Category Archives: Mesh07

Will No One Say What Everyone Is Thinking? Craig Newmark Was Lucky As Hell. End of Story.

So, I got to meet Jim Buckmaster, CEO of Craigstlist at the Mesh Conference last week. And one thing struck me about the interview he did with Mark Evans that is only reinforced by the interview at Wired: Craigslist is an Internet phenomenon by any definition.
But Craig Newmark is no visionary. He’s no [...]

Some Thoughts On the Personalities At Mesh

Interesting meeting some of these folks in person. Here are my thoughts on what some of them were like, or seemed like.

Live at Mesh07 : Day 2 @ 1635h: Monetizing the Long Tail — Life Beyond Adsense

Andrew Goodman talks to Christine Herron, Ted Murphy, Mike Masnick and Nancy Peterson on monetizing things beyond Adsense.

On business models

MM: There’s a lot of stuff that’s free — what do you charge for and what do you give away … the more you look at the economics of things and the history behind things, you [...]

Live at Mesh07 : Day 2 @ 1505h: How To Build A Community, Part 2

More on building a community with Lionel Menchacha, Will Pate, and Jordan Banks:

“How do you manage that passion?”

WP: When I started at Flock, pick your title — well, I chose “Community Ambassador” because there were groups that weren’t happy with each other.  Its tough to manage but its important to create a safe environment
JB: Being [...]

Live at Mesh07 : Day 2 @ 1505h: How To Build A Community, Part 1

Mark Relph talks to Will Pate, Jordan Banks, and Lionel Menchacha about How To Build a Community

“Community means different things to different people — what does community to you or organization?”

LM: Communities can be formed around similar interests or common goals.  We look at things in terms of our customer base.  We use things like [...]

Live @ Mesh / Day 2 @ 1340: Digital Sharecropping

With Mathew Ingram, Simon Pulsifer, Jeff Howe, Michael Sikorsky

“How do you respond criticism towards crowdsourcing?”

JH: I think its a false controversy. There were far fewer models back then, and there was no sharecropping taking place. I think it was first compared to child slavery and I thought this was really offensive. If [...]

Live @ Mesh / Day 2 @ 1145h: 15 Minutes of Fame

3 developers get 5 minutes each.
Wild Apricot: Wild Apricot is a web based membership software.  The long answer is that there is many organizations, small for example, who have variable money.  They’ve built the software that sells for $12-100 on a subscription basis — it does event registration, emails, addresses — altogether.
Sneakerplay: Sneakerplay an invite [...]