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Re: MaYoMo sets global and virtual stage for UGC news

GraemeThickins — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:44:45 -0000

awesome -- thanks, Alisha ...already had found your Twitter page, but not ICUC's ... they should have that on their site (or at least I couldn't find it)

cheers,
Graeme
(Minneapolis)

Re: MaYoMo sets global and virtual stage for UGC news

AlishaPaul — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:34:57 -0000

Hey Graeme,
You can follow me @alishaizanne or you can follow all Snoo.ws stories @ICUC.
Thanks for reading.

Re: MaYoMo sets global and virtual stage for UGC news

GraemeThickins — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:31:15 -0000

nice write-up ... thanks
(how can we follow you on Twitter?)

cheers,
Graeme
www.twitter.com/graemethickins

Re: 2009/01/06/twitter-follow-fail/

KarinJR — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:17:40 -0000

"you're regularly pissing off half of Twitter."

What a strange objection. Firstly, I disagree that mention of one's political views necessarily antagonises people with a different take - I like hearing the other side's POV if it's intelligently presented - be secondly, why the assumption that it's a bad thing if half of Twitter doesn't want to follow you? Surely the whole point is to find people with whom you have a shared interest, not to tweet so generically that no one could possibly be offended. I don't necessarily want all of Twitter to follow me - I want people who are interested in what I have to say to follow me.

If politics ain't you're thing... it's all good.

Re: 2009/01/06/twitter-follow-fail/

HollyJahangiri — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:13:07 -0000

So, by "spewing" do you mean "any mention whatsoever of a possibly controversial viewpoint"?

Re: Twitter A Hotbed Of Frangers

maxkalehoff — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:51:23 -0000

It's a genuine relationship -- continuous and potentially strong. There are places for deep, engaged friendships, and important places and roles for light ones as well. It would be tragic, for example, if cross-guard Tommy were to be a casualty of one of the speeding cars in the intersection in which he safely stewards students and commuters.

Re: Twitter A Hotbed Of Frangers

Graeme Thickins — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:11:16 -0000

franger - interesting term ... continuous / partial / fleeting friendship?

Re: WSJ: The Economics of Giving it Away

Graeme Thickins — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:24:09 -0000

yep, I agree, Matt -- determining *how much* of a pain point a customer has is important... to try to ascertain what they will actually be willing to pay for

that's why customer research is so important -- nothing beats getting out there and talking to customers... but the beautiful thing about the Internet is that it offers many ways to do that even when you can't get face-to-face with enough of them to do adequate research

sorry I missed you today at our Social Media Breakfast! so much going on, and so many people that want to talk! let me know if you're up for coffee sometime soon... I want to hear about what cool things you are up to

cheers,
Graeme

Re: WSJ: The Economics of Giving it Away

malbiniak — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:32:36 -0000

Hi Graeme,

I don't think the freemium is all there is, but I would argue that it might be one of the best entry strategies (read: short term). Vimeo differentiates on quality (among other soft benefits), and they give the user a taste of that HD experience once per month, or unlimited to the paid account. I know a handful of people that have opted to pay Vimeo, even with YouTube high quality now available, simply because they were able to try the service, see the superiority, and bring cash out of their pocket. Is that long term? Not likely.

I do disagree about pain points being over simplified. It sounds simple, and I use it interchangeably with "what problem are you trying to solve," but if you're not addressing that, you're creating novelty, not a sustainable business.

If the customer isn't willing to part with money for the pain remedy solution, maybe it's not a) enough of a pain or b) good enough a solution.

Re: WSJ: The Economics of Giving it Away

Graeme Thickins — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:48:41 -0000

Chris Anderson has a charming way of stating the most excruciatingly obvious stuff, doesn't he? Remember, this is him writing here -- not the Wall Street Journal. He is simply a guest author.

His point, as I see it, is that the focus now has to be on the business model. (Agree: big huge duh.) Too bad he doesn't cite some examples of newer Internet business models that are, in fact, working (rare as they may be). But is "freemium" all there is?

It seems Anderson is putting out a call that more creativity is needed here. It's amazing how many 'Net entrepreneurs don't focus more on the hard question of "what will people pay for." Identifying customer pain points is great, but I think overly simplified.

