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A comment on Ask HN: Review my startup, colaab - A Silverlight 2 RIA for rich, real-time collaboration. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, colaab - A Silverlight 2 RIA f... by gb on Monday January 12, 2009 @11:35AM (#430642)
I think you're more likely to lose people immediately with that hurdle - I certainly wouldn't install Silverlight just to view a video to see if I was interested in a service, but if the video made the service look interesting enough I might well download a plugin to try it.
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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, colaab - A Silverlight 2 RIA f... by stormideas on Monday January 12, 2009 @11:40AM (#430651)
Seems obvious to me now! Will sort it out.
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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, colaab - A Silverlight 2 RIA f... by tower10 on Monday January 12, 2009 @06:55PM (#431365)
I was more than happy to download the Silverlight plugin (I didn't have it installed). After an apparent successful install (latest OSX) and restarting Firefox, I'm told the plugin's not installed. I don't know how typical this is but perhaps Silverlight's not ready for the prime time yet?
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