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Re: Amazon e-Books Outselling Hardcovers: What is the Impact?

Thad McIlroy — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:59:34 -0000

In the industry as a whole, roughly 3:1.

Re: Amazon e-Books Outselling Hardcovers: What is the Impact?

Mike Licht — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:48:53 -0000

Sure, eBooks outsell hardbacks. But what is the paperback-to-hardback ratio? In my house it's about 20 to 1.

Re: CAT Technology are Nothing But a SPAM Shop

Andrew simon — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:23:03 -0000

I am very pleased with Cat Technology’s quick response and quality candidates presented when helping us to fill our requirements. The people at Cat Technology are very professional and a pleasure to work with

Re: What a Long, Strange Marketing Trip It’s Been

David Meerman Scott — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:03:14 -0000

Hey Barry - Many thanks for posting about our new book. Brian and I had so much fun writing it. Glad that the secret is out and we can finally talk about it.

As you point out, it is interesting that the Dead pioneered in the 1960s what many people assume is new in the 2000s with social media. Truth is the ideas of things like free content go back a long time.

David

Re: Five Things to Avoid When Job Hunting Online

Ofsted — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 06:24:58 -0000

Yeah, this sounds like my experience with online job boards. It took forever for me to get interviews from online job postings, and far too many of them are put out there by temp agencies, so once you interview with THEM, you're pretty much right back where you started until and unless they post you somewhere. At THAT point, you still have to interview with some other place anyway. I just make a living now working from home (see listed website), but I remember the annoyance that is the ever-deteriorating resource of online job boards.
http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/

Re: Five Things to Avoid When Job Hunting Online

Ukjobsguide — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 06:23:33 -0000

Thank you for such a nice and good post. But I don't think online Job market is broken,even now a days also the job seekers going to job portals for Jobs.
http://www.ukjobsguide.co.uk/

Re: Haier Delivers Poor Customer Service

Mike Rademacher — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:33:16 -0000

I have a 2 year old dehumidifier that will not collect water. Called customer service and they were absolutely no help. They do not service the product nor can they steer you towards anyone that can. This will be the one and only Haier product I own and this one is going in the garbage.

Re: Three Obvious Features That Twitter Should Add NOW

graubart — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 05:27:01 -0000

Would love to do same. There's a lot more that can be done with followers & lists. Perhaps that's something that 3rd parties could provide (though there's definitely some concern now about building things that Twitter could easily co-opt)

Re: Three Obvious Features That Twitter Should Add NOW

Aviva — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 05:19:12 -0000

I've often wanted to follow someone's "following" stream as a Twitter list. I keep butting up against that constraint, and have "flash in the pan" daydreams about pressing Twitter unremittingly to fix this omission. ;-)

Re: Three Obvious Features That Twitter Should Add NOW

Aviva — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 05:15:25 -0000

Yes. Yes! And yes again! [Re: Three Obvious Features That Twitter Should Add NOW]

Re: CAT Technology are Nothing But a SPAM Shop

graubart — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:38:21 -0000

Hmmm... a sudden influx of seemingly random blog comments on a post that was written more than 2 years ago. All of these comments are positive, as compared to the various negative comments posted here over the past 2 years.
All 3 of the commenters are using gmail or yahoo accounts, rather than identifying themselves, even though they're all claiming to be satisfied customers.
Sure, these must all be legit ;)

I guess that the biz dev/marketing team at CAT is taking time out from their busy SPAM efforts to instead try to post fake reviews by purported customers. I'm guessing that won't convince too many people, but, hey, if you've got nothing better to do with your time, then go for it.

Re: CAT Technology are Nothing But a SPAM Shop

Judi Neilson — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:36:00 -0000

This article is just to demage their presence by competators. I thanks CATT Ltd for being such a reliable partner. Our company has relied on CATT Ltd for some of our out-sourced programming needs. When we needed a new custom application programmed quickly and efficiently, we turned to CATT Ltd– and they delivered! They worked well with our staff during development and the result was a custom-designed product that we could offer to a new stream of clients. .

Re: CAT Technology are Nothing But a SPAM Shop

Robert Mitchell — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:31:49 -0000

CATT Ltd people have been very efficient and effective. We appreciate CATT Ltd Technologies competence and consistency.

Re: CAT Technology are Nothing But a SPAM Shop

graubart — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:29:31 -0000

Marvin - your comments would carry more weight were they not posted with a Yahoo ID.
If you're a client of CAT and feel they've done good work for you, post it under your corporate email address. Or, do you actually work for CAT?
Also note that I don't address the quality of their work, but rather their use of SPAM as a primary means of marketing. I have no idea of whether they can deliver - and never will as long as they keep SPAMMING.

Re: CAT Technology are Nothing But a SPAM Shop

Peter Connell — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:26:17 -0000

You are Right! I highly recommend CATT Ltd Services. Using CATT Ltd for the past year has enabled to both enhance our software and extend our product range. Working in our time zone enables us to have constant communication with our dedicated developers and at a price that would be prohibitive in the UK.

