| I read Robert's ideas. Thanks for introducing them to your blog community. I share your healthy scepticism about introducing new categories of products for people to figure out. Then again, I thought PayPal was a pretty crazy idea (well 1 of the first 9 interactions of the business model to be more accurate) at the beginning, so what do I know? :) It might be wise to start by serving bloggers and avid blog readers, since they are the early adopters, and then figure out how that can be repackaged for the broader Internet community. For example, not all social applications have RSS feeds in exactly the way that I would like to get and manage them. Maybe there can be some kind of RSS feed processing where I can get a specific stream of useful information (e.g. Facebook status, or forum postings on my favorite forum without RSS feeds) and have it go into my Google feedreader. Another service that still seems broken is comment tracking. I want to comment on stuff but because co.mments and cocomment don't work as well as I would like, I have no way of remembering where I commented. I really like the WJS comment page but wish I could scale this across blogs AND forum posts so I can track all my comments and forum posts in one place. Totally agree that non bloggers are generally not interested in adopting more applications unless there is a critical need for it. Also sounds like there are some ideas around OpenSocial and Marc Canter's Digital Lifestyle Aggregator that are somewhat similar to Robert Mao's idea. Interesting stuff...but whatever it is, I'll use it only if it works with Google Reader! :) Jian Shuo, I'll go vote for you on Rapleaf! :) |
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