Riya asked for it

Posted by chris at March 26, 2006

I was rather impressed at DEMO as the team from Riya got up on stage and proceeded to use their gratuitous baby demonstration, so I put my business card in their beta fishbowl, and waited to get an invite. Well, the invite came with some very explicit instructions. Especially in regard to bloggers. Take a look for yourselves.

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I go to the prescribed link, riya.com/groundTruth to find this message:

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WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CAN”T USE MY BROWSER!!! Any web company should know some basic facts about internet users.

  1. 3 browsers come to mind (IE, Firefox, Safari) one of which, really sucks.
  2. A greater percentage of Mac users are online vs. Windows users
  3. Your first customers should be the loudest and easiest to reach, a.k.a. fanatics

Simple formula: Mac user = fanatic

It really is that simple. Apple has a monopoly on customer evangelists. It is part of the culture and is in our blood. Why on earth would you not want to target the lowest hanging fruit on the tree. Here I am …. pick me!!! Of course, you are saying, “Just use Firefox instead. You do have Firefox, right?” Of course, I have Firefox. I will eventually get around to it. But, Riya made my life harder. I wanted to kick the tires on the new photo search and see for myself. In fact, I would have been a great tester and provided you with feedback.

Instead, “you lost me at hello.”

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    johan – March 27, 2006 @ 01:06 AM
    "Mac user = fanatic" Damn straight, we're like CRAZY PEOPLE!!!
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    Chris Bauman – March 27, 2006 @ 01:17 AM
    johan, I forgot to mention my level of fanaticism. I became a 'switcher' in 2001 (G4 Quicksilver 933). In 2003, I was working for Apple (12" iBook). Now, I run my entire business using Macs (17" PowerBook). CRAZY!
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    Peter – March 27, 2006 @ 02:20 AM
    Look at me! I'm CRAZY mac head guy... Give me some candy. I don't know what it is but my shiny Mac just makes me feel like an innovator.
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    Tara 'Miss Rogue' Hunt – March 28, 2006 @ 10:17 AM
    Totally. We suck (and, yes, we asked for it). Thanks for blogging this. The more of this that gets out there, the closer we will get to getting that Mac uploader done. ;) BTW...which browser are you using? Opera? Safari? Flock? Something else? T.
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    Chris Bauman – March 28, 2006 @ 10:49 PM
    Hey Tara, I typically use Safari v 2.0.3 and stay current with the latest updates as they come available. If I need to, I use Firefox 2.0 as a backup.
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    Dave – April 03, 2006 @ 12:01 PM
    As a fellow mac user I'm allowed to be a little hard on all you mac evangelists out there. I love my mac but not to the point of fanatacism. Check out the browser statistics here; http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp Look at it by market share and it's obvious why Safari comes last on most developers support lists. :-)
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