Comments on: WordPress.com Snaps Bloggers http://blog.awakenedvoice.com/2007/01/15/wordpresscom-snaps-bloggers/ Analyzing And Reporting On The Social Media Revolution Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:51:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Rob Safuto http://blog.awakenedvoice.com/2007/01/15/wordpresscom-snaps-bloggers/#comment-1516 Rob Safuto Wed, 17 Jan 2007 14:05:50 +0000 http://blog.awakenedvoice.com/2007/01/15/wordpresscom-snaps-bloggers/#comment-1516 I appreciate your point of view Matt. Your team has built a great service that powers so many important blogs. And it's free. So thank you for that as well. I'm an idealist when it comes to delivering services such as this and I always think that the user should be asked if they want to opt-in, rather than having to opt-out. Couple that with the fact that I really don't like or see the value in Snap and you've got a perturbed tech blogger. For a while now my wife has been asking me to fully integrate her blog into the website for her business. This situation gave me the impetus to start that process now. I appreciate your point of view Matt. Your team has built a great service that powers so many important blogs. And it’s free. So thank you for that as well.

I’m an idealist when it comes to delivering services such as this and I always think that the user should be asked if they want to opt-in, rather than having to opt-out. Couple that with the fact that I really don’t like or see the value in Snap and you’ve got a perturbed tech blogger.

For a while now my wife has been asking me to fully integrate her blog into the website for her business. This situation gave me the impetus to start that process now.

]]> By: Matt http://blog.awakenedvoice.com/2007/01/15/wordpresscom-snaps-bloggers/#comment-1514 Matt Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:36:48 +0000 http://blog.awakenedvoice.com/2007/01/15/wordpresscom-snaps-bloggers/#comment-1514 Anything worth doing is going to piss some people off. But do know that i didn't make the decision to turn it on without a lot of thought and without reading thousands of feedbacks on both sides of the fence. I'm sorry that having to check the box for your wife's blog was enough to make you want to leave, hopefully we would have done enough to overcome that annoyance. Anything worth doing is going to piss some people off. But do know that i didn’t make the decision to turn it on without a lot of thought and without reading thousands of feedbacks on both sides of the fence. I’m sorry that having to check the box for your wife’s blog was enough to make you want to leave, hopefully we would have done enough to overcome that annoyance.

]]> By: Rob Safuto http://blog.awakenedvoice.com/2007/01/15/wordpresscom-snaps-bloggers/#comment-1510 Rob Safuto Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:49:58 +0000 http://blog.awakenedvoice.com/2007/01/15/wordpresscom-snaps-bloggers/#comment-1510 Thanks for stopping by Erik. I appreciate having you on the other side of the conversation. I've been a fan of WordPress.com since they went live with it. I would have preferred that they implemented the Snap feature in the opposite manner, allowing people to turn it on if they wanted to. It's certainly a boon for Snap to have access to 500,000 blogs in an instant. Still, I can't figure out the value of a tool that distracts your users after they click a link. Thanks for stopping by Erik. I appreciate having you on the other side of the conversation.

I’ve been a fan of WordPress.com since they went live with it. I would have preferred that they implemented the Snap feature in the opposite manner, allowing people to turn it on if they wanted to.

It’s certainly a boon for Snap to have access to 500,000 blogs in an instant. Still, I can’t figure out the value of a tool that distracts your users after they click a link.

]]> By: wlErik http://blog.awakenedvoice.com/2007/01/15/wordpresscom-snaps-bloggers/#comment-1505 wlErik Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:45:37 +0000 http://blog.awakenedvoice.com/2007/01/15/wordpresscom-snaps-bloggers/#comment-1505 I enjoy your blog Rob. I recently created a blog at Wordpress. I am a newbie techie and especially appreciate your instructional podcasts. This new feature doesn't bother me too much yet, but if it does I will disable it. erik I enjoy your blog Rob. I recently created a blog at Wordpress. I am a newbie techie and especially appreciate your instructional podcasts. This new feature doesn’t bother me too much yet, but if it does I will disable it.

erik

]]> By: Bruce Prokopets http://blog.awakenedvoice.com/2007/01/15/wordpresscom-snaps-bloggers/#comment-1500 Bruce Prokopets Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:08:26 +0000 http://blog.awakenedvoice.com/2007/01/15/wordpresscom-snaps-bloggers/#comment-1500 I totally agree. I found the tool kinda cool at first, I put it on my blog, and about a week later I just could not stand it anymore. First off, if the screenshot has not been cached, or its not the homepage, you'll wait forever for the preview to load. 2nd, after the novelty wore off, I realized there is pretty much no value at all to that thing. I think the idea of hovering over a link for some extra info can be useful, but just for a small image preview I really don't see the point. I totally agree. I found the tool kinda cool at first, I put it on my blog, and about a week later I just could not stand it anymore. First off, if the screenshot has not been cached, or its not the homepage, you’ll wait forever for the preview to load. 2nd, after the novelty wore off, I realized there is pretty much no value at all to that thing. I think the idea of hovering over a link for some extra info can be useful, but just for a small image preview I really don’t see the point.

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