Comments on: Things I Don’t Get… http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/08/25/things-i-dont-get/ Thoughts on Startups, Entrepreneurs and the Web Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:25:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hsien Lei http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/08/25/things-i-dont-get/comment-page-1/#comment-6726 Hsien Lei Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:30:10 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/08/25/things-i-dont-get/#comment-6726 My unusual name makes it impossible for me to hide on Facebook. @#! My unusual name makes it impossible for me to hide on Facebook. @#!

]]> By: Dan York http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/08/25/things-i-dont-get/comment-page-1/#comment-6723 Dan York Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:46:40 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/08/25/things-i-dont-get/#comment-6723 Mark, Fun list! Regarding your #5 about Facebook, I completely agree... "Dan York" is not exactly a unique name in the English language! For people to find me, they really need to use the profile link on one of my blogs, since the search feature in FB shows you a ton of other Dan York's. Dan Mark, Fun list! Regarding your #5 about Facebook, I completely agree… “Dan York” is not exactly a unique name in the English language! For people to find me, they really need to use the profile link on one of my blogs, since the search feature in FB shows you a ton of other Dan York’s.

Dan

]]> By: Jake http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/08/25/things-i-dont-get/comment-page-1/#comment-6716 Jake Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:56:37 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/08/25/things-i-dont-get/#comment-6716 I didn't get Twitter either. But I'm starting to. It isn't done yet. If Twitter gets better group and subscription management on the front end, it can find uses in short term activity coordination, closed group publishing, pay-for content subscriptions. On the upload side, it becomes an aggregator to the sender of notifications from different sources. An example is what Winer has done: you have the short message twits, the mp3 TwitterGrams, and the photos in Flickr to Twitter. In other words, three distinct media types pushed out through one aggregation push platform. Twitter lets the little guy get into push content easily. You can argue that email, RSS, or a blog do this, but they are all push by polling/pulling platforms. With the SMS side, and probably other push technologies as this evolves, this is a true push platform. I didn’t get Twitter either. But I’m starting to. It isn’t done yet.

If Twitter gets better group and subscription management on the front end, it can find uses in short term activity coordination, closed group publishing, pay-for content subscriptions.

On the upload side, it becomes an aggregator to the sender of notifications from different sources. An example is what Winer has done: you have the short message twits, the mp3 TwitterGrams, and the photos in Flickr to Twitter. In other words, three distinct media types pushed out through one aggregation push platform.

Twitter lets the little guy get into push content easily.

You can argue that email, RSS, or a blog do this, but they are all push by polling/pulling platforms. With the SMS side, and probably other push technologies as this evolves, this is a true push platform.

]]> By: Mark Jaquith http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/08/25/things-i-dont-get/comment-page-1/#comment-6713 Mark Jaquith Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:07:26 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/08/25/things-i-dont-get/#comment-6713 1. I don't know... but it's a good reason to say away. 3. Status symbol. 4. I don't see it as useful beyond that. 5. Would be nice if searches with a lot of results allowed you to narrow down by things like age or location. 6. Condensed information 7. It isn't... sometimes it's Atom. "Feed" is a good technology-neutral way of describing both. 10. Voyeurism. 1. I don’t know… but it’s a good reason to say away.
3. Status symbol.
4. I don’t see it as useful beyond that.
5. Would be nice if searches with a lot of results allowed you to narrow down by things like age or location.
6. Condensed information
7. It isn’t… sometimes it’s Atom. “Feed” is a good technology-neutral way of describing both.
10. Voyeurism.

]]> By: Leveraging Ideas :: The Blog of Sam Huleatt: social media, technology and startups http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/08/25/things-i-dont-get/comment-page-1/#comment-6705 Leveraging Ideas :: The Blog of Sam Huleatt: social media, technology and startups Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:09:32 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/08/25/things-i-dont-get/#comment-6705 [...] the comments of an OM Malik post says that the word in New York “to be very scared.” Mark Evans doesn’t get it [...] [...] the comments of an OM Malik post says that the word in New York “to be very scared.” Mark Evans doesn’t get it [...]

]]> By: i1e http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/08/25/things-i-dont-get/comment-page-1/#comment-6702 i1e Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:22:58 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/08/25/things-i-dont-get/#comment-6702 #7: Dave Winer might have pioneered the *popularization* of RSS. But he didn't create it. Search for CDF, early RDF stuff and what Netscape were cooking in the late nineties. Credit where credit is due. #7: Dave Winer might have pioneered the *popularization* of RSS. But he didn’t create it.

Search for CDF, early RDF stuff and what Netscape were cooking in the late nineties.

Credit where credit is due.

]]> By: inoneear http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/08/25/things-i-dont-get/comment-page-1/#comment-6701 inoneear Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:20:27 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/08/25/things-i-dont-get/#comment-6701 #7: Dave Winer might have pioneered the *popularization* of RSS. But he certainly didn't invent or create it. Search for CDF, early RDF stuff and what Netscape were cooking in the late nineties. Facts are facts. Get them right. #7: Dave Winer might have pioneered the *popularization* of RSS. But he certainly didn’t invent or create it.

Search for CDF, early RDF stuff and what Netscape were cooking in the late nineties.

Facts are facts. Get them right.

]]> By: Webomatica http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/08/25/things-i-dont-get/comment-page-1/#comment-6700 Webomatica Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:13:01 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/08/25/things-i-dont-get/#comment-6700 heh. Good list. I do think with #6 it's because truth be told, I find myself wanting to skim articles at first and that's much easier to do with a list. Your post here is a good example. And I *really* don't get #10 either. heh. Good list. I do think with #6 it’s because truth be told, I find myself wanting to skim articles at first and that’s much easier to do with a list. Your post here is a good example.

And I *really* don’t get #10 either.

]]>