Comments on Thursday September 13, 2007 : Daily News From the Internet(s)

13 Comments on Thursday September 13, 2007 : Daily News From the Internet(s)

C-C

I can\’t believe you left out one of the most important items in the news today!

It\’s Super Mario\’s 22nd birthday! Here is a clip of how the villains were chosen.

And what\’s with Zombocom popping up again? Do you have a PPC running with them? ;)

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1. Kam
  
  CC, did you watch WebbAlert today or what!
  
  2 years ago ∞
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  1. C-C
    
    Hey, how did you guess?! I haven\’t clicked on an RB link in a while. Seems \’the others\’ have the scoops lately :( but I\’ll still watch for Joanne\’s delivery, even though as Kim said below, she seems somewhat disengaged of late.
    
    How\’s your French? Here\’s a new one for you as of their launch yesterday!
    
    2 years ago ∞
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  2. Drew
    
    What do you mean?? We totally scooped the Google contribution for instance. It turns out in fact, Google is giving over 20 Million to the first two groups to land a bot on the moon, via the X Prize.
    
    With your regards to the French Link, whats your thoughts on what the English version of Mobuzz is going through?
    
    2 years ago ∞
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  3. C-C
    
    Drew, I didn\’t mean to sound like I was slamming RB. I\’m still clicking in here first everyday as well as coming back to peruse the comments! Perhaps it was Re-run Week that instilled a false perception reminiscent of events of a little over a year back. However, no comparison at all to the Mobuzz fiasco.
    
    It is easy for us to bitch and moan from the safety of out here in front of our monitors while you guys run around producing yet another show. It is your show and you don\’t owe us anything (at least not while it\’s free) but after a while people get in the groove and start to develop a sense of entitlement; \”I click here every day and expect to see…\” which is wrong. You guys are entrepreneurs and if opportunities arise that interest you then you should follow up on them. I for one don\’t have a vested interest in RB but morbid curiosity does drive me to wonder how Joanne, for example, can fit everything she is involved with into her schedule and how that would affect her energy toward RB in this case. Others here have mentioned as well having noticed a dip in the RB \’pizazz\’ since Re-Run Week.
    
    My comment about scoops could be said about any show I guess until you look at who posts what first. Then again there are also a limited amount of reliable resources for stories and multiple quality shows are bound to post the same ones within a day or two of each other. What I like about RB is that you get out and about on occasion which most other shows don\’t. They could, for all intents and purposes, tape a whole week of shows in 1 day since they don\’t leave their studios - RB can\’t do that.
    
    As for the English Mobuzz - Anil came out a couple of times to give a heads up and then disappeared. He said he would post updates regularly, even during his trip to China, but didn\’t. Not following through hurts credibility. You guys are entitled to time off or to do what you want but at least let us know! In RB\’s case Re-Run Week was well displayed and even during the week we experienced changes to the site with the chat being tested etc so we could tell you were still cranking away behind the scenes.
    
    Of the few who leave comments on Mobuzz some say they are still hanging on and others have checked out - but how can one really tell? Again pure curiosity has me wonder how they produce 2 or 3 separate daily shows and make ends meet. I suggested looking at dotSub as an alternative to him but he maintains his niche shows deserve the efforts. I don\’t know his stats but personally I don\’t like landing on the Home page and triggering the show every time I click to view something or leave a comment. I hope he isn\’t counting the hits like that.
    
    That\’s enough rambling for today!
    
    Rock on!
    
    2 years ago ∞
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Buterfly

I am number 2!

2 years ago ∞
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1. C-C
  
  Ah, but your still #1 on our hearts!
  
  Rock on!
  
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msquared

Tomas went to the NYC Fashion Shows too!

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Mike Dixon

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Kim

I don’t know about you but I feel joanne is strangely disengaged. And now she’s off doing cameos on other vlogs? I have the feeling she’s slipping away from us. I’ll bet those 300K daily viewers are there because of her and not necessarily bc of rb or the content. It is a risky thing to build your company around a single individual. Then again, Martha Stewart went away to jail and has come back with a roar and her empire didn’t crumble. Big difference of course is that Joanne doesn’t own RB and her stake in it is presumably limited.

2 years ago ∞
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1. Drew
  
  Kim, not to worry, Joanne is not slipping away at all. On the contrary, we are getting much stronger as a team. We all care about Rocketboom immensely and things are going really good for all of us so again, not to worry. :)
  
  2 years ago ∞
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  1. Kim
    
    Ok, Drew. I just felt things were amiss. There are so few things or reasons to maintain faith these days, fortunately RB is one of them. I trust you Drew, Joanne, and the RB team. Thanks for the comforting words.
    
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Kam

The Hawaiian Plate:

More like Zombie.com
Runway models smart enough to invest? yeah right!
Ain\’t that the American way, spend money you don\’t have & then bust ass the rest of your life trying to pay it off?
Now, if they just made her bra peel off like that! (I always had trouble with that darn clasp)
later people

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