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Re: 4 Questions for Every Early Adopter

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:08:03 -0000

Actually, I do. I know who you are, and why you won't put your name on stuff. It's the rest of the readers who don't know who you are.

Hence, "Anonymous" not Anonymous.

Re: 4 Questions for Every Early Adopter

friarminor — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:47:50 -0000

Am I naive to see that there are apps or tools that appeal to a few and basically a stink for everyone else? Who cares about mass hysteria or hype but money-crazed selfish beings?

Re: 4 Questions for Every Early Adopter

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:54:41 -0000

Brilliant, as always, Anonymous. You should use your name and take credit for your ridicule.

Re: 4 Questions for Every Early Adopter

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:40:03 -0000

How stupid are you? Seriously, how stupid are you? The very first negative reaction to this post, the very first comment on this post, is reacting to your comment about Democrats. Then, only a few comments later, Scoble reacts to the same remark. You are the most self-delusional person ever. You really would make a good conservative pundit. You're quite deranged enough.

Re: 4 Questions for Every Early Adopter

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:34:37 -0000

"Rizzn" is like a Swiss Army Knife. A tool of many kinds.

Re: 4 Questions for Every Early Adopter

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:30:28 -0000

You don't need to put Anonymous in quotations.

Re: 4 Questions for Every Early Adopter

Tom — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:22:42 -0000

Good questions - especially number 1.
I'm still trying to pursuade my mum facebook might be worth her while... she's still not joined.

Re: 4 Questions for Every Early Adopter

Barce — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:47:24 -0000

It's fucktard, and you are? O.o

Re: 4 Questions for Every Early Adopter

JB Manson — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:36:39 -0000

I agree with Rizzn. The web 2.0 evangelists are coming up empty after 2 years of nothing. Scoble is the poster child for this nothing. That is why he is so defensive to this post. Rizzn just unmasked Scoble. Scoble is irrelevent. His conversations spam is a waste of everyone's time. The only conversation that Scoble generates on Friendfeed and his blog is from other losers. It makes me run from Friendfeed.

Scoble is a fuckard and a douchbag. He makes his living pretending to be an early adopter and now he runs away from that to say he's passionate about technology. The internet is about real value not what fake insiders like Scoble think.

Scoble you're a jerk. Everyone knows your a fake. You are an walking sideshow to the web 2.0 circus.

Re: 4 Questions for Every Early Adopter

Matt — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:13:09 -0000

Go Obama!

Re: 4 Questions for Every Early Adopter

Paul Daigle — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:41:55 -0000

The point that you're missing is that just because something appeals to, or even helps early adopters doesn't mean it will ever rise to the service of mainstream users. Your comment about "Mom" reflects what I see as an industry-wide disinterest in the needs of average people. If we continue to operate no regard for how we can attract and serve average consumers- dark days are ahead I think. In order to capitalize on the great ideas and advances of the last few years, we have to develop products that cross the chasm. Even FaceBook, with 100 million users, is failing to win the early majority. Like the bubble in 2000, we again have an industry that has succeeded only in servicing itself.

Re: 4 Questions for Every Early Adopter

Barce — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:07:10 -0000

YO, let's evaluate two pieces of technology using Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins' questions.

Let's do a Ubiquity vs. SocialBrowse comparison:

1) Can my mom use it:
ubiquity: no
socialbrowse: yes

2) time sink or time saver:
ubiquity: time saver
socialbrowse: time sink

3) integration? ubiquity: yes :: social browse: yes

4) bottom line? wtf? are you some capitalist tool?

Re: 4 Questions for Every Early Adopter

Paul Daigle — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:35:09 -0000

Mark makes some incredibly important points here, and those points seemed to have been lost on the people who most need to hear them. The ensuing comments war is evidence that this industry is becoming too self important, too insular, and too personality driven. These comments are flat out too personal and donâ€™t serve anyone. I think they point to insecurities caused by the very problems that Mark is trying to uncover in this piece.

How about some comments on the fact that Internet development is being driven by a technology paradigm fueled by tech enthusiast listening to tech evangelists influencing developers to create products that serve the entire tech ecosystem, and hardly anyone else. This is putting the entire industry on the precipice of another big shakeout on the level of 2000-2001. The sooner we develop products that cross the chasm to mainstream usage the better weâ€™ll all be. The longer we stay in a state of isolated arrogance the hard the fall and the fallout.

