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This is the first time I've looked at our app since we sent it in (that I can recall), and I was extremely surprised about how prescient we were on some things.
by justin 16y ago
This is the first time I've looked at our app since we sent it in (that I can recall), and I was extremely surprised about how prescient we were on some things. Not only Google Calendar, but who would be potential acquirers (we were talking to them during Kiko and actually had a verbal offer that fell through, although that is a different story to tell), that social networking features would be important in all web applications, that javascript client applications would be actually a good thing to do.
The only thing we weren't good a predicting was our release schedule :)
- pmjordan 16y agoThe social/personalised advertising remark struck me as very forward-thinking too. It took Facebook a couple of years to get that one right, and now it's making them stacks of money (they may have been ignoring it deliberately to focus on expanding; I have no idea).
- DJN 16y agoIf you are to redo it all over, I sure hope you won't reinvent the custom ad solution bit again. You can thank the plethora of open RESTful APIs for that :) I've just finished implementing the Trafficspaces ad server API and oh boy does it create all sorts of new possibilities.
- walkon 16y agothat social networking features would be important in all web applications Just an FYI, social networking isn't even close to being important in "all" web applications.