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This is flagrant linkbait. I start to write a witty comment responding to this post, but then I realized that's exactly what they want us to do. They even told
by hooande 17y ago
This is flagrant linkbait. I start to write a witty comment responding to this post, but then I realized that's exactly what they want us to do. They even told us, explicitly in their book, that their forumla for success was to create controversy in order to attract attention to their business.
I'm still waiting for the day when I see a 37Signals post about how they intend to build great collaboration software, and not about how people should run their businesses. Making inflammatory statements statements about other people's companies is definitely one way to make it. But so is thinking and talking about your actual product.
- dhh 17y agoWe have a whole weblog dedicated to talking about our product and calling out new feature launches: http://productblog.37signals.com/ http://productblog.37signals.com/ Most people aren't that interested in just reading an infomercial, though. Lots of people are apparently interested in reading opinions and discussions about industry topics. Be they VC funding or whatever.
- axod 17y agoBest just to flag it and move on IMHO. (I agree completely)
- dennis_forbes 17y agoYou had something super clever to say, but instead you just fall back to essentially calling the target a troll. Sorry, but that tactic is one of the weakest, most trollest techniques going. I'm surprised that anyone still falls for it. As far as "making inflammatory statements about other people's companies", given that ning is all other the tech news sites its hardly like it came out of left field. And really the "get enough eyeballs" tactic has been the recipe for countless massive failures, yet still people keep saying "FACEBOOK FACEBOOK FACEBOOK!" Before people reference facebook, contemplate where Facebook would be if instead of being propped up by VCs desperate to flip it to the next guy, they had to get bank loans. They would have been dead in the water years ago. Instead now they're getting more and more desperate to raise revenue, and the results aren't good. Facebook is not a good example of anything.