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Re:Aaron Swartz's Jottit has been officially released by thomasptacek on Saturday September 15, 2007 @05:45PM (#55034)
I guess I never really understood Infogami either. What's the market opportunity for Wikipedia without any of the content, controls, or attention? If it's a blogging tool, why is it better than Typepad, Blogger, or Wordpress? I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'd just really like someone to give me their take on why this is a good business idea, and how it could possibly be defensible.

The "feature-a-day" thing was a clever marketing idea; it did keep me coming back. But where was it going? Where is this going?

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Re:Aaron Swartz's Jottit has been officially released by Zak on Sunday September 16, 2007 @02:41AM (#55178)
I think Aaron's evil plot was to use machine learning to provide an automated friend-of-a-friend introduction service based on what you wrote on your infogami page. I'm pretty sure he posted about it somewhere - I remember because I had the same idea. Maybe this is a new platform for that idea.
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Re:Aaron Swartz's Jottit has been officially released by michaelneale on Sunday September 16, 2007 @10:22PM (#55484)
I always wonder about google and that - gmail was (and still is I think) spread by sending invites. So there is the FOAF angle there as well - and the same accounts are used in all their apps not just email. Mix in search history (if you use it - which I don't) and that is just frightening.
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Re:Aaron Swartz's Jottit has been officially released by pretzel on Saturday September 15, 2007 @10:34PM (#55113)
It just makes life easy to have a website without having to do anything else. It's a central place where you can put up stuff and let people see it. No hosting, no payment and its simple. It's nifty for many applications: its an open wiki for anything.
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Re:Aaron Swartz's Jottit has been officially released by thomasptacek on Saturday September 15, 2007 @10:37PM (#55117)
You mean like... Writeboard? An application so simple that even 37 "We'll Charge You $100 For A Calendar Plugged Into An Address Book" Signals gives away for free? I wonder why Google doesn't have something just like this already... oh, wait, they do.

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