http://www.socialtwister.com/2006/11/28/the-rss-acquisition-marketplace/ Confessions of a Social Tools Architect Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:30:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 http://www.socialtwister.com/2006/11/28/the-rss-acquisition-marketplace/#comment-24360 Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:37:52 +0000 http://www.socialtwister.com/2006/11/28/the-rss-acquisition-marketplace/#comment-24360 Conversions are king, Gabe. All the other stuff is fluff. Base it on conversions and you'll see big adoption. Conversions are king, Gabe. All the other stuff is fluff. Base it on conversions and you’ll see big adoption.

]]> http://www.socialtwister.com/2006/11/28/the-rss-acquisition-marketplace/#comment-24281 Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:07:49 +0000 http://www.socialtwister.com/2006/11/28/the-rss-acquisition-marketplace/#comment-24281 There might yet be a market for something akin to that. But I'd point out that in at least two ways, Techmeme offers additional value not measured by such benchmarks: 1. A much higher probability that good posts can snowball, go viral, or reverberate across blogs and news articles 2. Lots of influential people reading and internalizing your headlines even when they don't click. So it's probably counterproductive for me to emphasize only direct conversions. There might yet be a market for something akin to that. But I’d point out that in at least two ways, Techmeme offers additional value not measured by such benchmarks: 1. A much higher probability that good posts can snowball, go viral, or reverberate across blogs and news articles 2. Lots of influential people reading and internalizing your headlines even when they don’t click. So it’s probably counterproductive for me to emphasize only direct conversions.

]]> http://www.socialtwister.com/2006/11/28/the-rss-acquisition-marketplace/#comment-24279 Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:57:34 +0000 http://www.socialtwister.com/2006/11/28/the-rss-acquisition-marketplace/#comment-24279 [...] Socialtwister 2.0 - The RSS Acquisition Marketplace [...] […] Socialtwister 2.0 - The RSS Acquisition Marketplace […]

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