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By: Dandelife’s Struggles Offer Lessons for Startups « ArticleSave

Dandelife’s Struggles Offer Lessons for Startups « ArticleSave — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:13:48 +0000

[...] their permission) in service of brand advertisers – to act as an advertorial farm-team of sorts. I reviewed the service on TechCrunch when it launched and said I thought that was creepy. The company even tried to trademark the term [...]

By: HACC :: computer tech :: Dandelife’s Struggles Offer Lessons for Startups

HACC :: computer tech :: Dandelife’s Struggles Offer Lessons for Startups — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:58:31 +0000

By: Sung’s Blog » Internet » Dandelife

Sung’s Blog » Internet » Dandelife — Sat, 17 May 2008 03:02:46 +0000

[...] business model. In contrast, Dandelife seems to have a very different business model, according to Techcrunch. The stories you create with your Dandelife account and timeline can be bidded on by corporations [...]

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Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:42:08 +0000

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By: Social Network Content as Basis for Relationship Marketing | Tokyo Marketing & Communication

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:14:00 +0000

[...] the TechCrunch blog, they mentioned a site called Dandelife “…Photos from Flickr and videos from YouTube, either yours or other public items, can be added …” [cited 23 Oct 2007], this site gives you an opportunity to add all your post, photos etc. to [...]

By: Preview of New Dandelife Streams Feature | lifestreamblog.com

Preview of New Dandelife Streams Feature | lifestreamblog.com — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 06:31:50 +0000

[...] Brand your life story with Dandelife – TechCrunch story on Dandelife [...]

By: Maun Tech » Blog Archive » Post Your Life Online and Brand It

Maun Tech » Blog Archive » Post Your Life Online and Brand It — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:33:57 +0000

[...] News Source: TechCrunch [...]

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By: The Miller Report Podcast » Blog Archive » The Miller Report - #076

The Miller Report Podcast » Blog Archive » The Miller Report - #076 — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:37:39 +0000

[...] Share your life… and not just some photos here or there. Assemble your biography and share it with anyone you want with Dandelife. Very interesting. [...]

By: The Miller Report Blog & Podcast » Blog Archive » The Miller Report - #076

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:16:56 +0000

[...] Share your life… and not just some photos here or there. Assemble your biography and share it with anyone you want with Dandelife. Very interesting. [...]

By: 12 frogs » Blog Archive » UGM, UGC, UCC.. is the web trying to cough up a hairball?

Tue, 18 Jul 2006 03:20:30 +0000

[...] As if this whole hairy mess of acronyms wasn’t enough, we’ll soon have Dandylife to contend with. Fitting, if you ask me, that the name is associated with a weed. At its core, it aims to turn my stories and your stories — if permission is granted, of course — into corporate branding moments. [...]

By: Dandelife: Putting it all together at fnerd.com

Dandelife: Putting it all together at fnerd.com — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:27:19 +0000

[...] An interesting new site called dandelife.com has entered public beta. Techcrunch gave it a cautionary writeup based on the fact that “[U]sers will be able to make their stories available for branding by corporate sponsors bidding for content.” Feh. That kind of thing has never bothered me. When I was a kid I worked for McDs and they made you sign a waiver agreeing to the use of your image in any promotional campaigns. I figured if somebody thought my image or my story was worth anything, they can buy it. Hell, I’d even stick it under Creative Commons if they wanted. I did like this one comment from the crunchies: “Finally, the chance to see my life story made into a Preparation H case study!” [...]

By: bubble 2.0

bubble 2.0 — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 07:22:24 +0000

I see clear signs of bubble 2.0.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 19:16:52 +0000

It is really interesting to see where this goes !

By: other

other — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 10:53:54 +0000

Michael,

I’ve got an excellent update for you…

on their About page, dandelife says they trademarked “lifecast”, in this dangerously stupid question/answer combo (DIRECT QUOTE):

“P.S. WTF if “Lifecasting” and why does it have a TM next to it?

