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Re: Screw Investors, Get Customers!

MayankDhingra — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:10:30 -0000

Nice post Nick. Finding customers before Investors and listening to them are really important but startups should also remember which feedback/suggestions to listen to and which to ignore.

Re: Becoming A Social Business Is Your Next Big Challenge

MayankDhingra — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:36:41 -0000

Thanks for the quick reply Jason.

While trying to find exceptions, I got thinking on the lines of scale/size.
I am wondering if there's a minimum size below which you don't get much(ROI) out of social business and can in fact turn harmful..Just thinking..

Re: Becoming A Social Business Is Your Next Big Challenge

MayankDhingra — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:18:50 -0000

Very nicely put Jason. I particularly like the idea of extending the scope beyond software/internet.

Question: Will every business do well as a social business or there are some exceptions?

Re: Blogger completes 10 years and I complete 7

MayankDhingra — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:34:01 -0000

2380 blog posts is just wow..Congrats Gautam !!

Re: Monetize The Audience, Not The Content

MayankDhingra — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:25:21 -0000

1) From the looks of it the cookie mechanism of FT isn't a hard nut to crack.

2) Completely agree with @Cody Brown's point #2

3) Is it me or the content is still not FREE ?. Bring on Chris Anderson

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/07/as-retweeting-rises-linking-continues.html

MayankDhingra — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:04:07 -0000

Spot on Louis. I think people are becoming more lazy as the web is growing/expanding.

It's a lot easy to Retweet as compared to linking and things would be worse when apps/twitter interface start having a retweet button.

I feel Blogging on the whole is no more the preferred medium and people would get more hooked to microblogging/lifestreaming etc for the "instant gratification" it offers. @replies and RT's come a lot faster and easily than linkbacks and comments on a blog and unfortunately I don't see this changing

Re: That's not what I ordered...

MayankDhingra — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:01:43 -0000

Early this year my dad was also Diagnosed with a cancer(grade IV) of brain and I almost know what it feels like to be in that situation. He's on the road to recovery now and with God's grace doing well.
I am happy that the prognosis of your disease is good and I like how you are giving it back to the disease.

I #blamedrewscancer for cancer

Re: Facebook Page Frenzy Due Today: URLs Available to All

MayankDhingra — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:49:42 -0000

http://www.facebook.com/iamabhimanyu, btw the minimum number of fans needed for a vanity URL is now 100

Re: Dear newspapers: Where are the links?

MayankDhingra — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:44:12 -0000

I've noticed the same but I am not surprised as most big organizations that have started using Social Media are still very closed about such things..

I find it silly when they can send traffic to their site/blog by hyperlinking but not to other people's sites/blogs whose story etc they quote..

Re: You want to show support for those in Iran and show the power of Social Media? Here’s how

MayankDhingra — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:03:10 -0000

What you said makes sense but I doubt there will be any movement in SM circles against these companies.

Re: 5 Elements of a Successful Facebook Fan Page

MayankDhingra — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:42:58 -0000

Many Thanks for sharing this :)

Re: BookMyShow.com Premiers Social Media Plan to Packed Houses

MayankDhingra — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:22:53 -0000

Honest replies.

Thanks for sharing !!

Re: Should ROI be a consideration in Social Media

MayankDhingra — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:36:20 -0000

It's not mandatory to think in terms of ROI for Social Media. ROI and other such metrics are a concern for only those who are in Social Media with a purpose other than pleasure.

Think of all those million facebook users that take silly(for some) quizzes religiously or millions of twitter users that broadcast anything and everthing that comes to their mind day in and day out. They never think about ROI and never will, Social Media for them is like TV.

Re: 8 Essential Apps for Your Brand’s Facebook Page

MayankDhingra — Sat, 23 May 2009 23:00:00 -0000

There's an import a blog link on the right side when you try to edit the app..

