ROBAX wrote:
Hi Geoffrey,
There's no debate going on here. FM's perception and my feedback are part of the requested response to your marketing. Our job is done. It's now your job to take these reactions onboard and do as you see fit.
Rob
Hi Rob
Many, many thanks for your and FM's feedback. I deeply respect and value your point of view, especially because it does not coincide with mine. I am sure you are no fools and that your perceptions are heartfelt. It is extremely important that I appreciate how much others struggle with concepts that are now so familiar to me that they seem blindingly obvious.
Constructive criticism between friends is the sincerest kindness.
Posting screenshots and lists of features is appropriate if what you are offering is yet another me-too module (a new mp3 player, another banner rotator, forum, social networking suite, and so on).
However, when dealing with something completely new, people won’t understand your answers unless they understand the questions, and they won’t care about the questions unless they know what is at stake.
Which is why I posted the link to the Tom Malone video (here it is again http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI2zusRlKBs). What is at stake is whether humanity will get its act together in time to become collectively smarter (as opposed to collectively dumber ) in the way it deals with financial fraud, unwinnable wars, environmental catastrophe and so on.
What has this to do with the internet? Well, many futurists believe that World Wide Web Part Three will be The Wisdom Web.
The imperative of Web 1.0 was simply to “Get Online!” Building a website is now no problem at all with all the wonderful CMSs we have like DotNetNuke.
The imperative of Web 2.0 is to “Get Social!” Creating a community is now no problem (at least, technically) with Facebook, MySpace, Xing, Linked-In or, of course, DotNetNuke Active Social, Smart Social, Vivo social, whatever.
Nevertheless, the imperative of Web 3.0, these futurists assert, will be to “Get Smarter!” Who are you going to call to do that? Cisco would like you to call them. The Yala plays exactly into this space.
In the same spirit of “constructive criticism between friends is the sincerest kindness”, you might like to take a look at this Carly Fiorina video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3IbKbDhfKw , only four minutes) and reflect on why you find my announcement of the Yala so offensive. The reason I talk about freedom of speech, about making it safe to talk, is not to spew forth marketing razzle-dazzle but precisely because, in her words, we need the power of a vision, of something worth striving for, something worth the risk, to help us overcome our only-human fear of change.
Once again, if you face the kind of problems that a Yala might solve, I will be delighted to demonstrate it to you – screenshots, on-line demo, kick the tires, the whole catastrophe.
Kind regards
Geoffrey