Now, I’m not saying that micro-blogging is going to be the next best thing for companies, but I do think that someone will find a useful product using it and then sell it to the business market.

If you break it down, ask yourself, what IS micro-blogging? Ignore the SMS for a minute.

You type a message, other people see it. People that “follow” you or subscribe to you.

For the BUSINESS world, what else does that?

Hmm…I’m thinking email.

I can create a list of “Developers” and send an email to Developers and bam. Instant message delivered.

Between email and IM, it’s going to be very hard for micro-blogging to wedge itself in. It will probably happen somehow….but we shall see.

Anyway, just my opinion…

It’s like flipping real-estate, except he’s very bad and obnoxious like a used car salesman. It wouldn’t surprise me the least if that was his former profession.

I presume he’s hoping ONE of his many sites gets an offer for ~six-figures, which then makes it worth it in his eyes. The risk is rather minimal as even a modest PR can be flipped for a few grand to low 5’s, purchased my link farm hosses to add to their array of polluted nonsense.

Bant!

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You have several players in this already nitch market, and as already posted it won’t be long till salesforce or the likes release something similar all but taking over this nitch market.

1. Is this you (http://www.xtremelocator.com/) if so this is good, and can see the use for it.?

2. What exactly does your service do? I mean I watched your video declaring you “king of location” but I can’t locate anything on your site, so what does your site currently provide, and what does it hope to provide?

3. I thought it was used to locate things, so say I wanted to find bibles I would go to bibleslocator.com, if I wanted prostitutes I would go to prostitutelocator.com, watches go to watcheslocator.com? Yet when I go to watcheslocator.com I don’t get presented with watches I get NOTHING, ohh I have to go to watchlocator.com, but I don’t get watches their either, no I get http://professi...cator.ning.com/ that shows me videos of “votelocator.com” not exactly what I wanted is it? So I see other locators to the left side, nope watches not there either, let’s try clicking on all 78 (how does 1200 domains translate to only 78 of the locators?), wait it’s not their either… hmmm I guess I can’t locate watches in the new and improved way to search for things???? That sucks, can I go back to the old way of search?

4. Explain to me how a directory listing of all content is better than the current search? I mean currently I go to the search engine of my choice, there is a box I type in what I want, and they display sites that match my search (takes all of 5 seconds). Your I type in almostanythinglocator.com and I am redirected to a main page then I have to find the category I want, then have to dig through the stuff (and what determines the display order) to find a site or content (this takes allot longer), and has been done, yahoo dir, dmoz, and many others, this same principle is on all classifieds, ebay, and any other listing service (yet because this method sucks, they all have what…. A search box).

5. Your own site has a search box, so I am supposed to abandon current search methods, to come to your site and use the current search method to find the correct group so I can then use the “new search method”?

6. How are you profitable? 1200+ domains cost you a minimum of 12,000 a year for reg alone, not including man hours, hosting, paying ning to remove the ads, so how are you making money from all your time?

7. Why did you go with xxxLocator.com incurring a 10 yearly fee for each one, running the risk of someone owning one you want, when you could have done subdomains? X.mylocator.com, x2.mylocator.com and so on?

8. I want to find information on the latest Chevy prototype, explain to me step by step how I find that using your locator? Or I want to find out about Levis how step by step can I do that using your service? I couldn’t figure it out on my own. (maybe I’m stupid, or maybe your service needs allot of work?)

DomainLocator: I’m not sure how present.ly pushes the confusion to a new level? It seems pretty simple to me.

Note: Present.ly also allows you to delete updates after they’ve been posted; allows updates through IM, email, SMS (and media through MMS!); already has a full API that is twitter compatible so you can use existing Twitter applications, and provides other functionality like groups to make further sense of your company communication.

Can anyone confirm or deny this?

TechCrunch, let’s reduce the noise and focus on products that make a difference; particularly in this troubled economy.

-Dash
http://adecon101.blogspot.com/

http://gatesand...s.blogspot.com/

PresentLocator.com

Why does your puffyfaced boss–Michelle Arrington–take all of her pictures posing sideways? Is it to make the public believe she isn’t fat?

If so, it aint working. Eat a salad, Arrington.