyone can live without labels (folders are just shitty labels; sorry Ritesh) and conversation views. If I had to read flat messages in my inbox, it would take 10x longer to make sense out of it all.
- Joel Webber
I just don't understand how anyone can live without labels (folders are just shitty labels; sorry Ritesh) and conversation views. If I had to read flat messages in my inbox, it would take 10x longer to make sense out of it all.
- Joel Webber
imho outlook as a mail client / productivity tool is great. Hate to work with entourage on Mac. But I dislike the fact they never follow standards. HTML emails render like sh$t (and it is getting worse with outlook 2010 so it seems), but besides that the user experience and integration with tools link LinkedIN's toolbar, Xobni etc is just great. I was a fan ;-)
- Bart Muskala - AdNerd Sr.
from twhirl
@Joel: Outlook has labels... they're called categories. It has shitty labels as well.
- Wade Dorrell
Outlook 2007 is not too bad. It's not perfect, it is bloated but does most things quite well. I tried the latest Entourage on the Mac and hated it.
- Mayuresh Walke
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