Friday, December 3, 1999

Got a very nice Cluetrain Signup from Michael F. Aube, who works with Perot Systems:

I can't stop grinning :>). I get a great mental image of a train, decorated on the outside with Blue's Pawprints, with plenty of Thinking Chairs on the inside, and a conductor who walks the aisle, passing out Handy-Dandy Notebooks... Sign me up as a 'cluebie!'

And there's this from Jakob W. Christensen of Framfab in Stockholm:

Markets as conversations is all about end-consumers bundling together to rewrite the rules of negotiation power and existing corporate structures. To the world of fast moving consumer goods, market as conversations is a new phenomenon. However, to the world of Business-to-Business relationships it has long been recognised that markets are tied together by human interaction - not products. BtB corporations of today has yet to realise what the digital technologies such as Broadband IP, Narrowband IP and WAP will do to existing BtB market structures. And no one I know of has yet undertaken the challenge to put things in perspective. How about a Manifesto from Cluetrain release 2.0 with significant focus on BtB relationships and digital technologies?

Luke Tymowski, whose weblog is the excellent Qube Quorner, has a terrific take on what Manila (the new software from Userland that produces this page) is all about.

Here's Doc's take on Manila. And here's his rant on the Advanced Hell into which Altavista has fallen since CMGI took it over. Similar fates befell Hotbot at Lycos and Infoseek at Disney. The results are made plain here.