Lifecasting is a term we coined. You can read more about it over at wikipedia. Follow this link: http://en.wikip...g/wiki/Lifecast”

Of course, barring the stupidity and the spelling error, everything’s fine, right? WRONG – initially, their wikipedia entry did have some info about their “trademarked” term, lifecast, however, after a firefox shutdown-refresh-all-tabs, I noticed that I had a very weird wikipedia site in one of my 100+ tabs – “lifecast”, **please** go check out the entry now. simply HILARIOUS that it’s not quite what dandelife intended in to be. in fact, it clearly looks like dandelife completely deleted the original entry to put in their own blah. enjoy!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 23:51:31 +0000

Monetization issues aside, I have a hard time seeing this take off in a big way. There’s something rather unsettling about putting up memories, as if I was voluntarily allowing my privacy to be invaded and then shared with everyone. I participate extensively in social networking websites and routinely update my profiles but those are snapshots of who I am now. The “interestingness” of an individual on most social networks comes from their interests, goals, dreams, and daily events. On a site like Dandelife, “interestingness” almost becomes a function of volume of lifechanging events. A profile is no longer defined by what kind of person he/she is today but rather what events have happened to him/her. If you imagine a social network as a large conversation, reading about someone on myspace is like opening a conversation with “Hey, what type of music do you like?” while reading someone’s Dandelife bio is akin to “Hi, my dad died when I was 8 too.” Granted, it’s an extreme example but the idea of it is somewhat unsettling.

To the Dandelife devs, I think your social network is better served if it’s opt-in for public display. That is, if the default setting for a new account is that bios are hidden. Allow the user to build groups and/or grant access to others to view their bio. If you can protect the privacy of your users, I think that’d go a long ways towards establishing strong cred with your audience. You want your audience to build meaningful bios? You need to establish a level of trust so that they’re assured errant strangers can’t randomly poke into their private histories and marketers can’t identify them by name. Good luck, I think there’s a lot of potential.

By: Sharp Curves Ahead

Sharp Curves Ahead — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:09:36 +0000

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By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 20:15:16 +0000

I can see it now. This will be a great tool for lawyers trying to research opposing parties’ life histories/lifestyles/historical decision making in order to make hay in the courtroom. Believe me- it will happen. (No, I’m not a lawyer)

By: Ashish

Ashish — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:58:48 +0000

Ry, Google became evil long ago.

Their business model doesn’t so much bother me because if security or privacy issues (the site is, after all, opt-in), but mainly just strikes me as a weak attempt at a new business model for the sake of having one. They probably read the article on GigaOm a few weeks ago which had an idiotic suggestion about business models for social networks and thought it seemed like a good idea.

Also, not to be personal, but while they might be a “rockstar” team, they’re doing a lot of things that are frankly amateurish on the web development site. I’ll again note this – DO NOT STORE PASSWORDS IN PLAIN TEXT. Any engineer should know this.

By: Ry Walker

Ry Walker — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:46:31 +0000

“We respect users and have no intention of selling their content.”

I’m actually a little disappointed. I think context sensitive ads would make a lot of sense, if someone mentions “World of Warcraft” in their story, ads from gold farmers pop up, if they mention the “first time they had sex” ads from Planned Parenthood… Would be brilliant. A real-life Truman Show might be creepy, but would work.

Google, the famous “don’t be evil” company, sells ads based on your Gmail content. I don’t see how this idea is any more evil!

By: John

John — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:25:19 +0000

extremely lame. Another way to prostitute yourself to the advertising world.

By: rich

rich — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:08:18 +0000

If the company shares the revenues with the content creator, a new era of digital story tellers could actually earn some cash for their labor. It’s more about marketers choosing the appropriate editorial content they want to be associated with.

By: Geof Harries

Geof Harries — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:40:10 +0000

They need to hire a new copywriter.

Whoever thought that “3 dead…” was a good heading at the top of the introduction should themselves be shot dead.

That was one of the first elements that jumped out at me upon loading the homepage.

Dead is a powerful word, and in this case, it’s working against them.

By: Colin Donald

Colin Donald — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:03:20 +0000

Almost beyond satire – though Hugh Macleod seems to have anticipated it a month ago!

http://www.gapi...ves/002922.html