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Re: Viral on FriendFeed

Jennifer Van Grove — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:21:26 -0000

Daniel, I honestly think that your experiment acted like a mirror to the entire web/tech industry at the moment - it's very reflexive. Good job on those screenshots and the logo. Very convincing.

Btw, I was referring to the tag I used on my own post ("prank"), which few picked up on as well. :)

Re: Viral on FriendFeed

smithereensblog — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:13:15 -0000

Jennifer - I couldn't agree more. Especially about the buzz-without-a-website bit. Although you do have to be willing to spend an inordinate amount of time 'shopping up a screenshot ;)

And the tag on post was "satire", not "prank", but yeah, not many seemed to notice that. I only point it out because I think there was hopefully valuable commentary hidden in the post, making it something more than an episode of Punk'd: Web 2.0 Edition ;) Hopefully.

Re: Viral on FriendFeed

Jennifer Van Grove — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:16:39 -0000

Thanks for calling me a prominent blogger :). The blog post I did on Streamulo.us, after of course I knew it was a prank (prank is actually a tag on that post), confirmed a few things for me:

1. all of us want to be first - maybe it's the techcrunch or twitter effect, but a majority of us feel like being one of the first to join a beta site is something to be envious of
2. our attention spans are short - we're not even reading anymore
3. you can generate buzz for a website without a website

It was fun and insightful experiment to say the least.

Confession: after the first read through of the post, I did add my email to signup form...I was suspicious of the prank, but still tempted enough to get sucked in a bit

Re: Viral on FriendFeed

Jennifer Van Grove — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:21:26 -0000

Daniel, I honestly think that your experiment acted like a mirror to the entire web/tech industry at the moment - it&#39s very reflexive. Good job on those screenshots and the logo. Very convincing.

Btw, I was referring to the tag I used on my own post ("prank"), which few picked up on as well. :)

Re: Viral on FriendFeed

smithereensblog — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:13:15 -0000

Jennifer - I couldn&#39t agree more. Especially about the buzz-without-a-website bit. Although you do have to be willing to spend an inordinate amount of time &#39shopping up a screenshot ;)

And the tag on post was "satire", not "prank", but yeah, not many seemed to notice that. I only point it out because I think there was hopefully valuable commentary hidden in the post, making it something more than an episode of Punk&#39d: Web 2.0 Edition ;) Hopefully.

Re: Viral on FriendFeed

smithereensblog — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:29:38 -0000

No problem. Sorry for the typo in your name above. Oops.

Re: Viral on FriendFeed

Shey — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:58:56 -0000

Thanks Daniel

Re: Viral on FriendFeed

smithereensblog — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:54:55 -0000

Great post Mike. I commented on the FriendFeed thread too (see below) but just wanted to say thanks for being such a great sport and giving the story that little push into FF-viral territory. Nothing could have proved the point better.

By the way, I'm working on a post-mortem of my own and I'll drop by later and post the URL. Cheers!

@Shay Don't worry about it - you were in good company ;) I'll also point you here: http://friendfeed.com/e/f54f86ec-1262-4ead-8d05... in case you were worried about spam.

Daniel

Re: Viral on FriendFeed

Jennifer Van Grove — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:21:26 -0000

Daniel, I honestly think that your experiment acted like a mirror to the entire web/tech industry at the moment - it's very reflexive. Good job on those screenshots and the logo. Very convincing.

Btw, I was referring to the tag I used on my own post ("prank"), which few picked up on as well. :)

Re: Viral on FriendFeed

Shey — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:17:53 -0000

HAHA I knew it!

But submitted my address anyway just in case I was wrong :)

Re: Viral on FriendFeed

smithereensblog — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:13:15 -0000

Jennifer - I couldn't agree more. Especially about the buzz-without-a-website bit. Although you do have to be willing to spend an inordinate amount of time 'shopping up a screenshot ;)

And the tag on post was "satire", not "prank", but yeah, not many seemed to notice that. I only point it out because I think there was hopefully valuable commentary hidden in the post, making it something more than an episode of Punk'd: Web 2.0 Edition ;) Hopefully.

Re: Viral on FriendFeed

Jennifer Van Grove — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:16:39 -0000

Thanks for calling me a prominent blogger :). The blog post I did on Streamulo.us, after of course I knew it was a prank (prank is actually a tag on that post), confirmed a few things for me:

1. all of us want to be first - maybe it&#39s the techcrunch or twitter effect, but a majority of us feel like being one of the first to join a beta site is something to be envious of
2. our attention spans are short - we&#39re not even reading anymore
3. you can generate buzz for a website without a website

It was fun and insightful experiment to say the least.

Confession: after the first read through of the post, I did add my email to signup form...I was suspicious of the prank, but still tempted enough to get sucked in a bit

Re: Viral on FriendFeed

Nils Hitze — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:47:39 -0000

brilliant story, thank you for the laugh after lunch :)

Re: Viral on FriendFeed

Mark Dykeman — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:17:41 -0000

I admit, I was "fished in" a bit at first, but then the tone of the post caused some alarm bells to go off. I completely missed the whole "sign-up page" thing... I might have fallen for that, too.

Good lesson for us all. :)

Re: Viral on FriendFeed

Jennifer Van Grove — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:16:39 -0000

Thanks for calling me a prominent blogger :). The blog post I did on Streamulo.us, after of course I knew it was a prank (prank is actually a tag on that post), confirmed a few things for me:

1. all of us want to be first - maybe it's the techcrunch or twitter effect, but a majority of us feel like being one of the first to join a beta site is something to be envious of
2. our attention spans are short - we're not even reading anymore
3. you can generate buzz for a website without a website

It was fun and insightful experiment to say the least.

Confession: after the first read through of the post, I did add my email to signup form...I was suspicious of the prank, but still tempted enough to get sucked in a bit

Re: Viral on FriendFeed

smithereensblog — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:29:38 -0000

No problem. Sorry for the typo in your name above. Oops.

Re: Viral on FriendFeed

Shey — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:58:56 -0000

Thanks Daniel

Re: Viral on FriendFeed

smithereensblog — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:54:55 -0000

Great post Mike. I commented on the FriendFeed thread too (see below) but just wanted to say thanks for being such a great sport and giving the story that little push into FF-viral territory. Nothing could have proved the point better.

By the way, I&#39m working on a post-mortem of my own and I&#39ll drop by later and post the URL. Cheers!

@Shay Don&#39t worry about it - you were in good company ;) I&#39ll also point you here: http://friendfeed.com/e/f54f86ec-1262-4ead-8d05... in case you were worried about spam.

Daniel

Re: Viral on FriendFeed

Shey — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:17:53 -0000

HAHA I knew it!

But submitted my address anyway just in case I was wrong :)

Re: Viral on FriendFeed

smithereensblog — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:29:38 -0000

No problem. Sorry for the typo in your name above. Oops.

Re: Viral on FriendFeed

Shey — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:58:56 -0000

Thanks Daniel

Re: Viral on FriendFeed

smithereensblog — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:54:55 -0000

By the way, I'm working on a post-mortem of my own and I'll drop by later and post the URL. Cheers!

@Shay Don't worry about it - you were in good company ;) I'll also point you here: http://friendfeed.com/e/f54... in case you were worried about spam.

Daniel

Re: Viral on FriendFeed

Shey — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:17:53 -0000

HAHA I knew it!

But submitted my address anyway just in case I was wrong :)

Re: Viral on FriendFeed

Nils Hitze — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:47:39 -0000

brilliant story, thank you for the laugh after lunch :)

Re: Viral on FriendFeed

Mark Dykeman — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:17:41 -0000