tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856236792763499403.comments2008-07-23T03:21:09.760-04:00Fhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18229254161178214330noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856236792763499403.post-31677971499608244852008-07-23T03:21:00.000-04:002008-07-23T03:21:00.000-04:00Informative and useful post. Great stuff!<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fhoneart-comments/~4/350263676" height="1" width="1"/>MySpace Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17860258878104624188noreply@blogger.comhttp://fhonearth.blogspot.com/2008/01/social-blog-platform-business-plan.html?showComment=1216797660000#c3167797149960824485tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856236792763499403.post-23796616188433719552008-01-17T14:53:00.000-03:002008-01-17T14:53:00.000-03:00Felipe,<BR/>Great to reconnect with you. You said:<BR/><I>So the guy that guided this business plan not only has lived in Chile, he has also shown great interest in social activism. Did he give the best advice for Bligoo, or was he slanted towards this conclusion?</I><BR/><BR/>My answer is that we are always biased in our points of view. All of us are from certain backgrounds- that of course has certain blindnesses, but also gives us the opportunity to see certain opportunities. I would be very concerned if this same person had suggested an area that he knew nothing about- and I would say that his information was suspect... business plans that just hold analytical models based on data ("the market is this big") and does not know something about the reality of the market is limited at best.... and often time very foolish. I think that the fact that this guy suggested an area that he knows about says that there is a real opportunity to target... and it is possible for Bligoo to achieve real traction in this space.<BR/><BR/>Secondly- I would like to respond to one of the other commenter's comments. I see Paolo Colonello's decision to unveil his plan in the early stages as an extreme strength. I have been building startup companies since 1989, starting my first in 1994. Gone are the days of confidential plans. Execution of an idea is more important these days than having an unique idea. Opening the Bligoo plan up for scrutiny gives Bligoo and Paolo's team many, many more advocates from his community that Bligoo will be used by. Operating in the open is powerful. Individuals and companies that can not operate in the open, especially for a social media company like Bligoo, will fail- not because they are unable to execute- but because they are irrelevant due to not having a strong community around them.<BR/><BR/>I am very excited that Bligoo is going... I just wish that it was going when I was in Chile! Congrats to Paolo and his team.<BR/><BR/>Saludos desde Austin,<BR/>Kevin<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fhoneart-comments/~4/262693695" height="1" width="1"/>Kevin Koymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09530778401585221047noreply@blogger.comhttp://fhonearth.blogspot.com/2008/01/social-blog-platform-business-plan.html?showComment=1200592380000#c2379661618843371955tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856236792763499403.post-14581808979361103732008-01-16T22:04:00.000-03:002008-01-16T22:04:00.000-03:00Felipe,<BR/>I think "successfully funded entrepreneur" becomes a successful expression, when you achieve a successful Exit!<BR/><BR/>And of course I am very interested into watch Bligoo's evolution... but after the "BP's revelation", my bet does not go for them.<BR/><BR/>regards,<BR/>TiPi<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fhoneart-comments/~4/262693697" height="1" width="1"/>Tipihttp://www.ineedtp4mybunghole.comnoreply@blogger.comhttp://fhonearth.blogspot.com/2008/01/social-blog-platform-business-plan.html?showComment=1200531840000#c1458180897936110373tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856236792763499403.post-81944908172292382312008-01-16T21:37:00.000-03:002008-01-16T21:37:00.000-03:00Hi tipi,<BR/><BR/>Although you chose to remain anonymous I would like to tell other readers that you are a successfully funded entrepreneur.<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure publishing the BP was a bad idea, I like being able to participate in the process (at least as an observer).<BR/><BR/>It will be interesting following Bligoo's next steps.<BR/><BR/>Fh<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fhoneart-comments/~4/262693698" height="1" width="1"/>Fhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18229254161178214330noreply@blogger.comhttp://fhonearth.blogspot.com/2008/01/social-blog-platform-business-plan.html?showComment=1200530220000#c8194490817229238231tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856236792763499403.post-26879968654853558972008-01-16T20:55:00.000-03:002008-01-16T20:55:00.000-03:00Dear Felipe,<BR/>The answer to you question is "maybe". But the key issue is the publication of the Business Plan.