A few days ago I attended the Lunch 2.0 event hosted at Oodle’s office in San Mateo. It was a departure from other Lunch 2.0 events I’ve attended for two important reasons: First, the food was really good Mediterranean cuisine, and second, there were no name tags.
Without name tags, the possible obvious conversation […]

I’ll admit it - I love reading Valleywag. It’s a great cynical counter to TechCrunch, as well as to countless tech beat writers who parrot press releases and are baffled when high-flying and well-funded companies fail. This is also the domain of Uncov, which is pretty funny as well but doesn’t post nearly […]

Today at the SNAP Summit, Lee Lorenzen said something that was both scary and encouraging, and it summed up the current social network platform craze very well. I can’t quote directly, but the gist of it was this: If this is a new era in what could potentially become a new bubble, we’re […]

Now that we actually have something to show off which demonstrates that we kind of know what we’re doing, Alex and I have decided to get back into the habit of attending meetups.

Meetups are strange beasts. A bunch of people, bound by a broad common interest, lack of other social outlets and/or real industry […]

As a web site based around one feature and one feature only, Digg is not a product. Digg is a feature.The underlying question is, how easy is it to implement this functionality into another web site? And I think, in the case of Digg, the answer is “very easy.” Couple this with their total inability to “cross the chasm,” so to speak, and you have a perfect recipe for a web site that models what could become a very popular feature… in other web sites.

Ah, the beauty of trying to do Q&A over the internet for something that works over the internet.
Alex: Okay go to this url and do this.
Aaron: Didn’t work.
Alex: Try it now.
Aaron: Didn’t work.
Alex: Okay try it now.
Aaron: Didn’t work.
Alex: Umm… try it now.
Aaron: Didn’t work.
Alex: [insert […]

Sometimes, when browsing relatively new web sites, I wonder who’s been doing this and who hasn’t. Who actually walks through the experience that their web site creates? Who discovers that their core features are hard to get to, or that they have features that are stupid that nobody wants? Then, of course, you get into the question of the features that were thought of as stupid that became standard… Like seatbelts. But I digress.

I guess we need a checklist for Web features. Here’s how I imagine it:

1: Is this feature stupid?