Comments on: Highly visible Web 2.0 heads of state http://nastynets.com/?p=349 internet surfing club Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:34:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: britta http://nastynets.com/?p=349&cpage=1#comment-506 britta Wed, 27 Dec 2006 01:18:15 +0000 http://nastynets.com/?p=349#comment-506 joshua...the anti-tom! facebook does it ok, with zuckerberg being the guy whose name is at the bottom of every page and "writes" a note on the news feed when something important happens, but isn't your "friend". and there are the heads of metafilter and something awful, who are visible participators and moderators. etc. so the human face/figurehead/leader of a website is important. but we knew about this already, especially looking at giant corporations (jobs, page and brin, etc). people like a representative person, even if it doesn't really make sense (see: tom anderson, political heads of state). so does any acquire-worthy website need a personality?!?! i am still available as a figurehead, limited time only. joshua…the anti-tom!

facebook does it ok, with zuckerberg being the guy whose name is at the bottom of every page and “writes” a note on the news feed when something important happens, but isn’t your “friend”. and there are the heads of metafilter and something awful, who are visible participators and moderators. etc.

so the human face/figurehead/leader of a website is important. but we knew about this already, especially looking at giant corporations (jobs, page and brin, etc). people like a representative person, even if it doesn’t really make sense (see: tom anderson, political heads of state).

so does any acquire-worthy website need a personality?!?! i am still available as a figurehead, limited time only.

]]> By: guthrie http://nastynets.com/?p=349&cpage=1#comment-504 guthrie Tue, 26 Dec 2006 19:08:37 +0000 http://nastynets.com/?p=349#comment-504 Tom is kind of Big Brothery and wierd, sending out bulletins to the entire Myspace universe about friends' lost pets, or when something breaks, there's always a personal message from Tom.. yet you know that Tom is not really doing all of this.. perhaps some of it? and Joshua's bookmarks are actually often very good :) Tom is kind of Big Brothery and wierd, sending out bulletins to the entire Myspace universe about friends’ lost pets, or when something breaks, there’s always a personal message from Tom.. yet you know that Tom is not really doing all of this.. perhaps some of it?

and Joshua’s bookmarks are actually often very good :)

]]> By: britta http://nastynets.com/?p=349&cpage=1#comment-502 britta Tue, 26 Dec 2006 11:49:22 +0000 http://nastynets.com/?p=349#comment-502 tom is a design decision, but joshua's bookmarks are real, and caterina & stewart's photos seem real too. they got paid for being leaders of new-ish ideas implemented well, and for the communities that they successfully gardened... i don't know enough about max or jakob to talk about them. :) tom is a design decision, but joshua’s bookmarks are real, and caterina & stewart’s photos seem real too. they got paid for being leaders of new-ish ideas implemented well, and for the communities that they successfully gardened… i don’t know enough about max or jakob to talk about them. :)

]]> By: tom moody http://nastynets.com/?p=349&cpage=1#comment-478 tom moody Sat, 23 Dec 2006 13:54:47 +0000 http://nastynets.com/?p=349#comment-478 nasty nets! nasty nets!

]]> By: guthrie http://nastynets.com/?p=349&cpage=1#comment-454 guthrie Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:33:23 +0000 http://nastynets.com/?p=349#comment-454 haha, say what lowcast? it's funny that you can be tom's friend on myspace or subscribe to joshua's bookmarks.. its like a feeling of connection to the authority. but its not real... or there's the argument that these are the people who got paid for what their communities built. wish i came up with a good web 2.0 idea. how about an animated-gif-only flickr haha, say what lowcast?

it’s funny that you can be tom’s friend on myspace or subscribe to joshua’s bookmarks.. its like a feeling of connection to the authority. but its not real…

or there’s the argument that these are the people who got paid for what their communities built. wish i came up with a good web 2.0 idea. how about an animated-gif-only flickr

]]> By: lowcast http://nastynets.com/?p=349&cpage=1#comment-453 lowcast Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:22:26 +0000 http://nastynets.com/?p=349#comment-453 you looking for cash eh?!? you looking for cash eh?!?

]]> By: pupsintrouble http://nastynets.com/?p=349&cpage=1#comment-443 pupsintrouble Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:26:35 +0000 http://nastynets.com/?p=349#comment-443 big ups to those who never made it big but are still in our hearts...a.k.a <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/user:jakob" rel="nofollow">Jakob from Vimeo</a> and <a href=''http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales' rel="nofollow">Jimmy from Wikipedia</a>. big ups to those who never made it big but are still in our hearts…a.k.a
Jakob from Vimeo and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales‘ rel=”nofollow”>Jimmy from Wikipedia.

]]> By: britta http://nastynets.com/?p=349&cpage=1#comment-438 britta Tue, 19 Dec 2006 07:00:46 +0000 http://nastynets.com/?p=349#comment-438 also http://www.flickr.com/photos/stewart/ & http://www.flickr.com/photos/caterina/ ? also http://www.flickr.com/photos/stewart/ & http://www.flickr.com/photos/caterina/ ?

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