Forgive the mini-rant on semantics, but that sounds like using community as QA to solve problems you didn’t have previously - that you created. Because if that’s the new definition, Facebook’s sure been innovating when it comes to privacy issues lately.
I see innovation being about the positive experiences users have with a new product (or feature), and seeing the directions they take things the original creator hadn’t imagined.
I'd agree, proof of concept did the job, just saying, it seems like something they had to have considered at some point internally. As doty said, they're hiring the person though. ;-p
And I’m sure they'll give him time to work it out further, but is this the innovation YouTube is looking for? Hard to believe their UX people and dev teams haven’t already toyed with something like this.
Good for him and all, even though the search results were:
1) Painfully slow compared to Instant's realtime.
2) Only one at at time.
3) Text. (People respond to visual cues, and for a vid site, better to have thumbnails display in the results with captions.)
Forgive the mini-rant on semantics, but that sounds like using community as QA to solve problems you didn’t have previously - that you created. Because if that’s the new definition, Facebook’s sure been innovating when it comes to privacy issues lately.
I see innovation being about the positive experiences users have with a new product (or feature), and seeing the directions they take things the original creator hadn’t imagined.