<BR/><BR/>I consider irresponsible, naive and even stupid to unveil a BP that is in its early stages of implementation. <BR/><BR/><BR/>best regards,<BR/>your friendly neighbor, TP<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fhoneart-comments/~4/262693699" height="1" width="1"/>Tipihttp://www.ineedtp4mybunghole.comnoreply@blogger.comhttp://fhonearth.blogspot.com/2008/01/social-blog-platform-business-plan.html?showComment=1200527700000#c2687996865485355897tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856236792763499403.post-44037165598732808012008-01-15T14:11:00.000-03:002008-01-15T14:11:00.000-03:00I agree with Alexander. The fact that a) the "shared" feature was always meant to be 100% public, which Google specifies in their response (which I found very clear and responsive, not "political!), and that b) you can share specific tags to specify who can see what, makes this change acceptable. The only problem I see is in those people who have countless items already shared and don't want to move all those items over to a tag... honestly, I find the public reaction here a bit over-the-top.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fhoneart-comments/~4/262693701" height="1" width="1"/>Topher Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11066350697224951887noreply@blogger.comhttp://fhonearth.blogspot.com/2007/12/google-reader-shares-private-data-ruins.html?showComment=1200417060000#c4403716559873280801tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856236792763499403.post-42519653197521958032008-01-13T17:25:00.000-03:002008-01-13T17:25:00.000-03:00What the hell is up with this "scandal"? Do users of Google Reader not know what the word "share" means? And has a single person been inconvenienced by this feature?<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fhoneart-comments/~4/262693702" height="1" width="1"/>SketchyJustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18424442058483648107noreply@blogger.comhttp://fhonearth.blogspot.com/2008/01/google-stock-down-after-readers-privacy.html?showComment=1200255900000#c4251965319752195803tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856236792763499403.post-29106724147978604902008-01-03T23:32:00.000-03:002008-01-03T23:32:00.000-03:00Heh, I didn't realise people were sharing private things using this features - I always assumed (correctly it seems) that shared items were meant to be public. I always share posts that I think others would find interesting.<BR/><BR/>I think sharing it with all my friends mutually is pretty cool.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fhoneart-comments/~4/262693703" height="1" width="1"/>Ycroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15215756393733527513noreply@blogger.comhttp://fhonearth.blogspot.com/2007/12/google-reader-shares-private-data-ruins.html?showComment=1199413920000#c2910672414797860490tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856236792763499403.post-60875967540729029162008-01-03T14:07:00.000-03:002008-01-03T14:07:00.000-03:00When you trust someone, or some company, regardless of how misplaced that trust is, it's easy to lose, and virtually impossible to regain.<BR/><BR/>Google has clearly lost some of that trust. It will never get that trust back.<BR/><BR/>Period.<BR/><BR/>Way to go, Google! How much is your stock worth now? More or less? (I suspect less...)<BR/><BR/>Google's "Do No Evil" slogan now needs to be changed to "Only SOMETIMES Do A LITTLE Evil".<BR/><BR/>Let's all bake a cake and trumpet in "The New Microsoft(tm)". At least Microsoft(tm) ADMITS to it's internal policies of "kill or be killed", "embrace, extend, extinguish", and "DOS ain't done 'till Lotus won't run!"<BR/><BR/>God Bless the new Rulers Of The Cubicle! Bow to your Overlords!<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fhoneart-comments/~4/262693704" height="1" width="1"/>ka9cqlhttp://openid.aol.com/ka9cqlnoreply@blogger.comhttp://fhonearth.blogspot.com/2007/12/google-reader-shares-private-data-ruins.html?showComment=1199380020000#c6087596754072902916tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856236792763499403.post-27791737599511354222008-01-02T14:14:00.000-03:002008-01-02T14:14:00.000-03:00Hey Now FH,<BR/>I love google reader. This was a very interesting post & very informative.<BR/>Thx 4 the info.<BR/>Catto<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fhoneart-comments/~4/262693705" height="1" width="1"/>Chris Cattohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01583612446043479068noreply@blogger.comhttp://fhonearth.blogspot.com/2007/12/google-reader-shares-private-data-ruins.html?showComment=1199294040000#c2779173759951135422tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856236792763499403.post-10562163948683306572007-12-30T21:09:00.000-03:002007-12-30T21:09:00.000-03:00Alexander,<BR/><BR/>You might agree or disagree with the issue, but you are not Google.<BR/><BR/>Google has to draw policies that don't alienate a large number of its users. It's that simple.<BR/><BR/>Maybe the fix sounds simple, but why do we need to fix it to start with? The scarier point is if this is a sign of things to come. How many things will Google make us fix in the future? Will we be able to track them all?