I'm looking forward to what Caleb comes up with here, his Toluu.com site is great, if you haven't tried it and are looking for some interesting blogs / podcasts be sure to check it out
I'm curious how true you guys think this is? As someone who does adopt early I found this post to be overly negative of early adopters. There's a subset of serial early adopters that this is true about, but it seems to me it's not generally true. Who knows I might be an elitist self-important jerk and just be in self denial!
Much like my recent experiences with TipJoy, Toluu really listens to it's users and work hard to improve the service. This is even more amazing since Toluu is just a side project.
Toluu is an RSS sharing and suggestion tool in private beta. Invites are available if you want one just leave a comment on the post. I'll check back here as well if you would rather request an invite in this thread.
So your premise is that this isn't just text and the entire shirt is a string? I think I win this one. Although, if you can make a whole shirt out of just one string then I will concede the point.
Well.... "If you can read this, you're hired.(Null)" You might want to pad that out with spaces or make it "you are" so people don't think your name is Null or that the Null is the starting salary. At least it's not EBCDIC.
My company actually bought the rights to Series 1 assembly from IBM and that's what I use all day. I don't feel superior as this list suggests I should... mainly just tired and pitiable.
This is from my site (thanks subby!) It's been making the rounds today. If anyone is curious Krugle has the highest click thru with Koders and Google coming in at about the same. That may say more for the order I have them listed than what people really like, but I thought this crowd might find that interesting.
They didn't mention the effect that this has on Programmer Day! The 256th day of the year comes on September 12th this year, but we're programmers so I guess we should expect some special cases, yes?
The only way to make money on get rich quick schemes is to sell them. Personally I wouldn't buy a web 2.0 SEO scheme system from someone who has no follows on their own internal links.
I don't think the point is to create an obligation but to provide an avenue.
At least the way I see it, TipJoy and similar services are not trying to take away the "free beer", but give you a way to buy a guy a beer if he helps you out or tells you a good story.
I think that speaks to their creativity, keeping things simple for the user takes a lot of creativity. I can't speak to your experience, but for me anger about change comes from three sources:
1. The small but sometimes vocal group that hates all change.
2. People who don't need the extra features and who now have more work to do for the same results.
3. People who are using my programs a little differently than I intended, and whose functionality I broke.
With the sometimes exception of #1, if I'm honest with myself, these are all problems caused by my lack of creativity not my users dislike of it. Your experience may be entirely different.
I find the only startups that I'm being drawn into are the ones with creative founders. The two that come to mind are Wesabe and now TipJoy, both are sites that launched when they had built enough to be useful, but still have a lot of interesting potential. You can just look at Google's share price if you want proof that users love potential and expect change and improvements.