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Re: Investor Carl Icahn leaves Yahoo board, apparently satisfied

elliottng — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:27:38 -0000

@anthonyha OMG this is a coup of a headline. Should have definitely inserted a LOLcat of some sort into the post!

Re: I have 3,571 tweets that show that Twitter isn’t for lunch anymore

elliottng — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:32:20 -0000

Robert. This is classic Scobleizer. Great insights. And you're modeling the ability to revisit "old technology" (e.g Twitter vs. Friendfeed, and a feature that I basically forgot about) with fresh eyes. Now I'm wondering what I'm neglecting because its old news but actually could be part of something important. Hmmm. How about email? :) Thanks, E.

Re: Rumor v2: Kaifu Lee Is To Launch Innovation-Works

Gang Lu — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:45:19 -0000

Yes. But I don't understand why the site need be launched if the information is 'fake'. Not good practice for startup, isn't? :-)

Re: Rumor v2: Kaifu Lee Is To Launch Innovation-Works

elliottng — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:29:41 -0000

Will be interesting to see how different the "real" news is from what is on the site right now.

Re: How stupid is this – Apple possibly trademarked glossy chat bubbles

elliottng — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:51:14 -0000

Shooting at Bubbles indeed!

Re: How a Great App Recommendation “Engaged Me”, Thx TechCrunch & Animoto

elliottng — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:31:23 -0000

Congratulations Bro!

A good decision. No, a great decision! Animoto guys should be happy with this endorsement!

Re: The best “audience” conferences (Pulver vs. Broback)

elliottng — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:46:36 -0000

The Upcoming resource is a great one, example of online generosity that pays off for everyone. Thanks Robert, and good seeing you yesterday at Shel's.

Re: Where To Buy Trust Agents

elliottng — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:36:17 -0000

Congrats, Chris. I bought a copy of Trust Agents on Amazon.

Re: louisgray.com: Hi Facebook, It's Me, FriendFeed. This Relationship? It's Complicated.

elliottng — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:46:56 -0000

Amazing post Louis! It is the circle of life in the Valley...

Re: The Conference is alive and well!

elliottng — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:46:01 -0000

Congrats on your success with this registration drive, Bruce. PhoCusWright is definitely a must-attend event. I'm looking forward to contributing to the event's success.

Re: Is TechCrunch backdooring sponsored posts?

StevenHodson — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:33:31 -0000

actually I did nofollow the link to the company website :)

Re: Is TechCrunch backdooring sponsored posts?

elliottng — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:26:46 -0000

How about just rel=nofollow your link to the "half-assed bowel cleanser" (heh) from ShootingAtBubbles and calling it even?

She wasn't totally ravingly positive about the product. I think they just thought it was funny, not really gaming the Google system.

Never thought I'd find myself defending TC like this.

Re: App Development Request: The Web’s Opinion About One Topic

elliottng — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:32:30 -0000

Exceptional idea, Corvida. Question is: what is a "topic"? I could see it being a small discrete little thing (e.g. "Canon 35 mm L f/1.4") or a big topic (e.g. "photography") with every subject having a taxonomy around these topics.

But I love the idea in general. Keep me posted on what you find!

Re: Stimulus for your business—Attend The PhoCusWright Conference for Free

elliottng — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:23:52 -0000

Great talking with you Bruce. Looking forward to helping out on PhoCusWright 2009. As a partner, I'm probably not eligible to win this contest :), but I'd love to enter on behalf of the UpTake Blog Network, 7 blogs with over 50 bloggers, and if we win I will take this free ticket and hold a blog contest for interested @UpTake bloggers who want to come to write about the event.

Twitter: @UpTake

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/06/blogging-is-still-foundation-in-world.html

elliottng — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:26:22 -0000

Totally agree with this Louis. Well said.

Twitter/Friendfeed are wonderful outposts. But terrible home bases.

A few years ago, Avinash Kaushik (analytics blogger/evangelist) shared with me "the 1 metric to rule them all" - RSS subscribers. The deep insight here is that quantity of followers/readers/etc is important only so far as it is in service of driving the most involved and most passionate people in your brand's community. Those highly involved people need to be feed by a deeper interaction than what you can get from just cruising a FriendFeed feed or following on Twitter. FF and Twitter are obviously complementary.

