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Interesting... if you know me, please review me, HN: http://www.chattel.me/humen/rodrigo-guzman-san-francisco-ca http://www.chattel.me/humen/rodrigo-guzman-san

by rguzman 16y ago

Interesting... if you know me, please review me, HN: http://www.chattel.me/humen/rodrigo-guzman-san-francisco-ca http://www.chattel.me/humen/rodrigo-guzman-san-francisco-ca Smalter, some feedback: - I was initially hesitant to share via FB/twitter. Nothing in particular about the chattel itself, rather I don't always want to throw something on my news feed without knowing exactly what it'll do and even when I do know I'm not too inclined to put stuff on my feed from 3rd party apps. It'd be good to have a different adoption vector here. When someone signs up you persuade them to try to review any of their friends already on the system. - The overall tone is unclear: is this where friends review friends to say things like "he's cool" or this a place where professional contacts go to say "he sucks to work with". I think the latter would be more useful and that both sites could potentially exist, but you should make it more explicit.

smalter 16y ago
i'm reminded of zadie smith's article awhile back about how using facebook means to interface with the mind of mark zuckerberg -- a place where a human becomes a list of likes and a relationship status. a friend of mine has strongly encouraged me to change the copy and tone of the site to something that reflects a more fun, creative side (think chatroulette meets facebook) rather than the sort of dark, "set yourself on fire" attitude related by the site currently. i think he's on to something, but i just don't know if it's me. in some sense, i think the site mirrors a personal and universal human desire to stalk and say crazy things about people. that i know for sure.
artmageddon 16y ago
Personally...regarding your last point, I'd rather there was not any site like that where a person can leave feedback on a person as a whole. It's like Yelp! but for people instead, and quite frankly I don't have much trust in that site. On a professional level, LinkedIn probably works as well as I'm comfortable with. But just for the fun of it, I gave you five stars on chattel with my city reference :)

by rguzman 16y ago

smalter 16y ago

i'm reminded of zadie smith's article awhile back about how using facebook means to interface with the mind of mark zuckerberg -- a place where a human becomes a list of likes and a relationship status. a friend of mine has strongly encouraged me to change the copy and tone of the site to something that reflects a more fun, creative side (think chatroulette meets facebook) rather than the sort of dark, "set yourself on fire" attitude related by the site currently. i think he's on to something, but i just don't know if it's me. in some sense, i think the site mirrors a personal and universal human desire to stalk and say crazy things about people. that i know for sure.

artmageddon 16y ago

Personally...regarding your last point, I'd rather there was not any site like that where a person can leave feedback on a person as a whole. It's like Yelp! but for people instead, and quite frankly I don't have much trust in that site. On a professional level, LinkedIn probably works as well as I'm comfortable with. But just for the fun of it, I gave you five stars on chattel with my city reference :)