Re: 4 Questions for Every Early Adopter

KristenNicole — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:25:40 -0000

Funny story about "anonymous" people named John that don't know what they're talking about--wtf? Where are you getting this from? I was live blogging the event.

Sorry, I don't have time to refresh other people's blogs while live blogging, taking photos and videos, uploading them to YouTube so I can insert them into my live blog--while live blogging...

(what was TechCrunch writing about that I would take notes from while live blogging?)

Think before you write asinine comments.

Re: 4 Questions for Every Early Adopter

Emile Cambry — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:55:57 -0000

John, if you look at any of the pictures of the blogger pit at the f8 conference, the TC guys were sitting directly behind the Mashable reporter. You think she'd be that silly to refresh TC in front of them? Give me a break! Guess that's why you were anonymous in your comment.

Gotta love trolls that don't add anything to the conversation.

Re: 4 Questions for Every Early Adopter

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:05:33 -0000

Robert, there's a clear delineation between what I would use and what I would recommend for use by others.

Your lack of ability to discern what I said from what you think I said shows a disturbing deficit in your reading comprehension skills.

In terms of the politics, again, if you read the beginning of the article, I was trying to humorously describe a stereotype. That you keep missing this in all your comments and attempts to defame me points to a sad inability to either laugh at yourself or do more than scan the titles fragments of sentences in a blog post.

I always wondered how you read 90,000+ posts a day - I guess I have my answer. You don't.

You've said a lot of things you're going to have a hard time walking back today, Robert. I hope you're OK with that.

Re: 4 Questions for Every Early Adopter

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:58:02 -0000

John, either you don't read the site, for some reason have a thing against Pete, or are a Techcrunch fanboy.

Either way, your assertion is baseless and your story is suspect.

Re: 4 Questions for Every Early Adopter

John — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:49:38 -0000

Oh, and I have a funny Mashable story actually. I was at F8, sitting three rows back behind the Techcrunch guys and the Mashable blogger who was sitting infront of them in the first row. During the keynote, your blogger was actually reading and refreshing Techcrunch and taking notes. I guess that summarizes this whole site.

Re: 4 Questions for Every Early Adopter

John Robert — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:48:50 -0000

Robert is correct on what Mashable is about. This site was built on SEO and regurgitating stories. You have the hang-on crowd who are more about parties. Cashmore is a perfect example of somebody who cares more about his image and parties than products. These early adopters are people who are passionate about products and trends - something that is lacking here. When an attempt is made at a post that is more than just a re-hash of a press release or hijacking a story from another blog, you end up with stories like this one.

You don't see the irony of your post, which just makes it even funnier for those of us on the sidelines.

Re: 4 Questions for Every Early Adopter

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:48:11 -0000

Not really. You and Nicole are the only ones to have mentioned it so far.

Re: 4 Questions for Every Early Adopter

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:46:12 -0000

"Anonymous" comments are a waste of electrons.

Re: 4 Questions for Every Early Adopter

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:14:44 -0000

I agree. "Rizzn" is a waste of carbon.

Re: 4 Questions for Every Early Adopter

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:13:09 -0000

Oh look, "Rizzn" threw another dig at democrats in a Mashable post. That must have stirred up some controversy and gotten him more (negative) attention. He is well on his way to being the next Ann Coulter in the USA. Go, "Rizzn", go!

Re: 4 Questions for Every Early Adopter

Nicole Simon (Berlin, Germany) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:00:22 -0000

Dear Mashable, I'd like a filter please probably for the next 6 months at least for any post done with a political reference. This is supposed to be a blog a) about social media and b) about the internets.

Not about the presidential race in the US. I suggest you take a look at your analytics and decide where your readers are coming from and think about the USP of it.

[Even more so Mark: Please post that political stuff on your blog instead of finding excuses to bring it up here. If you just would have used as much effort to link in the lower part of just this post as you did in the upper it would have made a much better post. In fact, removing the political part at all would have made it reasonable useful.

And linkable. Or bookmarkable. This way? Na.

Re: 4 Questions for Every Early Adopter

Luis Galarza — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:23:03 -0000

Looks like feelings are running out of Mashable chest today... Some relaxing time may be able to fix your zero love stress days.

LG.