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Re: Threded conversations and platforms update

toddsampson — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:30:27 -0000

Very cool guys.... Congrats on the new launch. Can't wait to try out the threaded feature.

Re: Are You Retweetable?

toddsampson — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:26:59 -0000

Not really... That seemed to be the most popular retweet formatting when I wrote the post. Lately I have seen a number of Twitter clients that built-in RT leave the colon out.

Thanks for bring that up.

Re: Web Applications and Society

toddsampson — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:02:56 -0000

Thanks Saurabh. I am hopeful that a more connected world gives greater incentive to drive more businesses (and people) to adopt that mindset.

Re: Why Don’t Media Companies Get It??

toddsampson — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:54:18 -0000

Spot on Ian. That's a great way of looking at it.

The analogy continues to work when you look at the way teams almost always loose when they switch to defense to protect a lead in the 4th quarter.

Re: We Dont Need to be Noisy to Create Noise

toddsampson — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:10:34 -0000

Done! I'll just cancel his return flight from San Francisco. Please ship his family this way after you dig them out of the snow.

- T

P.S. I hope you will still have me for TechStars. :)

Re: We Dont Need to be Noisy to Create Noise

toddsampson — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:55:56 -0000

Screw you guys... Orlando rules! Boulder drools.

Signed,
The guy still pissed Boulder stole away his heterosexual business lifemate Eric.

Re: 1st 2 Loud3r Be4a 5ites Live

toddsampson — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:25:20 -0000

Spam.

- T

Todd Sampson
toddsampson.com

Re: Zentact listens - our new Journal

toddsampson — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:43:15 -0000

Awesome stuff guys, but the post title really should have been "Zentact: Now %99.9999 Less Annoying"... In any case, I agree with Joe Laz... Keep up the great work!

Re: Meet the Team: Dixie

toddsampson — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:52:29 -0000

Really liking the new "meet the team" stuff on the Cloudspace blog. Thanks for the peek under the kimono.

Re: Are You Retweetable?

toddsampson — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:42:40 -0000

Thanks Rahsheen... Glad you liked it!

Re: Leadership, Management and Acquisitions

toddsampson — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:56:08 -0000

Well, I guess you can cross Google off that list:

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/google-outs...

Re: Leadership, Management and Acquisitions

toddsampson — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:40:07 -0000

I have nothing to add to that but, "Amen!"

Speaking of Tom Peters, here is a great post about Brand You ten years later:

http://www.tompeters.com/entries.php?rss=1¬e...

Re: Leadership, Management and Acquisitions

toddsampson — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:36:28 -0000

It is a very different calling. But I bet quite a few managers in these companies are actually repressed leaders. In any case, it will be fun to watch. And I will continue to encourage anyone with the slightest desire to try to go for it.

Re: Leadership, Management and Acquisitions

toddsampson — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:33:30 -0000

Founders play a huge role in companies they are leading. All the examples you threw out are people that are running the businesses they founded. I was speaking specifically to the founders of acquired companies moving from a leadership roll to managing a group inside another organization.

Re: Leadership, Management and Acquisitions

toddsampson — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:27:41 -0000

Very smart comment Rahmin. And thanks for posting Umair's quote I sent via twitter here. You are spot-on about the connection between these pieces.

If the press coverage Google receives is to be at all believed, they should shed some light on the scalability of taking risks and innovation. They have supposedly baked in taking risks to the core of their business. It will be interesting to watch if the fear of loss (or pure scale) kills off taking risk in the end.

If anyone else has other good examples of companies to watch in this space, I would love to see them posted in the comments.

Re: Leadership, Management and Acquisitions

toddsampson — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:17:39 -0000

Hey Seth... Thanks so much for the comment. As I mention in the post, I have been a big fan for years. Though, until reading Tribes, I didn't know about your Yahoo! acquisition. Great stuff.

Re: Are You Retweetable?

toddsampson — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:01:39 -0000

Agreed, for the most part on the RT stuff, but an (RT @user http://posturl) at the end of a tweet wouldn't kill it entirely. Besides the RT is more about forwarding a concept to people following you than giving your take on it. Two tweets might make the most sense in that case. RT the message in the first tweet and give your comment in the second. Something like "CO: " for Comment On (or "RE: " to follow the more standard reply format) might work as well; but it would need wide adoption for people to understand what is going on.

Also agreed on the platform comment if you define "platform" as the service itself, it's evolving usage by end-users, and 3rd party offerings built around the core system. Those are changing very frequently. The service itself is remaining relatively consistent -- which is fine if they weren't limiting what services like Gnip can re-syndicate. Due to this last factor, it is starting to feel to me that it is a bit to important to be a service as opposed to a standard (like email)... In any case, it is fun to watch it evolve.

Re: Should I Sell My Startup?

toddsampson — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:39:28 -0000

Great point David. I'll make sure I add that to the response I give next time I am asked. (Or need to consider it myself.)

Re: Merry Christmas to All

toddsampson — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:37:31 -0000

Hey Brenda... Great to hear from you! I have forwarded your info to Lissy so you two can catch-up.

Re: Are You Retweetable?

toddsampson — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:24:26 -0000

Interesting thought. I have always been anti-editing, personally. But I can see the argument for both sides.

If you need more space, I would probably blog the response and link to it via Twitter or just put in a link to the original tweet message you are responding to.

Re: Are You Retweetable?

toddsampson — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:24:08 -0000

That's awesome Saurabh! Love the hack. You okay with me publicly promoting it yet?

Re: Upgrading your profile for Zentact

toddsampson — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:13:14 -0000

Great post -- I'm a big Kawasaki fan. I have already had a good half-dozen matches with Zentact that have allowed me to reach out and re-engage in building our relationships. Keep up the good work.

Re: bijansabet.com | a tumblelog by Bijan Sabet | We’ve had one of these before, when the dot-com...

toddsampson — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:54:45 -0000

Hell yes!!! This is the same message I have been telling everyone that will listen. It is why the guys at Cloudspace have increased the size of their team by 20% over the last few months and will be growing more soon. It is also why Yahoo! bringing in The Bobs (er. Bain) to downsize now is so dumb.

You can't cut your way to success. Use Pareto's Law, but use it to grow. John Hagel had a great piece on this recently: http://bit.ly/L2s7

This is the perfect environment to get ahead if you have vision.

Thanks for posting this one Bijan.

Re: Success Stories

toddsampson — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:06:03 -0000

I have had several great experiences during early beta testing on Zentact. The one that sticks out the most was actually a basic name match, not a tag I had put in -- though I have had several of those that have already helped me to re-spark old relationships as well.

I was reading one of my favorite design blogs (JoshSpear.com) and I got a match for "Emily Goligoski." At first, I couldn't figure out why her name was showing up. Then, after clicking her name link to jump me down the page, I noticed that she had authored the story I was reading. Subsequent conversations let me know that she had been writing for the blog for several months and gave us a chance to catch-up. Great stuff.

Re: Zentact's Gmail Integration

toddsampson — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:55:23 -0000

Love this. Next level DOM manipulation via add-on -- brilliant.