Comments on: Tuesday Tool: Icon Buffet

By: Jeroen Mourik

Jeroen Mourik — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:16:48 +0000

It is clearly nagging me as IconBuffet is still on my mind. But I would like to “soften up” my previous comment. I think I do now see a good reason why people would join IconBuffet and why it could be fun.

It is the concept that you have an excuse to start communicating with a stranger in the same community, trying to exchange the icons you don’t have in your collection. That way you can easily make new contacts and hence potentially make new friends. Once you have a few friends amongst the community it could of course also become a rather competitive game of having the most cards.

By: Aaron at FullTiltBlogging.com

Aaron at FullTiltBlogging.com — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:47:09 +0000

Craig,

That’s pretty much the way I look at it. If someone hires my company to do a site redesign or something, this may be a good place to grab some icons.

Jeroen,

This is probably best for people who design sites regularly.

Everyone,

I promise to give you a better tool next week. Cross my heart.

By: Jeroen Mourik

Jeroen Mourik — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:21:33 +0000

The only thing that interested me about IconBuffet is the anthropological aspect: why do people bother, where is the fun…?

I was never in collecting/exchanging baseball cards or anything like that when I was a kid (probably miss that gene) and I have better hobbies than wasting my time exchanging web-icons. Hence, my first personal judgement: time waster, not for me thanks! + how interesting that this site could become so popular?

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:54:50 +0000

Interesting. I haven’t heard of it before. Looking at the site it doesn’t look like anything I need right now - but I’ll bookmark it for the future.

Craig

By: Mariane

Mariane — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:08:41 +0000

Never heard of it and would need to see how it can help me in my marketing.
For the time being my focus will be on going back to basics and taking a step by step to build a good business model. But I’ll read what they offer for a future reference if need be.