<BR/><BR/>Fh<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>Fh<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fhoneart-comments/~4/262693706" height="1" width="1"/>Fhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18229254161178214330noreply@blogger.comhttp://fhonearth.blogspot.com/2007/12/google-reader-shares-private-data-ruins.html?showComment=1199059740000#c1056216394868330657tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856236792763499403.post-32018975190056118662007-12-30T11:11:00.000-03:002007-12-30T11:11:00.000-03:00Chill out!!<BR/><BR/>If you are concerned with people seeing your feeds, then don't share them. That's a simple fix!<BR/><BR/>Plus, this is not your personal data, this is data from other sources, not from you. Even if you do have a subscription that you don't want people to know about, then UNSHARE it. Really nott that hard...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fhoneart-comments/~4/262693707" height="1" width="1"/>Alexanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01163206651654410177noreply@blogger.comhttp://fhonearth.blogspot.com/2007/12/google-reader-shares-private-data-ruins.html?showComment=1199023860000#c3201897519005611866tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856236792763499403.post-19972455197366601292007-12-29T22:32:00.000-03:002007-12-29T22:32:00.000-03:00Reader just has too many ways to share items:<BR/>1. Email - click email and type in a name and press send. Best for users you know don't use RSS.<BR/>3. "Share" button. Easy. Press share and everyone you gave your private URL to can see.<BR/>2. Tag - press tag then type in a name or previously thought of "grouping". Share that out the same way you would have sent a link to the "shared" items.<BR/><BR/>Clearly #2 is the easiest. Apparently the reader team really meant for use to accomplish granular sharing by #3.<BR/><BR/>Google. The solution is EASY. People want to share "shared" items by clicking the shared button - and remain private. Here's how you do it. Make the Share button pop open and give a taglike choice: All, group of people, maybe contacts, etc. No one understands what you mean by tags or bother learning what you mean by them in this context. Its hard enough explaining del.icio.us to people. There's your GPC.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fhoneart-comments/~4/262693708" height="1" width="1"/>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comhttp://fhonearth.blogspot.com/2007/12/new-google-strategy-behind-their-reader.html?showComment=1198978320000#c1997245519736660129tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856236792763499403.post-60568168230013370302007-12-29T14:42:00.000-03:002007-12-29T14:42:00.000-03:00Dear Ashley, <BR/><BR/>First a technical detail: You don't need to chat with someone. Reader will add you as a "friend" if we just exchange e-mails.<BR/><BR/>Now, maybe it bothers me, maybe it don't, but if Google wants to change the way I interact with other people, they have to ask me first. And they must give me the right to say "no". That's how they always behaved before, and that's why I trusted them.<BR/><BR/>There would have been no scandal if Google had made this "feature" optional, or if they had always handled my information the same way.<BR/><BR/>More about this in <A HREF="http://fhonearth.blogspot.com/2007/12/google-answers-with-persuasion-no-real.html" REL="nofollow">the next post</A>.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your feedback,<BR/><BR/>Fh<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fhoneart-comments/~4/262693709" height="1" width="1"/>Fhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18229254161178214330noreply@blogger.comhttp://fhonearth.blogspot.com/2007/12/google-reader-shares-private-data-ruins.html?showComment=1198950120000#c6056816823001337030tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856236792763499403.post-19929537150503199562007-12-29T13:58:00.000-03:002007-12-29T13:58:00.000-03:00But they're not doing that. They're telling people whom you talk to on google chat what you like to read.<BR/><BR/>Do you commonly talk to strangers on google talk?<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fhoneart-comments/~4/262693710" height="1" width="1"/>Ashleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07254324391072091178noreply@blogger.comhttp://fhonearth.blogspot.com/2007/12/google-reader-shares-private-data-ruins.html?showComment=1198947480000#c1992953715050319956tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856236792763499403.post-15268889181118418372007-12-28T20:50:00.000-03:002007-12-28T20:50:00.000-03:00Dear Anonymous 2,<BR/><BR/>The time I left home today is public. The time I got home yesterday is public too. Everyone at the street could see me, and they could even notice if I arrived alone or not.<BR/><BR/>It's just that I don't expect Google to tell everyone about it. Even more if nobody asked for it to start with.<BR/><BR/>If they start doing that kind of things I'll have to stop trusting them my data. And that's not the relationship we had, so I feel cheated.