[ANN] Industry and Innovation: Carving a New Platform for Dynamic Web Applications

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Oct 20 13:53:13 UTC 2004


I'm saying that we should do that. :)
But just pushing seaside...because it works and is much better than 
what is out there.

> If you want to see an example of really effective marketing of 
> something very like Squeak and Seaside (but inferior, naturally ;-), 
> read David Heinemier Hansson's blog, especially when he's talking 
> about Ruby on Rails: http://www.loudthinking.com/
>
> He seems to have exactly the right knack for building hype and 
> community support around a collection of technologies that, although 
> there's nothing wrong with them, wouldn't get far purely on technical 
> merits.  A few things I've learned from him, though haven't applied 
> yet:
> - Preannounce like crazy.  Never say "I just released cool thing X", 
> say "I'm working on cool thing X and it's going to be AWESOME".  By 
> the time you release you'll have an instant user base and a huge 
> amount of feedback.
> - Any time any one says anything good about your product, repeat it.  
> Blurbs, blurbs, blurbs.
> - Constantly talk about how many downloads you've had.  People like to 
> use something that lots of other people are using.  And whatever the 
> number is, enough exclamation points make it sound big...
> - Make lots of video demos; people are lazy, and like to watch more 
> than read.

So when do we do one for seaside.
We have macs and I have a digital camera :)

Stef

>
> I have a hard time mustering the same breathless excitement that he 
> brings to everything, but it really does seem to work.
>




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