Comments on: They will not come http://www.rogelsview.com/technology-and-software/399/ "Things should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." -- Albert Einstein Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:31:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: It looks obvious » Blog Archive » Where are the masses? http://www.rogelsview.com/technology-and-software/399/#comment-779 It looks obvious » Blog Archive » Where are the masses? Fri, 12 May 2006 02:21:53 +0000 http://www.rogelsview.com/technology-and-software/web-20/companies-that-nobody-need/399/#comment-779 [...]  Is Squidoo inability to take off and reach the masses unique or maybe many of the so called web 2.0 companies need to re-examine their approach? Can it be that the concept behind many of these companies targets a small portion of the entire population? I guess I am, at list somewhat, one of those early adopters. I enjoy technology for the sake of technology. I enjoy using a web site that was design well. I even pack my hard drive with many applications that nobody really need.   But even the most dedicated web 2.0 follower has to wonder who really need this company , or this . And when they coined the term software as a service , they meant to a real service not only a delivery method. So before dreaming about being punched by Yahoo! Listen to this advice : A good review in Techcrunch can get a company their first 5-25K beta users very quickly.  However, I’d strongly caution entrepreneurs from taking their initial consumer adoption metrics and extrapolating them too far into the future.  I believe startups will find it difficult to cross the “Techcrunch chasm” between the Web 2.0 geeks and Mainstreet USA.   If we could get access to the usage logs of the top 10 Web 2.0 properties, I would bet that their 10,000 most active users would all be the same. 1000tags.com, i4giveu.com, Service, Software as a service, software development, Web 2.0 [...] [...]  Is Squidoo inability to take off and reach the masses unique or maybe many of the so called web 2.0 companies need to re-examine their approach? Can it be that the concept behind many of these companies targets a small portion of the entire population? I guess I am, at list somewhat, one of those early adopters. I enjoy technology for the sake of technology. I enjoy using a web site that was design well. I even pack my hard drive with many applications that nobody really need.   But even the most dedicated web 2.0 follower has to wonder who really need this company , or this . And when they coined the term software as a service , they meant to a real service not only a delivery method. So before dreaming about being punched by Yahoo! Listen to this advice : A good review in Techcrunch can get a company their first 5-25K beta users very quickly.  However, I’d strongly caution entrepreneurs from taking their initial consumer adoption metrics and extrapolating them too far into the future.  I believe startups will find it difficult to cross the “Techcrunch chasm” between the Web 2.0 geeks and Mainstreet USA.   If we could get access to the usage logs of the top 10 Web 2.0 properties, I would bet that their 10,000 most active users would all be the same. 1000tags.com, i4giveu.com, Service, Software as a service, software development, Web 2.0 [...]

]]> By: Rogel http://www.rogelsview.com/technology-and-software/399/#comment-154352 Rogel Thu, 11 May 2006 03:42:34 +0000 http://www.rogelsview.com/technology-and-software/web-20/companies-that-nobody-need/399/#comment-154352 It is really sad, If he only listen to what he was preaching all these years. Yet their is still allot to learn from him, even from Squidoo It is really sad, If he only listen to what he was preaching all these years. Yet their is still allot to learn from him, even from Squidoo

]]> By: assaf http://www.rogelsview.com/technology-and-software/399/#comment-154351 assaf Thu, 11 May 2006 03:26:06 +0000 http://www.rogelsview.com/technology-and-software/web-20/companies-that-nobody-need/399/#comment-154351 ” [user will not come] because they don’t want to generate content, they want better life”<br><br>I got that one from Scott Heiferman’s blog. He lists 50 of them, I picked the 10 that resonate the most (this one was no. 1).<br><br>I read it again just now and noticed that I got the link to Scott Heiferman’s blog from Seth Godin's blog.<br><br>Full circle. ” [user will not come] because they don’t want to generate content, they want better life”

I got that one from Scott Heiferman’s blog. He lists 50 of them, I picked the 10 that resonate the most (this one was no. 1).

I read it again just now and noticed that I got the link to Scott Heiferman’s blog from Seth Godin’s blog.

Full circle.

]]> By: Rogel http://www.rogelsview.com/technology-and-software/399/#comment-760 Rogel Thu, 11 May 2006 02:42:34 +0000 http://www.rogelsview.com/technology-and-software/web-20/companies-that-nobody-need/399/#comment-760 It is really sad, If he only listen to what he was preaching all these years. Yet their is still allot to learn from him, even from Squidoo It is really sad, If he only listen to what he was preaching all these years. Yet their is still allot to learn from him, even from Squidoo

]]> By: assaf http://www.rogelsview.com/technology-and-software/399/#comment-759 assaf Thu, 11 May 2006 02:26:06 +0000 http://www.rogelsview.com/technology-and-software/web-20/companies-that-nobody-need/399/#comment-759 ” [user will not come] because they don’t want to generate content, they want better life” I got that one from Scott Heiferman’s blog. He lists 50 of them, I picked the 10 that resonate the most (this one was no. 1). I read it again just now and noticed that I got the link to Scott Heiferman’s blog from Seth Godin's blog. Full circle. ” [user will not come] because they don’t want to generate content, they want better life”

I got that one from Scott Heiferman’s blog. He lists 50 of them, I picked the 10 that resonate the most (this one was no. 1).

I read it again just now and noticed that I got the link to Scott Heiferman’s blog from Seth Godin’s blog.

Full circle.

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