Re: Is Robert Scoble rediscovering the true value of his roots?

StevenHodson — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:18:17 -0000

glad you like it Elliot :)

Re: Is Robert Scoble rediscovering the true value of his roots?

elliottng — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:12:37 -0000

Steven, I LOVE it: "Unfortunately though the more involved that Robert got with Friendfeed the more it seemed that he had unsubscribed himself from his own blog." LOL. Agree with all the sentiments expressed. Twitter and Friendfeed make great outposts, but terrible home bases.

Re: Entrepreneurs on Twitter

fnazeeri — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:21:49 -0000

Hi Elliott, thx for the tip. I added you to the list. When you're in China, do pass the word about @compstudy.

Re: Entrepreneurs on Twitter

elliottng — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:31:16 -0000

Me, me. Please add me! :)

Elliott Ng, @elliottng
Co-Founder of UpTake.com (venture backed travel search startup)
(4843 followers)

Re: Hong Kong Rules Twitter in Asia

elliottng — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:56:33 -0000

a fun analysis! I'd love to do more Twitter analytics, maybe doing an n-dimensional analysis of Followers, Followed, Follower growth, Update/Follower ratio, year on year growth rate on Followers and Followed, and present it as a fly through cube navigated via a special dataglove input device. But alas, I'm a bit short on time to do it....<sigh>

Re: NY Times quotes my blog, but no linkback

elliottng — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:03:18 -0000

Marshall Simmonds is quite a celebrated SEO and based on being charged with the challenges of a site the size of NYT, is probably a Jedi warrior of Yoda level in mastering the SEO Force. So I assume they didn't toast a PR9 site with impunity. My guess is that they did it to reduce duplicate content which Google is increasingly sensitive to. By having only 1 version of each article, NYT can reduce duplicate content and rank better for the remaining articles. Why didn't they do more targeted permanent 301 redirects from specific IHT article permalinks to the new NYT permalinks? One can only guess how complex that is to do for a site the size and scope of NYT/IHT. Maybe the global redirect to the homepage is a temporary redirect. Or they could have used the new "canonical" tag and maintained duplicate pages in IHT and just indicated to The Google that the NYT copy should be considered the canonical version of the article and all the IHT article version backlinks be credited to the canonical version of the article. But of course that probably is similar in complexity to just doing a targeted 301 redirect on such a large site.

Agree with you on the "link econony"

While you're asking for a NYT link to your blog, be sure to check to make sure that it is not a "rel=nofollow" because that will do you no good with Google (most likely, although if I were Google I would secretly weight nofollow based on the PR of the site). Maybe you could even ultra-upgrade your link by having them link to you with anchor text ="China digital strategy" since that is what you should be known for! (I'm sure you already rank just fine for your own name).

Good luck. Marshall Simmonds, would love to have you write something about the IHT NYT merger and why it makes sense. It would be an interesting post for all of us SEO enthusiasts to read. May the Google Force be with You!

Re: Kris Krug and Danielle Sipple are getting Shanghaied

elliottng — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:48:05 -0000

Totally supportive of this and count me in!

Re: Kris Krug and Danielle Sipple are getting Shanghaied

elliottng — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:47:26 -0000

Awesome Christine! I was excited to hear about the project, even though my trained-business-school-mind was blowing a fuse on the business model part of it. Heh. But I know good things will come out of it and am totally supportive of this. Count me in!

Re: Catshanghai » Long Time No Blog

catshanghai — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 02:14:08 -0000

Thanks for getting in touch Elliott. One thing we can learn from the brevity
of Twitter is how to be more concise in our blog posts and Emails so we have
more time to spend with our families. That's the idea! I'll keep in touch
via Twitter. Best wishes, Matt

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Re: Catshanghai » Long Time No Blog

elliottng — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:21:31 -0000

I have mixed feelings about how bloggers are sucked into Twitter, as I have been. I certainly blog less now that I tweet.

The Tweetstream is so ephemeral, and while it is accessible and searchable in theory, in reality it is often hard to find what you are looking for. Anyway, I've been following catshanghai in my RSS reader and now I've found you in Twitter thanks to this post!

Anyway, best wishes on your upcoming birth. Agree with @msittig - kids demand the attention that they deserve!

@elliottng