Comments on: Tello – Good Product, Dumb Strategy?

By: مركز التحميل

مركز التحميل — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:22:13 +0000

overly rude comments in the future (I have not needed to do this in the past). But I think what has happened in the comments area to this post is really interesting and so I am going to leave it as it is.

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مركز التحميل — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:49:43 +0000

as it is.

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By: Goodbye, Tello

Goodbye, Tello — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:19:58 +0000

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By: Supr.c.ilio.us: The Blog » Killer App Killer

Supr.c.ilio.us: The Blog » Killer App Killer — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 22:59:34 +0000

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By: TechCrunch » TrustedID - This is Important

TechCrunch » TrustedID - This is Important — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 06:11:12 +0000

[...] UPDATE: 3/14/06 – The harshness of the comments below rivals what I saw on a post about Tello in January. I took a stab at refining my position on a comment below (link is here), and I hope that this help explain why I like this company so much. I apologize to anyone who thinks that this level of enthusiam for a company means that I am being paid to show it – that isn’t true for this post or any other. I also not that, as usual, the worst comments are anonymous. I continue to strongly recomment that people take a look at this service. I will certainly be using it to protect my identity. No Tags Categories: Company & Product Profiles | Bookmark this post with del.icio.us [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » Tello - bon produit, stratégie discutable?

TechCrunch en français » Tello - bon produit, stratégie discutable? — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 13:47:54 +0000

[...] mise à jour: Jamais Techcrunch n’a été autant attaqué dans ses commentaires [...]

By: steven streight aka vaspers the grate who says "blog yourself to death" for the blogosphere: pure martyr

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:25:00 +0000

“I generally like your blog, but shudder when you stray into pretentious rants like this. Please do criticize on the basis of the product but don’t whine because a company isn’t following your narrow script.”

As a decontructionist blogology specialist, I have to say that when a user posts a comment scolding a blogger about voicing his opinion, is this not the reader attempting to erect a Domination System and impose it on the blogger?

“Shame on you for being so exhibitionistic that you tell us your opinion, especially since it conflicts with my omniscient view.” is what the flamers are saying.

But who cares? because they are teenage boys with girl names who tell fart jokes and worship Harry Potter.

You are correct about pre-launch publicity: waste of time, betrays a chaos of intracorporate finagling.

By: met

met — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:22:46 +0000

There is a lot of ‘we’ here, especially among the supporters. I thought web2.0 was about thinning the lines between the ‘we’s

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Thu, 26 Jan 2006 04:08:19 +0000

[...] Now all I will (hopefully) have to worry about is fighting comment flames like poor Mike at TechCrunch. Filed under: Off-Topic Trackback URL: http://www.digi.../226/trackback/ Comments: No Comments so far Leave a comment RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI Leave a comment Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed:

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By: Sid Steward

Sid Steward — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 01:35:47 +0000

I wonder if these comment attacks are a form of linkbaiting? As other readers noted, they wouldn’t have known about Tello if they hadn’t been attracted to this story for its furor. It sounds strange, but so does making these attacks with the notion that it would change anybody’s opinion. Next logical explanation: college social experiment. Most logical explanation: a rotten prank … if you call that logic.

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By: Dave Hodson

Dave Hodson — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:21:27 +0000

I’m just reading this for the first time
What a freaking joke – all the people bashing Mike obviously have an agenda and don’t want him to call it as he sees it

Mike – fuck ‘em, you’re right

Dave

By: Digital Common Sense » Tello me no lies

Digital Common Sense » Tello me no lies — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:28:43 +0000

[...] Yesterday Michael Arrington at Techcrunch posted Tello has been all over the news since last night. It hasn’t launched yet, but the promise is to allow people within your company and at trusted other companies to see your “presence”. [...]

