{"id":531,"date":"2004-02-19T21:07:22","date_gmt":"2004-02-20T02:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=531"},"modified":"2004-02-19T21:07:22","modified_gmt":"2004-02-20T02:07:22","slug":"traction-software-envies-ross-mayfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"Traction Software Envies Ross Mayfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tractionsoftware.com\">Traction Software<\/a> has apparently taken out a Google Ad for the words <a href=\"http:\/\/ross.typepad.com\">Ross Mayfield<\/a>, the CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialtext.com\">Socialtext<\/a>. Traction is our competitor in the enterprise social software market.  Ross saw the ad on his Flickr profile and other blogs quoting Ross&#8217;s personal blog.<br \/>\nAt Socialtext we respect honorable competitors but this is pretty low. If Traction wanted whuffie as opinion leaders and googlejuice as A-list bloggers, they might try to say intelligent, articulate things about the Social Software market instead.<br \/>\nIf there&#8217;s an alternate explanation for these symptoms of Ross-envy, then let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traction Software has apparently taken out a Google Ad for the words Ross Mayfield, the CEO of Socialtext. Traction is our competitor in the enterprise social software market. Ross saw the ad on his Flickr profile and other blogs quoting Ross&#8217;s personal blog. At Socialtext we respect honorable competitors but this is pretty low. If &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=531\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Traction Software Envies Ross Mayfield&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-8z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}