DISQUS

wow, facebook is the new eons.com - they should just buy out eons, it makes sense..

uh, nice idea - and great conceptual effort - but if folks can't even adhere (remotely) to the regular rules of grammar, why on earth would they adopt a new set of rules for an ad hoc service online? shouldn't we focus on teaching children how to write first?

if FB really wanted to capture our entire collective attention(s), then they should have launched pop3 access to messaging (e.g. for gmail users) AND they should dramatically improve their messaging utilities (fwd, save/tag, folders, etc)

any chance you could do a fup piece comparing it to marsedit (the de facto ruler of paid mac editing sw) and scribefired (as mentioned above, the leader in free)?

otherwise it's just shilling, or feels like it...

you're kidding, right? i mean, you DO understand that there is no correlation between volume of followers and reliability or credibility of an information asset? you are not really that out of the know when it comes to information foraging?

this is a terrifying and horribly flawed idea. you need only visit adherents.com to see the travesty of such an idea - go take a visit and tell me, based on number of followers, which religion matters most...

you are manufacturing problems in search of solutions that are in want of purpose...

you know why? because it is *awesome* - my younger son got an ipod touch this year and the ifart app was a perfect match for his "here's a buck for one stupid app" budget (he loves real apps like band)...

don't you get it? people love stupid applications...just look, here you are commenting on some blog posting on some site that some small audience reads - is that any more a waste of time than pressing a button to make a fart noise? at least with ifart, you can share the love with people around you, as opposed to any blog where your noise vanishes deeper into the ether with each new passing post (buried, never to be seen again, and so what ever did you type for?)

google desktop is arguably the product from google that receives the worst support - go look at desktop forums and groups from google...notice that they *never* reply? it took them nearly 4 months to respond to mac issues with spotlight hooks from other apps (e.g. mailtags) that were causing crashes...

file caching is nice, but is it worth crippling your system for this level of utility? perhaps you could write a more intelligent article that says, very clearly, how GDS is better than Spotlight or integrated Windows desktop search - and leave out Gmail search as that bears little relevance to 'the desktop' (as in, local drive comparison only)

i think that you will then find a load of folks yawning, waiting for gds to finish indexing and then wondering what on earth they've just installed...for mac users, i truly do not see the point..

you're kidding, right? people are going to go to youtube and watch videos even if they have to look at half screen ads, because that is what the masses do, and youtube is built for the masses...it's just like people watching television with displays in screen corner and in top band, no different, just an alternate platform...if it's free, people will always take it with a side of shit...

uh, nice idea BUT you want me to give this tiny company ALL of my contacts, all of their contact data and add rich contextual and private information to it????

they have got to put out a hand-signed agreement and they will need to mail it to me, notarized, before i consider using this kind of service ;)

sorry, but this site is all wrong - not something anybody over the age of 35-40 would use, far too complicated and visually busy for anybody who's not into the "latest and trendiest interface" design

the site is slow loading, overstuffed with queries, scripts and animations that serve no purpose other than to bombard home page users and is just too damned confusing.

for those people above 'shilling' for this site, seriously, ask yourself how this is even remotely 'decent' compared to the other nine million sites out there...it's just a busy template on top of some old crap.

you could build this site yourself with drupal in about 2 days and then hire a designer to doll it up the same way with better utility and performance...

it's awful! categorization from keyword scans is crapola...as an example, i have hundreds of tweets around business research and competitive intelligence, my industry/occupation - but because i have mentioned my dogs a few times, i am under 'recreation/pets' - total crap. it's like the mahalo of twitter search for the time being...when it improves, let me know...

uh, is this the end of overlay.tv and their competitors?

what a depressing win, if twitter adds a button called "groups" then yammer is gone by sheer virtue of installed user base (by this i mean the myriad applications that have sprung up on mobile devices and oses across the globe for twitter fans)...

besides, i'm espousing the virtues of yonkly.com for enterprise - it's open source and built on msft technologies, not php or ruby, much more logical choice for those interesting in experimenting

oddly, informationweek just did a survey on social networking in the enterprise, and nearly 80 percent aren't there yet though most are 'thinking about it' - so what's yammer after? 20 accounts at a dollar a month? dumb...

@denis - wow! that was fast, really looking forward to it...basically, my son sits there playing a nirvana song but also needs to take it ofline to practice, but if he winds up on another site with a variation in the tab it's all for naught when he returns to your site...

it's outstanding - just turned my son on to it...a bit slow loading but once it's there it's totally solid

BUT it's missing the single most important thing a learning player requires from a site like this: a PRINT TAB button! duh...

my advice:

use crunchbase API to pull in startup data
fix rss feed to display company name, not conotes (for all)
allow user feedback/ratings on companies (or via cb api)

uh, stephanie, if you're the hot blonde in the photo, you're more than welcome to crash at my place provided you can put up with the pack of dogs ;)

on a more practical note, check out cambridge - right across the river, and if it's nice out you could walk it in 15 minutes....anyplace near MIT or harvard sq or even near the sonesta or marriott in kendall (nice river views)...

hey, very cool...i hope to be there and will try to notify some other locals...tuesday night is a good pick, there should be tons of parking around that area...

sorry, but 1 keyword for 18 bucks per month? these folks have got to think about one word being free to get users interested in the service - there are far too many alert and monitoring services out there to waste the money on something that might be at best marginally better...if it's great, then prove it, let users get a word for free and learn to use and love the service. if it's any good, they'll upgrade and trackur will filter out the loyalists...

...or you could simply use yonkly.com when emad finishes the open source code -it's a clone of twitter, and uses twitter's api to call in and out...that way you can have your very own twitter for you and your close friends but still dump into the pool...

i'm a bit confused...at first it smacks of arrogance, which is the tone of your entire piece, but in reality all these folks are saying is that they have a preferred medium, much the same way magazine editors say 'don't call, email us' - it's 2008, not 2001, things are very different...publicity seeking individuals or firms would be well served to follow these nascent communication trends and just deal with it. period.
dave
www.passingnotes.com

it's a spammer's haven....postsecret should just do their own with moderation and that will be the end of it...OR (to the dev) allow users to flag spam...

hmm...i asked jim gosling and he says it just 'cause twitter on ruby can't scale for the web, they should rewrite in all java, right? ;)

emad, this is outstanding - if you'd like some help with documentation please drop me a note (my email is in my comment details)...i don't write code, but i'd love to maybe sit on the phone with you for an hour to create some easy to follow installation and set up instructions for interested users...have written tons of recipes and mod documentation for drupal (and elgg too), so quite familiar with "keeping it easy" - and you can find me on twittter as passingnotes

sorry, forgot the link to the google code downloads for WP users who want to try it out NOW even though buddypress is shut down:

http://code.google.com/p/buddypress/downloads/list