Disqus - Latest Comments for razorshine

Re: My iPhone Data Consumption Workflow

razorshine — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:36:35 -0000

hey louis - does my6sense sync to google reader now? (so I read an article on my6sense and it gets marked as read in GR)

Re: World-brand-building mistakes France’s entrepreneurs make

razorshine — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:14:57 -0000

Good point - its great for us Europeans - Le Web is a must attend. Let me rephrase - has your experience made you change the way you approach interviewing european startups now so that you use your time more efficiently. Will you do more background research prior to agreeing to meet?

Re: World-brand-building mistakes France’s entrepreneurs make

razorshine — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:49:02 -0000

Scoble: So given how much of your (and other American journalists') time was wasted - does that make Le Web not suitable as an event for American journalists going forward? Will you be going back next year?

Re: World-brand-building mistakes France’s entrepreneurs make

razorshine — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:16:28 -0000

Sounds like that negates a large part of Scoble's post. Really it all boils down to whether the companies in France want to enter the US market - does that mean they need to communicate the way US startups do.. I think the answer really has to be yes.

Also not everyone needs to be on Facebook and Twitter today. That is like saying everyone needs to be on Myspace a few years ago - and I think we'd all agree that not everyone should be on myspace today. If the people you need to communicate with (or they need to communicate with you) are there then you should be there. Otherwise it is a waste of time and money. Given these are cutting edge internet startups though - I dont see how the majority should not be on Twitter.

Of course, none of that excuses Scoble's behaviour..

Re: Things I talked about on twitter (TITAT)- Selling cereal

razorshine — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:07:02 -0000

actually I think having a diverse marketing/sales team is more of a benefit (assuming a base level of skills is achieved). Introducing someone who is new to a product can bring in new ideas and ways to approach things and improve a company's prospects.

Re: Startup Analogies: Fixing a flying plane

razorshine — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:49:39 -0000

<chuckles> guess Twitter learnt this the hard way ;)

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/08/better-retweet-button-is-out-there-via.html

razorshine — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:21:54 -0000

excellent - this sounds like a good solution. I wonder how long it will be before a wordpress plugin is created <grin>

Re: Disqus Forks Into Two Products, Launches Revamped Real-Time Comment System

razorshine — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:54:01 -0000

great stuff.. loving the real time stuff and the speed of the system.

Guess no one at techcrunch saw the need to disable some of the plugins. Try rolling over a photo - you get the dorpdown from disqus; the drag to share from meebo (the toolbar at the bottom of the screen) and the snapshots screen overlay.

Re: disqus 3 to launch next week

razorshine — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:42:30 -0000

testing the new v3 of disqus :)

Re: Books For Entrepreneurs (continued)

razorshine — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:18:37 -0000

The list is great but it is missing one vital ingredient.. why I should read them/why are they being suggested (over and above them being a top 3 read for entrepreneurs).

It does list who has suggested them, so those added by people you admire/trust will get more attention but a few lines saying why would help.

Over time that list will get longer and longer till it becomes as irrelevant as any other list..

Re: louisgray.com: ReTweet.com's Rip-off Of TweetMeme Is Embarrassing and Wrong

razorshine — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:36:30 -0000

oh dear - the error message with a tweetmeme db table was a bit of a giveaway as well..

looking forward to your next post on retweet..

Re: Disqus V3 Is Live On This Blog

razorshine — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:13:53 -0000

looks and feels great - responsive as well :)

Re: Boxee's Four Things

razorshine — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:22:35 -0000

Yes I have to reiterate Angus here - I tried using Boxee (a good 4-5 months ago) and love the UI but found the lack of local UK content meant I never continued to use it.

Re: Boxee's Four Things

razorshine — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:34:30 -0000

I am guessing all that is still focused within the North America market only?

Re: Free and paid services I use

razorshine — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:43:33 -0000

lol that is scary - I have used a tonne of services like dropbox but none worked great - Microsoft's Mesh was the closest. First impressions are positive though :)

Re: Free and paid services I use

razorshine — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:34:13 -0000

one word - feedly - spectacular rss reader using google reader as its source. its so good i havent logged into google reader in ages.

Re: Oh, FriendFeed is now Facebook’s “official” R&D department!

razorshine — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:14:37 -0000

its interesting bret said zuckerberg was on the same wavelength.. of course you can read that in many ways.. ;)

Re: Oh, FriendFeed is now Facebook’s “official” R&D department!

razorshine — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:12:19 -0000

you dont highlight the negatives so much.. whilst it is definitely a positive move for the friendfeed team and pushing real time to a wider and broader audience, it is going to be interesting to see whether facebook even chooses to deal with the edge cases - geeks who consume significant amounts of information and interact significantly online.

Your scobleizer group is nothing like friendfeed today - will it be tomorrow?

Re: Let's Get On With It

razorshine — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:36:22 -0000

completely agree - there will definitely be a drop off - and a significant one at that I think.. I guess Murdoch is betting either the money will offset the loss in advertising revenue.

No one has mentioned micro-transactions in a long while..

Re: Let's Get On With It

razorshine — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:20:11 -0000

not if you require a login.. maybe ask for an email address at first entry - it would be the lowest possible barrier.. then for example ask for age after 3 entries.. job title after that .. etc etc

Re: Let's Get On With It

razorshine — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:58:45 -0000

It is definitely going to be interesting and Murdoch is not stupid..

I tend to agree with your take on a frequency based charging model - I don't see people bothering to go through registration walls to read a single news article but maybe a prompt after a few views within a certain timeframe could work..

Regarding obtaining content over time some research we did at Silverpop found that it was not the number of questions asked that put people of surveys; rather the speed and ease with which you could answer the questions. Therefore answering more questions over time in return for being able to read an article might be a good way to go. It would result in the ability to provide more targeted advertising which is more revenue for the newspapers..

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/08/to-jump-on-massive-unfollowing-trend.html

razorshine — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:31:41 -0000

the problem with twitter therefore seems to be that it is beneficial to not be too popular..

Re: my 10 favourite wordpress plugins

razorshine — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:23:38 -0000

Meaning that people left your site rather than continuing to browse?

Re: What Publishers Could Do (Condé Nast)

razorshine — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:38:59 -0000

there is one other big fear that as every day goes by becomes smaller and smaller.. ad dollars. Before they feared that moving online would cannabalise on their offline print ads.. pretty serious stuff as the revenue from print ads is much much more than online.

Of course every day the revenue from print ads decrease as the readership falls.. leaving only one place to go. online.

Re: Would you pay for the NY Times?

razorshine — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:03:16 -0000

It is an interesting topic. It has great value to the local individual - the only downside to this is that in the UK these papers are mostly free (ad funded obviously). I am guessing that is because the greater distribution gained from being free leads to greater advertising revenues. I am sure there is an equation somewhere which links audience size vs advertising revenues in the news publishing world.

The problem right now is we are in this void where some are still reading local news offline and others are reading it only online. Local businesses who advertise in these local papers have been difficult to pull online so far, but local papers have the sales force to attract this advertising online quicker and so have a head start on others.