Which would you ditch?
This isn't a meme of the usual fare that you get tagged with, but I'll bite on it anyway. From Fred Wilson's A VC blog, this question from Viral Ventures CEO Jason L. Baptiste:
If you had to abandon one service, never to have it again (gone, deleted, not able to come back on,etc.), which would you get rid of, your Myspace page/friends or your AIM buddylist/screenname?
Without question, my MySpace page.
Comments
How about today's rocketboom. Cuzzy loves it.
www.rocketboom.com
Posted by: mary Thon | May 5, 2006 02:49 PM
Hey Tom, glad to see the comment reposted for discussion and thought here. I myself would never leave my AIM buddy list, as it has been with me for almost 10 years now (ever changing of course). Myspace friends and pages can be rebuilt, but the AIM buddy list is something with much more psychological and emotional attachment.
-Jason L. Baptiste
Posted by: Jason L. Baptiste | May 5, 2006 11:15 PM
Mobile Search.
What is it? Let’s start with a question: Wouldn’t local search be so much better if it were standard practice to put geo-coordinates into a page’s meta-data ? And why on earth aren’t we already doing it?
We don’t have to stop at latitude, longitude and altitude. Why not include street addresses for good measure? And why not think beyond web pages, but geo-coordinate images and multimedia files too? (See Plazes.com for a rudimentary example; better would be more GPS chips inserted into digital cameras, to include coordinates in the images’ EXIF data.)
Local search engines could then use this information to accurately locate retailers or service providers by actually indexing for content and location. Today, the web development community does not build to this standard, so local search engines are challenged when trying to supplement their data with complex look-up tables, telephone directories or other lists. The quality of local search is not driven by the accuracy of the search in meters, but the accuracy of a DM List...
Read more at : http://www.reversedirectmarketing.com/dccoverage-and-mobile-search-17032006
Posted by: Erik Mednis | May 8, 2006 03:37 PM
Well, "Erik," this isn't exactly related to the question, but the information is useful in general, so I let it fly. Mind sharing who you are, s/he with the static Verizon IP and the multitude of fake email addresses?
Posted by: Tom Biro | May 8, 2006 04:25 PM
Just having some fun. I read a lot of blogs, yours included, and sometimes I answer seriously, sometimes I go for the entertainment value.
Posted by: a. douie pile | May 9, 2006 04:23 PM
Tom -
I did not post that entry to your blog, but just found it indexed with my name on Google...
Posted by: Erik Mednis, REALLY... | May 20, 2006 09:23 AM