Comments on: Truemors: A Lesson For Web2.0 Startups — Celebrity Is Important.

By: Adam Ferguson

Adam Ferguson — Wed, 16 May 2007 16:19:11 +0000

As far as I can tell it’s almost all spam. I think they’re getting the coverage that they are because of Guy’s affiliation, but I don’t know that success will necessary follow.

I also think it’s a dumb idea. It’s Digg except they filtered out all the solid, verified stories from Digg and just post the crap that starts arguments.

I suspect it will be mostly ‘m$ is gonna sue all open source peoplez!!!’ and ‘omg that’s such teh photoshop!!! u r so stoopid!’

By: iTablet.mobi » Celebrity won’t save you

iTablet.mobi » Celebrity won’t save you — Wed, 16 May 2007 14:20:13 +0000

[...] through all my feeds and, boy, are people down on Guy Kawasaki’s “Truemors” site. Tony Hung at Deep Jive Interests says that celebrity is how it might [...]

By: Blog News Watch » Blog Archive » Wednesday Roundup - May 16, 2007

Blog News Watch » Blog Archive » Wednesday Roundup - May 16, 2007 — Wed, 16 May 2007 14:02:51 +0000

[...] at Deep Jive Interests has a go at Guy Kawasaki’s new venture, Truemors [...]

By: truemors at charisma:18

truemors at charisma:18 — Wed, 16 May 2007 06:53:34 +0000

[...] its third review of the site. Scoble, Data Mining, Frantic, and Pronet have reviews. So do all kinds of others. My RSS reader is full of other people’s [...]

By: /pd

/pd — Wed, 16 May 2007 03:40:31 +0000

Tony, its crap !!

But the generic Consumer likes carp–true lies is worth nada zing !! but is it ?? who knows what, where and when this model gains traction ??

Yikes… I got this pain in my head .. it gotto be a truemor !!

BTw, is this a web30 version of the old MUDS and usenet type of groups.. I mean a H2600 group really began like this…correct ?? :)-

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Wed, 16 May 2007 03:05:36 +0000

Presuming that it cost almost nothing to get off the ground, and presuming they’re flying with some kind of advertising model that is dependent on some kind of traffic-related metric, I suppose that its pretty easy to generate a ROI — if they’re able to build some kind of following that is.

And filter out the crap.

And build a good community.

And find interesting rumours.

and … well, a lot of stuff. ;)

cheers,
t @ dji

By: rslux

rslux — Wed, 16 May 2007 02:44:20 +0000

I suppose that ultimately it depends on how you define “success”. If it’s not drowned in spam, it’s possible that a viable Truemor community will evolve.

But so what?

How is Truemors going to generate significant ROI off this thing?