Comments on: Nick Halstead Whines For Fav.or.it Coverage

By: Corvida Raven

Corvida Raven — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:48:08 +0000

He did a lot of apologizing after the situation blew up in his face. Maybe
he's learning after al!

By: Corvida

Corvida — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:48:08 +0000

He did a lot of apologizing after the situation blew up in his face. Maybe
he's learning after al!

By: Corvida

Corvida — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:48:08 +0000

He did a lot of apologizing after the situation blew up in his face. Maybe
he's learning after al!

By: shafqat

shafqat — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:25:55 +0000

Nick seems to have a habit of expressing his discontent. There's been numerous examples, including his rant against Mashable (story here: http://mashable.com/2008/04/04/favorit-not-favo… ). While your last line advice is spot on, I would also add: “Dont hate the player Halstead, hate the game…!”

By: Friday’s Bitchmeme: Fav.or.it :: sarahintampa

Friday’s Bitchmeme: Fav.or.it :: sarahintampa — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:55:35 +0000

[...] or Channel 10 material. But then, his comment turned me off a bit. Corvida picked up on this and mentioned that this was bad PR for [...]

By: sarahintampa

sarahintampa — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:57:08 +0000

That's for bringing this issue to light. I just found it odd on a blog post about negativity, he would choose to make a negative comment.

By: Andy C

Andy C — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:37:22 +0000

I think Nick Halstead is worried about the increasing sense of expectation and being swamped with users if and when fav.or.it finally opens to the public.

Despite his protestations, I think Nick has concerns whether the infrastructure be able to scale and cope with a large influx of demanding users.

To be fair, when it's your baby, your life and soul and your mortgage on the line, I would probably feel the same.

How many times have I seen FriendFeed unavailable (with a witty Web 2..0 outage banner) during this recent massive and prolonged spike in activity and interest ?

Not once - that I have seen. That's a very hard act to follow. Halstead must be cursing and thinking of REM: 'It's crazy what you could have had.'

By: Corvida

Corvida — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:24:02 +0000

LMAO you are a trip. I was just as excited as you were when I saw Scoble
announce and talk about Fav.or.it last year. It took forever for them to
send me an invite and I was sorely disappointed when I tried the service
out. It's so confusing and could really use a lot more feedback. But as
you've stated, that's not going to happen too much in a closed-beta service.
Hopefully Nick will see this comment, then again, who wants to open up a
confusing product to the entire public?

By: Andy C

Andy C — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:18:54 +0000

I'm sorry, partly because Nick Halstead is British, but fav.or.it have missed the boat.

fav.or.it are left standing at the starting blocks when all the others have crossed the finishing line. Why ? - because fav.or.it is still in closed beta. Fav.or.it *still* hasn't open to the public.

Fav.or.it may well be the killer app about to transform the Web as we know. Fav.or.it may be better than Friendfeed, Disqus and Habari rolled into one.

However, until we can see for ourselves, test it, import our OPML, feeds and comments, until we can find bugs, make suggestions and demand improvments, it's worthless. Completely worthless.

Words are cheap.

When I first heard of fav.or.it last year, I was desperately keen and eager to try the product. Not now., Friendfeed has won me over.

I am proud to announce that FF and I are due to be married on 14 July in a private ceremony in a chapel on the Isle of Mull. Gift list available now from John Lewis (www.johnlewis.com).