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How P2 Changed Automattic

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Re: How P2 Changed Automattic

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post #10

I think this is a hugely exciting development and can see numerous ways our startup can use this internally. Our team is spread between San Francisco, Cape Town and Rio De Janeiro and the real time nature of this makes for an excellent internal dashboard/forum/news/tweet/status mash-up. Matt talks about how it's changed the way they communicate internally and I see this as the biggest win here. We had started to do s…

So it's like Friendfeed?

Re: How P2 Changed Automattic

#12
post #11
post #10

I think this is a hugely exciting development and can see numerous ways our startup can use this internally. Our team is spread between San Francisco, Cape Town and Rio De Janeiro and the real time nature of this makes for an excellent internal dashboard/forum/news/tweet/status mash-up. Matt talks about how it's changed the way they communicate internally and I see this as the biggest win here. We had started to do s…

So it's like Friendfeed?

Yes, but locally hosted, configurable (you have the source, Luke) and optionally private for your team.

Re: How P2 Changed Automattic

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post #9

I'd expect this to suffer from extreme 'youtube effect' - having complete idiots post at each other at high velocity and hurting the spirit of your site. Any reasons why it wouldn't?

One would hope that, if you're using it for internal business purposes, you'd have insufficient critical mass of idiocy to sustain the reaction.

Re: How P2 Changed Automattic

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post #14
post #9

I'd expect this to suffer from extreme 'youtube effect' - having complete idiots post at each other at high velocity and hurting the spirit of your site. Any reasons why it wouldn't?

One would hope that, if you're using it for internal business purposes, you'd have insufficient critical mass of idiocy to sustain the reaction.

This is my favorite comment here, ever. :)
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