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17th July 2009

Forget Twitter… Helloooo TipDrop!

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I’ve never really been able to get my head around Twitter… probably too many people trying to tell me what they are doing right now :) and most of them seem to be having breakfast or being far too social.

I do know that I am only following a limited number of people at my twitter… yet my Twitterfox (a Firefox extension for Twitter) often reports that I have several HUNDRED unread tweets by the end of the day! I just don’t have the time to check these as they can be a major distraction to effective time management (IMHO).

I also got recently blasted by a well know marketer for criticising all the tweetbacks (pingbacks from Twitter) that appeared as comments on his blog posts, because I felt they didn’t really add to the conversation.

So move over Twitter! The challenge to your reign as king of the micro-bloggers is coming from a nifty new service called TipDrop

Instead of asking “what you are doing”, TipDrop wants to know “What do you know about that?” and users get the chance to either

  • create their own tip sheets on topics of interest to them, or
  • respond to tips left by others

I’ve already learnt some really useful stuff I had forgotten years ago… so there are some timely reminders there for old hands, as well as lots of useful tips for newbies.

THINK about how you can contribute to this great new “social-knowledge” site.

JUST REMEMBER Any blatant self-promotion will get you into trouble! Contribute to other discussions/tip sheets first, before posting tip sheets of your own, so you can get a feel for what is expected.

As Jonathan says… TipDrop is like Twitter meets Wikipedia meets Digg.

Sounds more useful to me!

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  1. 1 On July 25th, 2009, Stephen Spry said:

    The last seven days since the launch of TipDrop has seen some remarkable changes and improvements to the site, many driven by suggestions from the user base.

    After some early teething problems, the “credibility system” which is one of the main features of TipDrop seems to have been sorted, and many new features added.

    Jonathan Leger is doing an absolutely remarkable job at developing a new community here, and is about to generate some serious media publicity which early users may be able to capitalise on, simply by being there with some good tips!

    So do “drop by” at Tip Drop and check it out - sooner rather than later!

    Cheers
    Stephen Spry

  2. 2 On August 15th, 2009, David Hurley said:

    I still use Twitter but the quality of the contributions to Tipdrop is much higher. Almost every single post has something of value to contribute: the basic question TipDrop addresses, “What do you know (about that)?” is much more interesting than “What are you doing?”.

    Knowledge shared is power multiplied.

  3. 3 On August 15th, 2009, John McRae said:

    I recently discovered TipDrop and must admit that I’m already hooked.Very informative and a perfect place to visit to gain valuable information.

    John

  4. 4 On August 30th, 2009, DotComNote said:

    I think it is a joke. Common, give me a break. Serious challenge to Twitter? Are you kidding me? This is a quote from their disclaimer
    “Answers and comments provided on TipDrop.com are general information, and are not intended to substitute for informed professional medical, psychiatric, psychological, tax, legal, investment, accounting, or other professional advice. TipDrop.com does not endorse, and expressly disclaims liability for any product, manufacturer, distributor, service or service provider mentioned or any opinion expressed in answers or comments”
    This summarizes perfectly how useless those tips are.

  5. 5 On August 30th, 2009, Stephen Spry said:

    @DotComNote - “Serious challenge to Twitter” - your words… not mine.

    A Joke? Definitely NOT! I’d simply LOVE to have a site rise to an Alexa rank of under 50k within a month - and that means Tipdrop is doing SOMETHING right, and addressing a real need out there - or else it just would have fizzled!

    And what’s wrong with the disclaimer? I notice you DO have a (very similar) disclaimer on your site… so what’s with the gripe about that???

    Does that mean the content on YOUR site is just as equally “useless” :)

    Seriously, if you are in business online and NOT covering your a** legally with a disclaimer, then you could be in big trouble.

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