<BR/><BR/>Fh<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fhoneart-comments/~4/262693711" height="1" width="1"/>Fhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18229254161178214330noreply@blogger.comhttp://fhonearth.blogspot.com/2007/12/google-reader-shares-private-data-ruins.html?showComment=1198885800000#c1526888918111841837tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856236792763499403.post-30580629245529516122007-12-28T20:36:00.000-03:002007-12-28T20:36:00.000-03:00like, wtf? They are *shared* items. What kind of privacy concerns can there be?<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fhoneart-comments/~4/262693712" height="1" width="1"/>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comhttp://fhonearth.blogspot.com/2007/12/google-reader-shares-private-data-ruins.html?showComment=1198884960000#c3058062924552951612tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856236792763499403.post-20200506391700587212007-12-27T07:22:00.000-03:002007-12-27T07:22:00.000-03:00@Tom In theory I agree with you, that was why I chose /. to start with.<BR/><BR/>If I had to guess I'd say they put their journals in a different machine that wasn't ready to handle an increase in traffic so high as this issue caused. I took the decision to move the content so people would have a bigger incentive to move the link (so they wouldn't link to an intermitent working server) and so I can handle the updates just at one place. Also I learned that /. is not very good with their rss feeds, and that they don't handle at all backtrack blog links (had to do it manually). Anyway I left a link at the same location so people can still find this article, and backtrack handling should improve the dialog in the "web 2.0 way" everyone should be expecting this days.<BR/><BR/>About yesterday's Google official response, I found it sad. They said nothing new, just repeated the same instructions that started this "drama". <BR/><BR/>As <A HREF="http://groups.google.com/group/google-reader-howdoi/msg/1dbb33e61661ac15" REL="nofollow">one user wrote in the forum</A> after that non-response:<BR/><BR/>"<I>Wow, Graham, I think I speak for many of the unhappy people who've<BR/>posted in this thread when I say that this alleviates essentially NONE<BR/>of our concerns. But you go ahead and keep thinking that you can<BR/>somehow convince us that we like this change, instead of actually<BR/>listening to, you know, what we have CLEARLY and REPEATEDLY said to<BR/>you. </I>"<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fhoneart-comments/~4/262693713" height="1" width="1"/>Fhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18229254161178214330noreply@blogger.comhttp://fhonearth.blogspot.com/2007/12/google-reader-shares-private-data-ruins.html?showComment=1198750920000#c2020050639170058721tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856236792763499403.post-49033502355024057392007-12-27T01:02:00.000-03:002007-12-27T01:02:00.000-03:00fh, I don't know why you had to move it, I've never seen problems with user journals there before. You should have left it up and posted a note at the top instead of removing the whole post, in case your blog gets 'deleted'.<BR/><BR/>Also, Google Reader has responded in kind:<BR/>http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2007/12/managing-your-shared-items.html<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fhoneart-comments/~4/262693714" height="1" width="1"/>Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14676977096706964461noreply@blogger.comhttp://fhonearth.blogspot.com/2007/12/google-reader-shares-private-data-ruins.html?showComment=1198728120000#c4903350235502405739tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856236792763499403.post-36568667402418376492007-12-27T00:58:00.000-03:002007-12-27T00:58:00.000-03:00The issue here being that Google Reader is not a product - it's not something they sell. It's just another way Google generates attention for itself.<BR/><BR/>The big G wants some of that social network attention so...<BR/><BR/>If it was a product they'd be concerned about profits, or losing users, etc. Since it's just marketing, they can change anything and it doesn't really matter. If they lose too many users they'll change it back. (maybe)<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fhoneart-comments/~4/262693715" height="1" width="1"/>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comhttp://fhonearth.blogspot.com/2007/12/google-reader-shares-private-data-ruins.html?showComment=1198727880000#c3656866740241837649tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8856236792763499403.post-22372515130515382732007-12-26T21:44:00.000-03:002007-12-26T21:44:00.000-03:00This post was originally posted at <A HREF="http://slashdot.org/~Felipe+Hoffa/journal/191246" REL="nofollow">slashdot</A>, but I moved it since it looks like they had performance problems with their user journals. Please update your bookmarks.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fhoneart-comments/~4/262693716" height="1" width="1"/>Fhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18229254161178214330noreply@blogger.comhttp://fhonearth.blogspot.com/2007/12/google-reader-shares-private-data-ruins.html?showComment=1198716240000#c2237251513051538273