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Google did what I suggested in 2010
- bmelton 15y agoInroads to cloud settings were being made well before 2010. Xmarks was pretty close to that ideal as early as 2008 IIRC, and I'm not a 100% certain that cloud-based settings weren't present in Google Chrome in 2010 (in dev builds, if at all.) On the one hand, it's somewhat inevitable, really, and it's that thought that keeps me from carping too loudly about having built (and launched) a carbon copy of Digg about three weeks before Kevin Rose did. Sure, it was a novel idea, but it was also inevitable, in the sense that automating a human-curated process almost always is.
- obilgic 15y agoAt that time, they were all about syncing data between 2 of Your browsers, that was somewhat different from my suggestion which is being able sign in you friends browser and sign out when you are done. Btw, I am not saying that I am the first one though who this, I am sure someone else(Google?) did before me. But that was just my pure prediction and It happened, I am quite happy with that. Also, thanks for your insights.
- bmelton 15y agoI wasn't trying to diminish the idea, as it was clearly a good one. The point though, that even if they were there even partially is that things were trending that way already, and would have likely gotten there with or without anyone steering it. Still though, always good to be thinking of things before they happen, and trend-prediction is essential for engineers / developers / designers / web workers, so kudos.
- mvkel 15y agoDoes this mean I get to say Apple did what I suggested in March of 2009? http://karmcity.com/post/457611779/os-x-app-store http://karmcity.com/post/457611779/os-x-app-store
- waffle_ss 15y agoThis doesn't belong on HN. I'm not smarter for having read this.