Sea Sand Song

I like this post of Robert Scoble. He mentioned about the ‘moving things’ in the front page of a website will show that something is going on behind that website. It’s so true and I think not a lot of people realize this gimmick.

He wrote this post to refer back to Michael Kowalchik’s comment on this post. I like his comment too. No matter how well you designed the system architecture, it could still fail if it’s user-less. So sad but true. (It should break the architect’s heart the most.)

Talking about Scoble’s rant on FriendFeed in the same post, I gotta say that I disagree with his first three rants (from four). I don’t know why people want FriendFeed to be like Twitter, or use some Twitter-like functionality in FriendFeed. I use both services and I’m happy to use it as a couple, not a competitor. I followed my friends on Twitter to see their real-time activity, ask something related to their tweet, get notification and chitchat without caring so much about what topic it is. It’s friend-centric. While FriendFeed is about a participation in topic-centric, in my opinion. So, instant messaging support, SMS sending and receiving, and sort contents by chronological order are practically useless, at least for me.

One thing I know about a user’s request is … users will request just about everything popping up in their head. A dumb company will either ignore those requests or implement those requests haphazardly. While a smart company will listen to those requests, break them down to the core, and carefully implement only what will bring better experience to a user. Implement everything that user requested doesn’t always make the system better, although a lot of users requested that.