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Re: Socialbrowse: Y Combinator Startup is Twitter For Links

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Post by oditogre »

>2 Receive real time updates of cool links shared by people you like

How do you handle a link that gets sent to the same person by two people? What about a link that you yourself sent? Can it be 'sent back' by somebody that you follow, that doesn't follow you (i.e., they don't know that you've already seen it)? I'm kind of thinking of situations where, i.e., person 1 'watches' person 2, 2 watches 3, 3 watches 1, and a, b, c, ... z watch 1, 2 and 3, and it makes me think of that 'Bedlam DL3' story Larry Osterman wrote about a while ago (http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2004/04/08/109626.aspx).

I mean, won't this cause a lot of duplicate / unnecessary traffic through the server and possibly to clients? Or are you doing it in some other way than how I'm thinking?

Re: Socialbrowse: Y Combinator Startup is Twitter For Links

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Post by garbowza »

oditogre wrote: post #46

>2 Receive real time updates of cool links shared by people you like How do you handle a link that gets sent to the same person by two people? What about a link that you yourself sent? Can it be 'sent back' by somebody that you follow, that doesn't follow you (i.e., they don't know that you've already seen it)? I'm kind of thinking of situations where, i.e., person 1 'watches' person 2, 2 watches 3, 3 watches 1, and…

This happens all the time: multiple people you are following share the same link. In fact, that is one of the cool effects: a shared link starts spreading through the social graph. What you as an end users sees in your sidebar is a single view of that link, with multiple small user icons lined up underneath it, showing each of the users to have shared it. Think of Gmail's message threading.

Re: Socialbrowse: Y Combinator Startup is Twitter For Links

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Post by thorax »

aneesh wrote: post #40
axod wrote: 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?

I love 8aweek-- probably one of my top 3 Firefox extensions. Really helped remind me when I got sucked into sites when I should be working.

Not sure if it works for everyone, but it works well for me. RescueTime on the other hand hasn't really done anything for me (except take up 100% CPU a few times). I may be in a minority on that one.

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