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Re: Sanjaya is back!

smorty71 — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:58:55 -0000

Thanks for mentioning the new ad and the Sanjaya-ize Yourself widget. BTW, that scarf really works on you :)

Re: sMoRTy71.com: QOTSA show tonight in Louisville

smorty71 — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:55:29 -0000

Crystal,
Sorry I don't.

Re: Social Media In Two Words Or Less

smorty71 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:55:41 -0000

I responded a little late on Twitter, so I will add mine here. In addition to things like "building community" which were previously mentioned, two more immediately came to mind:

1. "Mutual respect"
2. "Establishing trust"

Both trust and respect are key in building and maintaining relationships. They seem especially important when you're trying to build and maintain them online.

Re: Sending Smorty71 to Columbus

smorty71 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:11:17 -0000

Thanks for the great post, Todd. Definitely going to miss everyone in Louisville. Gonna have to work on getting everyone to move to Columbus, I guess.

Re: sMoRTy71.com: SMC Louisville July '08 event recap

smorty71 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:19:02 -0000

Thanks, Nick. I'm definitely going to miss the Louisville social media "scene." We've got a really great group here.

Fortunately, I will be close enough that I should be able to get back pretty regularly.

Re: sMoRTy71.com: Look out, Columbus. Here we come.

smorty71 — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:49:48 -0000

Hi Jennifer. Would love more details of the Columbus Tweetup. You can contact me at smorty71 at gmail dot com.

Re: sMoRTy71.com: Look out, Columbus. Here we come.

smorty71 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:40:38 -0000

Thanks, guys. Would love to get everyone together for a going-away party. We could use that as an excuse for our second Louisville Tweetup. Instead of giving away swag, everyone can bring gifts... I like this idea A LOT.

Re: sMoRTy71.com: Playing in my first Guitar Hero tournament

smorty71 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:16:24 -0000

Yeah, the trip to San Francisco is paid. Contest is paid for by a site called Gamespot.com. :)

Re: Joe Wheeler

smorty71 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:45:17 -0000

Thanks for the mention, Joe. BTW, we're hoping to see you and Amy there... with lots of free cosmetics.

Re: sMoRTy71.com: Organizing a Twitter meetup in Louisville

smorty71 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:43:53 -0000

6PM

Re: sMoRTy71.com: Guitar Hero on Tour

smorty71 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:42:00 -0000

The more I see about this game, the harder it looks to play. The buttons attach to the touchscreen side of the DS, so it looks like it will be tough to strum and press buttons at the same time. Will be interested to get my hands on it and try it out, tho.

Re: Plurk - A New Microblogging Service

smorty71 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:29:58 -0000

Absolutely. Would love to tell you and your readers what we're up to and where the platform is headed.

Re: Plurk - A New Microblogging Service

smorty71 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:00:43 -0000

Thanks for mentioning Profilactic, Jane. We appreciate it. It is always great to find someone else using our WordPress plugin as well.

Re: FriendFeed And Your Personal Brand

smorty71 — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:52:20 -0000

Thanks for mentioning Profilactic. Also, glad to see someone recognize that we're taking a different approach from FriendFeed. We all tend to get lumped into the same category.

Re: louisgray.com: The Social Media Feature War is the Wrong War

smorty71 — Wed, 07 May 2008 01:54:51 -0000

I'm always ready to talk about Profilactic :) Shoot me an e-mail and let me know when you're free over the next couple of days.

Re: louisgray.com: The Social Media Feature War is the Wrong War

smorty71 — Wed, 07 May 2008 01:49:28 -0000

I don't think this is an anti-Profilactic post. I just don't think you tried very hard to balance your obvious preference for FriendFeed.

And I'm not disregarding my post. I objected to you using that post (and only that post) to claim that our strategy is only about features. I find that interesting for someone who is an early adopter of social web technologies. You didn't bother to reach out to us at all before summing up our strategy after reading one blog post.

And why is this about "winning." Can multiple services not co-exist?

Re: louisgray.com: The Social Media Feature War is the Wrong War

smorty71 — Wed, 07 May 2008 01:21:57 -0000

Is this the first official FriendFeed fan blog? 3 posts in 4 days. Wow!

In terms of your analysis of Profilactic's approach to features or community or product, you could do a little better than quoting a two-month old blog post where we are comparing the two services. In many comparison posts, things end up getting summarized in bulleted lists and quantitative distinctions. To try and sum up our product strategy based on one post seems to be a lack of effort on your part. And where did we ever say that it is all about features? You're putting words in our mouth in order to try and make your point.

It's obvious that you love FriendFeed *a lot* and that's great. However, if you're going to do these types of posts, why not reach out to the sites that you're claiming don't understand what makes a great product? If you had bothered to do that, you would have learned that we're not much like FriendFeed at all from a feature or strategy perspective.

Feel free to contact me directly if you'd actually like to learn about what we're trying to do. shawn at profilactic dot com.

Re: SeekGround

smorty71 — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:14:21 -0000

Thanks for checking out Profilactic. Let us know what you think. You can send comments or questions to feedback at profilactic dot com.

Re: louisgray.com: Participate. Participate. Participate. Repeat.

smorty71 — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:16:55 -0000

First, thanks for mentioning Profilactic. We appreciate it.

Second, are you sure you aren't talking about Digg.com? :)

"and quite another to thoughtfully add comments and like items you find interesting, and think your friends will."

Seriously, though, we have always felt like commenting was something that any lifestreaming service will eventually need to adopt; however, we aren't going to fragment the conversation. Very soon, we are going to be capturing comments; however, only if they feed back to the original content item on the originating site.

It's really early in the lifestreaming market and FriendFeed is getting most of the attention right now. However, being the first to add comments doesn't mean that that is the best approach to comments.

Thanks again for the mention.