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Notes from the Blogsophere... Doc quotes James Robertson, who says that Eason Jordan lost his job, not because of politics, but because he embarrassed CNN. Look here if you don't know what I'm talking about. // My friend and co-editor Mitch struggles with the idea of consensus, with constructive comments from Jodi Dean and Sam Rose, who haven't quite taken leave of their consensus yet. // Joi posts that a Tulsa newspaper has threatened to sue a blogger over what appears to be fair use. // Ross Mayfield differs with John Dvorak, who says that Google shouldn't host Wikimedia projects. // The Shirkmeister sent us to a terrific jwz rant... Groupware BAD, users GOOD, calendars USEFUL. "How will this software get my users laid" should be on the minds of anyone writing social software (and these days, almost all software is social software). That quote made my day... and this:

If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.
When words like "groupware" and "enterprise" start getting tossed around, you're doing the latter. You start adding features to satisfy line-items on some checklist that was constructed by interminable committee meetings among bureaucrats, and you're coding toward an externally-dictated product specification that maybe some company will want to buy a hundred "seats" of, but that nobody will ever love. With that kind of motivation, nobody will ever find it sexy. It won't make anyone happy.

jon posted this at 5:25 PM
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"How will this software get my users laid" should be on the minds of anyone writing social software (and these days, almost all software is social software).

So that was the secret to myspace over friendster... Its so simple, doesn't half of people's motivations come down to sex anyway (read buying corvettes and such...)? Beyond that, we don't even need to write software that gets people laid; all we need to do is make them think that interacting with others, using that software might get them laid... and ::poof:: people are using it.

Posted by: Nick Lewis | February 18, 2005 2:00 AM