http://blog.robotcoop.com/2004/09/22/your-ideas-are-flickrs-ideas/ makers of 43 Things, 43 Places and a few other things Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:17:25 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://blog.robotcoop.com/2004/09/22/your-ideas-are-flickrs-ideas/#comment-115 Josh Petersen Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://therobotcoop.wordpress.com/2004/09/22/your-ideas-are-flickrs-ideas/#comment-115 Amen! And Stewart’s ideas are my ideas. I like what he had to say about playing the game large. A lot of things are easier if you think at larger scale. Amen! And Stewart’s ideas are my ideas. I like what he had to say about playing the game large. A lot of things are easier if you think at larger scale.

]]> http://blog.robotcoop.com/2004/09/22/your-ideas-are-flickrs-ideas/#comment-116 jim Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://therobotcoop.wordpress.com/2004/09/22/your-ideas-are-flickrs-ideas/#comment-116 Thinking big is fine, but the core tenet to success still applies: “it’s about the customer, stupid.”<br /> <br /> Flickr is an interesting site, and one I hope will improve upon some of the earlier work by Yafro and others. Yafro, however, has a lot of pr0n; it also just lost a month’s worth of photos due to a “programming error” on their disk mirroring. Both are severe blows to adoption.<br /> <br /> Orkut was a refreshing alternative to Friendster (date and mate) because there was a modest barrier to entry, which kept the quality up. Unfortunately, it’s been buckling under its own popularity, and has become virtually unsuable due to long page loads and timeouts. Thinking big is fine, but the core tenet to success still applies: “it’s about the customer, stupid.”<br />
<br />
Flickr is an interesting site, and one I hope will improve upon some of the earlier work by Yafro and others. Yafro, however, has a lot of pr0n; it also just lost a month’s worth of photos due to a “programming error” on their disk mirroring. Both are severe blows to adoption.<br />
<br />
Orkut was a refreshing alternative to Friendster (date and mate) because there was a modest barrier to entry, which kept the quality up. Unfortunately, it’s been buckling under its own popularity, and has become virtually unsuable due to long page loads and timeouts.

]]>