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Kevin Rose: How to Promote Your Web App
- mattmaroon 17y agoHe left out "be on a cable TV show".
- staunch 17y agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1_YoG7lqI4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1_YoG7lqI4
- sdfx 17y agoGreat how he leaves out the fact that it is his site.
- access_denied 17y agoHe mentions it on 0:31 in the video.
- chaosmachine 17y agoBut later on he switches gears to "they" instead of "we".
- ojbyrne 17y agoHe covers his mouth at that point, and it's hard to tell whether he said "mine" or "one." Anyway Kevin did hide his involvement with digg early on (he was a Comcast employee).
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- sant0sk1 17y agoWow, I had never seen this previously. Kinda shady, ehh?
- ojbyrne 17y agoIt would actually be an interesting interview if someone asked Kevin about shadiness. I note quite a bit of spin in Kevin's bio at the bottom of the article. Digg's inception keeps going further and further back in time, for starters.
- colinplamondon 17y agoIs it really necessary to comment on every single individual mention of Digg so negatively? Apparently you got screwed pretty bad by them, but your posts don't come across as "being in the know", they come across as bitter.
- ojbyrne 17y agoI'm not always negative about digg, and I'm often negative about other aspects of the "new journalism". Mostly because my experience with it is that it's nearly all bullshit, and that disappoints me.
- vaksel 17y agowouldn't you think, that as a "celebrity" he'd want people to know it's his site.
- ojbyrne 17y agoI'd criticize, just on principle, but this is just too vapid to bother with.
- zacharypinter 17y agoIt's always interesting when people with special circumstances try to distill their situation into general principles. There's usually far too many variables to take their advice at face value, but occasionally you find useful tidbits.
- jbr 17y agoThere's a fine line here; how does one know whether their situation is special or if what worked for them is applicable to others? As you say, overzealous generalization yields bad advice, but it's easier for consumers of advice (us) to filter than to generate. I'd rather read 100 founder stories and conclude that 95 of those weren't applicable to me than to lose the five that were. The greater worry, in my mind, is that people like to avoid the "I would have done X differently" or "I found that assumption Y was inapplicable/inaccurate," which are super-valuable advice types.
- stse 17y agoIt's always hard to give general advise, you want to leverage your background, position and what you know. 'random' with Tim Ferris and Kevin Rose is nice also. http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/category/interviews/ http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/category/interviews/