I’m a fickle fan of stagnant social sites
Writing by William Smith on Friday, 31 of August, 2007 at 10:21 am
Lately, social networks have been disappointing me - and I am talking about the ones that I really like or the ones I really WANT to like.
Streamy - I’ve written glowing reviews of Streamy in the past. I still think it is a good service and a solid site. However, the lack of allocated invites to testers has gotten to me lately. I understand that they want to push out some updates, but come on now. After two weeks it would be nice to let some of my friends in to join me. Streamy on its own is a nice RSS reader, but the social features are what make it unique. Hard to test those and give feedback if I have only 2 people on my friends list (the 2 founders of the site).
Twitter - Oh Twitter, how unreliable you’ve become. Downtime, tweets which never get posted, adding new followers which never save in the system so I have to keep re-adding them. Could go on and on.
Pownce - Do something, ANYTHING, new. God, you are sitting on a gold mine here if you’d just add some new features the community has been clamoring for. Capitalize on Twitter’s performance issues by adding SMS options and decent RSS feeds. Even the addition of some new themes might be nice. Get some sort of public API released. Pownce is stagnant. I think the most recent addition was the addition of allowing people to see their friends last name - wow.
Digg - fix the damned comment system already. The new design was weak, it didn’t do much at all for the users. What about an image section? Surely that is an easy add, right?
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Made Friday, 31 of August , 2007 at 11:56 am
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Made Friday, 31 of August , 2007 at 12:07 pm
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Comment by Pete Gilbert
Made Friday, 31 of August , 2007 at 2:44 pm
I think that it’s the most annoying thing about these social networking sites. They seem to be run by people who don’t give a damn about their users and their experience long term, just how much “noise” they can make in the short term and possible cash they can make when they sell to the highest bidder. In the words of Seth Godin, they dont “get it”.
Comment by callingbull
Made Friday, 31 of August , 2007 at 6:38 pm
Another is Tumblr. Great concept but not a peep from the guys in Davidvilleland for months.
BobbyAndersen did tweet that he liked a preview of new Tumblr though….
Comment by ob81
Made Friday, 31 of August , 2007 at 11:08 pm
I don’t think there is much they can do to help pownce. Part of the problem is that people are ceasing to interact about interesting subjects. This will magnify once people can post from their phones on the run. Twitter has become a site that I frequent recently, but all yesterday I could not post any notes. Digg’s comment system really isn’t all that bad to me.
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