There’s nothing quite as New York as New Yorkers trying to ignore 20+ photographers wandering in the middle of city streets trying to catch the perfect shot before being hit by a cab.
My photos from yesterday’s photowalk are here. And here’s our group shot.
Bonus profound thought: someone commented that we shouldn’t wait until someone like Thomas Hawk is in town to do something like this. Amen. Anyone up for a photowalk in NYC, Westchester, Fairfield, etc… call me.
New client Assembla launched a new service for managers of global software development teams and we saw some great coverage in their hometown Mass High Tech and Read/Write Web.
In preparing for this launch, founder Andy Singleton put together a one page discussion of how Assembla sizes up against its competitors. You can see this page here. And all the way at the bottom, Andy’s comments about one competitor in particular were picked up by Marshall Kirkpatrick of Read/Write Web who said:
That page alone is a good read - while some competitors are described in warm and generous terms, that’s not always the case. oDesk, for example, is described as a primitive, intrusive and nasty piece of spyware. (I’ll add creepy to that list, myself.) Assembla says it regularly sees oDesk customers do their software dev management using Assembla instead.
Sometimes it’s a good thing to have a client who’s willing to speak his mind. Andy’s full take on the launch and the coverage is in his blog.
More than any other band I listened to when I was in High School, The Jam can still transport me right back to what it felt like to be 16 and have the whole world in front of me.
I normally eschew embargoes - that is I try very hard to convince clients that unless they are offing information on the second gunman, an exclusive interview opportunity with Jimmy Hoffa or a sneak peek at the last season of Battlestar Galactica, embargoes aren’t worth it.
Allen Stern of Centernetworks however, has a different take:
Why are embargoes important? Because they allow the writer advanced time to prepare a story that has more details than just a press release post. It allows me to look at the service and give you a more detailed analysis. I can dive in and give you more than some corporate speak. They are critical for a site’s readers.
Allen is a blogger and source of news on the East Coast technology community who’s opinion I respect so I’m going to have to start reconsidering offering embargoes. Especially to Allen.
