Category: Robert Scoble

Loic don’t depend on that “authority” site, it’s not all it’s cracked up to be!!

Paul

In my most recent post Loic was wanting to be able to search by authority and be able to find information that is really high on “authority”. I will guess he is happy with “Twitority” because now you can search base on the so called “Authority”.

[ad#tmi-right-1-1]I say this will not show the really juicy stories out there. You see, most really good juicy stories might not be picked up by twitter for a few to a couple hours. If you want to find the really good stuff on twitter you won’t find it with authority but by the people who might not have any or little authority.

So if you think Authority is all that and more, I say it’s nothing to “write home about”. I just worry people will see this and start flocking to this system. Once people start searching by authority that will get people to want to be higher on this so called authority idea. So what will happen, people will want to get more authority and possibly buy Authority. This is a far far possible outcome of having this so called authority.

[ad#cricket-1]I don’t think it will happen once people see how flawed it is and see it. They will flocked to something else, you see that all the time on twitter. I will wait judgment on this new site and see how it goes but I don’t think it will work. One thing I wonder is the how this site will keep going with it just been created so rashly and without much thought. There has to be a revenue stream coming from somewhere? Could of been Loic who made the VC happen? I’ll let you decide for yourself although I think it points to him.

I think Scoble is thinking the same thing?  Could of been something to make even more controversy or could it been just happen stance?  What say you Robert?

3 Reason why Friendfeed is dying!!

Paul

So I been watching Friend Feed the last few days, I’ve seen Mark Trapp talking about trolling. I also seen Robert Scoble saying he finds this interesting, and I’ll quote Mark Trapps Post about it:

http://friendfeed.com/e/ffc08931-e0ab-40e9-9d21-7dfb353f5878/Are-you-a-blogger-Are-you-short-on-cash-this-week/

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First Reason — So as you can see this is what people call page trolling! They try to get people to visit there page and get a page count. I say this is a FOUL, and you need to take a time out in the booth for doing this. I don’t want to see this getting on friend feed. I hope FF comes up with a way to let you put in keywords to ignore and such that would be so nice.

Second Reason — They have to make comments about blogger and Twitter. I don’t want to hear stuff about twitter and how they can blog this stuff up all day long!! It’s like the Gilmore Gang talking about getting a Hair Cut. This really needs to change and become a better feed then it has in the past. I will get flame comments or even flame mail but it’s the truth!!

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Third and Final — Robert Scoble talked about this in his post about advertising the Gilmore gang, I guess I did that in the last reason and You can see how this will result in people see that I am actually reading this stuff, so it is going to be the death of me in the long run!! I say we can’t get sucked into these type of post or comments. We need to become a better blogger and commenter on the feed to get people to see the post!! Trust me, if you make it they will come!!!

It’s up to all of us to make Friend Feed the best it can possibly be on the Internet. Let’s make Friend Feed the next Cloud Computing!!