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VentureBeat: Stickis lets you post notes on Web sites, and more

  • Sundar Krishnamurthy · 2 years ago
    Sounds exactly like Third Voice, which allowed anyone to post comments on websites. It was bubble-era company that vanished during the bust.

    Looks like old ideas are getting recycled again...
  • Jonathan · 2 years ago
    Nice writeup Matt.

    @Sundar
    (Disclosure: the Stickis founders are friends of mine and I helped out with the product.)
    This product is similar to Third Voice in that it helps people have conversations in the context of a website, but it has some key differences. Only content from your list of feeds are shown, so the spam problem that killed Third Voice simply isn't an issue here. There is also a culture of content production (i.e. blogging) that didn't exist 7 years ago, so the notes that people leave will be more insightful than the Third Voice content. The millions of existing blog posts provide a great base to jump-start the Stickis content streams.

    More importantly, what's the problem with recycling old ideas? If we dismissed every idea that had failed in the past we'd never have any new products. :)
  • Sundar Krishnamurthy · 2 years ago
    It was an observation, not a putdown. Absolutely nothing wrong with recycling old (or failed) ideas as long as it makes the original concept better and ends up being successful.
  • Marc Meyer · 2 years ago
    I missed this until now, sorry. Thanks Matt for the great write-up and thanks Jonathan for both your beautiful designs and your clarifications here.

    The power of listening to a community wherever you are on the web is trancendental. Its a social layer of information about wherever you are on the web.
    The problem with Third Voice was that the community it was allowing you to listen to was everyone at once, which is just not selective enough!

    Stickis lets YOU personally choose your "crowd" (your friends and society, your blogs) and that's who you listen to and who you can converse with on the web.

    Where can I find out what my crowd as a group's interested in and commenting on the web?

    Stickis answers that wherever I surf in real-time, or in the aggregate on our site.

    Come try it out at stickis.com, and drop us a note about what works or not for you.
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