Comments on: Flickr and Zooomr debtors to us all http://blog.tomcarroll.org/2006/06/19/flickr-and-zooomr-debtors-to-us-all/ Technology and other Interesting Stuff Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:16:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Anonymous http://blog.tomcarroll.org/2006/06/19/flickr-and-zooomr-debtors-to-us-all/#comment-79 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:21:06 +0000 http://www.tomcarroll.org/?p=125#comment-79 Wed Jun 21, 2006 at 4:21 AM that happened over the weekend.The first thing I thought of when hearing about the hub-bub first on Tom the Architects blog and then on yesterdays Geek News Central (I’m a little behind lately) was …

]]> By: Tom Carroll http://blog.tomcarroll.org/2006/06/19/flickr-and-zooomr-debtors-to-us-all/#comment-78 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 03:28:39 +0000 http://www.tomcarroll.org/?p=125#comment-78 I agree if the silos won’t cooperate then we will have to engineer around them. Its been done before and may be the only way to assert our rights over our attention.

]]> By: Tony Sintes http://blog.tomcarroll.org/2006/06/19/flickr-and-zooomr-debtors-to-us-all/#comment-77 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:25:18 +0000 http://www.tomcarroll.org/?p=125#comment-77 I agree with you about silos. The sites that make themselves more open will destroy the competitors that do not. We’ve talked about that a lot and I’ve thought a lot about an application that could make all those different sources look like one source. Of course, creating such a beast is easier when you don’t need to screen scrape.

That said, all of this reminds me of proprietary formats like Word’s doc. I think it’s the same problem really. The solution to that was to have an independent format and to export. If the silos continue to insist on staying closed maybe we need to think in those terms.

]]> By: Tom Carroll http://blog.tomcarroll.org/2006/06/19/flickr-and-zooomr-debtors-to-us-all/#comment-76 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:48:52 +0000 http://www.tomcarroll.org/?p=125#comment-76 Yes I am and Yes I would.

]]> By: Ron Bieber http://blog.tomcarroll.org/2006/06/19/flickr-and-zooomr-debtors-to-us-all/#comment-75 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:04:35 +0000 http://www.tomcarroll.org/?p=125#comment-75 So are you saying that you would actually pay more attention to someone that pays attention in the right ways to you? That you would even PAY THEM MONEY for services??

Could it be that what we’ve been saying is true for all these years? "That revenue is the by product of doing the right thing for your customers"?

Yeah, right. Like I believe that.

I think your thoughts are right on. I like the distinction of a quid pro quo with customers and the fact that all of their attention is on loan. I think companies would do well to follow this model, because its more valueable to address losing attention than it is revenue.

Just my $0.02

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