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I'll take the contrarian stance and say I'm not really impressed with the list. There are some that may be good, but there's not much new. Mostly me too products. Perhaps my expectations are too high.
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The rest are very under promising.
I'll take the contrarian stance and say I'm not really impressed with the list. There are some that may be good, but there's not much new. Mostly me too products. Perhaps my expectations are too high.
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One example: "Our goal is to do what Gmail did to Outlook: replace a popular desktop application with a better online version." is badly begging the question. I'd be surprised if gmail + Google calendar had more active users than Outlook.
There have definitely been more people who've chosen to use GMail and GCal than have chosen to use Outlook. Most Outlook users have it forced on them by their employers. (They don't necessarily object, but they weren't given a choice.) If you include Outlook Express, then you have to consider that it had the same tying advantages that IE had over other browsers. Even so, it's been months since I ran across someone wh…
Outlook is pretty much the de facto mail client amongst my clients, even those that aren't in business environments. My largest business client is email-program-agnostic, and still the vast majority of users are asking for Outlook.
Among webmail users, most usage is either Comcast's site, Yahoo's (a result of the SBC partnership), or their internet service provider's.
Actually, I think this might help put it in perspective: more of my clients have email addresses at their own domain versus having Gmail accounts.
Sounds like MFA spam. So much for make something that people want.
There are a few gems in there that I'd like to see more of (etacts for instance), but overall I'm dismayed by the sheer volume of SV navel-gazing produced twitter junk. I'd love to see more ideas around PG's list of things he'd like to fund being presented instead of yet another "social collaboration because what else is there?" startup.
Yes, indeed. Spot the buzzword: We make social games. a social data request and fulfillment system adding social data leveraging social media identify active social networkers Infoharmoni visualizes the real-time social web social sports (and soon pop culture) betting applications
We make social games. We launch faster, iterate faster, and use metrics better.
"Use metrics better"? I guess that one wasn't crafted with consumers in mind.
I'll take the contrarian stance and say I'm not really impressed with the list. There are some that may be good, but there's not much new. Mostly me too products. Perhaps my expectations are too high.
These companies need time to develop/morph/mature before anyone will have any real clue as to their prospects for innovation or success.
A VC was being told about a new web startup in the 1990's. The startup involved people putting their goods up for sale, where people would bid for them, then exchange the goods and money.
The VC said "People who've never seen each other, sending goods and money to one another, sight unseen? That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard!".
The startup was obviously eBay, and I keep that story in mind every time I hear someone's business idea that I think is less than brilliant. After all, what do I know?
(I read that anecdote somewhere, but have lost the URL - if anyone knows it, I'd love to have a reference)
I'll take the contrarian stance and say I'm not really impressed with the list. There are some that may be good, but there's not much new. Mostly me too products. Perhaps my expectations are too high.
if it helps, farmville was a near duplicate rip-off of farm town, and it's now one of the most successful facebook apps. you don't always need to have 100% unique ideas. zynga spent more money advertising, and is now profitable with something like 100+ million players.