Comments on: Balancing the Scales http://citizenagency.com/blog/2006/10/17/balancing-the-scales/ Collaborating towards ecstasy Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:41:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Writing history: Technorati adopts OpenID at FactoryCity http://citizenagency.com/blog/2006/10/17/balancing-the-scales/#comment-1000 Writing history: Technorati adopts OpenID at FactoryCity Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:30:15 +0000 http://citizenagency.com/blog/2006/10/17/balancing-the-scales/#comment-1000 [...] This is why we promote OpenID to all of our clients — as each one adds support for OpenID, all of our client’s clients (our real customers) can then log in and share their accounts across the services that our clients are building. This is a fundamental key to the non-zero sum economics that we preach! People like flexibility, they like control over their data and they like to be in charge of their identity and its destiny. That’s just good business. And the more that we decentralize identity and authentication services, the closer that control moves to the individual. [...] [...] This is why we promote OpenID to all of our clients — as each one adds support for OpenID, all of our client’s clients (our real customers) can then log in and share their accounts across the services that our clients are building. This is a fundamental key to the non-zero sum economics that we preach! People like flexibility, they like control over their data and they like to be in charge of their identity and its destiny. That’s just good business. And the more that we decentralize identity and authentication services, the closer that control moves to the individual. [...]

]]> By: Citizen Agency » Upstanding Citizen: Obvious Corp http://citizenagency.com/blog/2006/10/17/balancing-the-scales/#comment-238 Citizen Agency » Upstanding Citizen: Obvious Corp Fri, 03 Nov 2006 05:59:59 +0000 http://citizenagency.com/blog/2006/10/17/balancing-the-scales/#comment-238 [...] These companies care about quality over quantity. These bloggers have small, dedicated audiences and could care less about their T’rati ranking or page views. These startups are bootstrapping themselves to be the true disruptors - those who are challenging the very notion of ’success’ and the core ethics of business. They want to build their companies and products right instead of flipping. So, when Ev announced Obvious Corp and their move to buy back their assets Odeo and Twitter, my heart skipped a beat. Could this be another sign that the scales are being balanced? To me, Obvious was sending out the message to other startup entrepreneurs that there is no shame in bootstrapping. There is no shame in putting users ahead of VC interests. We can and will build businesses out of something real. [...] [...] These companies care about quality over quantity. These bloggers have small, dedicated audiences and could care less about their T’rati ranking or page views. These startups are bootstrapping themselves to be the true disruptors - those who are challenging the very notion of ’success’ and the core ethics of business. They want to build their companies and products right instead of flipping. So, when Ev announced Obvious Corp and their move to buy back their assets Odeo and Twitter, my heart skipped a beat. Could this be another sign that the scales are being balanced? To me, Obvious was sending out the message to other startup entrepreneurs that there is no shame in bootstrapping. There is no shame in putting users ahead of VC interests. We can and will build businesses out of something real. [...]

]]> By: Tara Hunt http://citizenagency.com/blog/2006/10/17/balancing-the-scales/#comment-199 Tara Hunt Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:02:09 +0000 http://citizenagency.com/blog/2006/10/17/balancing-the-scales/#comment-199 Good suggestion Sheamus...we will definitely be doing that! Good suggestion Sheamus…we will definitely be doing that!

]]> By: Sheamus http://citizenagency.com/blog/2006/10/17/balancing-the-scales/#comment-198 Sheamus Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:56:50 +0000 http://citizenagency.com/blog/2006/10/17/balancing-the-scales/#comment-198 Magnificent position regarding customer needs... Please post a number of articles which describe concrete example of this in action on the part of your team and your clients. Magnificent position regarding customer needs… Please post a number of articles which describe concrete example of this in action on the part of your team and your clients.

]]> By: My Name is Kate http://citizenagency.com/blog/2006/10/17/balancing-the-scales/#comment-196 My Name is Kate Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:02 +0000 http://citizenagency.com/blog/2006/10/17/balancing-the-scales/#comment-196 <strong>Heart-care for our customers ......</strong> I'm moderating a round table on Social Media tomorrow at the Digital Marketing Conference in Toronto. So I've been thinking about what people might want to talk about. But first, I realised, we need a good working definition of "Social... Heart-care for our customers ……

I’m moderating a round table on Social Media tomorrow at the Digital Marketing Conference in Toronto. So I’ve been thinking about what people might want to talk about. But first, I realised, we need a good working definition of “Social…

]]> By: Jeremiah Owyang http://citizenagency.com/blog/2006/10/17/balancing-the-scales/#comment-195 Jeremiah Owyang Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:31:47 +0000 http://citizenagency.com/blog/2006/10/17/balancing-the-scales/#comment-195 I'm also trying to swing the focus over to customers too, good representation. It's great how the web is opening a dialogue in near real time for this power exchange to occur. Ultimatly, the companies that get this will succeed. I’m also trying to swing the focus over to customers too, good representation.

It’s great how the web is opening a dialogue in near real time for this power exchange to occur.

Ultimatly, the companies that get this will succeed.

]]> By: ::HorsePigCow:: Fake Blogs and the State of our Economy « Bankwatch http://citizenagency.com/blog/2006/10/17/balancing-the-scales/#comment-194 ::HorsePigCow:: Fake Blogs and the State of our Economy « Bankwatch Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:16:09 +0000 http://citizenagency.com/blog/2006/10/17/balancing-the-scales/#comment-194 [...]  Tara does a nice job of describing the root difference about understanding the new marketing.  I like the point about going past the client, right to the clients’ clients. It’s time to tip the scales, I think. I wrote a little post over at the CA Blog about our core philosophy and why we are more concerned with our clients’ clients than our clients. In a world that conspires against the ‘consumer’ (’buy our stuff and shut up’ and ‘we care about you, really, okay we don’t, but we’ve paid a lot of money for this creative, so that you will think that, when we really should have put the money into replacing those crappy parts or empowering customer service to help you’), we are betting the bank on consulting our clients in the other direction. [...] [...]  Tara does a nice job of describing the root difference about understanding the new marketing.  I like the point about going past the client, right to the clients’ clients. It’s time to tip the scales, I think. I wrote a little post over at the CA Blog about our core philosophy and why we are more concerned with our clients’ clients than our clients. In a world that conspires against the ‘consumer’ (’buy our stuff and shut up’ and ‘we care about you, really, okay we don’t, but we’ve paid a lot of money for this creative, so that you will think that, when we really should have put the money into replacing those crappy parts or empowering customer service to help you’), we are betting the bank on consulting our clients in the other direction. [...]

]]> By: kareem http://citizenagency.com/blog/2006/10/17/balancing-the-scales/#comment-193 kareem Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:45:07 +0000 http://citizenagency.com/blog/2006/10/17/balancing-the-scales/#comment-193 bloody refreshing. it's nailing the boring fundamentals that often make comapnies successful. the friendster article in the times provided insight on that: it was too concerned with solving the big sexy problems, when all customers wanted was to load a page in less than 30 seconds! kareem bloody refreshing. it’s nailing the boring fundamentals that often make comapnies successful. the friendster article in the times provided insight on that: it was too concerned with solving the big sexy problems, when all customers wanted was to load a page in less than 30 seconds!

kareem

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