From /SABackchan: #crunchpadfail, Evil Mashable, and Sponsored Conversations
The last few days, due to the holidays, we’ve been posting light on the main blog. This has lead to somewhat of a vacuum in our addiction to blogging, so naturally we’ve been satisfying our urge to blog by hanging out over on the /SAbackchan.
Here’s some of our topics of conversation. The threads are all still live – feel free to join in.
Yahoo Exec Changes
“Some solid reporting from Kara Swisher on changes at Yahoo. The story is worth reading if you’re into what Yahoo is doing. Yahoo has content and audience but no mobile and search. My open question is where is the growth strategy? Yahoo can only “milk that content & audience cow for so long” before it implodes or gets cannibalized by competitors or new startups.”
RIP Crunchpad – Lessons Learned from Mike Arrington’s CrunchPad Fail
John goes through the news of the death of the Crunchpad, and some lessons to be learned by entrepreneurs.
“What really happened? At the end of the day we really don’t know what happened. Maybe Mike’s partner figured it would cost them to much money with no real upside, maybe their was conflict over IP rights, maybe they think that the product has no chance in succeeding, or maybe they just don’t like Mike.”
Is Mashable Evil? If Twitter Ads Are Evil, Then Yes…
Pete Cashmore posted this weekend on how Twitter ads were evil, an editorial switch in position from my days there as Associate Editor. Of course, if you’re going to come out against Twitter ads, you probably shouldn’t engage in Twitter advertisement…
“Once a month (or maybe once a week – I don’t really keep track other than to say I notice it periodically), Mashable runs a thank you to it’s sponsors (Tamar Weinberg writes them). Here’s the latest example. They get re-tweeted out just like other stories, making it Twitter-based advertising (the last one got 135 social media reactions). So, is Mashable evil, or just wanting an uncrowded market when it comes to grabbing those ad dollars?”
Rackspace Vs. Amazon.
A good study came out over the weekend going into great detail on the differences in price and performance between Amazon and Rackspace. Worth a read.
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