By: Sympathy for Arrington -- Alec Saunders .LOG

Sympathy for Arrington -- Alec Saunders .LOG — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:04:08 +0000

[...] I have a lot of sympathy for Michael Arrington. Yesterday he posted a relatively minor criticism of Tello’s launch. Tello didn’t court the blogosphere. Personally, I agree with his critique. Working with bloggers has been one of the most successful and lowest cost strategies which iotum has executed to date. The resulting conversation enhances our product, and builds awareness, not to mention building some good friendships along the way. So, Tello could have done itself some favours. From talking with people I know at Tello yesterday, it sounds as if it was just a mis-step — Tello’s a small company trying to execute a big strategy. Stuff happens, or in this case, didn’t happen. [...]

By: Vy Blog

Vy Blog — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:43:59 +0000

PR by playground shoving…

Holy cats, people, get ahold of yourselves. As of the time of this post, there are 91 comments on Mike Arrington’s review of Tello yesterday. Most of them are flat-out poison and probably a result of astroturfing, or the practice…

By: Andy Abramson

Andy Abramson — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:34:34 +0000

Forget the bashing, you’re right. We were overlooked in the VoIP blogging world.

It’s being corrected as I got to Jeff who led me to Doug and I think this is just opening night focus.

That said, what we should focus on is the lousy job the mainstream media did at really telling the story. That’s where the blogs come in. We go deeper and wider. We associate and explain better. If anything the story got undertold by only a few bloggers getting the story, and Om is more than a blogger which is why he gets the nod first.

Alec knew from being involed with Tello from other levels. He was very helpful in demystifying the story for me.

Now that I’ve talked with Doug Renert I’m more clear, and will write on Tello with an informed insight and opinion.

By: Frank N Stein

Frank N Stein — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:43:42 +0000

“that made me think”

We need more evidence that this actually occurred. The thinking, I mean.

By: Juan Lopez-Valcarcel

Juan Lopez-Valcarcel — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:25:45 +0000

Mike,

Keep up the good work!
Your honest opinion is what we look for when reading TechCrunch, and that is what makes it such a great blog.

Honest opinions is also what we expect from comments to your posts, not personal attacks.

Too bad you need to grow such a thick skin in this flaming environment, but that is life.

Cheering from the sides,
Juan

By: SM Guy

SM Guy — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:08:41 +0000

First of all, I want to say “Hah!” because was the first to call out the ones writing flames as not just random comments (in my opinion). It was the style of the writing and some other cues that made me think.

Second, Mike, this blog entry has to have some kind of historical significance. I mean, you had the photographer of the photos writing comments on your blog! That’s frigging amazing. And it’s clear (to me) you also had Tello PR people and/or employees posting anonymous flames. What a colossal PR blunder. Instead of engaging you with positive dialog (which I’m sure would elicit a positive response from you and your readers) they took the low road. They blundered with their first marketing endeavor and now it’s preserved on the Web forever. I’m sure they are incensed because they likely spent months planning it all out and one lone blogger and morons that read his blog, in their mind, tainted it. But it’s bigger than that–it’s not one lone blogger, it’s that they missed the boat on a new way of doing business.

And smart, successful people don’t like to think they’re clueless about anything. Hence, the terribel flames here.

By: Peer Pressure

Peer Pressure — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:18:46 +0000

Tello: Techsmooth or Techcrunchy?…

On Techcrunch, A-list blogger Michael Arrington posted a seemingly innocuous commentary on Tello, a high-profile foray into the instant messaging/presence space. While praising the underlying idea, he pointed out a few flaws in the way the launch has b…

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:22:01 +0000

Rich, Thanks. Yep, I know where these people are roughly. The key is that its just the same IPs over and over.

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:11:21 +0000

Mike, for the “couple of people who are leaving negative comments undermany different names (IP addresses are the same)”…
run the IP address through a tool like this:
http://www.loca...com.my/free.asp
That should at least give you a city. Sometimes you’ll get lucky and find the ISP listed is actually not an ISP but the actual company. Do let us know. My, this social web 2.0 thingy sure is entertaining.