Comments on: Think Long Term: Act Now

By: NakedBiff

NakedBiff — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:17:10 +0000

Chris and Jason, you’re both hitting the nail on the head there.

Vera: I tend to try out anything new that I find. Stickiness comes only from activity in the social networking ball park…at the moment I spend more time on Facebook as there’s a lot of activity from people I know. A couple of weeks back there was a flourish on Pownce, but now I only seem to get a couple of messages a week, and so only go on every now and again.

There are always shifts, it’s whether or not the shift is to or from, or becomes a short-lived fad. For me personally, profiles are kind of similar to Jason’s travel network site – best left switched on.

You might also want to think about the fields you’re maintaining…can all your profile photos be maintained through a flickr widget, music through a last.fm widget etc?

By: Vera Devera

Vera Devera — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:14:28 +0000

I finally bought my own domain name: veradevera.com which is my full name. You’d think Vera Devera is unique, but there’s actually another one who is also filipina and lives in LA!

Back to social networking:
I know I read this somewhere in Business 2.0, but isn’t there a site that centralizes all your social networking into one? If not, how do you all decide which one to stick with? I’m getting overwhelmed trying to maintain all my profiles…

By: Andre Nosalsky

Andre Nosalsky — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 04:43:00 +0000

Jason, thanks commenting. It does help in having a unique last name in getting it registered. You mean your kids are not on facebook yet?

By: Jason Walker

Jason Walker — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:21:24 +0000

Interesting post, I’m in the same boat as Michael in thinking that now is the past, you cannot build for now as it’s already too late…

Chris, I think you can build for the long term, and should, yes you need a passion and with a passion you will build your own trend but yes may may fail ten times before you hit the right idea… Building for the now is fine BUT you have to market the hell out of it to make it visible and make it a hit, I’ve seen too many people build for now and expect an instant return and lose all interest if it doesn’t turn a profit on day one… One of the the best ones was a project I worked on for a travel focused social network site, they launched left it running for around six weeks, next to no one signed up although lots of people visited the site, called it a failure and turned it off. Less than two months later social networking was the biggest thing on the net… Lesson? If it’s not an instant success don’t stress leave it there and move on to the next project, NEVER turn it off…

The name domain name is also interesting, I missed my own name (Jason is a company name here in New Zealand) but I did grab both of my kids names, Josh & Jessie, now the question is when is suitable to give them to them and set up their blog etc etc… They are currently only 6 & 3 so their net use is currently playing games on Cartoon Network/Nick/Barbie etc

By: chris

chris — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:35:01 +0000

I actually think thinking long term will hurt you, in the long term, if you’re chasing things you are not passionate about, but are doing for the sake of catching a trend/fad. Do things you love first and foremost. Catching a trend while you do that won’t hurt. With passion, you will create your own trend.

By: Michael Sitarzewski

Michael Sitarzewski — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:40:18 +0000

Building metaskills… well put. This ties well to a conversation I had the other day with a colleague. I think that being able to think this way is a gift that not everyone possesses. A lot of people that were around in boom 1.0 (and prospered) have a hard time understanding the meaning of twitter or jaiku. Or of a Facebook, or LinkedIn. Or even simple things like RSS and podcasting. For them, keeping up with now is a challenge, I think of now as the past… the manifestation of what I saw coming.

Great post.