Mark Evans's blog on startups and the tech industry, with founder interviews and commentary on Groupon, Twitter, and Dropbox.
Commenters mock some of his predictions, such as the claim he would have taken Google's $6 billion Groupon offer. A reply also covers his comment-republishing policy.
Hi Brian,
We try to respond to every single e-mail we get; not sure how yours was missed. I apologize.
We've talked about our policy on re-publishing comments in a few places:
- http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/08/30/five-questions-withbacktype-co-founder-chris-golda/#more-3814
- http://blog.backtype.com/2008/08/on-republishing-comments/
- etc
In summary: what BackType is doing is very similar to other search engines. We make every effort to provide content publishers with familiar methods to restrict BackType from indexing their site's content: http://www.backtype.com/faq#q14
We're trying to be as transparent as possible. We attribute comments to their authors so they can be rewarded for the thoughts and insights they share in comments across the web. Additionally, BackType is already becoming a recognized source of traffic for publishers and we want that to continue.
"if I were Groupon’s founders, I would have taken the $6-billion offer from Google in a heartbeat"
that's probably why you AREN'T a Groupon founder
ps.: more from the same blogger: "why Foursquare is dead because it's not canadian" - http://www.markevanstech.com/2011/02/14/is-foursquare-interesting-or-doa/