Disqus - Latest Comments for razorshine

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)

fredwilson — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:00:32 -0000

Agreed with both critiques

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

fredwilson — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:10:46 -0000

It doesn't refresh the page anymore to record a comment. That is probably the number one improvement in my book

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

fredwilson — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:24:35 -0000

Not really. Boxee is used a lot outside the US

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

EricFriedman — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:49:10 -0000

I tried Mesh too, and livedrive, JDisk, and a few others, but none work as automagically between computers like dropbox.

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

EricFriedman — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:38:11 -0000

I have tried it a few times without much traction - will try it again.

Hope you enjoy dropbox!

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

fredwilson — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:23:34 -0000

Yup

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

pfreet — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:31:29 -0000

Much of the news traffic comes from links in blogs, fb posts, twitter. Adding the extra friction of a login process will mean that fewer people will include links to those sites, creating less traffic. They'll create links to non-subscription sites instead.

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

pfreet — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:11:17 -0000

If they do go with a frequency based model, very quickly everyone will learn how to clear cookies regularly and get it for free.

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..