I am now convinced I was obtuse. Apologies to all. I was excited about
the favorable comparisons to typepad.
Some of the things that John has done to innovate on top of blogware are
to customize his marketing (http://www.blogharbor.com is a good sell
site. nothing technically slick, but easy to understand what he is
selling and how to buy it), to use templated solutions to help users
understand some of the vertical uses (selling wedding blogs at
*.wedblog.com), to integrate blogpolling and to allow his users to
import RSS feeds in a nice way (as opposed to publish them which
blogware does quite well. I am sure there is more.
As for the discussion issue, email has been out for a while and there
has been in the past some discussion. From our perspective, we are
waiting until the full release of email defence to start talking about
this again.
Blogware is not yet in full release and you can expect much more
discussion when it is, although you can certainly sell it now and I
think there is real revenue to be made there.
DNS is really an infratstructure bit. It works. If you need it we would
be happy to sell it to you. I am sure Bruce will be happy to post here
at length about both email and DNS ;-).
Regards
Jim McAtee wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <bill@daze.net>
> To: "Jim McAtee" <jmcatee@mediaodyssey.com>
> Cc: <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 2:23 PM
> Subject: Re: shameless promotion
>
>
>>On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Jim McAtee wrote:
>>
>>
>>>What exactly am I looking at?
>>>
>>>If it's the $8.95/month for a blog, then he's certainly to be commended.
>>
>>Because he is charging too much or too little?
>>
>>Other Blogware resellers are listed here:
>>http://blog.blogware.com/blog/GetYourOwn
>>
>>Anyway, I read the page mentioned and it appears to be a test site of some
>>third party that is testing "BlogHarbor" in comparison to TypePad (I
>>couldn't quite make it out if the person understood what Blogware is).
>
>
>
> I was referring to the "innovating on top of blogware" comment that Elliot
> was referring to. I don't get what it has to do with that test blog, but
> then I honestly wouldn't recognize the difference between a standard blogware
> reseller's offering and an "innovative" one without someone pointing out the
> details.
>
> There's been virtually zero discussion of Tucows' blogware, email or dns
> products on this list, other than the occasional "this-or-that doesn't work
> exactly right" thread. I don't get it. I would think resellers would be
> talking up a storm regarding the new services or else Tucows would be doing
> _something_ to give them more attention.
-- Elliot Noss Tucows Inc. 416-538-5494 enoss.blogware.com
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