Last week Jelly, the interactive question-and-answer site, announced suddenly it had been acquired by Pinterest, the visual bookmarking network. That’s an interesting and unlikely pairing since the two services have pretty dissimilar approaches and models. And it’s not made any more clear in what has to be the oddest announcement blog post I’ve read in … Continue reading You Got Jelly in My Pinterest
Jelly Finally Gets Needed Twitter Integration
Jelly has long been an app I've been interested in, but at the same time I've questioned its viability as a stand-alone service since Twitter especially is already the network people turn to when they have questions needing answers. Now it looks like the team is working to bring value to both. A new integration … Continue reading Jelly Finally Gets Needed Twitter Integration
Jelly Pivots
New from me at PNConnect: There’s been lots of tut-tutting about this, with various headlines describing Jelly as the app no one wanted to begin with and so on. That’s not super-fair to the app, though, especially as it relaunches with a variation on its original mission. It is intriguing, the idea that it’s search … Continue reading Jelly Pivots
Jelly slowing down
I take no pleasure in how new downloads/installs of Jelly's app have slowed dramatically since the initial wave of buzz about the app. But that's not the metric that I - or the marketers who decided to jump into that nascent community just hours after it launched - want to see. No, I want to … Continue reading Jelly slowing down
You got your brands in my Jelly…
(Note: I wrote this a week or so ago but just realized it was still sitting in Draft mode. The lesson, as always, is that I can't even be trusted with my own stuff. --CT) It took less than a week after the launch of Jelly, the new Q&A app that comes from some of … Continue reading You got your brands in my Jelly…
Chris Thilk 