When Google launched Gmail in 2004 many people wondered why it doesn't have folders. Gmail let you organize your messages using labels, which act like virtual folders: you can place a message in more than one folder.Every computer user understands the concept of folder:"In computing, a directory,…
2007.10.08. 11:50 herczog
Organizing Chaos: Folders vs Labels vs Search
Google Operating System
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2007.10.08. 11:40 herczog
Orkut Redesign
Google Blogoscoped
Google yesterday announced they’ll be rolling out a new look for their social network Orkut. It’s only being shown to a small portion of users right now. I can’t see it, for instance, but others now posted their screenshots, like the one below by Info-Mundo.net (Creative Commons…
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2007.10.08. 11:39 herczog
Jura Coffee Machine (ahhh... life at Mahalo)
The Jason Calacanis Weblog
You can always tell how good a startup is by their coffee setup... here we have the Jura industrial version with a compliment of flavored syrups. My favorite is "the snickers" which I developed using two shots of chocolate and caramel syrup (yes, dear fatbloggers, it's sugar…
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2007.10.08. 11:38 herczog
Facebook *is* opening up
Scripting News
And it's starting to happen right now, today in fact. I reported earlier on a new feed in Facebook, allowing notifications to be visible outside the wall. It's getting reallll interesting -- I've found some more RSS feeds in Facebook's UI. 1. Friends Status Updates. Look for the…
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2007.10.08. 11:37 herczog
Disqus Challenges CoComment
Mashable!
CoComment had a good amount of time to get out ahead, but now the new blog comment startups are coming out in force. CoComment, you’ll remember, allowed users to track their comments across multiple sites and blogs via a bookmarklet, and (later) blog plugins. Disqus, from YCombinator-funded…
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2007.10.08. 11:36 herczog
Avatarmarketing
Reggeli Karma
Dél-Koreában az emberek évente több mint 100 millió dollárt költenek avatarra, vagyis olyan kis rajzolt figurákra, melyeket kitehetnek az MSN Messenger ablakába, vagy feltehetnek a közösségi portálokra. Dél-Korea a jövő online világának boszorkánykonyhája, bár az ottani…
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2007.10.08. 11:35 herczog
Blog Comment Systems Galore
Zoli's Blog
What a difference (less than) two years make! Here I was complaining about losing half the conversation …. two months later three comment tracking services debuted: coComment , MyComments and co.mments. Of these three, coComment developed decent traction. Fast forward a year or so, and we have an…
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2007.10.08. 11:35 herczog
Orkut Redesign
Google Blogoscoped
Google yesterday announced they’ll be rolling out a new look for their social network Orkut. It’s only being shown to a small portion of users right now. I can’t see it, for instance, but others now posted their screenshots, like the one below by Info-Mundo.net (Creative Commons…
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2007.10.08. 11:34 herczog
Trying Out A New Comment System
A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
I am lending a new startup a hand by letting them showcase their new comment system on this blog. I don't know how much I am supposed to say about them, so I'll stay silent on them for now. You'll notice that this post and the previous post and any future posts will be using the new comment…
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2007.10.08. 11:33 herczog
Intense Debate Soups Up Your Blog Comments
TechCrunch
Colorado-based startup incubator TechStars has launched their second company today, Intense Debate. We covered TechStar’s first company, MadKast, earlier this week. Intense Debate is a souped-up blog commenting system that adds a lot of features for publishers and commenters alike. Installing the…
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2007.10.08. 11:32 herczog
How Apple's small things influence their big things
Signal vs. Noise
It’s cool how Apple’s design language keeps evolving. One product design follows another. There’s a continuity this way, yet things continue to feel new. And it’s interesting how their small designs influence their large designs. Take a look at the back of the iPhone. It’s silver on…
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2007.10.08. 11:31 herczog
iPhone vs Mobile Web
Read/WriteWeb
Recently a Forrester report was released stating that the iPhone "signals the beginning of the end for the mobile Web as we know it today". The report suggested that re-designing sites for the small screens of mobile phones would become "a thing of the past", because of the…
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2007.10.08. 11:30 herczog
Netvibes Launches Facebook Widget, Challenges Lock-In
Mashable!
