Comments for Thomas Korte http://thomaskorte.com I live in San Francisco I do high-tech stuff Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:47:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on How to cold-email me (or anyone else) by Thomas Korte http://thomaskorte.com/archive/how-to-cold-email/comment-page-1/#comment-555 Thomas Korte Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:03:35 +0000 http://thomaskorte.com/?p=231#comment-555 @Chris - Just because it has been done, it does not mean it has been done well :). FF, Google Buzz and others are good at aggregating, but I don't know of <blockquote>"a product that can aggregate and *distribute* all my social streams"</blockquote> I struggle with getting all my random places (blog, twitter, google reader, vimeo, youtube, picasa, amazon wishlist, ...) aggregated in a nice format and then distributed to the places where it makes sense without re-posting or overlapping. Furthermore, I need to get all my conversations in one place: For example, this post had responses here (my blog), on posterous, on twitter, on hackernews, on friendfeed and (yet another distraction) on Google Buzz - all these information snippets should be in one place. So product that can help me with that would be really cool - do you know of one? @Chris -
Just because it has been done, it does not mean it has been done well :) . FF, Google Buzz and others are good at aggregating, but I don’t know of

“a product that can aggregate and *distribute* all my social streams”

I struggle with getting all my random places (blog, twitter, google reader, vimeo, youtube, picasa, amazon wishlist, …) aggregated in a nice format and then distributed to the places where it makes sense without re-posting or overlapping. Furthermore, I need to get all my conversations in one place: For example, this post had responses here (my blog), on posterous, on twitter, on hackernews, on friendfeed and (yet another distraction) on Google Buzz – all these information snippets should be in one place.
So product that can help me with that would be really cool – do you know of one?

]]> Comment on How to cold-email me (or anyone else) by Ryan http://thomaskorte.com/archive/how-to-cold-email/comment-page-1/#comment-548 Ryan Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:44:05 +0000 http://thomaskorte.com/?p=231#comment-548 Enormously helpful information. Thanks for your generosity. Enormously helpful information. Thanks for your generosity.

]]> Comment on How to cold-email me (or anyone else) by Christian http://thomaskorte.com/archive/how-to-cold-email/comment-page-1/#comment-546 Christian Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:37:56 +0000 http://thomaskorte.com/?p=231#comment-546 As a former software sales rep and current start-up founder, your recommendations are much appreciated and spot on in my opinion. This format should be used for all sales related emails, whether you're selling widgets or an idea. As a former software sales rep and current start-up founder, your recommendations are much appreciated and spot on in my opinion. This format should be used for all sales related emails, whether you’re selling widgets or an idea.

]]> Comment on How to cold-email me (or anyone else) by Chris bucchere http://thomaskorte.com/archive/how-to-cold-email/comment-page-1/#comment-545 Chris bucchere Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:48:38 +0000 http://thomaskorte.com/?p=231#comment-545 Why should anyone waste time or money building another social stream aggregator when there are already so many of them out there? If you just configure friendfeed to access all the places where you post content, then it will aggregate the posts for you and produce a feed of the results. Just spend a few minutes configuring it and then direct people to http://friendfeed.com/thomask?format=atom You can just send whatever money you were planning to spend on paying someone to build a "social stream aggregator" for you to me instead. I'll be sure to put it to good use. Why should anyone waste time or money building another social stream aggregator when there are already so many of them out there?

If you just configure friendfeed to access all the places where you post content, then it will aggregate the posts for you and produce a feed of the results. Just spend a few minutes configuring it and then direct people to http://friendfeed.com/thomask?format=atom

You can just send whatever money you were planning to spend on paying someone to build a “social stream aggregator” for you to me instead. I’ll be sure to put it to good use.

]]> Comment on How to cold-email me (or anyone else) by Jüri Kaljundi http://thomaskorte.com/archive/how-to-cold-email/comment-page-1/#comment-544 Jüri Kaljundi Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:32:37 +0000 http://thomaskorte.com/?p=231#comment-544 Good advice, but wonder, how many people will start using this as an absolute copy and paste template. You and other angels will now see those "looking for $50k to work full time" e-mails pouring in - hope there will be some original content in the emails as well :) Good advice, but wonder, how many people will start using this as an absolute copy and paste template. You and other angels will now see those “looking for $50k to work full time” e-mails pouring in – hope there will be some original content in the emails as well :)

]]> Comment on How to cold-email me (or anyone else) by DANIEL kIM @PIQQLE http://thomaskorte.com/archive/how-to-cold-email/comment-page-1/#comment-542 DANIEL kIM @PIQQLE Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:17:10 +0000 http://thomaskorte.com/?p=231#comment-542 Thomas... Really enjoyed reading this. Thomas… Really enjoyed reading this.

]]> Comment on How to cold-email me (or anyone else) by Matt Damiano http://thomaskorte.com/archive/how-to-cold-email/comment-page-1/#comment-541 Matt Damiano Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:34:01 +0000 http://thomaskorte.com/?p=231#comment-541 It is amazing how one article can be so helpful. I have delayed sending things out particularly because I did not want to seem as if I was cold spam emailing people. Even though it is still cold this article provides a good starting point to execute a campaign. Matty D It is amazing how one article can be so helpful. I have delayed sending things out particularly because I did not want to seem as if I was cold spam emailing people. Even though it is still cold this article provides a good starting point to execute a campaign.

Matty D

]]> Comment on How to cold-email me (or anyone else) by jason l. baptiste http://thomaskorte.com/archive/how-to-cold-email/comment-page-1/#comment-540 jason l. baptiste Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:09:38 +0000 http://thomaskorte.com/?p=231#comment-540 great post that fills in some blanks I haven't seen on other posts. Venturehacks or some other place (mixergy?) needs to put together a startup wiki that aggregates this advice and some other common mistakes. Would make life a lot better for everyone :-). great post that fills in some blanks I haven’t seen on other posts. Venturehacks or some other place (mixergy?) needs to put together a startup wiki that aggregates this advice and some other common mistakes. Would make life a lot better for everyone :-) .

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