Re: CAT Technology are Nothing But a SPAM Shop

Marvin Abarca — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:22:07 -0000

They are not spammers . CATT Ltd developed and executed with great talented, top professionals. I have been working with them for over a year now. They always maintained the highest degree of professionalism.

Re: There’s No Room for News Weeklies in a World of Real-Time Niches

graubart — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:17:58 -0000

Thanks, Kathryn. Good stuff. Nonprofits have an advantage in the same way that niche "enthusiast" publications do - as long as you provide a compelling service and meet your mandates, there will be an audience who not only want to support you, but desire the social status that comes in doing so.
Museums and the arts can be free if you can provide unique benefits to patrons (recognition, participation in exclusive events, meetings with influential peers, etc).

Re: There’s No Room for News Weeklies in a World of Real-Time Niches

kathryn — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:35:37 -0000

Hi Barry
This is really interesting. It's something we've been talking about as well; I'd be interested in your thoughts on this http://www.3s4.org.uk/news/...

Re: Three Obvious Features That Twitter Should Add NOW

graubart — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:33:09 -0000

Good suggestions, Eric.
I hesitate to take #2 because I know that it's hard to block out the time to review them later for removal. But, I probably miss out on some good content. To that end, I'm going to follow you now.

Re: Three Obvious Features That Twitter Should Add NOW

Eric Andersen — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:21:38 -0000

The only other comment I'll make is that if we're talking about must-have features, I think Twitter should be focusing on more pressing issues not easily solved by 3rd-party clients, such as:
- Tools to support business usage of Twitter - bylines, dashboards, corporate groupings of Twitter accounts, etc
- Tagging. Allow users to tag others, tag lists, etc.
- Allow your following stream to be a Twitter list that others can follow
- List enhancements - allow more than max of 20 lists, max of 500 on a list, allow list members to be sorted, categorized, etc.
- What ever happened to #fixreplies? Maybe a good priority is to re-enable useful features they've disabled in the past for performance reasons?

Just my $0.02...

Re: Three Obvious Features That Twitter Should Add NOW

Eric Andersen — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:16:39 -0000

Yes, does make sense, thanks Barry. I agree it sometimes can be challenging to take a quick pass at someone's profile - especially when they have lots of @replies. And due to the large numbers of people folks follow these days, just because other folks I know follow them, doesn't necessarily mean something.

So a few months back I thought about this, and realized what I really needed to make the quick decision was to see the last 5 or 10 non-@reply tweets. So IMHO there are two possibilities:
1) Have Twitter provide this, maybe behind the "More" link in the hovercards? Much more convenient if I can get this right in the context of a retweet for example as you describe.
2) Just follow the person, and see how it goes! I'll often try to start a conversation as well. Cost of this tends to be low, and it's easy to unfollow if the next few tweets I see aren't valuable or they don't respond to my tweets

Re: Three Obvious Features That Twitter Should Add NOW

graubart — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:02:00 -0000

Responding to Eric's last question/comments:

Eric - I think I differentiate between doing analysis and the user workflow. For example, if I want to spend some time looking at who else in the tech/content industry I should follow, 3rd party apps are great for that. But, when someone RTs something I tweet, I'd like to take a quick look at them - see who they are, what they write about, who they follow an who follows them to quickly (<30 seconds) decide whether I want to follow them.
If I see a couple of relevant tweets and that 5 people I respect follow them, that's someone I should follow. But all too often, their latest tweets may not be relevant and I'm left to decide "should I follow them?" based on their profile. I could go through all their followers/follows, but Twitter makes that painful, so instead I just click away and don't follow.
Where I draw the line is - if I'm doing research/analysis, then I'm happy to use 3rd party apps. If it's in the workflow of what I'm currently doing, then I will not go to another site to analyze.

Make sense?

Re: Three Obvious Features That Twitter Should Add NOW

graubart — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:57:12 -0000

Have had an exchange with @eric_andersen on this via Twitter. Am re-posting it here, so easier to follow the thread of anyone is interested in weighing in:
@eric_andersen: @michellemanafy @graubart agree they're obvious but why should Twitter add them? 3rd party apps like @Twiangulate already do all of this

@graubart response: @eric_andersen @michellemanafy 3rd party apps great for deep mining, but these are core to user workflow: who r u? Should I follow u?

@eric_anderson response: @graubart but there are so many 3rd many tools out there to help you decide who to follow, who do this in many different ways
@graubart wondering if Twitter should be focusing on more impactful things like business features, opening unused/deleted accounts, etc

@graubart response:

Re: Three Obvious Features That Twitter Should Add NOW

JD Thomas — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:19:33 -0000

YES! Especially the temporary Mute feature. Despite its limitations, the mute feature is why I end up back on Brizzly when any friends are at a conference, event, or just drunk tweeting from a bar.

Re: The Two Horsemen of Tech: Google and Apple

graubart — Wed, 26 May 2010 12:03:46 -0000

Interesting update: As of yesterday afternoon, the enterprise value of Apple surpassed that of Microsoft. Pretty amazing.
http://www.businessinsider....