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Wow - you're keeping an eye on us.
Hey! Thanks for trying out the extensions...
"go private" does two things:
it launches a 1-hour conversation that allows anyone you @mention in the tweet and from that point on you are in SecretSocial-land having real-time conversations...
there is still a 140 char limit but you can post as many times as you like, it is all kept in context!
Hiya - Aquarin... ICQ, Skype et al, log everything. We don't. The privacy policy is simple: end conversation, end all data about it as well.
Additionally, I encourage you to try the service in "Sudden Death" mode with someone you know - whoever is in one of those conversations can terminate it at any time resulting in everyone losing the conversation simultaneously.
This is very different from a user simply exiting IRC or leaving an ICQ chat or having a pseudo-offline conversation on GTalk!
yeah the uprotect.it guys are very facebook-centric and they let the user decide on privacy...
SecretSocial is a standalone service letting you engage users on SMS, Email or Twitter. So people you know and people you don't can be engaged...
plus we are conversation-centric... the topic and need to communicate dictates the initiation.... very different from group-driven messaging.
Try out the Chrome extension as well to experience it fully!
Interesting use-case Seth, we'll call it "message in a bottle" mode.
Thanks for the good wishes! have a great weekend!
The Chrome extension page has some neat screenshots:
http://bit.ly/gFYAmq
Enjoy it. We really don't want to project any use-cases for this service because it is so flexible and natural to experience with.
SecretSocial: a real-time conversation service that automatically cleans up after you are done.
You take a contemplative whizz. And then go back and keep kicking arse.
awesome. just sucks not to be a student anymore. argh.
I feel I add value. But gravity here loves me much. Happy V-day HN.
I wonder if we could crowd-source a mars mission. I reckon enough intrigue, wonder, funding and credibility can be generated by a global campaign.
If convore is making collaboration cooler.. then I think what Asana has is superior as it currently stands.
I see convore as a great alternative to the Twitter hashtag. A richer, more real-time, better indexed alternative. It can still use Twitter for Outreach but the action is in convore.
And yes the accent was "extra-normal" quality.
That's truly amazing because I can't recollect a Helicopter that big making it to 8,800m as they claim. Usually it is very light copters that can do that. Clearly the Indian army will want to get their hands on this as they operate in the highest battlefield on earth:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siachen_GlacierEvacuating troops and dropping supplies there is difficult to put it lightly.
Think Tanks are paid to consider all possible and plausible eventualities, forecast outcomes and correlate dependencies for their given client or scenario.
Thanks Anuj! Very soon. Sign up / Tweet and you'll be invited.
A little chat, a little soundcloud, a little ge.tt, sophisticated privacy management... and you get
http://secretsocial.com ... a node project.
3.5L V10 moving to 3.0L V10s to 2.4L V8s now.
Sound of an F1 engine is truly amazing. Just as awesome are the down-shifts. 7th to 3rd.
Twitter is not a status message service. It is an instant information conduit for people. Its continued evolution in that capacity gives it a shot to be even more enduring and meaningful than Facebook. I love how you claim TW is what FB was 5 years ago... given that 5 years ago nobody would have bid $8BN on them. Further invalidating your assertion, is the fact that FB itself is bidding for Twitter
What makes you think Twitter will:
a) peak at around 200M users
b) only manage to monetize $0.50 per user annually?
FB makes $4 per user. You think Twitter won't be able to manage atleast $2? They've barely capitalized on the analytics they perform thus far.
Good stuff Team Convore!
That being said, I think Convore will face serious competition from Twitter in the very near future.
@ev will be launching Twitter Events very shortly which is the most charming and best implemented part of Convore.
Full disclosure: I am biased because my gig, @SecretSocial, will be better than Convore... http://secretsocial.com
This seems like a cross between:
Facebook (layout/feeds)
Twitter (async assign)
Intentional Software (multiple representations, same model)
Google Wave (live updates, email integration)
Philosophy, Drama, Applied Math, Russian Literature, a spoken language, Travel/Exchange programs. All those have helped me immensely in addition to a computer science curriculum.
Qwiktard: A term in the future for clowns who grok a qwiki page in a desperate attempt to appear smart by spewing facts in the exact same sequence as a qwikvid they watched the same morning...