I am really, really surprised that Mike and Paul have blogged (and positively) about MyGenius. I joined this site a while back, signed up, put some stuff there to fill it up and dissappeared. That was that. I have not returned other than to delete my account.
I am not fond of the site, don’t tell me to give it another go, don’t tell me what I’m missing because I know these things. Yet I still think the site is not for me.
Why did Mike and subsequently Paul write about the website? Were these paid reviews? They felt as much but were not stated as such.
My question is this: Why would I switch to a site that still has so much to do when I can visit many more that are already doing it?
No, wait, that’s not the end of this mini-rant. I know that MyGenius could open up another level of interaction, I know that there are different people on there, I know, I know. But read this sentence as I type it, I am not interested. Point. Blank. It is not appealing.
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Paul Jacobson 10:58 am on June 24, 2008 Permalink
Dude, take a look at the second half of my post again. It really isn’t a positive post (I was trying not to go for the jugular because some people benefit from it). I was trying to address Mike’s comments about the site.
Besides, I write much more positive stuff when I am bribed … ahem, paid to do it.
Nic 11:07 am on June 24, 2008 Permalink
Hahahaha – Ye, me too, know anyone who’s paying?!
No, I understand that they probably aren’t, my basic point is that to blog about the site you must’ve been paid cause no one would blog about it out of their own free will!! A bit tongue-in-cheek-hidden-innuendo!
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Mike 12:56 pm on June 25, 2008 Permalink
Well, to answer your first question, there’s buzz because there’s always buzz when the godfather blogs about something… Paul has done a wonderful job of elaborating on my content in the last few weeks
Secondly, don’t be a tonsil. Just because something doesn’t work for you deosn’t mean it can’t work for anybody else Haralambous.
Lastly, I posted a question. I said I’d be giving it another go, not that I thought it was working. In fact I listed a whole bunch of ideas for improvements. So far you are right, there hasn’t been any major impact but if I land even one small biz deal from MyGenius the time will have been well spent. It’ll also be more than I’ve ever got out of Plurk, as a random example…
Hee hee.
Ramon Thomas 10:47 am on December 15, 2008 Permalink
MyGenius has deleted my account with out my permission. And when I asked nicely for them to restore it from back-ups they were unable to do so. I even asked for a face to face meeting with Doug Timberlake or John Raath and both where to busy to allow me to discuss my feedback over the last two years with them. So I’ve finally reached the tipping point where I am writing on open letter to the owners (Doug and John) listing all the negative experiences I have encountered. They have done very little with the ongoing feedback I provided them, especially after I hosted several of the MyGenius networking meetings. Why settle for 10,000 South African users when LinkedIn has over 70,000 and Facebook close to 1 million users LIVING IN SOUTH AFRICA?