Comments on: Best growing newish services of 2008 (is Louis Gray right?)

By: jonathan rose

jonathan rose — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:09:37 +0000

Twitter has managed to achieve the media hype critical mass where it is mentioned everywhere and becomes a common word in everyday venacular

By: jerryclatham28

jerryclatham28 — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:45:06 +0000

I see Louis Gray has posted a list of his 10 top new web services for 2008. I thought the list was missing a few of the best new services. So, I did two comparisons:I asked Twitter for what services they liked the best that were new. I compared all of Louis’ top services on Compete.com to my favorite new service, FriendFeed, to see how they measured up in traffic.First, www.chase.com let’s compare in Compete. I included TechMeme in the charts as a baseline since that news service continues to be popular.

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By: Robert Scoble

Robert Scoble — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:16:15 +0000

Hal:

good points. Of those on the list, the ones I like and use often are here:

1. FriendFeed.
4. TweetDeck.
5. Disqus.
7. Qik.
8. Evernote.
9. TripIt.

So, six out of 11. But I think the other four are good, too, and will start using them. One thing I’ve learned about watching crowds of early adopters. They usually are right.

By: Hal O'Brien

Hal O'Brien — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:27:32 +0000

“I asked Twitter for what services they liked the best that were new.”

And then in your analysis, you say absolutely nothing about which services are “the best” or even (with the exception of FriendFeed) you like… No, you just constantly harp on, Did they grow quickly?

Those are two entirely different questions. So much so, it’s almost a bait and switch.

The post could probably have made sense if you’d gone on to say, “Look at all these services that people like and admire — and aren’t growing. Shows yet again how quality isn’t the main driver in this business!” But, no, there’s not even that much self-awareness.

There’s all this comparison to Louis Gray when there’s no indication the respondents know or care who Louis Gray is, and — again — has nothing to do with the question as asked.

I’m not saying there may be interest in the points you raise. But the way you’ve presented them, it’s almost like you lose interest in the answer to any given question before you even finish asking it and then move on, when the people who answered the question you asked in the first place have no idea you’re already bored with the question they answered — and you’re now using their answers in a context they had no way of knowing would exist by the time you posted them.