Fox ex: if you've added the app to a fan page, click edit button below the page pic and then go to the app(notes) and click edit, then you'll see import a blog link.

Re: Your Brand Needs Help: What Brands Are Doing Wrong on Twitter

MayankDhingra — Sat, 16 May 2009 02:53:14 -0000

Creating an account is one thing and using it properly is another

More brands ill use twitter(and other social tools) than those that use 'em properly. I think it all drills down to a) reason for creating an account b) the person behind that account.

You'll see umpteen cases where brands accounts are just trying to sell things with majority of updates about new offers, which certainly is a bad thing to do.

There are(and will be) a small crop that'll learn by copying other successful brands but remaining will continue to suck and ultimately desert these tools as they won't be able to get anything out of 'em.

Re: Twitter Spam Invades Trending Topics

MayankDhingra — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:03:51 -0000

It had to happen, I too wrote about it a couple of days back. http://mayank.name/2009/05/09/the-great-twitter... . Twitter was quick to clear spam accounts. Next in line would be spam @replies to screw people's happinesses. A spam message containing multiple random @replies

Re: Watch Out Twitter Spamers Got the @replies (and a solution)

MayankDhingra — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:42:04 -0000

Loic

Honestly speaking, how much time do you think will Twitter take to add, report as spam button ?

Re: Micropsychographics: Twitter Types And Retweeting

MayankDhingra — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:49:00 -0000

Cool but unless there's an app to automate it mostly, I don't see this as a scalable approach.
Also, am not sure how would people respond to a direct message for retweet.

Re: Micropsychographics: Twitter Types And Retweeting

MayankDhingra — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:24:54 -0000

Correct me if I am wrong.
Assuming bit.ly gives roughly the same stats like tr.im it wouldn't be possible to identify which Twitter user clicked on what URL and thus grouping of users with somewhat similar behavior could be a problem. At the most these stats can tell some region based information or some time based information for ex: a retweet with PL got more clicks from country/region X and chance of a tweet being retweeted increase for tweets sent b/w 4 PM and 5 PM IST.

Re: Micropsychographics: Twitter Types And Retweeting

MayankDhingra — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:38:03 -0000

Interesting post Stowe, what works on someone might not work on others but am not sure if tracking clicks, maintaining data and using this data would be feasible on a tool like Twitter.

I wrote a post on ReTweeting and Echo Chamber and would like to know what you(and others in here) think about it

http://mayank.name/2009/03/30/re-tweeting-and-e...

Re: The First Video

MayankDhingra — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:32:40 -0000

Videos are cool. A couple more and you'll be less conscious, nice start :)

Re: Writing Thank-You Notes

MayankDhingra — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:48:03 -0000

I too feel writing notes is almost a thing of the past. Though I don't write thank you notes I do write birthday notes(about 5-10) for my family members and hide them at various places like Moosterz suggested, I paste a couple at the bathroom mirror, refrigerator etc so its the first thing they see early in the morning. It feels great..

All thanks to my Dad for doing this for me once and that's how I picked it up :)

Re: louisgray.com: Does a Service Need a Business Model to Have You as a Customer?

MayankDhingra — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:27:06 -0000

Not really. Financial viability of a service is the last thing that crossed my mind while using it. Though given the way pownce closed and Jaiku has gone into a black hole(almost) its a bit worrying.

The biggest concern of loosing a service is a) loss of data b) loss of connections and chances are that if you really connect with someone on one service. You might also add them to another service, say LinkedIn, from which you can always maintain contact. So if time and option to save one's data are given, not much issues really.

Re: Yes I am a .. Social Media slut

MayankDhingra — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:04:09 -0000

It won't be a surprise if there pops up a site/soc-net/app just for social media whores like us.
Apparently its a sizable chunk.

Re: Idea generation #57: Measuring social capital

MayankDhingra — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:28:43 -0000

Social Capital sounds really interesting.Lets see what future has in store for this.

Thanks for sharing.