Comments on: A Second Look at Inform.com

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By: TechCrunch » Inform.com Re-Launches with Major Feature Changes

TechCrunch » Inform.com Re-Launches with Major Feature Changes — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 08:46:40 +0000

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CrunchNotes » A Talk with Steve Gillmor and Mike Vizard — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 03:46:24 +0000

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By: Pete Cashmore

Pete Cashmore — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:53:26 +0000

According to your original post, Inform has 55 employees. 55! What do they all do? I appreciate that you’ve toned it down a bit, but I actually think your first post was closer to the mark.

By: larry

larry — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:15:47 +0000

You were spot on with your first post. Inform elicits not much more than a big HUH? Great PR does not equal a great product. I appreciate and empathize that this is a Beta release (hopefully more like Alpha, for their sake!), but it doesn’t work well and the point of the whole thing eludes me too.

Should it really take a few emails and a phone call to explain what your product does? Will they offer this same handholding to all users?

I’m surprised you backed down so much from your initial impressions.

By: Jeff Rogers

Jeff Rogers — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:07:51 +0000

When a company feels the need to write a blog site to respond to criticism, that is proof you are dealing with a mainstream media paradigm shift!

This is further proof that mainstream media is losing it luster to bloggers as the authority gatekeeper of news/topics….blogs are a wonderful thing!

By: karen lee

karen lee — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 03:17:51 +0000

Their tagging is excellent. If they are tagging those names automatically then that alone is better than anything anyone else is doing at least with middle eastern terms.