Tribe.net. Local Connections $item.owner.firstName http://tribeideas.tribe.net/thread/7b235c53-6c7a-4471-8093-b1a14c366970#50614879-44e9-45d6-9203-ab0d9a6d2cb6 2005-08-23T21:10:30Z 2005-08-23T21:10:30Z

Look guys... I'm a member of things like "East Bay Sushi" and "Piedmont Ave". You know what kinds of books I read, where I eat out, where I go dancing and drinking. It seems like with a little imagination you could figure out how to sell advertising to say, a sushi shop on Piedmont Ave, which I'd see when I went to... East Bay Sushi!... or... Piedmont Ave!... rather than mass annoying happy face distributors and late night TV ad online schools. You've got more explicit, useful information for marketing to me than, probably, any other institution on the planet, I gave it to you *voluntarily* and this is the best you can do? If that's the case then you deserve what this is going to bring you. Why don't you just try, like, getting some broke person to sell ads to "East Bay Restaurants" on commission or something. Take advantage of what gives you a competitive advantage and the information you have that could only be very inefficiently, if at all, collected by your competition for ad dollars. Get ad revenue from places that are too local to advertise on Yahoo, for chrissake. This is just plain obnoxious. It's self-defeating given your users. It's also unimaginative, and, given the information you have, in my opinion, just plain lazy.

$item.owner.firstName 2005-08-23T21:10:30Z