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‘This.’ Has People Clamoring for an Invite
- mkr-hn 12y ago4500 journalists with a deadline and too little to write about is hardly a clamor.
- bramgg 12y agoThis.
- quintee 12y agoSo it's a service where someone tells you what to read to be socially accepted. If I were running an app like this, I would totally seed it with fake users "thising" paid-for content behind the scenes, I would artificially introduce invite scarcity so people don't collectively figure out what I'm doing, and I would plant PR articles like this to generate hype and muddy the waters -- if you've been in this industry for long enough you'll know "clamoring for an invite" is code for "this article indirectly paid for by This". Christ, it's like these businesses are moving to a braindead consumer singularity where you pay to have someone tell you the optimal thing to buy to increase today's thumbsups. Perhaps the premium version can be they take your credit card and buy it for you while you sit on your couch and watch the number go up.
- stickhandle 12y agothe premise has merit ... but i already get it from Dave Pell at http://nextdraft.com/ http://nextdraft.com/
- fsk 12y agoIt isn't about having a great product anymore. It's about creating hype.
- sgdesign 12y agoI'm trying it out. As you might expect, it's very focused on US-centric journalism and news. Which might be great for some people, but until they add more personalization features or just get a bigger community it's probably not very relevant to my own interests.
- frenchman_in_ny 12y agoPeople were clamoring for invites to http://ello.co http://ello.co about four months ago, then the hype died down. Is this. any different?
- Andrenid 12y ago> Is this. any different? Every time "this." is mentioned without quotes I'm going to automatically read it in Shatner's voice. I'm really sick of names with punctuation in them, or that use everyday words. It's not that hard to come up with an original name.
- joezydeco 12y agoHow about just springing the $5 for Metafilter? They can post a link, but just one a day; they can follow other people on the network; they can click on the links posted by members they follow (no limit); and they can click “Thanks” to endorse a link they particularly enjoyed. Yup. Metafilter. Except they let you post as much as you like.
- nzealand 12y agoWell damn, now I want an invite.
- nijiko 12y agoyou mean twitter?
- sparkzilla 12y agoI wonder how much the NYT/PR agency/journalist was paid for this fluff piece? 4500 users? Next someone will create an app that just says "Yo!" or a social network that has no ads...
- SalimoS 12y agonot sure if it's sarcasm :D because "yo!"[0] and social network that has no ads[1] 0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_%28app%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_%28app%29 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ello_%28social_network%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ello_%28social_network%29
- heifetz 12y agosometimes its beneficial to cut through all the noise on the net. My only question is, why hasn't anyone else thought about this?
- TheBeardKing 12y agoDid you forget your /s tag?
- austinstorm 12y agoSeems fun, maybe. One of the big problems with my Facebook is the decreasing signal to noise ratio.