The next question has to be: Will doing away with such pain mean said customer will unload some cash?

cheers,
Graeme

Re: 2009/01/06/twitter-follow-fail/

Graeme Thickins — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:18:21 -0000

Got another one: I will not follow you if you are spewing your politics.
If you are, you're an idiot, because you're regularly pissing off half
of Twitter.

Zap - gone!

Re: Farting Our Way Through the Recession?

Graeme Thickins — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:42:52 -0000

totally agree, Zoli... I tweeted about this the other day, linking to a story on the insanity

hell, Jobs doesn't care: he makes 30 points off of this junk! and of course loves what it does to sell more hardware....

after this story broke, I just had to go out of my way to happily blog about a new app that actually *does* do something useful... what a concept, huh?
http://graemethickins.typepad.com/graeme_blogs_...

cheers,
Graeme

Re: Come to Defrag

Graeme Thickins — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:27:04 -0000

Zoli, look forward to meeting you here at Defrag (about to start up as I write this)...

Re: 2008/06/09/rockyou-widgets-funding/

GraemeThickins — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:37:19 -0000

Great recap, Adam. I think you're right: all this money flowing in is sure to lead to more consolidation of the widget players....

Re: Graphing Social Patterns East

GraemeThickins — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:41:39 -0000

I attended Graphing Social Patterns West, and highly recommend this event.
Dave McClure and the O'Reilly people do a great job.

Re: Friendfeed versus Techmeme: can’t they just get along?

GraemeThickins — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:03:11 -0000

agree - don't see them as competitors at all....
you're right, Louis: TechMeme updates on
FriendFeed would be very cool

bring it on, Gabe!

g

Re: 2008/04/28/swarmcast-streams-entire-2008-mlb-season/

GraemeThickins — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:34:13 -0000

congrats to Swarmcast - Minnesota's own!
way to rock, Justin....

Re: louisgray.com: What's Your Twitter Noise Ratio?

GraemeThickins — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:47:18 -0000

thanks, Lewis -- I forwarded this to Jonny Bentwood of the Technobabble 2.0 blog, who wants to do a ranking of analysts who Twitter

and, gee, fun to see my ratio of 4.84 puts me high in the "Converationalists" category, right there with Kedrosky

cheers,
Graeme
www.twitter.com/graemethickins

Re: As Usual Google Is The King Dog

GraemeThickins — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:13:27 -0000

ah, just Wordpress.com, not .org....thanks for the clarification

Re: As Usual Google Is The King Dog

fredwilson — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:04:24 -0000

no, they do not. these are just the pages that the hosted platforms serve

Re: As Usual Google Is The King Dog

GraemeThickins — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:03:51 -0000

Do the WP numbers include, as I suspect, both the host-your-own and hosted flavors? If so, then, in fairness, I think the chart should include MovableType, SixApart's sister platform to Typepad.

Re: 2008/03/30/buzznet-acquires-qloud/

GraemeThickins — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:03:37 -0000

will Qloud's cofounders stay on?

Re: 2008/03/29/what-would-you-ask-robert-scoble/

GraemeThickins — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:13:14 -0000

Ask I would ask my friend Robert, and I wish I could be there myself to ask him myself:

-What is your assessment of the impact blogging has had, and continues to have, on traditional journalism?

regards,
Graeme
www.tech-surf-blog.com

Re: user experience, great explanation

loupaglia — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:41:35 -0000

Hey Graeme, great to see you here. Yes, it is a good slide show isn't it, thanked my colleague just the same. User experience seems to be the competency the most overlooked in all of the latest evolutions of the web. At the same, UX could have had one of the greatest impacts.

Thanks on the congrats. I am very excited about joining the SnagAJob.com team, they have been doing some fantastic work matching the right people with the right jobs in the hourly space. On a side note, I'm not sure how I fit into the Defrag '08 agenda based on my new role but who knows, I'll leave that up to Eric.

Right now I'm continuing to ramp up at the new job and I look forward to be able to contribute as much as I can. So far, it has been a fantastic first few weeks. The team is intelligent, energetic and full of passion which is what I score so highly. Keep an eye out for us.

Re: user experience, great explanation

Graeme Thickins — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:22:36 -0000

thanks for posting this, Lou -- had not seen it....very cool!

congrats on your new gig, by the way

cheers,
Graeme
www.tech-surf-blog.com