Comments on: $GOOG, $YHOO, $AOL, and Stocktwits - Control vs Empowerment

By: mike

mike — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:02:06 +0000

In a nutshell, there are 2 reasons to buy an iPhone (&/or touch, pod, mini, whatever), & they can be mixed — no 1 has to be in only 1 camp. 1 is status — 1 is to use the thing.

Status can include all the controls you want to add — Users get something else or jailbreak to escape control. Catch22 => no control = anarchy < useful. Example = foxnews.com pulling comments on blogs when anarchy ruled.

By: AArgh59

AArgh59 — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:49:29 +0000

er a, welcome to CONTROL Cody!

By: Art

Art — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:07:07 +0000

Empowerment, but what percentage of people today don’t want to be controlled/cared for? More and more it seems that most folks would be content to let someone rum their lives as long as they don’t have to think or act or put forth any effort. It’s a right to have health care? GM is too big to fail? GM is too big to fail only because the people that are effected by GM have become use to feeding at a trough that they feel they deserve, and have a right to. If it takes and endless supply of billions and billions of tax payer dollars they don’t care. They want to be controlled and cared for.
I agree that empowerment should be the way, but I just don’t think that as many people as in the past care to be empowered.

By: Nathania Johnson

Nathania Johnson — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:52:34 +0000

I think companies can do whatever they want. But they risk losing customers if they don’t provide empowerment.

Besides that, I think building a site based on Twitter is risky. It’s like sites that optimize for Google rankings. When Google changes its rankings, some small businesses get screwed big time.