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DoDont: A New Social Network; Bring On The Snarky Comments

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Re: DoDont: A New Social Network; Bring On The Snarky Comments

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Post by DotSauce »

sjs382 wrote: post #2

"Sign in or Sign up here" doesnt work in Chrome. DONT make your new startup's page unusable in a major browser. ;)

It's Facebook connect and works for me.

Really hard time envisioning this taking off.

Needs rewards, benefits, resources... something, anything besides people telling me what I should and should not do.

Re: DoDont: A New Social Network; Bring On The Snarky Comments

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Post by Jun8 »

Interesting idea: Two recommendations: (i) Add an openid-based login (e.g. GMail), nobody in their right mind would use Facebook connect (ii) The home page design is kinda weak, for example it doesn't show how the comments are grouped, e.g. will I be able to see all the Do's for restaurants, are they grouped by geotags, etc.

Re: DoDont: A New Social Network; Bring On The Snarky Comments

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Post by powrtoch »

ratcliffco wrote: post #6

I avoid FB connect - sites/services I try don't need to be linked to my identity on Facebook, that's just too private, sorry.

Seconded. I think the move towards not having a new login at every site is a good one, but FB connect doesn't seem like the way to go. I'd like to see something like OpenID, but at the very least there should (always!) be a simple userid or email option.

Re: DoDont: A New Social Network; Bring On The Snarky Comments

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Post by gergles »

"How is this different from status updates?

DoDont is a filter for important and useful information, and with great tag integration, your trusted information is always easiely available."

Great tag integration? There aren't any examples of tags in any of the samples (unless they're hidden, in which case it still seems silly to discuss them as the only differentiator of this service from FB).

Also, guys. Spell check your HTML. You're a startup, but you don't have to look like one. Modern HTML editors will helpfully put red squiggles under words like "easiely" to draw your attention to the error. They're not there for flair.

nthing the complaint about FB connect; you don't need to know my real name, especially without a privacy policy other than "Trust us, we won't post anything unless you say it's OK!". Sorry, that's insufficient to give you complete, unfettered access to my FB account and to datamine all of my friends (part of the bad about that falls on FB, but since that's what you chose to use...)

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