Comments on: Can you really buy a community? http://notronwest.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/can-you-really-buy-a-community/ Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:17:28 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: notronwest http://notronwest.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/can-you-really-buy-a-community/#comment-15459 notronwest Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:16:07 +0000 http://notronwest.wordpress.com/?p=180#comment-15459 Well maybe you are correct - there may just be enough people to keep sites like Flickr alive after an acquisition. Microsoft should stop focusing on keeping up with everyone else's ideas and start coming up with their own. Love them or hate them, Microsoft was the most innovative company in the 80's and early 90's. Sure the Macintosh introduced the mouse and the idea of "point and click". Microsoft invented Desktop publishing and has facilitated most of our Internet based communications. Only problem is that the desktop publishing software is moving to the web and Microsoft is way behind. They need to drop a bomb soon. Or they will be phased out - with or without Yahoo. Well maybe you are correct – there may just be enough people to keep sites like Flickr alive after an acquisition.

Microsoft should stop focusing on keeping up with everyone else’s ideas and start coming up with their own.

Love them or hate them, Microsoft was the most innovative company in the 80’s and early 90’s. Sure the Macintosh introduced the mouse and the idea of “point and click”. Microsoft invented Desktop publishing and has facilitated most of our Internet based communications.

Only problem is that the desktop publishing software is moving to the web and Microsoft is way behind. They need to drop a bomb soon. Or they will be phased out – with or without Yahoo.

]]> By: mikull http://notronwest.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/can-you-really-buy-a-community/#comment-15458 mikull Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:07:24 +0000 http://notronwest.wordpress.com/?p=180#comment-15458 Well, sort of. I won't disagree with any of your main points, but the Web 2.0 movement is based in interactive technology... the "house". Every community has a home on the web - so although you can't buy the community, you can buy the house. How you run that house will define who stays and who moves out. For example, I am slow adopter, and a skeptical member... but I embraced flickr long after it was purchased. On the other hand, the Adobe purchase of Macromedia turns me off a little - being a member of the web development community, it wasn't the brand... it was the house. People need to get over their own consumerism, and look around. Some people won't buy something unless it's got an Apple on it, others won't go near anything with a Microsoft label - but I suppose community can always lead to mob mentality - they don't call it the Apple cult for nothing. Rambling, so... on the web, maybe you can buy a "community"; at least initially. You can buy the house - but you better do what people want or better, or they're all going to leave. Well, sort of. I won’t disagree with any of your main points, but the Web 2.0 movement is based in interactive technology… the “house”. Every community has a home on the web – so although you can’t buy the community, you can buy the house. How you run that house will define who stays and who moves out.

For example, I am slow adopter, and a skeptical member… but I embraced flickr long after it was purchased. On the other hand, the Adobe purchase of Macromedia turns me off a little – being a member of the web development community, it wasn’t the brand… it was the house.

People need to get over their own consumerism, and look around. Some people won’t buy something unless it’s got an Apple on it, others won’t go near anything with a Microsoft label – but I suppose community can always lead to mob mentality – they don’t call it the Apple cult for nothing.

Rambling, so… on the web, maybe you can buy a “community”; at least initially. You can buy the house – but you better do what people want or better, or they’re all going to leave.

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