Archives for January, 2008
Scoble was erased? Ha!
Here’s my reply to Scobles, “Erased” post in the aftermath of his “debacle”. Geesh!
First off, I seriously doubt you went into all this not thinking about all the mileage you were going to be able to get out of it, regardless of getting nabbed. But that’s okay. I don’t have any negative feelings if you knew you’d be able to have $h1tloads of press/links written about the “experiment”. In fact, I applaud you for doing it, knowing that you are smart enough to have figured out the various potential results.
Plus, you’re getting ready to announce “your next move” in terms of moving your career from podtech to Scoble 2.0 (2.5?, 3.0?). Does anyone truly imagine this is “hurting” you? Come on people.
But to the bigger point: FB is what it is. If you want to be more in control of your social network, you need to be following DiSo or APML or the likes. You need to have an OpenID.
What we are experiencing right now is nothing like what we’ll experience online in 5 or 10 years. NOTHING.
And if you were able to get yourself all riled up over the “shenanigans” that RS just perpetrated, I ask you this: do you have a safeway, ralphs, frys, or any other grocery store “member” card? If you do, and you use it regularly, your the fool! Why, because they know more about you than you know about you. They know more about what you do than you probably realize. And you can’t get at that information. You can’t pull it out of their systems.
But you all keep harping on the tragedy that has occurred here. Amazing!
Open Source, Product Design, and DiSo
My response to Steve Ivy’s post Open Source, Product Design, and DiSo.
You touch on the branding concepts being a part of the DiSo-verse, and at that same time, I’d argue that if you create (or worse) require any element of the process to have a certain design (the profile pages) then you are going to create resistance.
On my blog, http://boldlygoing.com, I’ve painstakingly over written the default style capabilities of the MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog and BumpZEE! widgets. Why? Because it was more important to me that their functionality fit into the overall site design.
Profile pages may be somewhat different, however I’d submit that badges, logos, etc ARE the way to brand and create a cohesive experience. Everyone that knows about RSS pretty much knows what that little orange, square icon means/represents.
Don’t you think that keeping “requirements” as minimal as possible is better than instituting design/styling demands???
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