Comments on: Don’t believe the anti-hype: Twitter succeeds by leaving room for failure http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2009/06/09/dont-believe-the-anti-hype-twitter-succeeds-by-leaving-room-for-failure.html Musings of a techie lawyer Sun, 20 May 2012 19:38:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-bleeding By: wseltzer http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2009/06/09/dont-believe-the-anti-hype-twitter-succeeds-by-leaving-room-for-failure.html#comment-4357 wseltzer Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:26:11 +0000 http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/?p=595#comment-4357 Jim: Your ICANN analogy is apt -- but please don't lump me with them. I try to counter the trademark censors, not support them. Jim: Your ICANN analogy is apt — but please don’t lump me with them. I try to counter the trademark censors, not support them.

]]> By: Jim Fleming http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2009/06/09/dont-believe-the-anti-hype-twitter-succeeds-by-leaving-room-for-failure.html#comment-4355 Jim Fleming Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:37:14 +0000 http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/?p=595#comment-4355 People seem to miss some of the "subtle success" of services like Twitter, FaceBook, etc. One Subtle Success is the creation of a NameSpace with millions of names without the ICANN trademark censors (like Wendy) standing in their path. This weekend, FaceBook will allow 200,000,000+ people to select their names. Meanwhile, back in the tiny .COM name-space, people lose their names because of ICANN and Registrar policies. One solution to that is for special .COM groups such as the 4-letter .COM owners to create a clone of the .COM servers, to protect their names. People in cyberspace have to protect themselves from the meat-space ICANN that travels the planet on everyone's nickel. People seem to miss some of the “subtle success” of services like Twitter, FaceBook, etc.

One Subtle Success is the creation of a NameSpace with millions of names without the ICANN trademark censors (like Wendy) standing in their path. This weekend, FaceBook will allow 200,000,000+ people to select their names.

Meanwhile, back in the tiny .COM name-space, people lose their names because of ICANN and Registrar policies. One solution to that is for special .COM groups such as the 4-letter .COM owners to create a clone of the .COM servers, to protect their names.

People in cyberspace have to protect themselves from the meat-space ICANN that travels the planet on everyone’s nickel.

]]> By: Naomi Most http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2009/06/09/dont-believe-the-anti-hype-twitter-succeeds-by-leaving-room-for-failure.html#comment-4347 Naomi Most Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:05:09 +0000 http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/?p=595#comment-4347 Sure. If 60% of users make an account and don't return, then that means 40% stick around and keep at it. That's still growth. I'm more curious about what we mean when we say it "works". Who came up with the idea that for a service to be successful it requires everyone in the world to get on board? And what is it we're producing when we say that a service is "productive"? Sure. If 60% of users make an account and don’t return, then that means 40% stick around and keep at it. That’s still growth.

I’m more curious about what we mean when we say it “works”. Who came up with the idea that for a service to be successful it requires everyone in the world to get on board? And what is it we’re producing when we say that a service is “productive”?

]]> By: Dan http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2009/06/09/dont-believe-the-anti-hype-twitter-succeeds-by-leaving-room-for-failure.html#comment-4346 Dan Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:12:44 +0000 http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/?p=595#comment-4346 How many people get 10 chances at something that they do? Outside of professional sports, the answer is essentially zero. If you can't get something right the first, second, or third time - you should stop trying (if your employer hasn't already fired you). Making failure cheap does not make success possible - success is a variable independent of failure. Yes, it's true that some people can strike gold on their first swing, and that others can strike gold with a couple of tries. However, OVERALL (and excluding Edison and a few other BRILLIANT inventors), if at first you don't succeed - you won't. If we could all succeed with hard work, wouldn't we have? How many people get 10 chances at something that they do? Outside of professional sports, the answer is essentially zero. If you can’t get something right the first, second, or third time - you should stop trying (if your employer hasn’t already fired you).

Making failure cheap does not make success possible - success is a variable independent of failure. Yes, it’s true that some people can strike gold on their first swing, and that others can strike gold with a couple of tries. However, OVERALL (and excluding Edison and a few other BRILLIANT inventors), if at first you don’t succeed - you won’t.

If we could all succeed with hard work, wouldn’t we have?

]]> By: jlbraaten http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2009/06/09/dont-believe-the-anti-hype-twitter-succeeds-by-leaving-room-for-failure.html#comment-4345 jlbraaten Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:35:13 +0000 http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/?p=595#comment-4345 You're so right on cheap failure making success possible. So what if no one clicked on the link in your tweet. Be more interesting! Improve! These things don't cost money opposed to something along the lines of sending out 100000 flyers with a typo on it. You’re so right on cheap failure making success possible. So what if no one clicked on the link in your tweet. Be more interesting! Improve! These things don’t cost money opposed to something along the lines of sending out 100000 flyers with a typo on it.

]]> By: Tyler West http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2009/06/09/dont-believe-the-anti-hype-twitter-succeeds-by-leaving-room-for-failure.html#comment-4344 Tyler West Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:29:07 +0000 http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/?p=595#comment-4344 Honestly though... how many online apps sport the same percentage of active users? Honestly though… how many online apps sport the same percentage of active users?

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