Archive for March, 2006
Launching off the comments on the Slashdot story on Boxxet, Michael from unmediated believes the Boxxet represents a threat of lazy, value-less re-purposing of content (my words). I agree with the threat, but Boxxet does not represent that threat.
The difference is that Boxxet DOES NOT allow anyone to come in and create a “web site” upon which that person can post ads. What Boxxet does is try to create a single best-of site for a particular subject (say the San Francisco Giants). The information that we aggregate will be vetted by the community and the traffic will sent away from us to the place where the content originated. At the end of the day, we hope that Boxxet and our users do real good by finding/filtering and vetting great content for our users.
But Michael has some good thoughts on the general subject.
Filed under: Boxxet, Press
March 31st, 2006
You Mon Tsang
I had the pleasure to meet Michael Fitzgerald at ETech 2006. We had a great conversation about Boxxet; he was interested in what we were doing in light of the conference’s focus on attention and social software.
Michael got Boxxet quickly, wrote a thorough overview for Technology Review and then gave us good feedback on the service itself. All beyond the call of duty.
Filed under: Boxxet, Press
March 30th, 2006
You Mon Tsang
Celeste Biever from the New Scientist wrote an article on Boxxet. She focused on a certain part of our service which is used to create Boxxets. Her article was put on Slashdot, which was great. Many of the commentators assume that we were up to no good, which is, of course, no good.
But it is hard to complain about the awareness that was built and we will have to make sure the Slashdot community sees that our service is meant to deliver real value to our users without becoming a menace to the Web community.
I talked about this earlier on my own blog.
Filed under: Boxxet, Press
March 28th, 2006
You Mon Tsang
Matt Marshall is a busy man. Not only does he writes for The Mercury News (where he had to worry about the Knight-Ridder sale), he posts a ton for the Silicon Beat blog (a must-read for tech industry). I get tired thinking about it.
He graciously took a little under an hour with me to talk about Boxxet. Here is his post.
Filed under: Boxxet, Press
March 26th, 2006
You Mon Tsang
Very quickly, you will see a bunch of posts on this blog that catches up with some of the blog posts and press articles that have been written about Boxxet in the last few weeks. We’re slowly beating the drum about Boxxet and thought you may want to see what others had to say.
Filed under: Boxxet
March 25th, 2006
You Mon Tsang
This blog is where we will be talking about more factual items relating to Boxxet: service announcements, changes, etc. All these posts can also seen within the Boxxet service.
You can look for more opininated pieces on Boxxet and startup life at Boxxet’s founder You Mon Tsang’s blog at http://seedround.com/.
Filed under: Boxxet
March 23rd, 2006
You Mon Tsang
