Comments on: Blellow: Like Yammer meets LinkedIn Meets Twitter In A Way That Makes Sense

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:53:32 +0000

Thanks for the mention.

By: Col

Col — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:26:22 +0000

Good app, awful name!

By: Just Business? | b r a n t s

Just Business? | b r a n t s — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:00:11 +0000

[...] if all this wasn’t enough, we now have a new player – Blellow. TC called it a Yammer meets LinkedIn meets Twitter entity. Blellow describes itself as a productivity microblog, that allows users to collaborate, [...]

By: Chicago Public Radio Blog » Wish I was in Austin: Sunday @ SXSW Interactive | News and Notes from WBEZ

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:57:51 +0000

[...] debuted their product at SXSW that asks “what are you working on?” – Tech Crunch stopped by to check out the service and as a result 200 new signups in a couple of [...]

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:40:18 +0000

Why didn’t they build it on top of Twitter? They’d have a built in audience and now with oAuth there’s fewer security problems…

No one wants another account and they are going to have to build an audience all by themselves. Strategic error.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:01:44 +0000

one thing: Twhirl support? would be good to get that up and running Don’t know how open Loic is for fresh startups though…

By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:00:33 +0000

Nice video and idea. Like the execution, too.

To the name: It would be difficult in Germany. Germany has one of the biggest user bases of twitter behind the US (of course). This shows that other countries can be relevant and a few thoughts should be put into the name. It wouldn’t work out in Chinese either.

the “ow” sound can not be found in many languages, making it difficult for internationalisation / localisation.

Thumbs up but put some more time and maybe some wine into that name!

By: Pasquale

Pasquale — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:22:55 +0000

YOUR* (I can’t let spelling nazis complain).

By: Pasquale

Pasquale — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:22:11 +0000

Well if he is 11, you better watch you ass when he is an INFORMED 80 year old whining grandpa like you are.

Go take your pills.

By: i Virtual Professionals

i Virtual Professionals — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:55:36 +0000

This will work well for our Virtual Professionals. Going to get everything set up now!!!

@iVirtualProfs

By: Marketing Samurai

Marketing Samurai — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:13:27 +0000

Very cool site, I haven’t seen it before. I try to keep up with the many social and business networking sites but it’s difficult.

Thanks for sharing!

-AS

By: Kosso

Kosso — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:43:09 +0000

blellow : great idea – terrible name.

This blog really needs a different commenting system to help bury all the crap which seems to appear here on a regular basis.

By: Paul Lopez

Paul Lopez — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:47:01 +0000

Prediction, this platform is gone in 6 months. Who needs it? We already have Yammer in corporate but won’t have to pay until we get 100 users. Other people use Twitter but we cannot share confidential information. How many of these do we need?

By: Candice @ Bidmycleaning

Candice @ Bidmycleaning — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:34:20 +0000

really nice web tool. Great UI. Terrible name. Let me add my voice to the chorus saying change the name.

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Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:18:49 +0000

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By: Brian Reavis

Brian Reavis — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:35:37 +0000

@Matt: No shit we have Freedom of Speech in our country. Where and when did I say that we didn’t? Travis is the one pulling the “Free speech” card out of his ass. Why don’t you take it up with him? My comments on the matter were only stating that the free speech bit had no relation to this argument. I see you get the whole “free speech” concept, but how about the other end of that? Interpreting speech?

Look, I really don’t care if you gang up on me for telling people to knock off the spamming about spamming. Go for it. But if you are, at least come up with a worthy argument. Your comments having a level of intellect put into them equal to that of a YouTube comment is getting a tad old.

By: Alexandar Tzanov

Alexandar Tzanov — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:09:08 +0000

I agree the character limitations might be in issue with Blellow, but the tweet threading helps in that case.

By: Keith McCarty

Keith McCarty — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:58:58 +0000

Thanks for the mention.

Though, the Yammer link in this article links to “yammer.om” instead of “yammer.com”. Please fix so people don’t think the site is down.

Thank you,

Keith
The Yammer Team

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:46:38 +0000

My take based on the info in this article is that blellow = twitter meets elance. So these people twit to promote their knowledge in a particular field … in hopes of landing a job? It’s a big universe out there so I guess there is room for something like this but it doesn’t grab me. A response in most settings and fields needs to be more than 255 characters to demonstrate command of topics such as law, computer programing, etc.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:45:44 +0000

It’s hard enough to be successful in one country let alone multiple. And anyone who’s tried to register a domain name knows how difficult it is to come up with a name that isn’t taken. So I wouldn’t worry too much about your name. I think its fine…

If you guys grow to be so successful that you have to worry about people misspelling your name in your international markets, then you have a pretty good problem on your hands. I’d take that problem any day of the week. 

-steve

By: Brian Reavis

Brian Reavis — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:35:13 +0000

@Travis:
“‘Freedom of Speech’ in our country…”
Uh, what??? Since when is the Internet limited to “our” country? What does this have to do with anything? Hell, the Internet wasn’t even invented in the US.

You’re whining about me stating that people are being like idiots. Now you are complaining about me being like an idiot. This is quite the tizzy you’re having… What is your problem? You’re just contradicting yourself.

By: Pasquale

Pasquale — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:21:22 +0000

@travis
So if you don’t need reminding, why are you whining like someone jammed your own dick up your ass?

I’m pretty sure that makes you the loser.

QED.

By: Brian Reavis

Brian Reavis — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:14:30 +0000

@Travis McManus: I really do find it interesting how that’s the first thing you think of with “Master Fidgeter.” You were telling me to crawl back to my basement? Perhaps you should crawl OUT of YOUR basement?

By: Pasquale

Pasquale — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:11:54 +0000

@Travis McManus
He was just stating his opinion. Please refrain from using the internet you ugly git. (OH shit, was that a bit too rough for you?)