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From commenter M. Edward (Ed) Borasky:
If you’ve got the traffic, you’re going to get the spammers and you’re going to get the trolls, and the *financial* return from the site has to cover the *financial* costs of dealing with the spammers and the trolls.
How Online Comments Are Becoming A Big Business – ReadWrite.
RebelMouse started off as a simple hub for aggregating Twitter and Facebook.
Bit by bit, iteration by iteration, they built up their product, adding features along the way, all the while remaining absolutely free.
Today, they revealed the paid half of their freemium model: the ability to power an entire website with the RebelMouse platform.
At a delightfully affordable $9.99, it’s a strong selling point for anyone who wants a more on-brand approach to aggregating, or curating, their social media activity.
I just have one request: Please, don’t replace your website with RebelMouse. If you’re going to go premium, leave it as a subdomain.
Here’s why:
RebelMouse is great for showcasing, but it falls apart when you’re trying to find something. It’s too busy and disorganized. The gimmicky Pinterest-style design goes from endearing to aggravating when you flip from “browsing mode” to “searching mode”.
For example, I was hoping to dig through a news archive to find a history of their product updates. No luck. I skimmed through tile after tile, scrolling and CTRL+F’ing. Nada.
Don’t put your visitors through that frustration. Use RebelMouse where it makes sense, and leave it at that.
the consumer is moving from desktop/web to mobile/app. weve talked about this transition ad naseum on this blog. it is the single biggest megatrend in the consumer internet space right now. most new consumer internet startups need to build for iOS, Android, and web at the same time.
A good read from Fred Wilson on how the consumer web industry has matured over 20 years, and how that maturation has affected investments in new web companies.
