heh. In 2003-2005 I didn't get why RSS mattered, so I built a mobile photo blog based on pictures+text from a Sony Clié email client, posting pictures + caption

heh. In 2003-2005 I didn't get why RSS mattered, so I built a mobile photo blog based on pictures+text from a Sony Clié email client, posting pictures + captions to a mailbox, and a .forward file pipe-filter that turned those messages directly into an RSS feed. (About 50 lines of sh - "why do people think this is hard or complicated?" :-) Turns out (1) UI matters (2) Network Effect matters (3) systems that gamify user engagement basically always win regardless of what they're doing...