Comments on: Which Services Should We Aggregate Next?

By: Tjalve Aarflot

Tjalve Aarflot — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:41:35 +0000

I too would like to see tumblr and generic feed import.

Lars, the argument of duplication is valid, but unless only a very few number of actors survive during the next years, duplication (or really, the possibility of it) cannot be avoided, since life stream/aggregation services pop up everywhere already. I believe SecondBrain must either ignore a huge user base, or ‘open’ up for duplication.

In my opinion, avoiding duplication must be up to the users. Current services are adding functionality all the time, making it inevitable that some of them one day offer duplicate functionality. One can’t any longer just jump on every new web application (as I’ve done myself for some time) and post everything everywhere. I post content to different services depending on both my own and the content’s context, and this works very well - as long as I avoid posting duplicates

By: Lars Teigen

Lars Teigen — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:31:20 +0000

Excellent suggestions @cristambor and @jack - this is definitely in our product road map.

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:29:27 +0000

Ditto wast cristambor wrote — two must-have features in my view are:
[1] The ability to link content items IN ADDITION to the current organizational tools (grouping in collections, searching, and relating-by-tags). Linking creates temporally stable relationships, while searching and relating by tags creates ad hoc relationships. Both are crucial.
[2] The ability to add “notes” as a content type. This is in contrast to being able to add comments on content… a note would be a root piece of content, just as a Web page currently is.
Thanks for asking…
Jack

By: cristambor

cristambor — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:43:59 +0000

I never surf the web or have a Firefox install without Diigo and its toolbar. I even forgot about del.icio.us. So if I’m going to aggregate my content somewhere, I’d like to have it.
But what I would really like is to Second Brain become what I thought it was when I first signed in to it: I then thought it would replace one piece of software I enjoyed when I used Windows, and that was The Brain - which enabled you to collect all kind of things AND to connect and organize them in ways similar to what our real brain does: it doesn’t just collect things in groups of lists, it gives meaning to them through connections to previous stuff at different levels.
That’s the reason why, even though I still keep an eye on Second Brain and how it’s evolving, I actually haven’t been using it. But I hope I will…

By: Lars Teigen

Lars Teigen — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:00:35 +0000

@Bob Boynton: we like Tumbler - but one challenge with it is that many people synchronize other services to Tumbler, and we’d likely get some duplicates in our streams. I will think about how we should handle this.

By: Lars Teigen

Lars Teigen — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:59:18 +0000

@prowsej : i think you’re right. though now we’re focusing on the larger services, we want to support general feeds later. the challenge is how to parse different kinds of XML/RSS to show the content correctly.

By: prowsej

prowsej — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:33:02 +0000

I should be able to add any profile page of mine which has an RSS feed. You should provide a generic means of adding anything so that I can add more obscure services such as menuism.com that’d you’d never likely build explicit support for.

By: aseeon

aseeon — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:24:27 +0000

Vimeo, Scribd, Tumblr, Blip.pl, Pownce

By: Bob Boynton

Bob Boynton — Wed, 14 May 2008 03:58:26 +0000

Tumblr, Tumblr, Tumblr

I suppose I do not get to vote three times.

By: Mig

Mig — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:31:01 +0000

Cool tip, Mariusz! I’ve never heard of Mento before and god knows I am a social media enthusiast. On my way to check it out right now.