Comments on: Newsvine: Next Steps

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Geek speak: just like htttp is not a registered protocol. ;)

By: Joost van der Borg

Joost van der Borg — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Well, you are getting me more and more interested in what you’ve got. As long as it’s usable, easy and pretty (news sites can be pretty, right?), I’m in.. As soon as you get far down into your beta-list.

By: Bradley

Bradley — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I personally could not believe that people thought up the shallow words, “This is just news with comments.” They are totally missing that you’ve completely captured the rise of consumer journalism.

Remember in the feature film Frequency where the main character tells his younger friend in the past to remember one word? What was the word? “Yahoo.”

Mike, when you get the Benz, you’ll have to visit. Add me to the excited list. It’s going to be great.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Good to see you are enjoying yourself Mike et al – just make sure you work hard and don’t go over the top!

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Give me a couple mil and I bet you I wouldn’t be stressed out either and definitely would be having an assload of fun :-P.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I have to say, I’m a little jealous about all the fun you seem to be having.

Hopefully post-launch we’ll see more posts on the blog!

Good luck, can’t wait to see the finished product…

By: Vince

Vince — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You’re one ridiculously talented cat, Davidson; the enthusiasm for Newsvine is evident whenever you talk about it. Good for you, brother – and good luck on the new biz!

By: Brandon Cox

Brandon Cox — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Swiss? like:

This phrase with font tag? (Didn’t work in the preview. Maybe the designer has the font and insisted (s)he see the site identically to the comp?)

Excellent points, Mike.

Some parity arguments I’ve heard over the years….

1) Why would anyone use a wiki? Britannica already owns that space.

2) Once Walmart goes online Amazon will be dead.

3) Who needs another mapping tool? Mapquest won.

You indeed are in good company.

Congratulations – looking forward to using it.

By: Abercrombie

Abercrombie — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I know everyone’s excited about seeing what’s coming, but we all know that Newsvine is not what that great office complex is for … where are all the pictures of the Newsvine barbeque’s and parties?

By: eston

eston — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You’ve raised a wonderful point here, and you’ve also underscored the very reason why Newsvine is going to succeed: you’re doing things the right way. The thing that you’ve realised is that you and whoever else is working on the project with you is that you (all) have a much better understanding of the design, development, and, most of all, the culture behind the way a “Web 2.0″ application works. (I know you don’t want to call Newsvine a Web 2.0 app, but it fits my definition of the term.)

Any random PHP-hobbyist schmuck can pick up a dusty HTML 3.2 book off of their friends and script their idea into something that works, but it’s a different talent altogether to actually develop an idea into a usable, standards-compliant application that places just as much emphasis on the UX and social infrastructure of the system as it does the web application/design itself. If your opponents are using tags and supposedly have been around for longer than you have with absolutely no press coverage, mainstream or independent, they’re probably doing something horribly wrong.

In all honesty, most all web application ideas have been done in some form or another to where you will have “competition” – and Newsvine is certainly no different – but just because you’re a newcomer and have this “competition” (which I have in quotes because it’s more a similar-space application than it is true competition) doesn’t mean that you can do the same thing better than they can. Newsvine sounds like a perfect example of that. I’d like to find out firsthand. :)

And ? I chuckled. Good show.

By: Zeerus

Zeerus — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This looks great Mike, I can’t wait. As for the skepticism, don’t pay any attention to it. Sure, sites with the same features Newsvine has have come out before, but not all combined together on one platform. You’ll beat em all out, no doubt about it.

good luck

By: Elliot Swan

Elliot Swan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think your enthusiasm is rubbing off onto me and everybody else…This thing sounds better every time you talk about it.

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You’re KILLING US! We wan’t innnnnnn!

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Really looking forward to this. Congrats on the early positive reaction and good luck on what looks like inevitable success!

By: Leigh

Leigh — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is completely off topic, but the CBS News article contains a typo that happens to be my all time pet peeve; “accomodate” is spelt with TWO m’s. Illiteracy in journalism is a tragedy.