Techwhimsy is one of the first blogs to pick up our new release. They do a very thorough analysis and review of us in A first look at Second Brain.
A few highlights (good and bad):
It looks like Second Brain is pitching itself as the one-stop shop for everything an individual throws up online from del.icio.us bookmaks, Google Docs documents, blog posts, Flickr photos, You Tube videos and so on through the miracle that is XML/RSS and the public APIs for these services. Second Brain is more than just a raw social feed aggregator. It also provides the user with a way of organising content from these different services, giving each person the ability to play their own personal librarian.
[...] The first thing I noticed when I logged in is that Second Brain is dog slow. At times it felt like I had brought its server to its knees. This is particularly noticeable when you try and add content (the most AJAX-heavy part of the site). I raised this with the Second Brain team who acknowledged that this was a known problem and that the development team are hoping to push out a fix in the next couple of days.
[...] Second Brain is a service to watch and provided it can remain focused on what it wants to do, it shouldn’t take long before it occupies a healthy slice of the lifestream pie.
Read the complete review on Techwhimsy. And why not digg/delicious/etc. it if you have a click to spare:)
We truly appreciate honest feedback and most of the “downside issues” pointed out in the article are added to our list of fixes and improvements, while all the nice comments make our day:).
Second Brain seems pretty cool … please send me an invitation to join. Thanks.
I enjoyed writing the review. Second Brain is definitely one to watch and it’s a nice experience to be in on the ground floor, so to speak.
I’m glad you found some value in the review, too.
I’d really like to check this out… could I get an invite please?
Hi guys,
I had some server troubles that required me to change my permalink structure (delightful, I know). The above link to the review on TechWhimsy no longer works. However, if you remove the “index.php/” section but retain all the rest, it shoud work just fine. Same will go for the link on the front page of S|B.
I’ll send you an email as well, just in case you don’t track back to this reply.
Shane