Comments on: A-listers are irrelevant http://liftlab.com/think/laurent/2006/07/03/a-listers-are-irrelevent/ Thoughts on technology and society Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:20:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: Karl Long http://liftlab.com/think/laurent/2006/07/03/a-listers-are-irrelevent/#comment-425 Karl Long Thu, 06 Jul 2006 22:04:39 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/laurent/2006/07/03/a-listers-are-irrelevent/#comment-425 Really good point Peter, and I love the corrolation of the number of blog mentions, very funny. But, in my mind there is a difference between sheer numbers of users and actual creation of value. If it all comes back to “eyeballs” then where is the real revolution. IMHO flickr provides a much richer framework for “co-creation” of value, and is building value that goes above and beyond the incremental eyeballs. <br /> <br /> One of my concerns with myspace, is that they do not seem to be building value above and beyond the eyeballs that they are aggrigating. In the end those eyeballs are as likely to move on to the next big thing. Really good point Peter, and I love the corrolation of the number of blog mentions, very funny. But, in my mind there is a difference between sheer numbers of users and actual creation of value. If it all comes back to “eyeballs” then where is the real revolution. IMHO flickr provides a much richer framework for “co-creation” of value, and is building value that goes above and beyond the incremental eyeballs.

One of my concerns with myspace, is that they do not seem to be building value above and beyond the eyeballs that they are aggrigating. In the end those eyeballs are as likely to move on to the next big thing.

]]> By: Karl Long http://liftlab.com/think/laurent/2006/07/03/a-listers-are-irrelevent/#comment-1026 Karl Long Thu, 06 Jul 2006 22:04:39 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/laurent/2006/07/03/a-listers-are-irrelevent/#comment-1026 Really good point Peter, and I love the corrolation of the number of blog mentions, very funny. But, in my mind there is a difference between sheer numbers of users and actual creation of value. If it all comes back to “eyeballs” then where is the real revolution. IMHO flickr provides a much richer framework for “co-creation” of value, and is building value that goes above and beyond the incremental eyeballs. <br /> <br /> One of my concerns with myspace, is that they do not seem to be building value above and beyond the eyeballs that they are aggrigating. In the end those eyeballs are as likely to move on to the next big thing. Really good point Peter, and I love the corrolation of the number of blog mentions, very funny. But, in my mind there is a difference between sheer numbers of users and actual creation of value. If it all comes back to “eyeballs” then where is the real revolution. IMHO flickr provides a much richer framework for “co-creation” of value, and is building value that goes above and beyond the incremental eyeballs.

One of my concerns with myspace, is that they do not seem to be building value above and beyond the eyeballs that they are aggrigating. In the end those eyeballs are as likely to move on to the next big thing.

]]> By: Laurent http://liftlab.com/think/laurent/2006/07/03/a-listers-are-irrelevent/#comment-419 Laurent Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:29:30 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/laurent/2006/07/03/a-listers-are-irrelevent/#comment-419 Jeff: what’s funny here is that blogs were, originally, an answer to information overload. Metafilter, memepool, boingboing, all these sites were a way to filter what was relevant to you from a network that was becoming too large. The Yahoo directory was getting out of hands, the cool site of the day useless… The web was growing.<br /> <br /> Now we again have too many filters, so we need to filter the filters… Amazing :-) Jeff: what’s funny here is that blogs were, originally, an answer to information overload. Metafilter, memepool, boingboing, all these sites were a way to filter what was relevant to you from a network that was becoming too large. The Yahoo directory was getting out of hands, the cool site of the day useless… The web was growing.

Now we again have too many filters, so we need to filter the filters… Amazing :-)

]]> By: Laurent http://liftlab.com/think/laurent/2006/07/03/a-listers-are-irrelevent/#comment-1020 Laurent Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:29:30 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/laurent/2006/07/03/a-listers-are-irrelevent/#comment-1020 Jeff: what’s funny here is that blogs were, originally, an answer to information overload. Metafilter, memepool, boingboing, all these sites were a way to filter what was relevant to you from a network that was becoming too large. The Yahoo directory was getting out of hands, the cool site of the day useless… The web was growing.<br /> <br /> Now we again have too many filters, so we need to filter the filters… Amazing :-) Jeff: what’s funny here is that blogs were, originally, an answer to information overload. Metafilter, memepool, boingboing, all these sites were a way to filter what was relevant to you from a network that was becoming too large. The Yahoo directory was getting out of hands, the cool site of the day useless… The web was growing.

Now we again have too many filters, so we need to filter the filters… Amazing :-)

]]> By: Jeff Whitehead http://liftlab.com/think/laurent/2006/07/03/a-listers-are-irrelevent/#comment-417 Jeff Whitehead Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:30:56 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/laurent/2006/07/03/a-listers-are-irrelevent/#comment-417 I agree that there is a next phase coming. See: <a href="http://realtimematrix.blogspot.com/2006/06/relevance-vs-democratization.html" rel="nofollow" >Relevance Vs? Democratization</a><br /> At RTM, we are piloting a live correlation engine that matches “any” published RSS item to your preferences. That enables you to enlarge the universe of publishers without incurring information overload. It also enables relevant publications to bubble to the top, which would not make it through the page-ranking logic of aggregation sites. I agree that there is a next phase coming. See: Relevance Vs? Democratization
At RTM, we are piloting a live correlation engine that matches “any” published RSS item to your preferences. That enables you to enlarge the universe of publishers without incurring information overload. It also enables relevant publications to bubble to the top, which would not make it through the page-ranking logic of aggregation sites.

]]> By: Jeff Whitehead http://liftlab.com/think/laurent/2006/07/03/a-listers-are-irrelevent/#comment-1018 Jeff Whitehead Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:30:56 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/laurent/2006/07/03/a-listers-are-irrelevent/#comment-1018 I agree that there is a next phase coming. See: <a href="http://realtimematrix.blogspot.com/2006/06/relevance-vs-democratization.html" rel="nofollow" >Relevance Vs? Democratization</a><br /> At RTM, we are piloting a live correlation engine that matches “any” published RSS item to your preferences. That enables you to enlarge the universe of publishers without incurring information overload. It also enables relevant publications to bubble to the top, which would not make it through the page-ranking logic of aggregation sites. I agree that there is a next phase coming. See: Relevance Vs? Democratization
At RTM, we are piloting a live correlation engine that matches “any” published RSS item to your preferences. That enables you to enlarge the universe of publishers without incurring information overload. It also enables relevant publications to bubble to the top, which would not make it through the page-ranking logic of aggregation sites.

]]> By: Pete Cashmore http://liftlab.com/think/laurent/2006/07/03/a-listers-are-irrelevent/#comment-416 Pete Cashmore Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:15:16 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/laurent/2006/07/03/a-listers-are-irrelevent/#comment-416 Totally agree with the gist here, although Technorati does include MySpace blogs (it’s a recent addition). However, very few MySpace users seem to use the blog tool. Totally agree with the gist here, although Technorati does include MySpace blogs (it’s a recent addition). However, very few MySpace users seem to use the blog tool.

]]> By: Pete Cashmore http://liftlab.com/think/laurent/2006/07/03/a-listers-are-irrelevent/#comment-1017 Pete Cashmore Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:15:16 +0000 http://liftlab.com/think/laurent/2006/07/03/a-listers-are-irrelevent/#comment-1017 Totally agree with the gist here, although Technorati does include MySpace blogs (it’s a recent addition). However, very few MySpace users seem to use the blog tool. Totally agree with the gist here, although Technorati does include MySpace blogs (it’s a recent addition). However, very few MySpace users seem to use the blog tool.

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