Comments on: Identi.ca and the Art of the Launch http://technosailor.com/2008/07/03/identica-and-the-art-of-the-launch/ Business and Technology with Common Sense Thu, 24 May 2012 21:21:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-beta4-20883 By: Jared Goralnick http://technosailor.com/2008/07/03/identica-and-the-art-of-the-launch/comment-page-1/#comment-44298 Jared Goralnick Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:23:48 +0000 http://technosailor.com/?p=3297#comment-44298 Interesting thoughts here, Aaron...and they're scary to me, too. Launching is a scary process, and getting picked up on major sites seems both about timing and politics. But in the end, yes, it's the features (and the fact that they do or don't work) that will ultimately lead to launch success and ultimately adoption. I'm scared because, well, I'm going through the decisions about that now... On another note, I am very curious to see what will happen with identi.ca, as well as FriendFeed and Plurk. I'm a little worn out with social networks but I realize that I'm already slipping behind... Interesting thoughts here, Aaron…and they’re scary to me, too. Launching is a scary process, and getting picked up on major sites seems both about timing and politics. But in the end, yes, it’s the features (and the fact that they do or don’t work) that will ultimately lead to launch success and ultimately adoption. I’m scared because, well, I’m going through the decisions about that now…

On another note, I am very curious to see what will happen with identi.ca, as well as FriendFeed and Plurk. I’m a little worn out with social networks but I realize that I’m already slipping behind…

]]> By: Sebastian http://technosailor.com/2008/07/03/identica-and-the-art-of-the-launch/comment-page-1/#comment-44297 Sebastian Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:54:38 +0000 http://technosailor.com/?p=3297#comment-44297 The coolest thing about Identi.ca isn't that it's a Twitter clone, or whatever. The coolest and most important thing is that it's open source. Anybody can create a clone of it. Anybody can improve it. Anybody can put ideas to life. Especially with an addicting service like Twitter, folks would love to contribute. Twitter has its employees, only few of which are developers. Identi.ca can access a pool of dozens of interested and capable people. They can simply look at the devs and see who contributes the most useful stuff and offer them a job. This doesn't change the fact that their launch pretty much was a huge FAIL. The site was unusable for some time, and it didn't have all the features right. Because it's open source, though, this doesn't matter as much, because there are more people evangelizing it. It can become a product like Twitter and Firefox, which get articles on all major tech blogs for minor stuff. (Firefox 3 received coverage for each of their beta releases, for example.) The coolest thing about Identi.ca isn’t that it’s a Twitter clone, or whatever. The coolest and most important thing is that it’s open source. Anybody can create a clone of it. Anybody can improve it. Anybody can put ideas to life.
Especially with an addicting service like Twitter, folks would love to contribute. Twitter has its employees, only few of which are developers. Identi.ca can access a pool of dozens of interested and capable people. They can simply look at the devs and see who contributes the most useful stuff and offer them a job.

This doesn’t change the fact that their launch pretty much was a huge FAIL. The site was unusable for some time, and it didn’t have all the features right.
Because it’s open source, though, this doesn’t matter as much, because there are more people evangelizing it. It can become a product like Twitter and Firefox, which get articles on all major tech blogs for minor stuff. (Firefox 3 received coverage for each of their beta releases, for example.)

]]> By: MJ Ray http://technosailor.com/2008/07/03/identica-and-the-art-of-the-launch/comment-page-1/#comment-44296 MJ Ray Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:47:20 +0000 http://technosailor.com/?p=3297#comment-44296 Well, twitter's XMPP hasn't worked for me for months either, so that's not really a reason not to use identi.ca - I've a bit more faith that someone will fix it because the code is open. Well, twitter’s XMPP hasn’t worked for me for months either, so that’s not really a reason not to use identi.ca – I’ve a bit more faith that someone will fix it because the code is open.

]]> By: marshall http://technosailor.com/2008/07/03/identica-and-the-art-of-the-launch/comment-page-1/#comment-44295 marshall Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:15:39 +0000 http://technosailor.com/?p=3297#comment-44295 u r a dick. no, i kid, u r right. will you give them another chance after some more oss dev?? i hope it happens, love the idea. i should have been more critical of them but hey, a few *key* features aside they r on to something. so much so that i think ppl r pissed b/c they wanted it to work so bad. so give em time. if it works it will rock. if they werent open source i'd agree w u and say they r screwed u r a dick. no, i kid, u r right. will you give them another chance after some more oss dev?? i hope it happens, love the idea. i should have been more critical of them but hey, a few *key* features aside they r on to something. so much so that i think ppl r pissed b/c they wanted it to work so bad. so give em time. if it works it will rock. if they werent open source i’d agree w u and say they r screwed

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