Comments on: Treemo Becomes Mobile Media Distribution Platform with Widgets, Facebook Application

By: Petenice

Petenice — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:49:44 +0000

I’m a treemo user and I think it’s sweet. The functionality is as robust or better than other social networking sites, and where the “tree” shines is in the community of users. There’s genuinely good, creative and interested people there. Treemo is unique because there’s a robust urban community hanging out and some of us are sexy as hell.

When ya’ll haterz talk smack I suspect it’s thinly veiled jealousy cuz the tree is fat and living large.

By: Kirill

Kirill — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:42:31 +0000

I used to work with Jeff Yee from Treemo when I was with a russian mobile media producing and licensing company… And I’m really glad for him that he did it to TC

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:05:41 +0000

More criteria: Lying about why your site is down.

Current message on treemo.com: “We are performing some scheduled maintenance on the site.” If this is schedule maintenance, I’ll buy the entire Treemo team a few rounds of drinks.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:32:43 +0000

Another criteria for “the worst website ever” is not being able to stay online… Treemo wins again!

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:51:36 +0000

@Josh, I’ll back them up.

Treemo’s content is, to be kind, smut. Pure, disgusting smut. The UI is horrible compared to other sites. Parts are only half there and it’s slow to load regardless of connection speed. I can’t imagine how dial-up users feel. The entire site is buggy (the first time I went there, I was shown bangcitymusic as the featured channel but the channel player said there was no content). Localizations are only half there and even the chinese site (which, incorrectly says “Treemo” in some places instead of “3GDODO”) which is supposed to be more “premier” than others doesn’t translate common, front page strings like, oh “Featured Channel” and, uh, “New”. Speaking of 3GDODO, what’s with that? Why is the site called “Treemo” but 3GDODO listed everywhere? And speaking of localizations, I don’t speak Chinese, but Spanish and German are horrible. Maybe hire better translators?

It really all comes back to smut though. Smut and a shitty mobile site.

You argue: “Smut is the mobile market though,” right? Then why the hell did this relaunch not include a better looking mobile site? What was the team working on? If this really is a “mobile social media” site, wouldn’t it care more about its mobile site? Redesigning the website doesn’t help content and doesn’t help mobile users. Flickr, Facebook, Google sites, etc have much better mobile sites and it’s most definitely not hard to fix.

And since I said the big “F” word, let me ask: Why is there a Facebook app? Looking through the users, I can’t imagine many of their users even know what Facebook is. How about focusing on your audience, the Cricket mobilers and AT&T fools who use cheap handsets? If you want to get fancy, how about designing the site for a product even your dumb users (which, granted, is probably 80% of the site) have heard of like, say, the iPhone?

That’s why this could be classified as “the worst website ever”. Not my words, but something I’m starting to agree with.

(Aside: Crunchbase should update the “Overview” of this company as they seem to have changed paths quite a bit since “[differentiating] itself with revenue sharing and a socially responsible twist”. I don’t see revenue sharing and there’s definitely not a socially responsible twist. Looking at the screenshot on Crunchbase, there used to be a “Get Involved” tab, which has been relegated to the footer now. Change of heart, eh?)

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:08:21 +0000

@Jackie, can you backup your claims for it being “the worst website ever”? You may have tried the site in the past but I think the whole point of the article was to review the new features they just rolled out like the channel player, facebook app and an API that powers a site in China and soon powering a citizen journalism site. Do you really know much about the up and coming mobile market? It’s a different game than the web you talk about that has “982034792347289347 better sites”.

By: Ballmer

Ballmer — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:17:51 +0000

Smart guys at tremo, I admire these people!
fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

By: William Tan

William Tan — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:54:18 +0000

The link for Kyte should be http://kyte.tv in the text, right?

By: The Fake Angela Hayden

The Fake Angela Hayden — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:29:48 +0000

Treemo? More like EXTREEEEMO!

Sincerely,
The Fake Angela Hayden
Lowercase Commenting Goddess

By: EH

EH — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:25:10 +0000

Hey now, those “summer MBA” students gotta stick together, bad site or no. You don’t like it? Don’t use the web!

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:15:23 +0000

Jackie said it right! This site suckssssssssssss.

Mark, I can’t believe you gave them even a semi-positive review. Did you even look at the site or the content on it? Where’s Arrington’s review?

By: Small Business Marketing

Small Business Marketing — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:11:04 +0000

What I really would like to see, is the ability to upload my messages, my
directory and my calendar so that in case I lose my phone, or want to change vendors, I can just go to the site and upload the stuff I store there.

By: Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:03:47 +0000

This is like the worst website ever. I used these guys a while back and omg their site is the worst. Why are you guys covering this type of site? Theres like 982034792347289347 better sites online

By: Chris R.

Chris R. — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:40:36 +0000

who pushed this post back to the top?