billydean

Call me picky I guess but I want a story, you know, with a beginning and an end. Not just a collection of stuff the author dumped into a WYSIWYG editor.

No reflection on you for submitting it, of course, but it's the laziest way there is to write something and I come here b/c often it's avoided.

Top 5 ways I feel about this article:

1) I

2) Hate

3) Top

4) 10

5) Lists

Trueslant's been spamming the shit out of the site the past few days. I wish there was a way to sort domains by the average karma of submitters.

That donkey slash man, man slash donkey is freaking me the hell out.

A LOT like Campaign Monitor. The bold white headline and subhead, blue horizontal nav, 4¢ graphic, the location of the screenshot, etc.

Just for the record, I was spot on:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/the-cost-of-friendfeed-...

$25-50 million

All that work on the backend and, sadly, the lack of time put into the landing page will make it all for naught.

* 7 steps? Why would I want to be involved in something that complex? 3-4 steps max.

* 11 benefits? I'm not going to read or be able to process all that. 3 max, give me something I can quickly understand and tell friends about.

* That screenshot has got to go. Looks amateur at best.

Sorry but that's nothing but an excuse, "I could do great things, too, if I had a great domain name..."

Unless, I guess, you really think linkedin.com is a better domain name than business.com

Mamma mia! That's-a some great-a news!

> You're playing against other people, not against the casino.

You're playing against other people's bots, not against other people.

I just assumed this was going to be about the Locator.com guy ...

Can you just add something that kills all headlines that have an initial number+adjective?

I'd really hate for HN to become http://delicious.com/popular.

Haha, man would Doug Bowman be pissed.

If you still think it's all about a "killer app idea" and not timing, execution, marketing and a million other things, you're doing it wrong.

Can we please keep these types of posts out of HN? "20 blah blah blah", "140 ways to be rich yesterday" -- we don't need another http://delicious.com/popular

Anyone else think "Jump to Conclusions Mat" when they read this?

"I told him he was brilliant and that his moves this month would be remembered for decades. Decades."

I'm amazed Scoble's been able to keep his tall talk intact after this many years of announcing next big things that never go anywhere. But I'll say this for the guy -- he's perky.

Not really worth the time to read, same stuff that's been said before. Showing a user an ad while they're searching for something works amazingly well -- any other time it's a crap shoot.

For the foreseeable future I think the best way to advertise any web app or other online service is with a blog and as many helpful, informative, thought provoking posts as you can find the time to write. There are plenty of examples of successful companies that have used this model -- building a brand and a network simultaneously -- and there's no reason to think it's going anywhere.