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Seth Godin on Iminlikewithyou: Learning from flirting
- whacked_new 19y ago"a. there's a generation that has absolutely no patience for the interfaces you and I love." It's been over half a year since I last visited IILWY... this time it almost gave me a seizure. I'm amazed that at age 23 I have already hit a complete generation gap.
- alaskamiller 19y agoThe scrolling the picture while reading my mouse movement crap makes me want to stab someone.
- timr 19y agoYeah, that seemed like a totally unsupported assertion. The fact that a seizure-inducing website exists is not evidence that people want seizure-inducing websites.
- downer 19y agoThe people on the other side of that gap aren't legal anyway.
- jawngee 19y agoYou need to loosen up considering the majority of people using it are older than you and the people that created it have almost 10 years on you.
- henning 19y agosite breaks the back button and doesn't seem to really present any way of fighting the overwhelming network power of facebook/myspace. in southern california, myspace is for the unwashed masses (who would have been using aol in 1998), facebook is for college kids, and everything else can go fly a kite. flash interface makes me want to die. then again myspace makes me want to die, so what do I know?
- icky 19y ago> site breaks the back button The Web equivalent of, "Get off my lawn!" ;-)
- alaskamiller 19y agoflash is great. they've built a great flex application and that is no small feat without hard work and talent, but it's the minor UI details that they chose that's irking me.
- downer 19y ago> they've built a great flex application and that is no small feat without hard work and talent ?
- qaexl 19y agoMy first impression is that it is more like a virtual online space than a 'site'. A nightclub, instead of a Wally World. It doesn't feel as dirty as Myspace.
- dcurtis 19y agoI think I'd say its more like Chuck E Cheese than a nightclub.
- jawngee 19y agoThe back button works on iilwy. There is no need for a site like this to be done in anything other than flash. It's meant to be a place to go to waste some time, nothing more, nothing less.
- nickb 19y agoIILWY is an interesting site but I almost never go to it because all that Flash means that my CPU is running at 100% at all time and fans get really loud (and I'm on a MBP which means my computer is silent almost all the time).
- qaexl 19y agoI think it is your computer. My Linux box doesn't even hit above 10% CPU on that site, and it isn't as powerful as an MBP.
- mynameishere 19y agoDating sites have at least a 2:1 ratio males:females, while the advertising has a 1:10 ratio. Any innovation in that sector will have to do something about that problem, rather than the problem of images not weirdly flying around enough.
- qaexl 19y ago... and places like GaiaOnline seem to exist primarily as an international meat market for the underaged. There seems to be just as many females as there are males. (I made the mistake of going into the Towns once). It was not like this online back when I was a teenager. The point being that social networking sites and MMOs seem to work better as mating grounds than supposed dating sites.
- huherto 19y agoOur startup is a dating site. We have 60% male and 40% female. We've focused on women, thinking that if there are women, men will come.
- downer 19y agoThen they'll roll over and go to sleep.
- Tichy 19y agoI am not sure, but I think this site lets me play Pong with people's faces?
- Tichy 19y agoNow for a solution for ugly people?
- edw519 19y agoAren't they all? Pretty people don't need the internet. They just go out in the real world and take their pick. (Or so I've heard)
- Tichy 19y agoAlmost everyone on iilwy seemd rather pretty (ok, so I only looked at the girls)... Maybe there is a boom for photographers coming up, as everybody will have to spice up their online appearance.