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Re: Socialbrowse: Y Combinator Startup is Twitter For Links

#31

I'm trying it now. First impression: Totally Awesome!

holy crap.

Second impression: I'm hooked.

This application is so sticky. I am now following only a few people, but occasionally seeing their links on the bottom of my browser is becoming very interesting/addicting.

I am also browsing through some of my old bookmarks and sharing them.

IMHO, I'm finding this application to be much more compelling than Twitter.

Re: Socialbrowse: Y Combinator Startup is Twitter For Links

#33

Seems neat at first try. I'd be more likely to keep it installed if it didn't uglify (for example) the news.yc main page. Can you make the icons detect what they're next to so that the text doesn't get all mis-spaced? (FF3, Vista, in case it's not-always).

thanks for the feature request. We're working on smarter ways of embedding the icons. If you have good ideas make sure you let us know.

If its bugging you you can disable them in Tools->Socialbrowse

Re: Socialbrowse: Y Combinator Startup is Twitter For Links

#35

Not sure if this'd equate to feature creep or not but it'd be useful to know what category people submitted a link to in addition to who did it first and how many followed.

Great request. On anyone's profile page you can select "all" under any of the links they share. This brings you to a page that shows the link and all the people who have rated it.

When you're on a site you can also get to that info page about the site by clicking the "shared by (n)" link in the sidebar. (where n is the number of people who've shared it.)

We should at the number of shares and the first share to the info page. Thanks for the feedback!

Re: Socialbrowse: Y Combinator Startup is Twitter For Links

#40
post #39

Seems like not much time since 8aweek launched, and now it's on the backburner? Any insight into what happened?

Did RescueTime have anything to do with them finding the new idea more tempting? I always thought those two were awfully close to both be funded by YC. And I personally liked RescueTime more. Did 8aweek have any traction before they jumped?
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