2006 February Archive at 59ideas

Monthly Archive for February, 2006

Flickr Ideas

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on 28 February, 2006

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Flickr I started to use more of flickr yesterday and found that they have a FlickrIdeas forum.

Now, seeking users’ idea is nothing new to web applications or softwares. Most of the time users ask for new feature or feature enhancements. But what is interesting about the FlickrIdeas forum is the sheer amount of idea suggestions.

A topic that attracts attention is Internationalization. Which is something that is on my mind very often as well. In fact I do not recall any Web2.0 idea that is internationalized and attracting multi-lingo users.

Using Flickr beyond photo alerted me that non-photos are not welcome. Or that was what implied. I should keep an eye on it as this is how I’m using flickr now.

links for 2006-02-27

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on 28 February, 2006

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Looking at online calendars and contact list. I found Plaxo to be a very good fit. Going to try it more thoroughly when I have more time.

On s separate note, I’d heard of Plaxo way before Web 2.0 became the vogue. Nice to see a Web 1.0 service still around.

Found a number of opensource projects and web services in the calendar/groupware space. None of them is near mature. None integrate contact and calendar (like birthday). I still like Yahoo Addressbook but they should give it a big usability upgrade.

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links for 2006-02-26

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on 27 February, 2006

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SitePoint Blogs » A pro-PHP Rant

settle (once and for all) that php is not out of fashion wrt ruby

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Idea in a weekend

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on 25 February, 2006

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Over at Whitespace Paul Scrivens talk about setting up an idea in a weekend.

A while back I muse about rapid idea prototyping and also learnt, that the egoSurf idea was create in a day.

This is a start of instant applications?

Already Ning offers anyone with a little time, programming skill and imagination the tools to create social applications. But this is still using a web app. How about creating own web app?
There are alot of opensource tools that one could use to put together a quick prototype of an idea. What are some good tools you are using?
Why isn’t there alot of weekend apps we heard about?

One thing that has to change is the perfection mindset. Yes this is linked up with the idea of extreme programming maxim of releasing fast and often.

Perfection aside, there is merit in asking for quality before releasing.
Of course getting the idea out is one thing. Getting it to market and tuning the idea is a continuous as many sites out there can attest.