There’s a war being fought over ownership of your identity. Today Netvibes launches the Facebook Widget, which lets you view your Facebook notifications and friends within Netvibes. Data displayed includes links to your profile, friends and networks, and the usual counters for the number of…
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2007.10.08. 00:41 herczog
What Twitter is
Scripting News
Congrats to the lead investors, Union Square Ventures and the angels, and the entrepreneurs. I've been reading various posts and comments, and see a thread that's still out there. People doubt that there's a way to make money with Twitter. To that I say, they haven't been reading this blog.…
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2007.10.08. 00:41 herczog
Lock-in and the web, day 2
Scripting News
Every day I dish up a number of topics, it's never clear to me which, if any, people will find interesting. Yesterday the topic that got the flow was lock-in and Web 2.0. There were times when that topic would go over everyone's head, but today it's much on-topic, as people commit more and more of…
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2007.10.08. 00:40 herczog
The Open Social Network
A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
We've got social networks with lots of users, like MySpace, Beebo, Facebook, etc, and we've got open social networks like Marc Canter's People Aggregator and Marc Andreessen's Ning. But we really don't yet have an open social network with a lot of users. Facebook took a step in that direction when…
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2007.10.08. 00:40 herczog
Lock-in becomes a Web 2.0 issue
Scripting News
Amazing piece on Mashable, finally the issues we've been writing about here for 10-plus years are starting to surface in dramatic terms in the commercial space. To all vendors who are tuned in, look for ways you're keeping your users from managing their own data. The users are getting educated,…
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2007.10.08. 00:39 herczog
What about Feedburner?
Scripting News
Continuing the Status of the Platform story... 5. You know I've been writing about Feedburner, and its potential of being a disaster for the RSS micro-industry. An email from Daniel McKeown this morning got me thinking, why don't we fix the problem? Maybe because most programmers have good log…
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2007.10.08. 00:38 herczog
State of the Platform, 2007 edition
Scripting News
1. The great thing about the Internet was and is that it's the platform without a platform vendor. That's why it has been the engine of growth and innovation for so long, over thirty years now. There's no entity with eminent domain to forclose on a developer's relationship with customers. And none…
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2007.10.08. 00:37 herczog
Your Website's UI is Synonymous with Your Brand
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life
Jerff Atwood has a blog post entitled Google's Number One UI Mistake where he writes Google's user interface minimalism is admirable. But there's one part of their homepage UI, downloaded millions of times per day, that leaves me scratching my head: Does anyone actually use the "I'm…
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2007.10.08. 00:36 herczog
A-List Technology Bloggers: What Are They Good For?
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life
Mike Torres has a blog post entitled A-listers don't always "get it" where he writes It used to be fun watching the "A-list" bloggers discover the obvious things that folks outside the U.S., little kids, and even big companies have been tracking…
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2007.10.08. 00:35 herczog
Slap in the Facebook: It's Time for Social Networks to Open Up
Wired Top Stories
Forget Facebook. We're placing an open call to the web programming community to create a new social networking framework based on open standards.
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2007.10.08. 00:35 herczog
Social Network Exhaustion (or Facebook Bankruptcy Redux)
The Jason Calacanis Weblog
Today I'm waking up with the Smashing Pumpkins ringing in my ears and my ego search ringing off the hook. My throat and head are about 60-70% healed and looking back on my last couple of posts about turning off comments and declaring Facebook bankruptcy and asking: was my physical exhaustion…
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2007.10.08. 00:34 herczog
Is Outsourcing My Pownce Identity Smart?
Chris Pirillo
Heh. The Pownce identity saga continues - with this post from the Chris Pirillo proxy (who doesn’t appear to be malicious, and raises good points): Why would anyone be the fake Chris Pirillo? Well, unless you are a Chris Pirillo, Leo Laporte, Robert Scoble or whoever… you will never be able to…
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2007.10.08. 00:33 herczog
Why the “You Dont Need a Business Plan” meme is Crazy Talk
Charles Hudson's Weblog
I’ve been reading a bunch of posts on how Twitter got funded without a business plan or a business model. I think the logic of these posts is largely true in only one case - if you’re an early-stage company in tech where you have lots of adoption, good growth, and attention from the “right”…