Comments on: What don’t they do well?

By: my.9rules: Bringing Social Back » Wisdump

my.9rules: Bringing Social Back » Wisdump — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:40:07 +0000

[...] Last week I asked the question of “What don’t they do well?” and I had Ali in mind when I was writing it. For me, most social networks try to sell me on too much stuff that I don’t need. I already have sites that I write on so I don’t need a blogging option. I use Flickr for sharing online photos so I don’t need another place to do that. del.icio.us handles my links and last.fm watches my music. So as you can see I really don’t need another platform to handle this data, but it would be nice to have a place outside of my sites for others to see what I am getting into. [...]

By: adaptive path » blog » blog archive » Signposts for the Week ending February 2, 2007

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 23:23:45 +0000

[...] Why donâ€™t we ask ourselves more often what a company doesnâ€™t do well? asks Scrivs [...]

By: Toby

Toby — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:20:03 +0000

I found it a little challenging to personalize my MySpace page. I’m comfortable with CSS and HTML but it really is quite a beast to deal with. Not surprisingly a lot of companies are attacting consumers to their MySpace pages by offering customized templates that incorporate branding elements. I think the Dodge Nitro MySpace page is an excellent example of this: http://www.myspace.com/nitro. The main feature is creating your own template, and the branding is not excessive, IMO. This is a good way of trying to fiddling with the design yourself.

By: Mike Rundle

Mike Rundle — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:21:35 +0000

For the past year, many people have predicted that the company who will take down MySpace will be open and work with existing data sources people have already established for themselves. Nobody wants to create yet another photoset and upload more photos (they use Flickr, or Smugmug, or whatever), or upload videos (they use YouTube), or upload content (they already have a blog, or 2, or 3), they just want something that works seamlessly with all of the content they already have. If you’re building a social network that revolves around the idea of users coming to your site and re-uploading or re-writing data that they’ve already written elsewhere, I think it’s time to rethink that strategy.

By: Okay, so you’re the CEO of Technorati… » Wisdump

Okay, so you’re the CEO of Technorati… » Wisdump — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:44:03 +0000

[...] It is great to see that they are trying to build some community features into their site, but I don’t think this was the best way to do it. The service just comes off as gimmicky. If you are sitting down and thinking about creating a competitor to Technorati and you ask the question “What don’t they do well” you will have a clear cut answer sitting right in front of you. So if you are the Technorati CEO what do you do? [...]