I've recently been using an app called Mashfeed (http://www.appstore.com/mashfeed), which lets you create & follow lists of social media feeds from the top networks (Instagram, YouTube, Twitter). It basically combines all the posts from the selected feeds into a master feed, making it easy to stay on top of content you're interested in, without all the clutter. this app should def be on the "list" (wink wink) of apps for list making!
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#32GitHub turned out to be a pretty decent place for collaborating on various lists. I mean, the list of awesome lists[0] is currently the 23rd most starred GitHub project. I'm using GitHub both as a collaborative tool for creating lists and as my own tool for creating lists (as an example, a list of books I have read / am reading / planning on reading [1]). [0] https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome [1] https://github…
> http://vimawesome.com/
lol vundle
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
sure but you could say the same thing about tweets or 1-5 star restaurant reviews
Which both need significant network effects to be useful to people. How does the list making app get exponentially better the more people are using it?
As is obvious from the post, Fred meant a list services that are used to publish lists for others to consume. Lists like the MacRumours' Buyer's code mentioned in the top comment. http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/
There's an obvious network effect: producers and consumers, more of each makes the service better, if producers get something as a return, even if it is just silly internet karma points.
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#34Sharepoint
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#35I've recently been using an app called Mashfeed ( http://www.appstore.com/mashfeed ), which lets you create & follow lists of social media feeds from the top networks (Instagram, YouTube, Twitter). It basically combines all the posts from the selected feeds into a master feed, making it easy to stay on top of content you're interested in, without all the clutter. this app should def be on the "list" (wink wink) of ap…
I was just gonna comment about this. I've been a huge fan of Mashfeed for about a year now. Surprised I don't hear about it more often. I hate how the big social media networks give me one huge feed to sort through. Mashfeed lets me organize my favorite feeds from Instagram and Twitter into lists so I can literally only look at posts I want to see without scrolling through a bunch of nonsense.
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#36One of the favorite lists of all time -- in terms of both contemporary utility and in simplicity, is the MacRumors buyers guide: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/ Maybe it was slapped together in a cumbersome way, but I can't imagine it having to be anything more complicated than 3 lists (or spreadsheets), if you're relatively anal about normalization: One for the list of products, one for the list of updates per pro…
That's a good example. But as you hint at: managing the content for that is probably pretty annoying for how simple it is.
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#37Silly article, but isn't Trello doing pretty well? They take it to the next level by making lists of lists of lists accessible.
I don't think of Trello as a "list app". It's a kanban app, which is a kind of list I suppose, but "list" is way too vague for it. Kanban is a pretty specific case. There have actually been a number of apps attempting to do kanban boards. Trello is the only one I've tried that actually works well.
I don't think Trello is kanban-specific. Yes, it does kanban very well, but I know of many different types of people that use trello in completely different ways (and they've never heard of kanban).
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#38For me Google Keep is by far the best list management tool out there- it solves the singular use case very well.
For the network use case, I think there are "levels" to it- some of which Keep solves.
For my wife and I, we share lists for groceries, errands, restaurants to try, etc. Keep is absolutely fantastic for sharing with only a few people.
I think there may be a level at which point Keep wouldn't handle a lot of people- though I'm not sure exactly what the level would be- but I haven't really tried it beyond a handful (4-6) people.
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#39Silly article, but isn't Trello doing pretty well? They take it to the next level by making lists of lists of lists accessible.
I don't think of Trello as a "list app". It's a kanban app, which is a kind of list I suppose, but "list" is way too vague for it. Kanban is a pretty specific case. There have actually been a number of apps attempting to do kanban boards. Trello is the only one I've tried that actually works well.
Counterpoint: I have never used Trello as a kanban board, with predefined column names, left-to-right motion, and strict WIP limits.
I have a board for my house, with columns for "buy/sell", "maintenance", "check later".
I have a board for my family, with a column representing an upcoming milestone/event/party, and cards representing tasks my wife and I still have to complete.
Our company uses a top-level Company Report board, with each column representing a company goal, and each card representing an in-progress project.
I've also seen boards represent options and possibilities - "everyone add a to the column of the conference(s) you want to attend this year" - then the card becomes the locus of planning for that person's conference travel and so forth. My family did this earlier this year when searching for a home to buy - each card was a house, and the columns approximately represented neighborhoods.
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#40Friendly reminder that Foursquare still exists, from one of its early investors. :-)
But seriously, lists are useful because of their content. What a list does is condense information--an artifact of curation and maybe prioritization. So the value of the list correlates with its author.
Some lists are popular because they are curated by experts (newspaper restaurant reviews). Others are popular because they are curated by crowds, and thus express a collective social signal about what's valuable (Reddit, HN).
So, I'd have to say that lists are a horizontal thing. Lists will succeed or fail based on their utility and relevance, which to me says that lists don't really compete across verticals, except to the extent that everything competes for mindshare in general.